Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books

Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range of Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish sources, Empires of Love shows how the encounter with Asia shaped the way early modern Europeans came to define their racial and sexual identities.Trade Review"Compelling and filled with rich textual and historical details, Empires of Love will alter the ways we read the cross-cultural and domestic production of both race and desire." * Emily Bartels, Rutgers University *"Carmen Nocentelli's book makes important contributions to the multiple fields it embraces, from colonial studies to gender politics to comparative literature. Scholars working in all of the national traditions presented in Empires of Love will find much to think about." * Josiah Blackmore, University of Toronto *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Quotations and Translations Introduction Chapter 1. Perverse Implantations Chapter 2. The Erotic Politics of Os Lusíadas Chapter 3. Discipline and Love: Linschoten and the Estado da Índia Chapter 4. Polygamy and the Arts of Reduction Chapter 5. The Ideology of Interracial Romance Chapter 6. English Whiteness and the End of Romance Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamining seventeenth-century crises of evidence and genres of evidence on which both literary critics and historians now depend, True Relations explores the notion that we apprehend truth through other people's relations of it and that those relations, and our own relation to them, are a function of social relationships in conflict.Trade Review"This is a richly provocative book packed with stimulating insights, a work from which every early modernist can learn. Dolan's subject is as much the methodology of historians as it is the mentalities of historical subjects. She is a reassuring guide to issues that have vexed historians for the last thirty years." * American Historical Review *"[E]very scholar of early modern England ought to read this book. Dolan deftly cuts through the muddle that allows all of us, literary critics and historians, to acknowledge the limitations of our sources with one side of our mouths, while on the other side proceeding to read them however most suits our needs." * Shakespeare Studies *"At a time when the value of literature-and literary analysis-is a matter of public debate, True Relations is a carefully constructed and ultimately persuasive argument for the importance of literary critical methods." * Modern Philology *"A thoughtful and provocative essay on method as much as it is a set of readings of early modern texts. . . . Dolan's insistence that there are significant correspondences between the scholarly endeavours of historically minded critics (and critically minded historians) and the reading practices of their early modern subjects is a beguiling idea. True Relations is the kind of book that will make all its readers reflect on their own methods and responsibilities as practitioners of academic disciplines." * Review of English Studies *"Frances Dolan exhibits a heightened literary, historiographical, and methodological selfconsciousness, and invites other scholars to share and enjoy it. True Relations explores the ways historical actors in the early modern era presented information, in text or testimony, and how readers four centuries later render or interpret that material as evidence. It is concerned, suggestively and sometimes brilliantly, with the relatedness of relations, and the bases for supposing a story to be true." * Journal of British Studies *"True Relations pairs a methodological inquiry with historical analysis of specific case histories connecting fact to fiction in the early modern period. No other book to date has traced the particular way that scholars of the early modern period devise a practice of reading once they affirm the axiom that the 'real' is constructed. Dolan offers an unusually lucid and crisp tour of the social stakes involved in reading strategies and evidentiary standards." * Wendy Wall, Northwestern University *Table of ContentsNote on Spelling Introduction PART I. CRISES OF EVIDENCE Chapter 1. True and Perfect Relations: Henry Garnet, Confessional Identity, and Figuration Chapter 2. Sham Stories and Credible Relations: Witchcraft and Narrative Conventions Chapter 3. A True and Faithful Account? The London Fire, Blame, and Partisan Proof PART II. GENRES OF EVIDENCE Chapter 4. First-Person Relations: Reading Depositions Chapter 5. The Rule of Relation: Domestic Advice Literature and Its Readers Chapter 6. Relational Truths: Dramatic Evidence, All Is True, and Double Falsehood Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisFocusing on dramatic literature's contribution to the developing narrative of possessed persons, Of Bondage deepens our understanding of creditor-debtor relations in the period and sheds new light on the conceptual conditions for the institutions of indentured servitude and African slavery.Trade Review"[Bailey] offers a compelling account of the role of debt in the early modern imaginary. . . . [Her] literary exegesis . . . raises important historical questions." * Sixteenth Century Journal *"Absorbing and beautifully written. Amanda Bailey thinks about debt as a bodily event at the center of political and moral issues raised by contract law, including the question of self-ownership." * Jonathan Gil Harris, George Washington University *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Bound Bodies and the Theater of Debt Chapter 1. Timon of Athens, Forms of Payback, and the Genre of Debt Chapter 2. Shylock and the Slaves: Owing and Owning in The Merchant of Venice Chapter 3. Michaelmas Term and the Problem of Satisfaction Chapter 4. Freedom, Bondage, and Redemption in The Custom of the Country Chapter 5. Prison Prose, the Pit, and the End of Tricks Epilogue: The Debtor and the Slave Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisBarbarous Antiquity reorients early modern English poetry around England's mercantile and cultural exchanges with the Ottoman Empire, revealing how English poetry renegotiated its relationship to the classical past.Trade Review"Barbarous Antiquity extends our sense of Ovid's dual role as classical exemplar and outlier, and makes a substantial contribution by demonstrating how lyric and narrative poetry were as important to the English image of the Ottoman Mediterranean as drama and travel writing." * John Archer, New York University *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Trafficking with Antiquity: Trade, Poetry, and Remediation PART I. BARBARIAN INVASIONS Chapter 1. Strange Language: Imported Words in Jonson's Ars Poetica Chapter 2. Shaping Subtlety: Sugar in The Arte of English Poesie PART II. REDEEMING OVID Chapter 3. Publishing Pain: Zero in The Rape of Lucrece Chapter 4. Breeding Fame: Horses and Bulbs in Venus and Adonis PART III. REORIENTING ANTIQUITY Chapter 5. On Chapman Crossing Marlowe's Hellespont: Pearls, Dyes, and Ink in Hero and Leander Epilogue: The Peregrinations of Barbarous Antiquity Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisKatherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of humanistic learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the benefits of relying on alchemy despite its recognized flaws.Trade Review"Rich, detailed, subtle and bold. . . . Eggert is fully alive to the duplicity of alchemy and its claims." * Times Literary Supplement *"Eggert approaches her esoteric subjects with deep learning, masterful analysis, and exceptionally clear prose. Scrupulous but never sloppy, Disknowledge makes us think differently not just about the history of fiction making but also about the forms of unknowing at the heart of early modern knowledge systems. It provides a compelling account of a society that experienced acutely what she calls 'epistemological risk' in the face of new global flows of wealth and learning." * Modern Philology *"In this sharp and original book, Katherine Eggert takes on the challenge of characterizing knowledge formation in the period between early humanism and the rise of Baconian empiricism . . .Disknowledge, in Eggert's clever framework, has its own methodologies for impeding progress, including conscious forgetting, skimming texts, or treating relevant knowledge as immaterial." * Review of English Studies *"Katherine Eggert's Disknowledge breathes new life into a topic whose quirky fascination in early modern studies has foreclosed more nuanced ways of reading the specificities of its cultural potency . . . Eggert's analysis convincingly shows how the alchemical expressions of disknowledge may indeed 'model for modernity a kind of nimble epistemological and literary inventiveness' that imagines how looking backward may sometimes be the best way to move forward, but not without risk." * Studies in English Literature. *"Disknowledge's vigour and curiosity are inspiring . . . Eggert's line of argument is usually stringent, always erudite, and all the while tends to anticipate possible counterarguments . . . a valuable, rich and frequently thought-provoking addition to its field." * Early Modern Culture Online *"Disknowledge is a stimulating read, as this book challenges and provokes the reader to think deeply about what we as historians have come to know, and why, inviting response to Eggert's stated position from diverse disciplinary perspectives. As a scholarly resource, Disknowledge is an important and useful work for the ways in which Eggert sheds light on the inherent messiness of the state of learning during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . . . [A] significant work for opening up new ways to probe the project of knowledge-making in early modern England, and beyond." * Early Science and Medicine *"An unusually wide-ranging and original book, written with real stylistic flair. Eggert shows how alchemy, as both a discourse and a set of knowledge-practices, illuminates problems in many different domains, from transubstantiation to Kabbalah to debates over anatomy and reproduction. By using alchemy as a guiding thread, she reveals how each domain points up the limits of humanism in the early modern period. A delicately balanced, timely study that will be widely of interest to scholars of literature, science, medicine, and intellectual history more broadly." * Henry S. Turner, Rutgers University *Table of ContentsNotes on Texts, Biblical Quotations, and Bibliography Introduction Chapter 1. How to Sustain Humanism Chapter 2. How to Forget Transubstantiation Chapter 3. How to Skim Kabbalah Chapter 4. How to Avoid Gynecology Chapter 5. How to Make Fiction Afterword Notes Select Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisSituated at the vital intersection of physiology, gastronomy, decorum, knowledge-production, and labor, recipes from the past allow us to understand the significant ways that kitchen work was an intellectual and creative enterprise.Trade Review"Wall brilliantly restores an unfamiliar version of early modern domesticity. [Her] achievement . . . is to light up this earlier period, when England was the most dynamic site of recipe publication in Europe." * London Review of Books *"A nuanced and in many ways fresh account of how Renaissance recipes function as knowledge. . . . The book is a signal accomplishment that will prove as useful in the years to come as the recipes it analyzes proved to an earlier age." * Renaissance and Reformation *"Crammed with delightful discoveries, Recipes for Thought offers us a vibrant new picture of the early modern housewife as reader, writer, and knowledge producer and the kitchen as an arena of debate, experiment, and invention. Linking the kitchen to the lab and the pharmacy, the recipe to the poem and the play, Wendy Wall rejoins what has since been put asunder to re-create a world we not only lost but forgot about." * Frances Dolan, University of California, Davis *Table of ContentsPreface. The Appetizer Introduction. The Order of Serving Chapter 1. Taste Acts Chapter 2. Pleasure: Kitchen Conceits in Print Chapter 3. Literacies: Handwriting and Handiwork Chapter 4. Temporalities: Preservation, Seasoning, and Memorialization Chapter 5. Knowledge: Recipes and Experimental Cultures Coda Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisWorking with the technologies of pen and paper, scissors and glue, naturalists in early modern England, Scotland, and Wales wrote, revised, and recombined their words, sometimes over a period of many years, before fixing them in printed form. They built up their stocks of papers by sharing these materials through postal and less formal carrier services. They exchanged letters, loose notes, drawings and plans, commonplace books, as well as lengthy treatises, ever-expanding repositories for new knowledge about nature and history as it accumulated through reading, observation, correspondence, and conversation. These textual collections grew alongside cabinets of natural specimens, antiquarian objects, and other curiosities—insects pinned in boxes, leaves and flowers pressed in books, rocks and fossils, ancient coins and amulets, and drafts of stone monuments and inscriptions. The goal of all this collecting and sharing, Elizabeth Yale claims, was to create channels through which Trade Review"Meticulously researched, [Sociable Knowledge] provides a fine-grained account of how the world of early modern natural historical research worked. . . . Elizaberth Yale has provided a useful antidote to the idea that historians, or indeed others, should attempt to set out a single, unified vision, of what Britain is or was. The first methodical topographers were wise-or humble-enough to allow a multifaceted, sometimes contradictory Britain to emerge from the jumbled testimonies of her inhabitants."" * Times Literary Supplement *"Yale toggles deftly, in delightfully clear and organized prose, between the local particulars of both material and textual collections and the national visions they served. In so doing she makes a substantial and meticulous contribution to many fields, from the history and sociology of science to literary studies and early modern cultural history, as well as museum, media, and communications studies." * Bibliographical Society of America *"Sociable Knowledge is the first work I know of that discusses every means of early modern scientific communication-letters, conversation, printed books-their perceived advantages and limitations, and their complementary and supplementary roles. It is a book of exemplary scholarship and erudition." * Sachiko Kusukawa, University of Cambridge *Table of ContentsNote on Sources List of Abbreviations Introduction. "A Whole and Perfect Bodie and Book": Constructing the Human and Natural History of Britain Chapter 1. "This Book Doth Not Shew You a Telescope, but a Mirror": The Topographical Britain in Print Chapter 2. Putting Texts, Things, and People in Motion: Learned Correspondence in Action Chapter 3. Natural History "Hardly Can Bee Done by Letters": Conversation, Writing, and the Making of Natural Knowledge Chapter 4. John Aubrey's Naturall Historie of Wiltshire: A Case Study in Scribal Collaboration Chapter 5. Publics of Letters: Printing for (and Through) Correspondence Chapter 6. "The Manuscripts Flew About like Butterflies": Self-Archiving and the Pressures of History Conclusion. Paper Britannias Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThe letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But faith in the letter as evidence of the intimate thoughts of individuals underplays the sophisticated ways letters functioned in the past. In Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain leading scholars approach the letter from a variety of disciplinary perspectives to uncover the habits, forms, and secrets of letter writing. Where material features of the letter have often been ignored by past generations fixated on the text alone, contributors to this volume examine how such elements as handwriting, seals, ink, and the arrangement of words on the manuscript page were significant carriers of meaning alongside epistolary rhetorics. The chapters here also explore the travels of the letter, uncovering the many means through which correspondence reached a reader and the ways in which the delivery of letters preoccupied contempoTrade Review"Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain is a collection of eleven essays edited by James Daybell and Andrew Gordon, two acknowledged authorities in this lively and fast-growing field . . . .Where this collection really distinguishes itself is in the section on the afterlives of letters. Here, the textual problems raised by the archiving and preservation of letters are thought-provoking and important." * Times Literary Supplement *"Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain overturns the notion that letters are private, unmediated sources of the writer's thoughts and instead reveals and delights in the literary, artful qualities of letters and the cultures of collaboration and rewriting that produced them. By attending to what the editors call the social materiality of letter writing-the physical features of the text; the social and cultural practices of epistolary culture; and the material contexts in which letters were produced-this collection provides a rich sociology of early modern letter writing that will interest and provoke anyone working in early modern studies." * Adam Smyth, University of Oxford *

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Book SynopsisPlaywriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater shows how the rise of England's first commercialized culture industry also gave rise to the first generation of participatory consumers and their attempts to engage with mainstream culture by writing early modern "fan fiction."Trade Review"An extremely substantial contribution to the field. Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater has the potential to reconfigure current debates about theatrical authorship and spectatorship, and it also acts as an invaluable primer on a range of neglected material." * Lucy Munro, King's College London *Table of ContentsIntroduction. "All write Playes" Chapter 1. "Mayn't a spectator write a comedy?": The Early Modern Idea of Playgoers as Playmakers Chapter 2. "Some other may be added": Playwriting Playgoers Revising in Their Manuscripts Chapter 3. "As shall be shewed before the daye of action": Playwriting Playgoers and Performance Chapter 4. "Watching every word": Playwriting Playgoers as Verse Dramatists Conclusion. "I began to make a play" Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThe Wreckage of Intentions offers a comprehensive account of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century projects-concrete yet incomplete efforts to advance British society during a period defined by revolutions in finance and agriculture, the rise of experimental science, and the establishment of constitutional monarchy.Trade Review"In his fine new book, [Alff] recovers a rich history of social, economic and agricultural improvement ventures . . . There was a time when this sort of book would have arrived at bleak conclusions about technocratic control and domination. Alff, in contrast, prefers to dwell on possibility . . . Most projects fail, but some succeed, and a portion of the successes are utterly disastrous for the Earth and human well-being. David Alff rebalances the scales, but academic debate, itself an abiding project will surely continue." * Times Literary Supplement *"[A] superb first book . . . The combination of superb close reading and impressive scholarly research, of historical depth and literary power, features in every elegant and gripping chapter . . . Wreckage of Intentions makes a compelling argument about the power of paying attention to the debris of the past, of the might-have-beens before they were killed off. The Wreckage of Intentions makes us question the historical ground we're standing on." * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *"Alff’s ambitious study recovers a genre—the project—whose permeable boundaries have made it difficult for previous literary critics not only to delimit their analytic object but also to measure a project’s influence. The importance of Alff’s book is how it furthers our definition of what, precisely, imagination means during the civic-minded eighteenth century, before imagination is reconceived by Romantic poets to mean a subjectively creative faculty of the individual mind." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"[A]n impressive analysis of an overlooked body of work, full of insights, balanced judgements and sensitive readings about project literature, with much to say about economics, histories and the role of imagination in shaping the future. Virginia Woolf observed that words ‘hate making money’, and while plans for improvement rarely produce great literature, the clarity of Alff ’s sentences, his well-judged phrases and striking expressions make this a project so elegantly written it is unlikely to suffer the waste-basket fate of so many of the texts it surveys." * Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies *"Elegantly organized and incisive in its analysis, The Wreckage of Intentions opens up the narrative cage that our stories of progress and modernization have locked us into. David Alff's close reading of tracts, pamphlets, and treatises that propose various improvements, from insurance to agriculture, enables us to understand the ways in which future possibility and change were imagined in early modern Britain." * Wolfram Schmidgen, Washington University in St. Louis *Table of ContentsIntroduction. What Is a Project? Chapter 1. Improvement's Genre: Andrew Yarranton and the Rhetoric of Projection Chapter 2. Company in Paper: Aaron Hill's Beech Oil Bust Chapter 3. Projects Beyond Words: Undertaking Fen Drainage Chapter 4. Inheriting the Future: Georgic's Projecting Strain Chapter 5. Swift's Solar Gourds and the Antiproject Tradition Coda. Imaginary Debris in Defoe's New Forest Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisDuring America''s founding period, poets and balladeers engaged in a series of literary wars against political leaders, journalists, and each other, all in the name of determining the political course of the new nation. Political poems and songs appeared regularly in newspapers (and as pamphlets and broadsides), commenting on political issues and controversies and satirizing leaders like Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Drawing on hundreds of individual poems—including many that are frequently overlooked—Poetry Wars reconstructs the world of literary-political struggle as it unfolded between the Stamp Act crisis and the War of 1812.Colin Wells argues that political verse from this period was a unique literary form that derived its cultural importance from its capacity to respond to, and contest the meaning of, other printed texts—from official documents and political speeches to newspaper articles and rival political poems. First arising duringTrade Review"With his comprehensive study of political poetry from the American Revolution through the War of 1812, Colin Wells foregrounds a body of writing not often given extended treatment by literary scholars, but one which, as he superbly demonstrates, played an influential role in shaping the cultural and political landscape of the nation's turbulent, but formative, early years . . . Poetry Wars unearths a trove of poems published in partisan newspapers and other print outlets to reveal the intricate ideological and rhetorical dy-namics at work in the political debates that shaped the new nation and the active role that poetry played in them. [Wells] therefore makes a persuasive case that poetry, despite W. H. Auden's later assertion to the contrary, does, in fact, make things happen." * Early American Literature *"Poetry Wars explains the explosion of printed verse at the end of the eighteenth century in America and the evolution of several strands of political consciousness articulated through poetry. Arguing that poetry, not prose, was in fact the dominant belletristic mode of expression in the early United States, Colin Wells provides an important corrective to our understanding of American literary history." * David Shields, University of South Carolina *"Poetry Wars offers an erudite and engaging account of the surprisingly instrumental role of verse in U.S. nation formation. Colin Wells gives us a sense of how bold, playful, and rhetorically incisive political poems could be. He has done literary history a great service by recovering a time when poetry was both a vital force in public life and a dynamic means of effecting political change." * Edward Cahill, Fordham University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Poetics of Resistance Chapter 2. War and Literary War Chapter 3. Poetry and Conspiracy Chapter 4. The Language of Liberty Chapter 5. The Voice of the People Chapter 6. Mirror Images Chapter 7. The Triumph of Democracy Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisWhat does the keyword continence in Love''s Labor''s Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contemporary identification of the quince with weddings that is crucial for A Midsummer Night''s Dream? How does the evocation of Spanish-occupied Brabant in Othello resonate with contemporary geopolitical contexts, wordplay on Low Countries, and fears of sexual/territorial occupation? How does supposes connote not only sexual submission in The Taming of the Shrew but also the transvestite practice of boys playing women, and what does it mean for the dramatic recognition scene in Cymbeline?With dazzling wit and erudition, Patricia Parker explores these and other critical keywords to reveal how they provide a lens for interpreting the language, contexts, and preoccupations of Shakespeare''s plays. In doing so, she probes classical and historical sources, theatrical performance practices, geopolitical inTrade Review"By honing a feminist philological practice attuned to the intersections of language, class, gender, sexuality, and race, Parker illuminates how single words and their discursive networks firm up or challenge hierarchies of self and other in early modern English culture....Working across historical periods, geographies, discourses, and languages, Parker traces how single words range far afield to mate, drawing other terms into the orbit of the self-same in subtle, queer, and preposterous ways. As one has come to expect from Parker, delight is in the details....Shakespearean Intersections delivers on the promises of philologically attuned intersectional analysis, revealing the critical, historical, ontological, and epistemological insights that arise when we delve deeply and patiently into the world of words." * Shakespeare Quarterly *"The conclusion one draws from Shakespearean Intersections is that a lifetime of study in classical and early modern literature, multiple languages, philosophy, and world history might foster a critical perspective that invigorates our most familiar texts and makes them speak to the pressing issues of our time. This is the true promise of creative, inspiring literary criticism. It is a promise made good in Shakespearean Intersections." * Renaissance Quarterly *"Parker has always been one of the most trenchant and dazzling observers of word behaviour and her command of the almost incorrigible and mischievous elements of Shakespeare's language is an art in itself. The vibrant way in which she conjures contexts and allusions, recalls, suppositions, bends, behinds and breaches draws out the spectacular ways in which meanings are networked across the plays, but also the audiences and how the word becomes a powerful token or gift through which we can explore the rich complexities of belonging to Shakespeare's play worlds." * Shakespeare Survey *"Providing a rather prolific response to the age-old question, 'what's in a name?' this book's methodological approach to words (including nominal) as uniquely rewarding vehicles for exploring the language, contexts, and preoccupations of a period's literature and drama-together with oft-overlooked issues and historical intersections-testifies to the rich dividends paid by the meticulously close scholarly readings at which Parker is so adept." * Renaissance and Reformation *"Shakespearean Intersections offers a stunningly creative and illuminating method for reading Shakespeare's words as nodes in densely linked webs of religious, racial, political, and sexual meanings. No word is safe from Patricia Parker's eagle-eyed attention to the polyglot resonances, inferences, and figurations that unexpectedly connect Shakespeare's language to contemporary discourses as diverse as sodomy, military science, biblical teleology, and orthography. Shakespearean Intersections shows us how much we have overlooked in Shakespeare's language, and how much richer and more inventive our readings of even his most familiar texts might be." * Mario DiGangi, The Graduate Center, City University of New York *"Our editorial and critical endeavors have always (and perhaps necessarily) underestimated the activity of words-which is why we need Patricia Parker's extraordinary readings of Shakespeare." * Margreta de Grazia, University of Pennsylvania *"In Shakespearean Intersections, Patricia Parker identifies a wide range of especially resonant keywords and cultural contexts for early modern drama. Her readings of Shakespearean drama are a joy to encounter: immensely learned; acutely sensitive to rhetorical complexity; and deeply thoughtful about the politics of language." * Patricia Cahill, Emory University *

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Book SynopsisIn the decades after U.S. independence, American novelists carried on an argument that pitted direct democracy against the representative liberalism they attributed to their British counterparts. The result was an American novel distinguished by its use of narrative tropes that generated a social system resembling today's distributed network.Trade Review"Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse have long been our preeminent theorists of the novel. In this latest, virtuoso installment, they take on the novels of the early republic, seeing this corpus as nothing less than a template for a new polity, an updated version of the global and the local, replacing the hierarchical social contract of their English counterparts with a managed horizontality, a controlled redistribution of property and sensibility. Electrifying and eye-opening." * Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University *"An important, timely, and much-needed book. Few accounts of the early American novel have the tenacity, willingness, and breadth of learning to accomplish what Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse do here: to reframe the novel form in relation to what has been thought of as its American variant. When this book has done its work, there will be no British novel or American novel; there will be the 'network novel.'" * Lloyd Pratt, University of Oxford *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Argumentum ad Populum Chapter 1. Style in the Time of Epidemic Writing Chapter 2. Refiguring the Social Contract Chapter 3. Novels as a Form of Democratic Writing Chapter 4. Dispersal Chapter 5. Population Chapter 6. Conversion Chapter 7. Hubs Chapter 8. Anamorphosis Chapter 9. Becoming National Literature Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisLiterary historians have tended to associate the eighteenth century with the rise of the tyranny of the clock-the notion of time as ruled by mechanical chronometry. The transition to standardized scheduling and time-discipline, the often-told story goes, inevitably results in modernity's time-keeper societies and the characterization of modern experience as qualitatively diminished. In Feeling Time, Amit Yahav challenges this narrative of the triumph of chronometry and the consequent impoverishment of individual experience. She explores the fascination eighteenth-century writers had with the mental and affective processes through which human beings come not only to know that time has passed but also to feel the durations they inhabit. Yahav begins by elucidating discussions by Locke and Hume that examine how humans come to know time, noting how these philosophers often consider not only knowledge but also experience. She then turns to novels by Richardson, Sterne, and Radcliffe, atteTrade Review"Feeling Timeprovides its readers with an erudite and capacious look at the feelings that characterize duration and how duration reproduces feelings in ways that capture the ethos of modernity from the eighteenth century and beyond. Its readings are astute and striking. They ask us to reconsider the way felt time figures in a multitude of Enlightenment discourses. If you are interested in philosophical readings of the novel before Jane Austen, then read Feeling Time." * Studies in the Novel, *"In her elegant study, Amit Yahav argues that chronometry and chronology do not exhaust the novel’s ways of engaging with time. Rather, the eighteenth-century British novel explores the phenomenality of duration: the textured, variable, intensive experience of intervals of time. Yahav reveals at the heart of novels ranging from Robinson Crusoe to Sense and Sensibility this experience of duration through the senses and emotions...Yahav’s study provides fresh readings of well-known texts; it also opens up less familiar areas that are well worth exploring further." * Novel: A Forum on Fiction *"Yahav's book offers a compelling new perspective on how temporality can be read as "felt duration" in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"In Feeling Time, Yahav turns to the relationship between a sense of time and the experience of reading. Yahav’s central contention is that the idea of reading as a suspension of time comes not from the Romanticists, but from the earlier 18th-century novel of sensibility. Yahav reminds us that over 30 years ago Paul Ricoeur conceptualized narrative as mediating temporal experience, often as a way of understanding the representation of consciousness." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"In this innovative and ambitious book, Amit S. Yahav challenges some overly entrenched critical commonplaces about the Enlightenment roots of modernity while simultaneously elaborating new and compelling analyses of novels and aesthetic treatises that are the well-established mainstays of eighteenth-century literary studies." * Deidre Lynch, Harvard University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Sensibility Chronotope Chapter 1. Composing Human Time: Locke, Hume, Addison, and Diderot Chapter 2. Temporal Moralities and Momentums of Plot: Richardson and Hutcheson Chapter 3. Sympathetic Moments and Rhythmic Narration: Sterne, Early Musicology, and the Elocutionists Chapter 4. Durational Aesthetics and the Logic of Character: Radcliffe, Burke, and Smith Coda. The End of Human Time? Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisBetween 1780 and 1800, authors of imaginative literature in the new United States wanted to assert that their works, which bore obvious connections to anglophone literature on the far side of the Atlantic, nevertheless constituted a properly American tradition. No one had yet figured out, however, what it would mean to write like an American, what literature with an American origin would look like, nor what literary characteristics the elusive quality of Americanness could generate. Literature, American Style returns to this historical momentdecades before the romantic nationalism of Cooper, the transcendentalism of Emerson and Thoreau, or the iconoclastic poetics of Whitmanwhen a fantasy about the unique characteristics of U.S. literature first took shape, and when that notion was linked to literary style. While late eighteenth-century U.S. literature advertised itself as the cultural manifestation of a radically innovative nation, Ezra Tawil argues, it was not primarily marked by iTrade Review"[Tawil's] fresh and illuminating readings of major works of the 1780s and '90s will make Literature, American Style an important book for early Americanists. But what will make this book important for a wide range of scholars working on the long history of American literature is its reframing of the issue of literary Americanness. One of the signature achievements of Literature, American Style is the synthesis it provides of the divergent lines of scholarship focused on national distinctiveness and transatlantic indebtedness, respectively." * Early American Literature *"[A] masterful treatise . . . {An] excellent, learned study . . . Literature, American Style makes a substantial contribution to the study of early national literary culture from which future scholars of the period will greatly profit." * American Literary History *"[F]or readers interested in this dialectic and in parsing the tangled literary relationship between Britain and the United States, Tawil's book is essential reading. His own lucid style makes Literature, American Style a pleasure to read." * Studies in the Novel *"In Literature, American Style, Tawil's subject matter is, itself, a crucial intervention in the field of American literary studies because it foregrounds something-the 'choice of words and the manner of arranging them'-that is often ignored . . . What Tawil does remarkably well, and vitally so for the field, is to put a finer point on the intricacies of transatlantic exchange, literary style, and cultural nationalism that critics have too often painted with a broad brush." * Soundings *"Ezra Tawil's Literature, American Style confronts one of the most fundamental problems in the study of US culture: how and why do we claim 'a national tradi-tion' of American literature that can be distinguished from other literatures in English . . . Tawil provides a deeper historical, philosophical and literary context for the enduring allure of the unpolished voice on both sides of the Atlantic.." * Literature & History *"This is a beautifully written, well-structured, and impressively informed study of early national American literature. Drawing on pre-romantic aesthetic philosophy and deft stylistic analysis, Ezra Tawil succeeds in elucidating a significant late eighteenth-century cultural paradox: the transatlantic roots of American literary originality." * Paul Downes, University of Toronto *"Literature, American Style is a timely and innovative account of some very old-fashioned ideas in American literary studies-nationalism, originality, and style. In Ezra Tawil's engaging, lucid prose, they come alive in ways that reveal American 'exceptionalism' to be a far more important and complex cultural strategy than we have understood it to be." * Edward Cahill, Fordham University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Style and the Cisatlantic Chapter 1. To Form a More Perfect Language: Noah Webster's American-Style English Chapter 2. Transatlantic Correspondences: Crèvecoeur and the Incorrect Style Chapter 3. "New Forms of Sublimity": Charles Brockden Brown and the Irregular Style Chapter 4. "Homespun Habits": Seduction, Sentiment, and the Artless Style Coda. Stock and Soil Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[O]ne of the last decade's most important books on eighteenth-century theater . . . Readers should not be fooled by the title: this book is not just about trials or plays depicting trials. Dramatic Justice is a meticulously researched coup against the idea that transparency and progress were uncontroversial values among the Revolution's most vocal proponents of liberalism . . . Robert's theorization of reenactment should be studied by contemporary performance scholars and his lucid explanation of Robespierre's (self-described) Socratic death would help students of all levels and disciplines understand the Revolution's most startling paradoxes. Robert has written an excellent book on eighteenth-century theater that resonates with today's trial practices, where tensions between accuracy and openness, due process and "purely theatrical spectacles" have not lost their vigor." * The French Review *"Robert richly and compellingly illustrates the promise and peril that theatricality represented for legal reformers between 1750 and 1800. Dramatic Justice describes in great detail both the reform of French legal proceedings during the Revolution and the debates that preceded and attended it . . . Robert succeeds in challenging some commonly accepted notions about eighteenth-century theater and justice in France." * Modern Philology *"[O]ne of the most important recent contributions to the growing scholarship on French Revolutionary drama...[Yann's] study will be appreciated for its interdisciplinary scope, lucid writing, and stimulating polemic (and charming predilection for exclamation points!). The impressive wealth of material and topics explored both illuminates underexplored pockets of the archive and offers new insight into well-known texts by leading Enlightenment figures...[A] tour de force that will be required reading for anyone working on theatre and history of the French Enlightenment and Revolution." * Theatre Survey *"[A] very substantial, well-made and thought-provoking monograph, and an important contribution to understanding the cultural politics of revolutionary France . . . Robert's research [is] a richly complex landscape in which French thinkers wrestled with the dilemma of judicial theatricality, as they wrestled with the wider cultural question of the theatrical, the performative and the emotional in public life." * English Historical Review *"This book constitutes a bold and detailed look at the relationship between theatre and justice in 'the Age of the French Revolution . . . ' Robert offers genuinely new readings of many plays and a sophisticated model for further analysis." * French Studies *"[O]riginal perspectives on French revolutionary justice and the significant transformation in the relation between representations of justice in the theatre and actual legal proceedings that occurred in the latter half of the eighteenth century . . . Through his incisive history of the intellectual, symbolic, and practical exercise of justice in the years before and during the Revolution, Robert offers an alternative to the political lens that informs prevailing narratives." * Modern Language Review *"Dramatic Justice is an impressive and erudite study that elucidates theatre’s complicated relationship with the law and underscores the power of antitheatrical thinking in dramatic and nondramatic realms...[I]t is hard to do justice to the intricacy and breadth of Robert’s scholarship or to the range of his legal, literary, and dramatic sources. Dramatic Justice is essential reading for anyone concerned with eighteenth-century France, with theatre and drama studies, and with the historical, cultural, and legal worlds of the late eighteenth century." * Theatre Journal *"Yann Robert’s Dramatic Justice provides a wonderful reading of 'judicial theater,' a term [Robert] coins to designate those plays that sought to reenact recent events taken from political life and that functioned to retry the matter before their spectators...[A] bold and original contribution to eighteenth-century French theater studies." * Modern Language Notes *"No one has pursued the arguments for and against theatricalizing justice across the Enlightenment and Revolutionary periods as thoroughly as Yann Robert does in this excellent book." * Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *"In Dramatic Justice, Yann Robert offers an original, nuanced, and convincing analysis of the interplay between justice, legitimacy, and representation in France in the second half of the eighteenth century." * Thomas Wynn, Durham University *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. THEATER AS JUSTICE Chapter 1. Fixing the Law: Reenactment in Diderot's Fils naturel Chapter 2. The Many Faces of Aristophanes: The Rise of a Judicial Theater PART II. JUSTICE AS THEATER Chapter 3. Players at the Bar: The Birth of the Modern Lawyer Chapter 4. Judges, Spectators, and Theatrocracy Chapter 5. From Parterre to Pater: Dreaming of Domestic Tribunals PART III. THE REVOLUTION'S PERFORMANCE OF JUSTICE Chapter 6. Performing Justice in the Early Years of the Revolution Chapter 7. The Curtain Falls on Judicial Theater and Theatrical Justice Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn Paper Monsters, Samuel Fallon charts the striking rise, at the turn to the seventeenth century, of a new species of textual being: the serial, semifictional persona. When Thomas Nashe introduced his charismatic alter ego Pierce Penilesse in a 1592 text, he described the figure as a paper monster, not fashioned but begotten into something curiously like life. The next decade bore this description out, as Pierce took on a life of his own, inspiring other writers to insert him into their own works. And Pierce was hardly alone: such figures as the polemicist Martin Marprelate, the lovers Philisides and Astrophil, the shepherd-laureate Colin Clout, the prodigal wit Euphues, and, in an odd twist, the historical author Robert Greene all outgrew their fictional origins, moving from text to text and author to author, purporting to speak their own words, even surviving their creators'' deaths, and installing themselves in the process as agents at large in the real world of writing, Trade Review"[Paper Monsters] throughout is elegantly written, persuasively argued, and well anchored in current theoretical and critical debates: it will be the starting point for any future consideration of literary personae and the role they played in the early modern literary field independently of the authors who created or inspired them." * Journal of British Studies *"Samuel Fallon is a skilled and often revelatory close reader of literature who displays a remarkable familiarity with minor writers and publishers of late Elizabethan England. Capacious and ambitious in its scope, Paper Monsters is a distinctive and highly accomplished piece of literary criticism." * Alan Stewart, Columbia University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Robert Greene's Ghosts Chapter 2. Rehearsing Colin Clout Chapter 3. Astrophil, Philisides, and the Coterie in Print Chapter 4. Pierce Penilesse and the Art of Distinctions Coda Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisAlthough the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, humanity is an elusive category in the literary, philosophical, scientific, and political writings of the period. Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century efforts to define the human. Focusing on the shifting terms in which human difference from animals, things, and machines was expressed, Lynn Festa argues that writers and artists treated humanity as an indefinite class, which needed to be called into being through literature and the arts. Drawing on an array of literary, scientific, artistic, and philosophical devices the riddle, the fable, the microscope, the novel, and trompe l'oeil and still-life painting Fiction Without Humanity focuses on experiments with the perspectives of nonhuman creatures and inanimate things. Rather than deriving species membership from sympathetic identification or likeness to a fixedTrade Review"Fiction without Humanity is a dauntingly learned book, in which Lynn Festa deploys and contributes to such diverse fields as thing theory, animal studies, art history, the history of science, folklore, rhetoric and grammar, and Peircean semiotics."" * Eighteenth Century Fiction *"Fiction Without Humanity is a profound book that tenders as many pleasures as Pope or Swift as it dances between empirical minima (fleas, flies, personal pronouns, unmatched shoes) and concepts and questions that remain urgent today: Just what makes a thing count as human? How does literary form participate in this accounting? What, specifically, does literature do to, with, for us humans? Lynn Festa has written a posthumanist classic-albeit one that returns us to a new and more demanding humanity." * Jayne Lewis, author of Air's Appearance: Literary Atmosphere in British Fiction, 1660-1794 *"With its critical attention to such things as birds, insects, paintings, scientific engravings, riddles, fables, and Robinson Crusoe's island, Fiction Without Humanity offers an ambitious and persuasive account of the meaning of 'humanity'-and humanity's fictions-from radically other points of view. This book marks a bracing and mobilizing intervention in eighteenth-century eco-criticism as well as the environmental humanities more generally." * Helen Thompson, author of Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Bird's-Eye View Chapter 2. Lousy Bodies Chapter 3. Anthropomorphic Things Chapter 4. Flea, Fly, Fable Chapter 5. Crusoe's Island of Misfit Things Coda Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisOver the course of the long eighteenth century, a network of some fifty women writers, working in French, English, Dutch, and German, staked out a lasting position in the European literary field. These writers were multilingual and lived for many years outside of their countries of origin, translated and borrowed from each others'' works, attended literary circles and salons, and fashioned a transnational women''s literature characterized by highly recognizable codes. Drawing on a literary geography of national types, women writers across Western Europe read, translated, wrote, and rewrote stories about exceptional young women, literary heroines who transcend the gendered destiny of their distinctive cultural and national contexts. These transcultural heroines struggle against the cultural constraints determining the sexualized fates of local girls.In Heroines and Local Girls, Pamela L. Cheek explores the rise of women''s writing as a distinct, transnational category inTrade Review"[I]t certainly should be read, and because the coverage is remarkable, the book can be profitably read in parts. But to read the whole book has additional rewards, as Cheek interweaves familiar texts with a great many others that few of us have read to illuminate how networks of women writers in the long eighteenth century involved each other in literary projects of female identity. This book opens so many roads of discovery that we will profit from it for a long time. " * Modern Language Quaterly *"This is a bold, risk-taking book. It is both theoretically engaged and admirable in scope and aims. In it, Pamela L. Cheek attempts a transnational history of women’s writing in the long eighteenth century. She asks an important question: Where does 'women’s writing' fit within the category of 'world literature'?...Heroines and Local Girls will remain an important touchstone for us all in the coming years, as we continue to explore writers across borders and write our literary histories anew." * Early Modern Women *"With her heroines and local girls, Pamela L. Cheek draws attention to two ways in which women could be textually related to the literary field in the long eighteenth century: by defining an aristocratic and cosmopolitan concept of gender identity oneself or, on the other hand, by being determined through a local experience of gender practice. This double definition actually enables Cheek to unfold a new map of literary history, making it possible for today's readers to see ‘women's literature’ at work as a vital critical category, but inviting us all along, also, to articulate its meaning for the women writers themselves in their own century. Cheek's argument is very compelling and makes us look at a number of well-known texts with fresh eyes. Her comparative reading of Charlotte Lennox with Françoise de Graffigny and that of Frances Burney with Mme de Staël are particularly stunning." * Women’s Writing *"[Cheek’s study] has an important part to play in one of the perennial questions posed in women’s studies: Where does something that many readers identify as ‘women’s writing’ fit within European or world literature?...Cheek deftly traverses an astonishing range of materials across different languages. Her ability to speak to the importance of translation without converting it into an easy alignment of one national dictionary with another marks her book with a combination of accessibility and accuracy. Heroines and Local Girls will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in women’s writing in the long eighteenth century and how literary texts cross national boundaries." * Journal of British Studies *"Pamela L. Cheek makes an extraordinarily important contribution not just to our understanding of women's writing but also to our thinking about the international circulation and reception of literary texts. Few scholars have anything like Cheek's range, and her ability to speak of the importance of translation without converting it into an easy alignment of one national dictionary with another marks her book with a combination of availability and precision. Heroines and Local Girls is indispensable reading for anyone interested in women's writing and how literature crosses national boundaries." * Frances Ferguson, University of Chicago *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Networks of Women Writers Circa 1785-87 Chapter 2. Two Quarrels Chapter 3. Ravishing and Romance Language Chapter 4. The Repertoire of the School for Girls Chapter 5. Heroines and Local Girls Chapter 6. Heroines in the World Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisEarly Modern Histories of Time examines how a range of chronological modes intrinsic to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries shaped the thought-worlds of those living during this time and explores how these temporally indigenous models can productively influence our own working concepts of historical period. This innovative approach thus moves beyond debates about where we should divide linear time (and what to call the ensuing segments) to reconsider the very concept of period. Bringing together an eminent cast of literary scholars and historians, the volume develops productive historical models by drawing on the very texts and cultural contexts that are their objects of study. What happens to the idea of period when English literature is properly placed within the dynamic currents of pan-European literary phenomena? How might we think of historical period through the palimpsested nature of buildings, through the religious concept of the secular, through the demographic mTrade Review"All the essays in the book make as much use of the concept of 'period' and 'periodization' as possible. The essays approach the writing of a literary history through engaging with historiography and their practitioners, as starting points. The breadth of the critical vision, the magnitude of the task handled, and the inclusion of many original angles will make this book invaluable for anyone writing a literary history, writing about a literary history, and thinking about the very nature of literary and cultural histories in the early modern period." * Renaissance and Reformation *"The scope of this volume is ambitious. Poole and Williams explain that they aim to explore both how modern scholars use ‘the idea of historical periods’ and how the early moderns ‘understood chronology, antecedent, and temporal division...[T]he volume makes its readers aware of just how engrained periodisation is in modern academic thought and how difficult it is to constructively overcome its boundaries. That in itself is a valuable contribution and its contents will be of interest to any scholars interested in the ongoing debates concerning periodisation, its known shortcomings, and its possible revisions." * Erudition and the Republic of Letters *"A provocative and illuminating volume. Its breadth of topics and approaches adds to its utility and appeal not only for literary scholars but also for historians. It will be the standard reference on historical periodization for years to come." * Zachary S. Schiffman, Northeastern Illinois University *"Early Modern Histories of Time is a tremendously exciting and genuinely multidisciplinary collection of essays by historically engaged literary scholars juxtaposed with excellent contributions from political, religious, and archaeological historians." * Evelyn Tribble, University of Connecticut *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"As Lupić points out throughout his cogently argued, crisply written, and comprehensively researched book, the shaping and the performance of early modern selfhood depended upon personal and political conditions that the world required of an individual; moreover, identity fashioning seldom took place fully without the benefit of a counsel . . . [T]his engrossing study opens up new critical paths, stretching beyond English drama. This is a book of comparative literary history and historiography; it connects text and theatre within a wide early modern world of cross-linguistic exchange. The critical idiom and methodological approach are unique and refreshing, often polemical and consistently rewarding." * Renaissance and Reformation *"Looking beyond the canonical Renaissance and its texts, Ivan Lupić offers readers a rich and subtle understanding of the nature of counsel in the period, as both a political and a cultural experience. Subjects of Advice is a valuable and welcome addition to the field of early modern studies." * Greg Walker, University of Edinburgh *"Subjects of Advice offers both a genuinely original view of such familiar works as Utopia and King Lear and an importantly recuperative account of works that were significant in their own time, but have been marginalized by literary history, such as Cambyses. It is a fascinating and revelatory book." * Stephen Orgel, Stanford University *

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Book SynopsisA compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth centuryIn John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a race to fill the world, a thought that consoles them even after the trauma of the fall. By 1798, the idea that the world would one day be entirely filled by people had become, in Thomas Malthus's hands, a nightmarish vision. In Peopling the World, Charlotte Sussman asks how and why this shift took place. How did Britain's understanding of the value of reproduction, the vacancy of the planet, and the necessity of moving people around to fill its empty spaces change? Sussman addresses these questions through readings of texts by Malthus, Milton, Swift, Defoe, Goldsmith, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, and others, and by placing these authors in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory, and colonial settlement. Sussman argues that a shift in thinking about pTrade Review"If it is already clear that we live in what Thomas Nail terms the century of the migrant, Charlotte Sussman finds in the eighteenth century a crucial prehistory of global displacement. Peopling the World examines the stakes of migration in an era shaped by empire, the transatlantic slave trade, and land enclosure...Meticulously researched and impressive in its historical scope...this book’s capaciousness and its sharp analysis of the ongoing processes of social expulsion that 'peopled the world' make it essential reading both in eighteenth-century studies and in cultural histories of population and migration. " * Modern Philology *"Peopling the World is complex, incisive, and clever because Sussman integrates from the beginning the question of reproduction, and therefore gender. And she analyzes with sharp precision a cultural politics of mobility...It is deeply researched, acutely aware of the mountain of historical and literary scholarship that precedes it. The multiple lines of inquiry here are highly complex, and it is rare indeed forso many to be entwined into a novel and satisfying whole." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"Peopling the World is a deeply researched and compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth century, and their expression, contestation, and dissemination in literary texts from the period. Charlotte Sussman makes a persuasive case for emigration as a controversial subject which divided writers, thinkers, and politicians, and which underpinned all the major socioeconomic debates of the day, concerning poverty and wealth, nation and empire, place and belonging." * Josephine McDonagh, University of Chicago *"A timely and important intervention into our understanding of how literature helps to shape the movement of population from Milton to Malthus, Peopling the World develops subtle and complicated ideas with clear prose and razor-sharp insight." * Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. A Race to Fill the Earth: Mobility and Fecundity in Paradise Lost Chapter 2. The Afterlives of Political Arithmetic in Defoe and Swift Chapter 3. The Veteran's Tale: War, Mobile Populations, and National Identity Chapter 4. Remembering the Population: Goldsmith and Migration Chapter 5. The Emptiness at The Heart of Midlothian: Nation, Narration, and Population Chapter 6. "Islanded in the World": Cultural Memory and Human Mobility in The Last Man Chapter 7. Prospects of the Future: Malthus, Shelley, and Freedom of Movement Afterword Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Making the Miscellany, Megan Heffernan makes a significant contribution to the study of the poetic design of early modern printed books, how volumes of compiled poems responded to changes in media, the material organization of printed poetry, the contribution of conventions and innovations of arrangement to vernacular poetic craft, and the consolidation of individual authorship...Heffernan has untangled the tangled tale of book matter, design, printing, culture, and history in relation to the making and reading of poetry then and now." * Renaissance and Reformation *"Upon first notice,Making the Miscellany appears as another well-stated and strong scholarly contribution to literary studies, but that would be deceiving; it is much more. The author has thrown new light upon previously understood conventions and scholarship focused on poetry and compilations and miscellanies of poetry...Beyond the in-depth scholarly apparatus utilized inMaking the Miscellany, the author has provided a very engaging and highly readable style. Rich in technical asides in text and notes, this book opens up new scholarly ground and serves as a requisite and indispensable measure of scholarship that traverses different scholarship fields as well as opportunities for further exploration." * Publishing Research Quarterly *"By decentering the author as the imagined source and originator of the poetry collection, Megan Heffernan is able to attend to the agency of stationers and compilers, as well as the agency of poetry itself. In one of her most exciting claims, Heffernan argues that the poetry shapes the material form of the printed book in these early poetry collections. Indeed, she shows, these innovative arrangements shaped the development of vernacular poetic craft and notions of authorship in the seventeenth century and after." * Jenny C. Mann, author of The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime *

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Book SynopsisUnnerved by the upheavals of the seventeenth century, English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe came to accept that disorder, rather than order, was the natural state of things. They were drawn to voluntarism, a theology that emphasized a willful creator and denied that nature embodied truth and beauty. Voluntarism, Wolfram Schmidgen contends, provided both theological framework and aesthetic license. In Infinite Variety, he reconstructs this voluntarist tradition of literary invention. Once one accepted that creation was willful and order arbitrary, Schmidgen argues, existing hierarchies of kind lost their normative value. Literary invention could be radicalized as a result. Acknowledging that the will drives creation, such writers as Blackmore and Locke inverted the rules of composition and let energy dominate structure, matter create form, and parts be valued over the whole. In literary, religious, and philosophical woTrade ReviewThis book is a striking achievement, confident in its abstractions and their utility in illuminating a shared intellectual and aesthetic preoccupation. * Modern Philology *Part of the recent movement in eighteenth-century studies to resist the teleological secularization narrative that has governed much of the literary and cultural criticism in the field, Infinite Variety is also one of the most stimulating, original, and erudite books I've read in some time. Wolfram Schmidgen makes a cogent, compelling, and historically grounded case for the imaginative power of literature at a moment of epistemological crisis. * Helen Deutsch, University of California Los Angeles *In Infinite Variety, Wolfram Schmidgen offers a fresh perspective on literary invention in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England...[T]he perspective of this book is generous and valuable and...readers of all persuasions interested in the early modern history of literature, culture and ideas will be thankful to it for its fertile insights and provocations. * The Seventeenth Century *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Toward a Voluntarist Aesthetic Chapter 2. Glorious Arbitrariness: Science, Religion, and the Imagination of Infinite Variety Chapter 3. Energy and Structure: Remaking the Given in Blackmore and Pope Chapter 4. Embarrassed Invention: Stillingfleet, Locke, and the Style of Voluntarism Chapter 5. The Constructive Swift: Between the Hope and Fear of Decomposition Chapter 6. The Providence of Gathering and Scattering: Dynamic Variety in Defoe Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisRace, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In Bad Humor, Kimberly Anne Coles charts how these concerns converged around a pseudoscientific system that confirmed the absolute difference between Protestants and Catholics, guaranteed the noble quality of English blood, and justified English colonial domination. Coles delineates the process whereby religious error, first resident in the body, becomes marked on the skin. Early modern medical theory bound together psyche and soma in mutual influence. By the end of the sixteenth century, there is a general acceptance that the soul's condition, as a consequence of religious belief or its absence, could be manifest in the humoral disposition of the physical body. The history that this book unfolds describes developments in natural philosophy in the early part of the sixteenth century that force a subsequent reconsideration of the interactions of body and Trade Review"By analyzing how theology and natural philosophy of the period inform works of early modern English literature, [Bad Humor] traces the development of a racial logic that ultimately upholds and justifies English colonial rule by rendering impossible the religious conversion of Irish Catholics, Spanish Catholics, Africans and Indigenous people. Coles examines canonical works by John Donne, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser and Shakespeare alongside readings of Mary Wroth, Elizabeth Carey and Aphra Behn to document an emerging relationship between melancholy and religious error that assumes the heritability of (un)belief. Writing within a contemporary American context that has witnessed a rise in white Christian nationalism, Coles offers a timely exploration of how race and religion become intertwined." * Times Literary Supplement *"Locating religion and race along a single axis, Kimberly Anne Coles measures the role of the connection between body and soul in the oppression and alienation of groups of people. Her argument gets at the foundations of race-making in a book that is thoroughly grounded in literary criticism, early modern race studies, religious history, early modern medical theory, and early American law." * Jonathan Burton, Whittier College *"Bad Humor is a timely contribution to ongoing conversations about how religion informed early modern race-thinking. Arguing that earlier conceptions of hereditary blood and rank enabled ‘Black melancholy’ to be tethered to irreligion, Coles shows that faith comes to be seen as less a feature of belief than an inheritable somatic condition. First articulated in relationship to Europeans and later to Black Africans, the idea that there exists a ‘complexion of the soul’ reveals early modern theology, natural philosophy, humoral medicine, and Protestant literature to be early contributors to white supremacy." * Valerie Traub, University of Michigan *"Uncovering how humoral theory entwines with philosophical and theological discussions of the relationship between body and soul, Kimberly Anne Coles makes clear that English Protestants rendered belief and non-belief heritable, and that this understanding of the heritable nature of belief was used to justify colonialism and the enslavement of Africans. Bad Humor provides important new insight into the racialization of religion in early modern English literature." * Dennis Austin Britton, The University of British Columbia *"In Bad Humor, Kimberly Anne Coles traces a logic whereby humoral imbalance—in particular, the excess of black bile supposedly registered in dark complexions—constitutes an essential moral inferiority that renders Christian conversion and civic affiliation impossible; those so cast outside the body politic are marked as legitimate objects of enslavement and genocide. Bad Humor compels us to attend to the enmeshment of science and religion in shaping early modern iterations of hierarchy and heredity attuned to the demands of emergent racial capitalism." * Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania *

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Book SynopsisIn the years between the independence of the colonies from Britain and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called fragments. American Fragments recovers this archive of the romantic period to raise a set of pressing questions about the relationship between aesthetic and national realities: What kind of artistic creation was a fragment?, And how and why did deliberately unfinished writing emerge alongside a country that was itself still unfinished?Through discussions of eighteenth-century transatlantic aesthetics, the Revolutionary War, seduction novels, religious culture, and the construction of authorship, Daniel Diez Couch argues that the literary fragment was used as a means of representing individuals who did not fit neatly into the social fabric of the nation: beggars, prostitutes, veterans, and other ostracized figures. These individuals did not have a secure place in designs for the country's future, yet writers wieldedTrade Review"There’s a lot to admire here, including Couch’s ability to say something new about topics like the connections between aesthetics and liberal individualism, which may have otherwise seemed exhausted...American Fragments positions itself less as an intervention and more as a contribution, a missing piece that makes the conversation about early US aesthetics more complete." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"How is it possible that no one before now has written a literary history of the 'fragment' in early US literature, or one which focuses on this form as important to a more broadly targeted literary history? The fact that such a question can even form itself in a reader’s mind is usually a concrete sign of an author’s success. In the present case, that success rests on the combination of the argument’s novelty and the obviousness of its importance to the field...Before this book’s publication, the 'fragment' may not have looked like a form essential to early American literary history; afterward, it most certainly does." * Early American Literature *"In American Fragments, Daniel Diez Couch urges us to examine the role that the fragment played both for readers and writers between 1787 and 1813...Couch’s work reminds us that there is meaning in the partial, intentionally incomplete silences of these fragments. Early American scholars will find this well-written analysis a thought-provoking addition to our understanding of this tumultuous and transitional period." * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"In a field that has for decades glanced only fleetingly at the formal category of the fragment without focusing its critical attention, American Fragments is both a flash of illumination and a corrective lens. It restores to us, through the early republic’s minor forms, some of the freedom—and the historical contingency—that has been obscured by the myth of the national plot." * Matthew Garrett, Wesleyan University *

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Book SynopsisRooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. This book offers a critical study of this genre. Each chapter situates an individual author's journals amid contemporary discourses of natural history.

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Book SynopsisStudy of the sea - both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation - has been largely ignored by ecocritics. In Shakespeare's Ocean, Dan Brayton foregrounds the maritime dimension of a writer whose plays and poems have had an enormous impact on literary notions of nature and, in so doing, plots a new course for ecocritical scholarship.

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Book SynopsisArgues that Hamlet's famous phrase not only underscores the blurred boundaries between the warring Protestantism and Catholicism of Shakespeare's time; it is also an appeal for basic spirituality, free from any particular doctrinal scheme.Trade ReviewFiddes’s theological breadth and openness are a breath of the freshest of air, bracing, and giving new life. The book is very engagingly written and thoroughly absorbing throughout. It deserves to garner a wide readership among lovers and scholars of Shakespeare and theologians who wish to think with, and through, art, drama, liturgy, poetry." - Sarah Beckwith, Duke University, author of Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness

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Book SynopsisDraws on media studies and the history of books and reading to bring to life a history of realism concerned with the inclusivity of readers. Kyoko Takanashi shows how novelists employed metaphors of transport to constantly reassess what readers could and could not access.

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Book SynopsisA study of all of the major tragedies of Jean Racine, France's preeminent dramatist—and, according to many, its greatest and most representative author—Mitchell Greenberg's work offers an exploration of Racinian tragedy to explain the enigma of the plays' continued fascination.Table of ContentsA Note on Text and Translations Preface Introduction: Spectacle, Myth, Sacrifice: Racinian Tragedy and the Origins of Modernity 1. La Thébaïde: Politics and Monstrous Origins 2. Andromaque: Myth and Melancholy 3. Britannicus: Power, Perversion, and Paranoia 4. Oriental Oedipus: Bérénice, Bajazet, Mithridate 5. Iphigénie: Sacrifice and Sovereignty 6. Phèdre (et Hippolyte): Tabou, Transgression, and the Birth of Democracy? 7. Esther, Athalie: Religion, and Revolution in Racine's Heavenly City Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been ghettoised by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favour of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of classroom teaching.

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Book SynopsisIn Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare’s plays on film, assessing what filmmakers and TV directors have made of the spells, haunts, and apparitions— Puck and the fairies, ghosts and witches, or Prospero’s island—in his plays. A bold step forward in Shakespeare and film studies.Trade Review“This is a wonderful book: learned, bright, and winningly written. It tackles an interesting issue (the nature of illusion in an art form which is all illusion) in Shakespeare on film and does so by not only providing rich and satisfying readings of some major Shakespeare films (Olivier’s Hamlet and Welles’s Macbeth, for example) that I had thought had been well mined by previous critics, but does so by placing those films in the context of the larger film history.”

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ladies Errant is a brilliant piece of scholarship which makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Ariosto, of early modern representations of gender, and of the ideological dynamics that link gender tightly with other social-political structures. It will be important to anyone interested in questions of gender in the European early modern period."—Albert Russell Ascoli, University of California, Berkeley"A far-reaching and innovative work with important and suggestive revisions of previous notions of errancy and feminine behavior in Renaissance Italy. Ladies Errant succeeds brilliantly in weaving together texts by providing sophisticated theoretical framings that are at once subtle and powerful."—Margaret F. Rosenthal, University of Southern California

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Book SynopsisCovers a broad cross-section of eighteenth-century literary history. This book explores the intersection of literary studies with history, philosophy, psychology, and the visual arts. It discusses a range of topics, including feminism, nationalism, domestic ideology, and the classical novel-drama-lyric poetry triad.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Provocations / Marshall Brown A Novel Nation; or, How to Rethink Modern England as an Emergent Culture / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse Nobody's Story: Gender, Property, and the Rise of the Novel / Catherine Gallagher Reading Shakespeare's Novels: Literary History and Cultural Politics in the Lennox-Johnson Debate / Jonathan Brody Kramnick Godwin and the Republican Romance / Jon Klancher Feminine Identity Formation in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre / Jill Anne Kowalik Mary Robinson and the Myth of Sappho / Jerome McGann Reading the Moment and the Moment of Reading in Graffigny's Lettres d'une peruvienne / Thomas M. Kavanagh De-familiarizing the Family; or, Writing Family History from Literary Sources / Ruth Perry The Anxiety of Change: Reconfiguring Family Relations in Beaumarchais's Trilogy / Christie McDonald The Eighteenth-Century Beauty Contest / Michael B. Prince Descartes's Cogito, Kant's Sublime, and Rembrandt's Philosophers: Cultural Transmission as Occasion for Freedom / Sanford Budick Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Explaining that the word 'monster' is derived from the Latin for 'omen' or 'warning,' this title offers an exploration of the monster's early identity as a portent or messenger from God.Trade Review“A well-researched, engagingly written, rich, and enlightening study.”—Deanna Shemek, author of Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy“This is a superlative and highly inventive piece of scholarship.”—Giuseppe F. Mazzotta, author of The New Map of the World: The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista VicoTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Monstrous Matter Chapter 2: Monstrous Machines Chapter 3: Medicine and the Mechanical Body Chapter 4: Vico’s Monstrous Body Chapter 5: Monstrous Metaphor Afterword Notes Works Consulted Index

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Book SynopsisAfter first appearing around 1590, Jing Ping Mei was circulated among some of China's best known writers of the time and subsequently published in three major recensions. By arguing from the standpoint of feminism, this title can contribute to studies of Chinese literature, Asian studies, feminism, politics of sexuality, and cultural studies.Trade Review“Ding’s reading of Jin Ping Mei is unique and extremely important. By reading this novel as a cumulative accretion of text and commentary and as a cultural icon, she shows how all of us who read it from an aesthetic perspective are implicated in covering up its disturbing and hatefully misogynist core. This is a true coup.”— Maram Epstein, University of Oregon“In this absorbing study of the multiple lives of a literary classic that is also a popular pornographic text, Naifei Ding steals across the border between cultural studies and feminist/queer literary criticism. Bringing a gendered social history of modern print culture in China into a ‘porous intimacy’ with both a critique of interpretive power and a feminist ‘counter-ethics’ of reading, Obscene Things is a scholarly work of exceptional creativity. Ding herself is a wonderful storyteller, and her critical narration of the fortunes of Jin Ping Mei will inspire anyone concerned with the how of studying historical modalities of gender, sexuality, status, and cultural power.”—Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University“Those who read Ding’s investigation will never look at critical interpretations of Chinese fiction with the same complacency again.”—Robert E. Hegel, author of Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial ChinaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Part One: Practices 1. Jin-ology 2. The Manic Preface: Jin Shengtan’s (1608-1661) Shuihu zhuan 3. A Cure for Melancholy: Yuan Hongdao (1558-1610) and Qifa (Seven Stimuli) 4. Tears of Resentment: Zhang Zhupo’s (1670-1698) Jin Ping Mei Part Two: Intervention 5. Seduction: Tiger and Yinfu 6. Red Shoes, Foot Bindings, and the Swing 7. A Cat, a Dog, and the Killing of Livestock 8. Very Close to Yinfu and Enu; or, How Prefaces Matter for Jin Ping Mei (1695) and Enu Shu (Taipei, 1995) Notes Glossary Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisCo-Winner of the 1998 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize for outstanding research publication in the field of teaching English language, literature, rhetoric and composition, The Formation of College English reexamines the civic concerns of rhetoric and the politics that have shaped and continue to shape college English.

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Book SynopsisTilting the English Renaissance against the present moment, The Melancholy Assemblage examines how the interpretive experience of emotion produces social bonds. Placing readings of early modern painting and literature in conversation with psychoanalytic theory and assemblage theory, this book argues that, far from isolating its sufferers, melancholy brings people together.Trade Review"In this stimulating, inventive, and moving volume by one of Shakespeare studies' most brilliant and original emerging voices, Drew Daniel uses the history of melancholy in order to map the haptic loops and iconic postures that bind together thinking, feeling, and making in art and life. Along the way he answers questions that really matter, such as how melancholy forges friendships among misanthropes, and why fashion makes us sad." -- -Julia Reinhard Lupton author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life "... a powerfully engaging and deeply rewarding study of melancholy in English Renaissance literature." -- -Graham Hammill University at Buffalo, SUNY "In 'The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance', Daniel makes the kids of vibrant connections between earlier and later theoretical regimes that Floyd Wilson largely eschews." -Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 "This is an alert and edgy work by a major new voice in Renaissance studies." -Julia Reinhard Lupton, SEL (Recent STudies in Tudor and Stuart Drama)

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes texts and art objects from the 15th to the late 16th centuries to show that Renaissance theories of emulating classical heroes generated a deep skepticism about representation, as these theories forced men to construct a public image that seemed fixed but could adapt to changing circumstances.Trade Review"This smart and engaging book argues that from the mid-fifteenth century onward, Italian courtiers, authors, and artists understood exemplarily as the negotiation between the hidden inside of a person and the words, actions, or images that reveal that person to the world." -- Maarten Delbeke -Renaissance Quarterly " In Gaylard's persuasive reading, the faltering transmission of ancient virtues find increasing compensation in the pre formative posture, that monumental pose in which timeless values and pellucid examples rematerialize as self-conscious representation." -- Eileen Reeves -Modern Language Quarterly "Susan Gaylard has produced a powerfully suggestive study of the relation between writing and the desire for a kind of secular personal permanence that was the closest thing to immortality in the estimation of Italians during the century and a half before 1600." -- -Walter Stephens The John Hopkins University "Gaylard undertakes a richly detailed, fascinating inquiry into the ways in which early modern theories of imitation (rhetorical and corporeal) intersect with practices of representation used by contemporaries to convey verbal and visual images of exemplary individuals, especially notable figures from the classical past, to quattrocento and cinquecento audiences." -Choice

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Book SynopsisExamines early modern English literary representations of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity alongside English translations of Calvin’s writings, polemical writings, treaties on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons. Demonstrates that the development of a theology of race in post-Reformation England helped resolved doctrinal controversies about baptism.Trade Review"Above and beyond its substantial contribution to early modern literary studies, Becoming Christian gives the effort of conversion and the work of baptism new meaning and momentum. As such, this book is not only about romance: it also participates in romance, a literary form that draws its extraordinary resilience from its capacity to serve as a tool for living." -Julia Reinhard Lupton, The Spenser Review "Becoming Christian is an exciting study that offers a theological account of race and racialization in early modern England, and explores the way this theology of race informs the cultural imagination." -- -Joan Pong Linton Indiana University "Britton's book serves as a model of intersectional approaches to early modern race, animating connections among skin color, bloodline, faith, and geography...The journey is exhilarating and Britton a remarkably enlightened guide." -- Jean E. Ferrick -Renaissance Quarterly "What is strikingly original in Britton's work is the underlying insistence on unearthing the ways English theologians and writers made use of a religious motif -baptism- as a coded racial marker." -- -Margot Hendricks University of California, Santa Cruz "...this is an important book, showing in no uncertain terms how profoundly the construction of Protestant religious difference impacted England's relations not just with other Europeans, but with the populations across the globe that it would increasingly encounter as a Christian nation in the age of empire." -Barbara Fuchs, SEL: Studies in English Literature "Dennis Britton's excellent Becoming Christian uncovers with rigor, clarity, and breadth a hitherto neglected, protoracialist component to early modern Christianity." -Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Not Turning the Ethiope White 1. "The Baptiz'd Race" 2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene 3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality: Translation, Reading, and Conversion in Harington's Orlando Furioso 4. Transformative and Restorative Romance: Re-'turning' Othello and the Location of Christian Identity 5. Reproducing Christians: Salvation, Race, and Gender on the Early Modern English Stage Afterword: A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow can one experience the apocalypse in the present? Lyric Apocalypse argues that John Milton’s and Andrew Marvell’s lyrics depict revelation as an immediately perceptible event. In so doing, their lyrics explore the nature of events, the modern question of what it means for something to happen in the present.Trade Review"Lyric Apocalypse is a fine piece of work: timely, original, and persuasive-a powerful combination of theoretical argument with illuminating close reading. Netzely's sensitivity to verbal and syntactical alternatives is remarkable." -- -Judith H. Anderson Indiana University "This book explores both poets' views of apocalyptic change in the present." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "Netzley offers a theoretically sophisticated contemplation of the relationship between lyric and history. As he shows, lyric's concern with the momentary and evental holds the potential to disrupt historical narrativization, which in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is also the potential to query the Providential and the prophetic. This book ought to be read by scholars of Milton and Marvell, and will be appreciated well beyond early modern studies for an approach to lyric poetry informed by the work of Agamben, Adorno, and Deleuze and Guattari." -- -Feisal Mohamed author of Milton and the Post-Secular PresentTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Lyric Apocalypses, Transformative Time, and the Possibility of Endings 1. Apocalyptic Means: Allegiance, Force, and Events in Marvell's Cromwell Trilogy and Royalist Elegies 2. Hope in the Present: Paratactic Apocalypses and Contemplative Events in Milton's Sonnets 3. What Happens in Lycidas Apocalypse, Possibility, and Events in Milton's Pastoral Elegy 4. How Poems End: Apocalypse, Symbol, and the Event of Ending in "Upon Appleton House" Conclusion. Revelation: Learning Freedom and the End of Crisis Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisControversy has raged about Christian perspectives on Muslims in Dante’s Divine Comedy. One extreme emphasizes “clash of civilizations,” another peaceful cohabitation. Dante’s fit within orientalism remains debated. Sifting the issues requires investigating the Qur’an and Islamic learning, Dante’s images of Muhammad, and engagement among Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Italy.Trade Review"This volume gathers together some of the major figures in the study of Dante and Islam, including the seminal work of Cantarino and Corti, as well as ground-breaking articles such as Burman on medieval readers of the Latin Qur'an and Mallette on the figure of Muhammad. Dante's visionary poetry is placed in the context of western reception of Arabic literature as well as the dynamic field of Mediterranean Studies. A must-read volume for scholars and students of European views of the Muslim world." -- -Suzanne Conklin Akbari author of Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450Table of ContentsIntroduction Jan Ziolkowski Approaches to a Controversy Dante and Islam: History and Analysis of a Controversy (1965) Vicente Cantarino Dante and Islamic Culture (1999) Maria Corti Dante and Knowledge of the Qur'an Translations of the Qur'an and Other Islamic Texts before Dante (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries) Jose Martinez Gazquez How an Italian Friar Read His Arabic Qur'an Thomas Burman Images of Islamic Philosophy and Learning in Dante Philosophers, Theologians, and the Islamic Legacy in Dante: Inferno 4 versus Paradiso 4 Brenda Deen Schildgen Dante and the Falasifa: Religion as Imagination Gregory B. Stone Falconry as a Transmutative Art: Dante, Frederick II, and Islam Daniela Boccassini Images of Muammad in Dante Dante's Muammad: Parallels between Islam and Arianism Maria Esposito Frank Muhammad in Hell Karla Mallette Islam in Dante's Italy Mendicants and Muslims in Dante's Florence John Tolan Dante and the Three Religions Giorgio Battistoni The Last Muslims in Italy David Abulafia Notes Index of references to Dante's major works General Index

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Book SynopsisThe book traces the process of creating of a new German memory of the Holocaust after the fall of the Wall. Combining theoretical analysis with historical case studies, the book revisits crucial debates and controversial issues out of which Germany’s new ‘memory culture’ emerged as a collective project and work in progress.Trade Review"The appearance in English of this major text by Aleida Assmann will be welcomed by all scholars of cultural memory. Shadows of Trauma, lucidly translated by Sarah Clift, offers both an important introduction to Assmann's influential thinking about how individuals and societies recall traumatic pasts and a sustained exploration of the memory of the Holocaust and World War II in the German context." -- -Michael Rothberg author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization "For readers of German, Shadows of Trauma is a classic in the field of memory studies. We are fortunate now to benefit from Aleida Assmann's elegant elucidation of key theoretical concepts and analysis of important debates animating the memory of the Second World War and the Holocaust in contemporary Germany. At the same time, Assmann's own original and often surprising conceptualizations of the workings of individual, social, political, and collective memory are as definitive as they are provocative and productive." -- -Marianne Hirsch Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsPreface to the English Language Edition Introduction Part I: Theoretical Foundations 1. From Individual to Collective Constructions of the Past 2. Basic Concepts and Themes of Individual and Collective Memory Part II: Analyses and Case Studies 3. How True are Memories? 4. False Memories: Pathologies of Identity at the End of the Twentieth Century 5. Incorrect Memories: On the Normative Power of Social Frameworks of Memory 6. Five Strategies of Represssion 7. German Narratives of Victimhood 8. Points of Intersection Between Lived Memory and Cultural Memory 9. Lieux de Memoire in Time and Space 10. The Future of Holocaust Memory 11. Europe as a Memory Community Conclusion: Shadows of Trauma Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPremised on the assumption that the mind is fundamentally active and self-determining, the German Idealist project gave rise to new ways of thinking about our dependence upon culturally transmitted models of thought, feeling, and creativity. Receptive Spirit elucidates the ways in which Kant, Fichte, Schlegel, and Hegel envisioned and enacted the conjunction of receptivity and spontaneous activity in the transmission of human-made models of mindedness. Their innovations have defined the very terms in which we think about the historical character of aesthetic experience, the development of philosophical thinking, the dynamics of textual communication, and the task of literary criticism.Combining a reconstructive approach to this key juncture of modern thought with close attention paid to subsequent developments, Marton Dornbach argues that we must continue to think within the framework established by the Idealists if we are to keep our bearings in the contemporary intellectual Trade Review"Receptive Spirit is a finely argued and erudite rereading of what is arguably the most important period in modern philosophy, the early reception of Kant's critical philosophy, when the timeless now of Kantian cognition met a great challenge in the historical mind that came onto the scene." -- -Paul North Yale UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Idealism and Finitude 1. Kant on the Formation of Taste 2. Kantian Revisionism and Revisionist Kantianism 3. Esoteric Enlightenment in Fichte 4. Friedrich Schlegel on Textual Communication 5. Exoteric Enlightenment in Hegel Conclusion: The Afterlife of a Distinction Notes Bibliography Index

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