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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Revengers Tragedy
Book SynopsisThe Editor, Brian Gibbons has been a General Editor of The New Mermaids since 1974 and also a General Editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare since its inception. He is the author of many articles about English Drama, of two books, Jacobean City Comedy and Shakespeare and Multiplicity, and editor of editions in The New Mermaids as well as The Arden Shakespeare and The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Trade Review"How well our barbarous and sex-crazed times relate to the horrors and refined cruelties of Thomas Middleton's extraordinary Jacobean masterpiece...A drama that makes grim, poetic fun of lust-filled aristocrats and lesser folk up to plenty of bad, some of them steaming hot for sex, adultery, murder and revenge." Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard, 05.06.08 "There's a sardonic and even sadistic glee in his poetry and...a lot of dark, dangerous laughter to be found in the play." Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 06.06.08 "Middleton certainly had a sardonic eye for twisted and compromised morals...His poetry is a vibrant mix of the ornate and the blunt. His so-called tragedy boldly veers into morbid farce, sparking explosive laughter." Kate Bassett, Independent on Sunday, 08.06.08 "The Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedies had more nasty killings and a higher body count than almost anything written by today's young pretenders, as well as a similarly steamy interest in perverse sex, too." Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 06.06.08 "[Middleton] is black-blooded, foul-mouthed, casual, uncaring - a pioneer of our common tongue, Ossuary English." Ian Shuttleworth, Financial Times, 10.06.08
£10.99
Polity Press Feminine Sentences Essays on Women and Culture
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£15.19
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC TheSavage GodA Study of Suicide
Book SynopsisAn intelligent and sympathetic analysis of one of the true taboos of modern life.Trade Review'To write about suicide... to transform the subject into something beautiful - this is the foreboding task that Alvarez set for himself... he has succeeded' New York Times
£15.29
Edinburgh University Press Deleuzism A Metacommentary
Book SynopsisAn engaging and provocative treatment of the principal features of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy and their applicability to cultural studies.Trade ReviewThe combination of a reading of Deleuze as a dialectical philosopher and a demonstration of the efficacy of Deleuzian thought as a critical tool for cultural studies gives the book an important and valuable position within this growing field of inquiry. Buchanan's metacommentary is a decidedly original interpretation of Deleuze's thought and should go a long way to renewing Deleuze's status as a radical social and political philosopher. -- Ronald Bogue, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Georgia The combination of a reading of Deleuze as a dialectical philosopher and a demonstration of the efficacy of Deleuzian thought as a critical tool for cultural studies gives the book an important and valuable position within this growing field of inquiry. Buchanan's metacommentary is a decidedly original interpretation of Deleuze's thought and should go a long way to renewing Deleuze's status as a radical social and political philosopher.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature From Columba to the Union Until 1707
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£139.50
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature Enlightenment Britain and Empire 17071918
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£139.50
Edinburgh University Press Modernism Space and the City
Book SynopsisThis innovative book examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.
£26.59
The History Press Ltd Fictional London
Book SynopsisThe only guide to London's literary landmarks is updated for this new edition
£11.69
Taylor & Francis Gender Sexuality and Material Objects in English
Book SynopsisAn important contribution to recent critical discussions about gender, sexuality, and material culture in Renaissance England, this study analyzes female- and male-authored lyrics to illuminate how gender and sexuality inflected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets' conceptualization of relations among people and things, human and non-human subjects and objects. Pamela S. Hammons examines lyrics from both manuscript and print collectionsâincluding the verse of authors ranging from Robert Herrick, John Donne, and Ben Jonson to Margaret Cavendish, Lucy Hutchinson, and Aemilia Lanyerâand situates them in relation to legal theories, autobiographies, biographies, plays, and epics. Her approach fills a crucial gap in the conversation, which has focused upon drama and male-authored works, by foregrounding the significance of the lyric and women's writing. Hammons exposes the poetic strategies sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English women used to assert themselves as subjects of propeTrade Review'...an exceptionally strong strong study of seventeenth century British poetry and its important-even crucial-relationship to a still larger, richer discourse of subjects and obects, gifts and debts, owners and renters, sovereigns and petitioners which informed the early modern worlds of economies and politics, organized an emerging print culture, and shaped many ideas about sexuality and gender.' Elizabeth Mazzola, The City College of New York, USA and author of Women's Wealth and Women's Writing in Early Modern England 'Pamela Hammons's book is a well-researched contribution to the growing list of works that strive to understand women's position in early modern culture as well as the literary landscape of that culture.'Clio '... Hammons offers an insightful consideration of the ways that early modern male and female authors conceptualize and present their relationship to important small items and to larger possessions, such as houses or land. It illuminates our understanding of both poetry and of material culture in early modern England and offers a valuable range of texts and objects that interact in ways that will inform future scholarship.' Renaissance Studies '... this is a lovely book that repeatedly reminds us of the many and insoluble ties that early modern poetry had to England's rich material culture.' Journal of British Studies '... Hammons's study successfully reveals ways in which early modern English poetry, despite thematic and stylistic overlap, presents a definite and defining gender divide. This divide illustrates the patriarchal perspectives and anxieties regarding female agency evident in poetry by male authors, as well as the tactics of women poets to give voice to independent, subjective identities, and economic agency, or female aspiration to such dominated positions of material ownership.' Parergon '...Hammons deftly finds surprising things to say instead of just validating the quality of women's writings...Hammons' books should be laudTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: his and hers; Part I Love Tokens: Robert Herrick's gift trouble; Women's poetic portraits of love tokens in heteroerotic courtship; Women's poetic portraits of love tokens in same-sex and divine relationships. Part II Houses and Land: The gendered imagination of real property in Renaissance England; Margaret Cavendish's disguised possession; Lucy Hutchinson's polluted palaces and ekphrastic empire; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd Thomas Heywoods Theatre 15991639
Book SynopsisIn this major reassessment of his subject, Richard Rowland restores Thomas Heywood-playwright, miscellanist and translator-to his rightful place in early modern theatre history. Rowland contextualizes and historicizes this important contemporary of Shakespeare, locating him on the geographic and cultural map of London through the business Heywood conducts in his writing. Arguing that Heywood''s theatrical output deserves the same attention and study that has been directed towards Shakespeare, Jonson, and more recently Middleton, this book looks at three periods of Heywood''s creativity: the end of the Elizabethan era and the beginning of the Jacobean, the mid 1620s, and the mid to late 1630s. By locating the works of those years precisely in the political and cultural conflicts to which they respond, Rowland initiates a major reassessment of the remarkable achievements of this playwright. Rowland also pays attention to Heywood in performance, seeing this writer as a jobbing playwrigTrade Review'Thomas Heywood’s Theatre, 1599-1639 fits a fascinating piece into the emerging picture of the "complete" early modern theatre. Rowland beds interpretation firmly in cultural, historical, and textual recuperation and analysis. He lets us know the weight and value of things in their time. He connects things to people and people to each other. He offers genealogies of circumstance and familiarity that vastly enrich our reading of the plays. He puts the authentic stink of London and her citizens into our nostrils. Rowland’s writing about Heywood makes you want to read Heywood - and even more, to see Heywood restored to our theatre.' Carol Chillington Rutter, University of Warwick, UK 'Richard Rowland’s lively study of Heywood is equally evocative of early modern London, demonstrating how the burgeoning self-awareness of the city and its citizens infused the drama appearing on its stages. The specificity of location in Edward IV is more than incidental to the drama, and owes much to the contemporary publication of John Stow’s Survey of London which helped to make topographical reference both safe and widely understood. Rowland further shows how Heywood explores another key component of early modern London society, the nexus of home, house and household. Here the emphasis is spatial rather than topographical, but the difficulties and dangers of metropolitan marriage and householding emerge clearly. Rowland argues that our appreciation of the complexity and power of Heywood’s drama gains greatly from its performance on stage, but this book will make at least an equal contribution to that end.' Vanessa Harding, Birkbeck, University of London, UK '...a work of fine scholarship... a significant and welcome achievement guiding us to reappraise a playwriting career that has too often been neglected...' Times Literary Supplement '... this excellent monograph is evidence of the importance of continuing scholarly work on this neglected playwright. It makes a sTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Heywood's English Landscapes: A 'London that yee see hourely': Heywood, Stow, and the invention of the city staged; Moving inside(s): Heywood's divided households. Part II Staging Roman Comedy in Stuart London: Introduction: stages of translation in early modern England; 'Of coyne and prtious marchandyse': trade and slavery in The Captives; 'Some mirth, some matter': the innovative tragicomedy of The English Traveller; Out of the dripping pan, into the fire: Loves Mistris. Part III Street Theatre: London's peaceable estate? The pageants; Index.
£34.19
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Serendipitous Adventures with Britannia
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe main pleasure of a book like this is akin to that of listening to a series of assured after-dinner speakers, highly knowledgeable about their chosen subject and able to entertain as well as inform. * Alan Ross, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction Wm. Roger Louis, The University of Texas at Austin 1. How Churchill’s Mind Worked, Paul Addison, Oxford University 2. Éamon de Valera, Kevin Kenny, New York University 3. Calouste Gulbenkian: Mr. Five Percent, Richard Davenport-Hines, Oxford University 4. Lord Beaverbrook, Jane Ridley, University of Buckingham 5. Evelyn Waugh and Randolph Churchill, Jeffrey Meyers, Biographer and literary, art and film critic 6. Alan Turing: Genius, Patriot, Victim, Robert King, University of Texas 7. Louis George Martin: Champion Weightlifter, John Fair, University of Texas 8. Benjamin Disraeli and Oscar Wilde, Sandra Mayer, University of Vienna and Oxford University 9. William Morris: Artist, Businessman, and Radical, Peter Stansky, Stanford University 10. Ida John: Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Rosemary Hill, Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University 11. Arthur Conan Doyle and Spiritualism, David Leal, University of Texas 12. P. G. Wodehouse, Joseph Epstein, Author of more than 25 books including The Ideal of Culture (2018) 13. Samuel Beckett and Surrealism, Alan Friedman, University of Texas 14. Harry Potter and Bloomsbury, Nigel Newton, Bloomsbury Publishing 15. A Battle for the Soul of Classics at Oxford, Paul Woodruff, University of Texas 16. Obedience by the Book, Al Martinich, University of Texas 17. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Elizabeth Baigent, Oxford University 18. The Problem with Monuments: A View from All Souls, Edward Mortimer, Oxford University 19. The Social History of the Raj, Max Hastings, Journalist and author of Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 (2018) 20. Warnings from Versailles, 1919, Margaret Macmillan, Oxford University 21. The British Defense of Cyprus, 1941, George Kelling, Civilian Historian with the U.S Air Force 22. How the British Left Palestine, Bernard Wasserstein, Author of several books including The British in Palestine (1978) 23. America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957, Derek Leebaert, Author and a founder of the National Museum of the U.S. Army 24. Brexit: An Historical Romance, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Journalist and Historian 25. Light Reading for Intellectual Heavyweights, Philip Waller, Oxford University
£18.99
McFarland & Company George Stevens
Book SynopsisWinner of two Best Director Oscars, George Stevens excelled in a range of genres, gave lustre to some of Hollywood's brightest stars and was revered by his peers. Yet his work has been largely neglected by critics and scholars. This career retrospective highlights Stevens' achievements, particularly in his sweeping "American Dream" trilogy.
£30.39
McFarland & Company Professionals in Western Film and Fiction
Book SynopsisCompares the roles of civil professionals in most American Westerns to those in work on the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Included are studies on the Santiago Toole novels by Richard Wheeler, Strange Lady in Town with Greer Garson, and La sombra del Caudillo by Martín Luis Guzmán.
£41.94
State University of New York Press Interruptions
Book SynopsisThis untraditional text is a series of parables, allegories, and prose poems that reflect on the problem of the fragment. Studying the fragment lays the theoretical ground for the basic question of where a text begins and ends.Interruptions is a highly original book which refuses characterization as either literature or theory. Hans-Jost Frey explores the problem of the fragment both from a more traditional critical perspective, discussing the peculiar status of the fragmentary text in literary studies, and in a performative or exemplary way through fictional texts and short meditations. In its forays beyond the narrower realm of literary criticism, Frey addresses in turn such crucial issues as the law, personal history, death, and the constraints of understanding, revealing in each case the fundamental role the fragment plays in them.
£16.40
Beacon Press White Rat
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed author’s first collection of stories, reissued to coincide with the paperback publication of her second and latest, Butter“Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable . . . and as a Black woman writer, her truth-telling, filled with beauty, tragedy, humor, and incisiveness, is unmatched.”—Imani PerryGayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century and was recently a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. This collection of short fiction was her third book, originally edited and published by Toni Morrison in 1977, and is reissued now alongside her second collection, Butter, in paperback for the first time.The collection contains 12 provocative tales that explore the emotional and mental terrain of a diverse cast of characters, from the innocent to the insane. In ea
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LSU Press Reading Walker Percys Novels
Book SynopsisServes as a companion guide for readers who enjoy Walker Percy's novels but may be less familiar with the works of Sartre, Camus, Kierkegaard, and Dante. In addition to clarifying Percy's philosophies, Wilson highlights allusions to other writers within his narratives and addresses historical and political contexts.
£19.51
Louisiana State University Press Warren Jarrell and Lowell
Book SynopsisRobert Penn Warren, Randall Jarrell, and Robert Lowell maintained lifelong friendships with one another, often discussing each other's work in private correspondence and published reviews. This book traces the artistic and personal connections between the three writers, uncovering the significance of their parallel literary development.
£45.00
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Womens Writing in Exile
Book SynopsisExamines the physical, sociopolitical, canonical, and psychological kinds of exile that women writers in Western culture have endured over the last hundred years. Djuna Barnes, Isak Dinesen, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jean Rhys, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and Doris Lessing are among the writers whose narratives of exile are studied. Originally published in 1989.Trade ReviewA rich, multifaceted consideration of women's condition of exile.--New Directions for Women
£47.45
Northwestern University Press Guerrilla Theory
Book SynopsisExamines the political, ontological, and technological underpinnings of the guerrilla in the digital humanities. Matthew Applegate uses the guerrilla to connect popular iterations of digital humanities' practice to its political rhetoric and infrastructure. By doing so, he reorients DH's conceptual lexicon around practices of collective becoming.Trade Review“Applegate’s work serves as both a genealogy and a challenge to DH praxis, and it is perhaps most compelling (and timely) as the latter.”—Anastasia Salter, coauthor of Toxic Geek Masculinity: Sexism, Trolling, and Identity PolicingTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Chapter 1 — Protocols for Conflict Chapter 2 — The Maker and the Made Chapter 3 — The Production of the Commons Chapter 4 — Guerrilla Theory from the Underside Conclusion Bibliography Notes
£98.10
New Directions Publishing Corporation Henry Miller on Writing
Book Synopsis“A brilliant selection . . . it is in short a voyage of discovery, an adventure and this the log of that voyage in the life of a probing and powerful writer.” —Robert R. Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
£12.34
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Ghosts of Birds
Book SynopsisA new collection from “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times)Trade Review"Eliot Weinberger — in his original essays no less than in his work as a translator, editor, and critic — is a masterful curator. He is a restorer, an arranger, a presenter" -- Justin Taylor - Barnes and Noble.com"A new book of essays proves to be as erudite, compelling, and delightfully strange as we have come to expect from Eliot Weinberger." -- Brendan Driscoll - Booklist"These exhaustively researched pieces are richly detailed and unfailingly interesting...dazzles as a repository of knowledge and interpretation." -- Kirkus"Over time, Weinberger has become known for his unclassifiable prose, a mode in the twilight between prose poetry, amateur philological essay, and literary criticism." -- David S. Wallace - LA Review of Books"In The Ghost of Birds, part of which is a continuation of the serial essay begun in An Elemental Thing, Eliot Weinberger further establishes himself as one of our singular and singularly great essayists. A modernist with the horror and absurdity of the 20th century behind him, Weinberger’s collection—which moves from medieval Irish legends to contemporary politics and poetry—is tinged humor and grace, fully alive to the weirdness of the world." -- Stephen Spark - Lit Hub"Combining scholarly authority with a moral allegiance to the arcane, the translator and editor Weinberger creates genre-bending essays and prose poems to help us see the world anew. This eclectic collection spans centuries and cultures and might make you wonder if there is anything its author doesn’t know." -- Daphne Kalotay - The New York Times"My favorite essayist is Eliot Weinberger. His remarkable breadth of calm concern is impressive." -- Gary Snyder - The New York Times Book Review"His essays use lists, collages of information, and sometimes, as poetry does, varying line breaks. They don’t read like anyone else’s work." -- Christopher Byrd - The New Yorker"A master of the infinite commentary on the astonishing variety of the world … I envy those who have not yet discovered him." -- Enrique Vila-Matas"One remains in silent amazement: How does he find these stories? How does he know everything?" -- Die Zeit"As is often the case with brilliant writers, an Eliot Weinberger sentence cannot be mistaken for that of anyone else." -- Will Heyward - Australian Book Review"The brilliant net of details that Weinberger casts and recasts in his various inventive approaches to form is precisely what constitutes a superlative poetic imagination. And it’s what holds the essays—and us—trembling and raging and hallucinating together." -- Forrest Gander"Our personal favorite for the Nobel Prize." -- Rolling Stone (Germany)
£12.34
Rutgers University Press Only at ComicCon Hollywood Fans and the Limits of
Book SynopsisOnly at Comic-Con examines the relationship between exclusivity and the proliferation of media industry promotion at the San Diego Comic-Con, from the convention’s founding in 1970 to its current status as a destination for hundreds of thousands of pop culture fans and a hub of Hollywood hype and buzz.Trade Review"This is an important book for fan studies and beyond. Not only a brilliant exploration of Comic-Con’s history and place in contemporary culture, it also takes seriously aspects of this experience that have been under-researched. What are the meanings and values of waiting in line? How does Hall H operate? And how have licensees become so central to the event? Assessing fans’ liminal positioning, Erin Hanna acutely theorises 'exclusivity' and its (re)configurations. Start the queue here – this is a must-read for anyone interested in aspirational and affective labor, as well as Hollywood’s attempts to build cultural capital for its blockbusters." -- Matt Hills * author of Fan Cultures and Doctor Who: The Unfolding Event *“This exciting, well-researched book situates Comic-Con within the confluence of fandom, industry, and convergence. Erin Hanna expertly reveals how industry efforts to generate publicity for major media brands hinge on the production of exclusivity for a select number of fans.” -- Derek Johnson * author of Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries *"Imaginary Worlds" podcast with Erin Hanna https://soundcloud.com/emolinsky/once-and-future-comic-con * Imaginary Worlds *"Only at Comic-Con is a valuable contribution to both media industries and fan studies, as Hanna’s work integrates the two disciplines seamlessly in a powerful argument about the limits of exclusivity, capital, and exploitation." * Media Industries Journal *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: The San Diego Comic-Con and the Limits of Exclusivity 1 Origin Stories: Comic-Con and the Future of All Media 2 The Liminality of the Line and the Place of Fans at Comic-Con 3 Manufacturing “Hall H Hysteria:” Hollywood and Comic-Con 4 Ret(ail)con: From Dealers’ Room to Exhibit Hall Conclusion: From Franchise Wars to Fry Fans: Comic-Con Anywhere Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£21.74
Wayne State University Press Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity
Book SynopsisLiterature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In this study, Kathy-Ann Tan investigates metaphors, configurations, parameters, and articulations of US and Canadian citizenship that are enacted, renegotiated, and revised in modern literary texts, particularly during periods of emergence and crisis.
£52.00
Wayne State University Press Israeli Salvage Poetics
Book SynopsisThrough thoughtful analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Israeli literature, Israeli Salvage Poetics interrogates the concept of the negation of the diaspora as addressed in Hebrew-language literature authored by well-known and lesser-known Israeli authors from the eve of the Holocaust to the present day. Author Sheila E. Jelen considers the way that Israeli writers from eastern Europe or of eastern European descent incorporate pre-Holocaust eastern European culture into their own sense of Israeliness or Jewishness. Many Israelis interested in their eastern European legacy live with an awareness of their own nation''s role in the repression of that legacy, from the elevation of Hebrew over Yiddish to the ridicule and resentment directed at culture, text, and folk traditions from eastern Europe. To right the wrongs of the past and reconcile this conflict of identity, the Israeli authors discussed in this book engage in what Jelen calls salvage poetics they read Yid
£27.96
Syracuse University Press The People of the Book and the Camera
Book SynopsisOffers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors. Exploring the use of photography - both as a textual element and through the inclusion of actual images - Amihay shows how the presence of visual elements in a textual work of fiction has a powerful subversive function.
£27.50
The University of Alabama Press After the Whale Melville in the Wake of MobyDick
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£23.36
University of Georgia Press Stronger Truer Bolder American Childrens Writing
Book SynopsisCovering a period that initially regarded children's natural bodies as labouring resources, Stronger, Truer, Bolder traces the shifting pedagogical impulse surrounding nature and the environment through the transformations that included America's nineteenth century emergence as an industrial power.
£54.00
Duke University Press Making Men
Book SynopsisCompares the intellectual exile of men with the economic migration of women, linking the canonical male tradition to the writing of modern West Indian womenTrade Review"A well-researched, considered study, make all the more effective by Edmondson's ability to deliberate on the individuality of the authors whilst reflecting upon their place within the greater Caribbean literary canon."--British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, April 2000 " ... Powerfully and persuasively argued."--Ethnic and Racial Studies, March 2000 "A well-researched, considered study, made all the more effective by Edmondson's ability to deliberate on the individuality of the authors whilst reflecting upon their place within the greater Caribbean literary canon." British Bulletin of Publications "Edmondson knows anglophone Caribbean writing inside and out. She has written an ambitious book that ... Succeeds, and often quite brilliantly so, in combining theoretical sophistication and energy with readability. Even audiences not steeped in current debates in Caribbean Studies are likely to find Making Men an accessible and enjoyable challenge." Vera M. Kutzinski, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History "Edmondson provides a well-documented, challenging look at West Indian letters... Edmondson does not pit the writings of one gender against those of the other, but she sees their work as part of an ongoing process of delineating national identity." Choice "In Making Men, Edmondson is most convincing in arguing that the early male-authored West Indian narratives fail under the discursive weight of their own nationalist narratives, which are burdened with Victorian ideologies. While these nationalist narratives remasculinized the Caribbean at the expense of women--black and white--and while they recommodified the folk even as they idealized Caribbean folk life, Edmondson argues, women's narratives created entirely new paradigms of subjectivity and nationality." Kathleen M. Balutansky, Signs "[C]onvincing ... The thesis is absolutely fascinating, and I would add definitely convincing and generally clearly illustrated... Making Men is a highly important and very timely work ... [H]er text [is] a must read for scholars of Caribbean literatures." Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo, Callaloo "[O]riginal and interesting... [A]n important contribution to the field of Caribbean literature." Ymitri Jayasundera, South Atlantic Review "[P]owerfully and persuasively argued and include[s] detailed studies of a number of lesser known texts." Suzanne Scafe, Ethnic and Racial Studies "[R]ich account of twentieth-century Caribbean narrative in the anglophone context." Faith Smith, Research in African Literatures "Enjoyable, refreshing, and provocative... This work offers important and long overdue assessments of postcolonial theory and Caribbean Anglophone literature." Jean D'Costa, co-author of Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole "Edmondson's fascinating thesis is developed through a series of overlapping historical, sociological, and cultural arguments." Rhonda Cobham-Sander, Amherst CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Writing the Caribbean: Gender and Literary Authority 1 Part I. Making Men: Writing the Nation 17 1 "Race-ing" the Nation: Englishness, Blackness, and the Discourse of Victorian Manhood 19 2 Literary Men and the English Canonical Tradition 38 3 Representing the Fold: The Crisis of Literary Authenticity 58 Part II. Writing Women: Making the Nation 79 4 Theorizing Caribbean Feminist Aesthetics 81 5 The Novel of Revolution and the Unrepresentable Black Woman 105 6 Return of the Native: Immigrant Women's Writing and the Narrative of Exile 139 Notes 169 Bibliography 205 Index 221
£18.74
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and
Book SynopsisTraces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. Serrano argues that the Gothic has provided a way to critique issues including colonization, authoritarianism, feudalism, and patriarchy.
£64.35
James Currey The African Slave Trade
Book SynopsisExamines the slave trade in three areas of Africa: the old Congo kingdoms, the city states of the East Coast, and parts of the Guinea coast.Basil Davidson states that by examining three important areas of Africa in the history of slavery 'against a general background of their time and circumstance' he was taking 'a fresh look at the oversea slave trade, the steady year-by-year export of African labour to the West Indies and the Americas that marked the greatest and most fateful migration - forced migration - in the history of man.' North America: Times/Random HouseTrade ReviewThe best general acount of the Atlantic slave trade. - -- Christopher FyfeRead this book, then read it again. [Davidson's] is the story of one of the most enormous crimes in all human history. * THE NEW YORK TIMES *...the most effective popularizer of African history and archaeology outside Africa. -- Roland Oliver * THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS *Table of ContentsIntroduction - I Fact & Fable - II The Years Of Trial - III Manner Of The Trade - IV Mani-Congo - V East Coast Fortunes - VI Frontier Of Opportunity - VII Four Centuries: A Summing Up
£24.99
D. S. Brewer Hrotsvit of Gandersheim A Florilegium of her
Book SynopsisSelection of the works of Hrotsvit, the first-known woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics.Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c.935 - c.975), almost certainly of noble Saxon parentage, was a canoness of the Saxon imperial abbey of Gandersheim, living and working there during its time of greatest material prosperity and cultural and intellectual pre-eminence. Her importance cannot be overestimated: she is the first poet of Saxony; the first known dramatist of Christianity (indeed the first known woman dramatist of any time); and a woman displaying erudition and wit in an essentially patriarchal age, a female author in a literary field dominated by men who insisted on re-evaluating and redrawing the literary depiction of women. Discovered in the late fifteenth century, her extraordinary oeuvre, written in medieval Latin, comprises a wide variety of genres: eight legends, six dramas, and two epics, organised into three books. The present volume contains a selection of Hrotsvit's works in Englishtranslation, together with an interpretative essay, critical introduction, and scholarly apparatus.Professor KATHARINA WILSONteaches at the University of Georgia.Trade ReviewAn invaluable resource for introducing Hrotsvit to a wide audience... Long overdue, this volume is most welcome. * SPECULUM *
£17.99
John Wiley & Sons The Minor Poems of the Vernon MS
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John Wiley & Sons Blickling Homilies
£45.00
Esse Publishing The Quotation Bank
Book SynopsisAn English Literature GCSE 9-1 Study and Revision Guide, providing key quotations with accompanying interpretations, literary techniques, analysis and revision activities. No clutter. No confusion. Just the key ingredients for exam success.Trade Review"They are very clearly laid out inside...your books speak plainly, whilst not spoon-feeding, which is a good thing." Coles BooksTable of ContentsWhat examiners are looking for; How The Quotation Bank can help you in your exams; How to use The Quotation Bank; Act One; Act Two; Act Three; Act Four; Act Five; Major Themes and Characters; How to revise effectively; Sample essay, potential essay questions and revision activities; Glossary.
£7.47
Esse Publishing The Quotation Bank
Book SynopsisAn English Literature GCSE 9-1 Study and Revision Guide, providing key quotations with accompanying interpretations, literary techniques, analysis and revision activities. No clutter. No confusion. Just the key ingredients for exam success.Trade Review"They are very clearly laid out inside...your books speak plainly, whilst not spoon-feeding, which is a good thing." Coles BooksTable of ContentsWhat examiners are looking for; How The Quotation Bank can help you in your exams; How to use The Quotation Bank; The Science of Deduction to In Quest of a Solution; The Story of the Bald-headed Man to Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration; The Episode of the Barrel to The End of the Islander; The Great Agra Treasure to The Strange Story of Jonathan Small; Major Themes and Characters; How to revise effectively; Sample essay, potential essay questions and revision activities; Glossary.
£7.47
Cambridge University Press Extended Reality Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis Element argues for the importance of extended reality as an innovative force that changes our understanding of theatre and Shakespeare. It shows how the inclusion of augmented and virtual realities in performance can reconfigure the senses of the experiencers, enabling them to engage with technology actively.
£17.00
Cambridge University Press The Domino and the EighteenthCentury London
Book SynopsisThis Element presents new cultural, social, and economic perspectives on the eighteenth-century London masquerade through an in-depth analysis of the classic domino costume. It examines the domino's physical and figurative movements from the masquerade warehouse into print and visual culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The masquerade and the domino; 2. Three dominos; 3. The domino as a commodity; 4. Everywhere and nowhere; Conclusion; References.
£17.00
Cambridge University Press Memory and Affect in Shakespeares England
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Cambridge University Press Percy Shelley for Our Times
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Cambridge University Press Coastal Gothic 17192020
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£18.00
Cambridge University Press Hans Sloanes Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge
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Saint Philip Street Press Literature Against Criticism
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Taylor & Francis The Afterlife of Dantes Vita Nova in the
Book SynopsisThis volume provides the first systematic study of the translation and reception of Dante's Vita Nova in the Anglophone world, reconstructing for the first time the contexts and genesis of its English-language afterlife from the early nineteenth century to the present day.Dante is one of the foremost authors of the Western canon, and his Vita Nova has been repeatedly translated into English over the past two centuries. However, there exists no comprehensive account of the critical, scholarly, and creative English-language reception of Dante's work. This collection brings together scholars from Dante studies, translation studies, English studies, and book history to examine the translation and reception of the Vita Nova among modern English-speaking publics, in both academic and non-academic contexts, and thus represents a major contribution to Dante studies.The Afterlife of Dante's Vita Nova in the Anglophone World will be an es
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Routledge The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Folk Horror offers a comprehensive guide to this popular genre. It explores its origins, canonical texts and thinkers, the crucial underlying themes of nostalgia and hauntology, and identifies new trends in the field.Divided into five parts, the first focuses on the history of Folk Horror from medieval texts to the present day. It considers the first wave of contemporary Folk Horror through the films of the âunholy trinityâ, as well as discussing the influence of ancient gods and early Folk Horror. Part 2 looks at the spaces, landscapes, and cultural relics, which form a central focus for Folk Horror. In Part 3, the contributors examine the rich history of the use of folklore in childrenâs fiction. The next part discusses recent examples of Folk Horror-infused music and image. Chapters consider the relationship between different genres of music to Folk Horror (such as folk music, black metal, and new wave), sound and performance, comic books, and the Dark Web. Often regarded as British in origin, the final part analyses texts which break this link, as the contributors reveal the larger realms of regional, national, international, and transnational Folk Horror.Featuring 40 contributions, this authoritative collection brings together leading voices in the field. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in this vibrant genre and its enduring influence on literature, film, music, and culture.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Evangelical Party and Samuel Taylor
Book SynopsisIt has long been accepted that when Samuel Taylor Coleridge rejected the Unitarianism of his youth and returned to the Church of England, he did so while accepting a general Christian orthodoxy. Christopher Corbin clarifies Coleridge's religious identity and argues that while Coleridge's Christian orthodoxy may have been sui generis, it was closely aligned with moderate Anglican Evangelicalism. Approaching religious identity as a kind of culture that includes distinct forms of language and networks of affiliation in addition to beliefs and practices, this book looks for the distinguishable movements present in Coleridge's Britain to more precisely locate his religious identity than can be done by appeals to traditional denominational divisions. Coleridge's search for unity led him to desire and synthesize the warmth of heart religion (symbolized as Methodism) with the light of rationalism (symbolized as Socinianism), and the evangelicalism in the Church of England, being the Table of ContentsEntry
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Taylor & Francis Updating the Interpretive Turn
Book SynopsisThis book explores the meaning of the interpretive turn in the philosophy of the human sciences for a variety of contemporary philosophical debates.While hermeneutics seems to be firmly established as a tradition and methodology in the human sciences, interpretive philosophy seems to be under increasing pressure in recent philosophical trends such as the posthuman turn, the nonhuman turn, and the speculative turn. Responding to this predicament, this book shows how hermeneutics is gaining new force and fresh applications today by bringing together a group of leading interpretive philosophers to address such timely topics as the entanglement of social science, culture, and politics in liberal capitalist societies, the extremism with which some identities are held within those societies, the possibility of genuine, non-relativist dialogue in a post-truth era, the nature of the strong moral judgments people tend to make in that era, the significance of interpretation for
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Taylor & Francis Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and
Book SynopsisProfessor Riccardo Moratto and Professor Defeng Li present contributions focusing on the interdisciplinarity of corpus studies, with a special emphasis on literary and translation studies which offer a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches. Inside scholars share their research findings concerning current advances in corpus applications in literary and translation studies and explore possible and tangible collaborative research projects. The volume is split into two sections focusing on the applications of corpora in literary studies and translation studies. Issues explored include historical backgrounds, current trends, theories, methodologies, operational methods, and techniques, as well as training of research students.This international, dynamic, and interdisciplinary exploration of corpus studies and corpus application in various cultural contexts and different countries will provide valuable insights for any researcher in literar
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Taylor & Francis Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare
Book SynopsisBringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigates the notion of a âcrime of passionâ â indicatively, wife-killing.Its key concern is to bring attention to a cultural and legal revolution widely overlooked even in the law field where it occurred. In 2009, the English Parliament passed a controversial law abolishing the defence of provocation. Explaining the new law, reformers said that this so-called âheat of passionâ defence had allowed men to get away with murder by blaming the victim. Abolishing it in cases of alleged âinfidelityâ would âend the culture of excusesâ. Unpacking what was at stake in the reformersâ revolutionary challenge to the English law of murderâs age-old concession to âhuman frailtyâ in âred mistâ rage cases, this book charts passionâs progress in wife-killing cases over the centuries. It commences in the early modern era when jurists were busy distinguishing murder from manslaughter and, contemporaneo
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