Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books
Edinburgh University Press FaceToFace in Shakespearean Drama
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare in the North
Book SynopsisThis exciting collection of original essays critically assesses the significance of locality in Shakespearean plays.Trade Review"In Charlotte Bront 's Shirley, the ruthless mill owner learns his disastrous industrial strategy from Coriolanus. The excellent contributors to Shakespeare in the North expand this fruitfully antagonistic relationship, placing England's national poet to the north of traditional Shakrespeare centres of culture and replacing Stratford, London, Arden and Windsor with Blackpool, Edinburgh, Northumberland and Tyneside." -Emma Smith, University of Oxford
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and the TruthTeller
Book SynopsisHighlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare's responses to sixteenth-century debates over the revolutionary potential of Cynic critical activity.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Revenge Tragedy and Classical Philosophy on the
Book SynopsisThis book discovers within early modern revenge tragedy the surprising shaping presence of a wide array of classical philosophies not commonly affiliated with the genre.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Theatrical Milton
Book SynopsisTheatrical Milton' brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, 'theatricality' identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical strategies and effects of framing a given human action, including speech and writing, as an act of theatre.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Dialectics of Improvement
Book SynopsisThis book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement, as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Dialectics of Improvement
Book SynopsisThis book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement, as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy
Book SynopsisCharting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in theatrical materiality.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press ShakespeareS Representation of Weather Climate
Book SynopsisThis monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people's relations to meteorological phenomena.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Chaste Value
Book SynopsisChaste Value 'reassesses chastity's significance in early modern drama, arguing that presentations of chastity inform the stage's production of early capitalist subjectivity and social difference.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press ShakespeareS Body Parts
Book SynopsisThis book provides a sustained, formalist reading of the multiple body parts that litter the dialogue and action of Shakespeare's history plays.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Is Shylock Jewish
Book SynopsisIs Shylock Jewish' studies Shakespeare's extensive use of stories from the Hebrew Bible in 'The Merchant of Venice', and argues that Shylock and his daughter Jessica draw on recognizably Jewish ways of engaging with those narratives throughout the play.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Discovering the Footsteps of Time
Book SynopsisDiscovering the Footsteps of Time probes the development of a distinctively Scottish tradition of geological travel writing from the seventeenth to early nineteenth century.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature
Book SynopsisThis book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Reading the Road from Shakespeare to Bunyan
Book SynopsisThis book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Reading the Road from Shakespeares Crossways to
Book SynopsisThis book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature
Book SynopsisTraces the ways in which changing ideas about criminal sanction were reflected in and engaged with in early modern English society.Trade Review"A probing study of criminal law, punishment, and the narratives that seek to justify or challenge them. Hudson considers crimes such as perjury and counterfeiting, which raise questions about invention and imagination, and examines them in relation to a wide range of legal, literary, and theological works that pose similar questions." -Simon Stern, University of Toronto
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis book provides diverse perspectives on Shakespeare and early modern literature that engage innovation, collaboration, and forward-looking practices.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain
Book SynopsisThis book examines how manuscript practices interacted with an expanding print marketplace to nurture and transform the period's literary culture.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature
Book SynopsisExamines literary engagement with immateriality since the ?material turn? in early modern studiesProvides six case studies of works by Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert, offering new readings of important literary texts of the English Renaissance alongside detailed chapters outlining attitudes towards immateriality in works of natural philosophy, medicine, and theologyEmploys an innovative organization around three major areas in which problem of immaterial was particularly pitched: Ontology, Theology, and Psychology (or Being, Believing, and Thinking)Includes wide-ranging references to early modern literary, philosophical, and theological textsDemonstrates how innovations in natural philosophy influenced thought about the natural world and how it was portrayed in literatureEngages with current early modern scholarship in the areas of material culture, cognitive literary studies, and phenomenologyImmateriality and Early Modern English Literature explores how early modern writers responded to rapidly shifting ideas about the interrelation of their natural and spiritual worlds. It provides six case studies of works by Shakespeare, Donne and Herbert, offering new readings of important literary texts of the English Renaissance alongside detailed chapters outlining attitudes towards immateriality in works of natural philosophy, medicine and theology. Building on the importance of addressing material culture in order to understand early modern literature, Knapp demonstrates how the literary imagination was shaped by changing attitudes toward the immaterial realm.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press The Poetics of Friendship in Early Modern Spain
Book SynopsisThis book shows how the Aristotelian Ciceronian notion of perfect male friendship operates as an independent poetic force within the development of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and Montaigne
Book SynopsisIntroduces and explores a wide range of fresh approaches to comparative study of Shakespeare and Montaigne.Trade Review"Describing books as 'this world's theatre', Montaigne admitted his curiosity to read and thereby 'discover and know the mind of my authors'. This book's dynamic discoveries about the shared literary, historical and psychological sympathies of Shakespeare and Montaigne illuminates the mind and work of both. It is a field-changing collection. " -Emma Smith, University of Oxford
£28.49
Edinburgh University Press ShakespeareS Essays
Book SynopsisThrough sustained close-readings of Montaigne's essays and Shakespeare's plays, Platt explores both authors' approaches to self, knowledge and form that stress fractures, interruptions and alternatives.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press ShakespeareS Essays
Book SynopsisThrough sustained close-readings of Montaigne's essays and Shakespeare's plays, Platt explores both authors' approaches to self, knowledge and form that stress fractures, interruptions and alternatives.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Scottish Colonial Literature
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on three undertakings at Nova Scotia (1620s), East New Jersey (1680s) and the Isthmus of Panama, then known as Darien (1690s).Trade Review"Kirsten Sandrock's Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707 is an academic text of the highest calibre on an all but forgotten period of Scottish literature." -Jessica Reid
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press King Lear After Auschwitz
Book SynopsisProvides the first dedicated study on appropriations of King Lear in British playwriting of the post-war, developing valuable new perspectives on the legacy of Shakespeare in post-war drama and culture.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Variable Objects
Book SynopsisDrawing on new materialism and object-oriented ontology, Variable Objects proposes that Shakespeare is a vibrant object replete with a variable energy that accounts for its infinite meaning-making capacity.Trade Review"This extraordinary collection will have a profound impact on Shakespeare and appropriation studies. Using object-oriented methodology, the authors develop a speculative approach that refigures Shakespeare as a vibrant, multifarious thing" that actively participates in the creation of limitless interpretations and appropriations. The volume opens up new possibilities for the field. "" -Lisa S. Starks, University of South Florida
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Reverberations of Revolution
Book SynopsisA broad, comparative and trans-Atlantic approach to the Age of RevolutionTrade Review"This important book offers fresh critical insights in the long lasting political, ideological ?and cultural resonance of European and transatlantic revolutions between 1770 and 1850. Challenging teleological concepts of revolution, a series of sophisticated case studies explores how ideas, texts, and objects are transformed and appropriated in new contexts." -Prof. Dr. Barbara Schaff, Universit t G ttingen
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Liminal Whiteness in Early Us Fiction
Book SynopsisHannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation.Trade Review"As scholars of American literature and history know, White dread has been a haunting presence for a long, long time. Anxious fantasies of replacement, subsumption, diminution: in Liminal Whiteness, Hannah Murray raises these spirits, and gets them to speak in new tongues. Across agile readings of figures from Brockden Brown, Poe and Melville to Robert Montgomery Bird and Frank Webb, Liminal Whiteness vivifies a rich literary counter-history and gives us new purchase on the shifting terrain of reactive White fantasy." -Peter Coviello, University of Illinois Chicago
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Reanimating Shakespeares Othello in PostRacial
Book SynopsisTraces the history of Othello's contemporary citations, adaptations, and appropriations across genres?Trade Review"Brilliant, stunning and illuminating, Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America provides vital interventions in Shakespeare studies and adaptation studies. Corredera's argumentation and prose are clear, compelling and very convincing. You will never read or see Othello in the same way again. A must read for all scholars and students of Shakespeare!" -Ayanna Thompson, Arizona State University
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and Latinidad
Book SynopsisShakespeare and Latinidad is a collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that specifically focuses on Latinx productions and appropriations of Shakespeare's plays.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and Latinidad
Book SynopsisShakespeare and Latinidad is a collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that specifically focuses on Latinx productions and appropriations of Shakespeare's plays.Trade Review"This book offers a unique and wonderfully broad collection of essays that introduce the reader to an important and little-known trend in Shakespeare and theatre studies. The editors have included essays by leading theatre artists, playwrights, directors, actors and scholars who celebrate Shakespeare as seen through the multiple perspectives of Latinx Shakespeares as performance, as literature and as community-building through professional and community-based theatre companies from coast to coast. " -Jorge Huerta, University of California San Diego
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature
Book SynopsisExamines the interrelation of the bodily and the textual in four early modern literary examples of bad behaviorTrade Review"Seymour's brilliant book exfoliates texts to show how the kinaesthetic experience of the characters can be written to evoke the reader's kinaesthetic experience. Reading her reading makes us aware of the ways our body is involved in making meaning while we read. Her book is a model of how to incorporate research on embodied cognition into literary studies." -Amy Cook, Stony Brook University
£71.25
Edinburgh University Press Womens Literary Education c. 16901850
Book SynopsisStudies how women writers shaped long-eighteenth-century educational discourse through literature
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press British Romanticism and Denmark
Book SynopsisTraces a multifaceted discourse about Denmark in British eighteenth-century and Romantic-period culture.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish
Book SynopsisComprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain and IrelandTrade Review"This is an indispensable collection, which skilfully maps the territory of news in early modern Britain, explores the central issues involved, and surveys a burgeoning historiography. At the same time, it also presents a wealth of striking evidence drawn from cutting-edge research, and highlights numerous avenues for further investigation. Essential reading." -Jason Peacey, UCL
£175.50
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Philosophy and the Puzzles of Hamlet
Book SynopsisShakespeare''s famous play, Hamlet, has been the subject of more scholarly analysis and criticism than any other work of literature in human history. For all of its generally acknowledged virtues, however, it has also been treated as problematic in a raft of ways. In Philosophy and the Puzzles of Hamlet, Leon Craig explains that the most oft-cited problems and criticisms are actually solvable puzzles. Through a close reading of the philosophical problems presented in Hamlet, Craig attempts to provide solutions to these puzzles. The posing of puzzles, some more conspicuous, others less so, is fundamental to Shakespeare''s philosophical method and purpose. That is, he has crafted his plays, and Hamlet in particular, so as to stimulate philosophical activity in the judicious (as distinct from the unskillful) readers. By virtue of showing what so many critics treat as faults or flaws are actually intended to be interpretive challenges, Craig aims to raise appreTrade ReviewThis book holds its own with other books on Shakespeare’s plays, especially other books devoted to Hamlet. Mr. Craig takes other scholars into account, from A.C. Bradley to Harold Bloom, and because of his conversancy with these many other scholars, without weighing his own thoughts down, the book fits well with the most significant scholarship on Shakespeare. It says some startling things, which I consider a strength; Craig’s claims call forth a response in the form of further conversation. The novel insights he has and the interpretations he gives do not simply have to be accepted or rejected: they provoke further thought and take the reader more deeply into the play. * Pamela Jensen, Professor of Political Science Emerita, Kenyon College, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements PROLOGUE Chapter One: HORATIO AND THE PIRATES Chapter Two: WHICHEVER WAY THE WIND BLOWS Chapter Three: THE THEATRE OF REALITY Chapter Four: “WHY, WHAT A KING IS THIS!” Chapter Five: HAMLET’S ENGLISH MADNESS EPILOGUE Notes Bibliography
£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Rosalind: A Biography of Shakespeare's Immortal
Book SynopsisAngela Thirlwell explores the fictitious life and the many after-lives of Rosalind, Shakespeare's progressive new heroine, and her perennial influence on drama, fiction and art. The book ranges widely across Tudor history, theatre history, sexual politics, autobiography, art history and filmography. This highly original 'biography' of Rosalind - Shakespeare's greatest female creation - contains exclusive new interviews with Juliet Rylance, Sally Scott, Janet Suzman, Juliet Stevenson, Michelle Terry, award-winning director Blanche McIntyre, as well as insights from Michael Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Greg Doran, Rebecca Hall, Adrian Lester, Pippa Nixon, Vanessa Redgrave and Fiona Shaw.
£24.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Dear Mr. Shakespeare: Letters to a Jobbing
Book SynopsisA wonderful book for aficionados, actors, academics, and audiences alike. This is a unique introduction and guide to Shakespeare’s life and times, a uniquely modern take on Shakespeare by a man uniquely qualified to write about him. Imagines Shakespeare having to deal with the attitudes of modern times.
£14.87
The Lilliput Press Ltd Cadenus and Swift's Most Valuable Friend:
Book SynopsisThese books are being reissued as they appeared in the first Dolmen Press editions in one composite volume, with an invaluable, contextual introduction by eighteenth-century Swift scholar Andrew Carpenter. He assesses the reaction of Swift’s serious biographers and commentators to the original publications: ‘… two remarkable books, driven by sympathetic and intuitive enquiry, which made an important contribution to Swift studies when they appeared in the 1960s and which still remain significant for all those interested in Swift’s life and works’. Cadenus is primarily concerned with the relationship between Swift and Vanessa (Esther Van Homrigh), Swift’s Most Valuable Friend with that between Swift and Stella (Esther Johnson). Both help to determine the precise nature of this triangle, and the impact it had on his writing and career.
£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mapping Shakespeare: An exploration of
Book SynopsisWilliam Shakespeare’s lifetime (1564–1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and the changing times and political mores of the time were reflected through his plays. This beautiful new book looks at the England in which Shakespeare worked through maps and illustrations that reveal the way that he and his contemporaries saw their land and their place in the world. It also explores the locations of his plays and looks at the possible inspirations for these and why Shakespeare would have chosen to set his stories there.
£18.75
Nick Hern Books Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Treasures from the
Book SynopsisWithin the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the world's leading museum of art and design, there lies an extraordinary wealth of material relating to a single individual: the playwright William Shakespeare. This book presents a fascinating selection of one hundred objects – often surprising, always delightful – chosen by the museum’s curators for the insight each affords into the world of Shakespeare and his plays. The objects are drawn from across the V&A's rich and varied collections. There are paintings, sculptures, pieces of jewellery, engravings and figurines. There are posters and playbills, costume designs, photographs, illustrations and film stills. Also included are original costumes worn by Henry Irving, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Rudolf Nureyev and Ian McKellen. Amongst the more unexpected objects are a bed (the Great Bed of Ware, which Shakespeare mentions in Twelfth Night), a sword (presented to Edmund Kean after his performance as Macbeth) and a real human skull (Yorick to Jonathan Pryce's Hamlet). Some of the greatest Shakespearean performances and productions of all time are memorialised, including Sarah Bernhardt’s Hamlet, Ellen Terry's Lady Macbeth, John Gielgud's Lear, Olivier's Richard III, Paul Robeson's Othello, many of Henry Irving's performances, David Garrick's celebratory Shakespeare Jubilee of 1769 and Peter Brook's iconic 1970 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Each object is illustrated in full colour and is accompanied by a compact essay on its history, its provenance, and what it has to tell us about Shakespeare and his plays, particularly in performance. The result is a book that not only underlines Shakespeare's infinite variety, but also reveals his astonishing legacy in material things, a substantial pageant that has not faded.Trade Review'An attractive book containing lots of gems of information about our national playwright from across history... an easy, enjoyable and informative read' * British Theatre Guide *'Beautiful... This book not only illuminates the reader's understanding of Shakespeare but highlights this extraordinary wealth of material in the [V&A's] collections. It's the sort of book you will come to again and again to dip into.' * Drama Resource *'A glorious, serendipitous tour around Shakespeare's life, work and times' * The Stage *'A wonderful and fascinating collection of material… The accompanying commentary is always very well informed. The book will appeal to anybody interested in Shakespeare in performance' * Mature Times *
£17.99
Nick Hern Books Year of the Fat Knight (Hardback): The Falstaff
Book SynopsisThirty years ago a promising young actor published his account of preparing for and playing the role of Richard III. Antony Sher's Year of the King has since become a classic of theatre literature. In 2014, Sher, now in his sixties, was cast as Falstaff in Gregory Doran's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the two parts of Henry IV. Both the production and Sher's Falstaff were acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, with Sher winning the Critics' Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance. Year of the Fat Knight is Antony Sher's account - splendidly supplemented by his own paintings and sketches - of researching, rehearsing and performing one of Shakespeare's best-known and most popular characters. He tells us how he had doubts about playing the part at all, how he sought to reconcile Falstaff's obesity, drunkenness, cowardice and charm, how he wrestled with the fat suit needed to bulk him up, and how he explored the complexities and contradictions of this comic yet often dangerous personality. On the way, Sher paints a uniquely close-up portrait of the RSC at work.Year of the Fat Knight is a terrific read, rich in humour and with a built-in tension as opening night draws relentlessly nearer. It also stands as a celebration of the craft of character acting. All in all, it is destined to rank with Year of the King as one of the most enduring accounts of the creation of a giant Shakespearean role. Praise for Year of the King: 'This is a most wonderfully authentic account of the experience of creating a performance' Sunday Times 'The most exciting actor of his generation and an eloquent writer on the side' Observer Praise for Sher's Falstaff: 'A magnificent, magnetic performance - Sher plays down the fatness to emphasise the knight's upper-class origins. But, just as you start to warm to this Falstaff, you are reminded of his rapacity' Guardian 'It is Sher's irrepressible Falstaff that will linger in the memory - a lord of misrule who's absurd, delightful and in the end deeply sad' Evening StandardTrade Review'A fascinating book, whether you love Shakespeare, whether you love theatre, even if you don't... unfailingly honest... a brilliant portrayal of a character actor' - Claudia Winkelman, The BBC Radio 2 Arts Show 'A brilliantly full-bodied account that mixes the practicalities of a performance with artistic ambitions. You learn as much about Sher himself as you do about Falstaff... far more instructive about acting than any number of how-to guides' - WhatsOnStage 'Far from simply a primer on the art of acting... [Sher's] tone is relaxed, intimate, even confidential, open about his personal foibles and relationships... a book about life as well as about acting' - The Spectator 'One of the most compelling non-fiction books I've read in a long time... chatty, frank, funny and enlightening... anyone wanting to know exactly how a show is created from beginning to end will find it all here... I enjoyed Sher's earlier book, Year of the King, about his journey to create Richard III, but this is even better' - The Stage 'A joyful outpouring of a man at the top of his game... totally enthralling from start to finish' - Books Monthly
£10.44
Oneworld Publications Shakespeare: A Beginner's Guide
Book SynopsisWhether the fault of tedious teachers or hammy actors, Shakespeare is often seen as dry and impenetrable. In this fast-paced introduction, Ros King sets out to remind us of the sheer beauty and sophistication that can make Shakespeare's works a joy for any audience. Exploring his invention, wit, along with his uncanny characterisation, King argues archaic language should be no barrier to the modern reader. With summaries of The Bard's life and background, explanations of the plays' origins, and instructions on how to read his poetry, Shakespeare: A Beginner's Guide provides all the tools the general reader needs to embrace our greatest writer.
£9.49
Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Travel Writings in Italy Part I
Book SynopsisChawton House Library: Women''s Travel Writings are multi-volume editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly apparatus. The texts have been carefully selected to illustrate various themes in women''s history.
£355.86
Nick Hern Books Performing Shakespeare: Preparation, Rehearsal,
Book SynopsisAn authoritative, hands-on guide through the practical challenges involved in performing Shakespeare. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of playing Shakespearean roles, Oliver Ford Davies offers practical advice to actors, directors and drama students on a wide variety of scenes, characters, speeches and individual lines from almost every one of the plays. The three core sections of Performing Shakespeare take us through the whole process of Preparation, Rehearsal and Performance, preceded by discussions of the Elizabethan actor and Shakespeare's language. Also included are revealing interviews with other notable Shakespearean actors including Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Harriet Walter, Simon Russell Beale and Juliet Stevenson. 'An invaluable guide to those who act and to all those who wish to gain deeper insights into the performance of Shakespeare's plays' Stanley Wells from his ForewordTrade Review'Terrific... should be read by anyone who wants to understand more about the Bard, his players, his times and today's interpretations of his stupendous creations... a great book for anyone who loves the theatre' * Observer *'It is hard to offer enough praise to this book... a tremendous knowledge of the canon... the writing is always practical and never dry or dull... might become definitive guidance for many who wish to follow in the author's footsteps' * British Theatre Guide *
£12.34
Verso Books The Sultan's Court: European Fantasies of the East
Book SynopsisEdward Said's Orientalism (1978) has justly attracted great respect and attention for its account of Western perceptions and representations of the Orient, but the English-speaking world has for too long been unaware of another classic in the same field which appeared in France only a year later. Alain Grosrichard's The Sultan's Court is a fascinating and careful deconstruction of Western accounts of "Oriental despotism" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing particularly on portrayals of the Ottoman Empire and the supposedly enigmatic and opaque structure of the despot's power and his court of viziers, janissaries, mutes, dwarfs, eunuchs and countless wives.Drawing on the writings of travelers and philosophers such as Montesquieu, Rousseau and Voltaire, Grosrichard goes further than merely cataloguing their intense fascination with the vortex of capriciousness, violence, cruelty, lust, sexual perversion and slavery which they perceived in the seraglio. Deftly and subtly using a Lacanian psychoanalytic framework, he describes the process as one in which these leading Enlightenment figures were constructing a fantasmatic Other to counterpose to their project of a rationally based society. The Sultan's Court seeks not to refute the misconceptions but rather to expose the nature of the fantasy and what it can reveal about modern political thought and power relations more generally.Trade ReviewWhat Said's Orientalism achieves in breadth, The Sultan's Court provides in depth: the precise outline-the elementary formula-of the sexual-political fantasy of 'Oriental Despotism' which structures our perception of the Muslim countries from the seventeenth century to our own times, and on to which Western ideology projects its own inconsistencies and repressed traumas. Combining French elegance and clarity of style with the highest conceptual stringency, this immensely readable book demonstrates the extraordinary potential of Lacanian pyschoanalysis for social analysis. A classic of the theory of ideology, to be ranged with the greatest achievements of Adorno, Foucault or Jameson! -- Slavoj Zizek
£17.09
The Library of America James Madison Writings LOA 109
Book SynopsisOver 200 years after the founding of the federal republic, James Madison remains the most important political thinker in American history. The prime framer of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, Madison was also a brilliant expositor of the new republican government and its underlying principles. His eloquent and insightful writing on freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the press, the rights of minorities under majority rule, the role of the states in the federal system, and the separation of powers are central to American political thought and speak to the controversies of the present day.Arranged chronologically, this Library of America volume contains 197 essays, addresses, speeches, private memoranda, and letters written between 1772 and 1836. Included are all twenty-nine of Madison’s contributions to The Federalist, as well as revealing letters and speeches from the Constitutional Convention, the crucial Virginia ratifying convention, and the first federal Congress that illuminate his central role in framing and ratifying the Constitution and adopting the Bill of Rights. Early letters from the Revolution and the Confederation record Madison’s strong commitment to religious freedom, his acute observations on the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, and the beginning of his historic political collaboration with Thomas Jefferson.Selections from the 1790s include eloquent denunciations of the Alien and Sedition Acts and candid private appraisals of George Washington and John Adams. Writings from his terms as secretary of state and president record his determination to uphold American independence during the conflicts of the Napoleonic era and his leadership of the nation during the fiercely controversial War of 1812. Letters and memoranda from his retirement demonstrate his opposition to nullification and secession, his illusory hopes for African colonization as a solution to the dilemma of slavery, and his deepening concern over the sectional threat to the federal union he loved. James Madison: Writings includes a chronology of Madison’s life, an essay on the texts, explanatory notes, and an index.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
£34.00
