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  • Voices of Cosmopolitanism in Early American Writing and Culture

    by Chiara Cillerai ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues that cosmopolitanism was a feature of early American discourses of nation formation and eighteenth-century colonialism. With the analysis of writings by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, Philip Mazzei, and Olaudah Equiano, the book reassesses the terms in which we understand cosmopolitanism, its relationship with local and transatlantic environments, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Essays of Montaigne (Illustrated + Active TOC)

    by Michel de Montaigne ...
    FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, navigable Table of Contents, and are fully formatted. Browse ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD

  • William Shakespeare: The Complete Works (Illustrated)

    by William Shakespeare ...
    This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! The Comedies A Midsummer Night's Dream All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It Love’s Labour ’s Lost Measure for Measure Much Ado About Nothing The Comedy of Errors The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor The Taming of the Shrew The Two ... Read more

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  • Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature

    by Paul Downes ...
    Series Book 173 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature pursues the question of democratic sovereignty as it was anticipated, theorized and resisted in the American colonies and in the early United States. It proposes that orthodox American liberal accounts of political community need to be supplemented and challenged by the deeply controversial theory of sovereignty that was articulated in Thomas ... Read more

    $134.99 CAD

  • Narratives of the Self

    Edited by Pawel Schreiber, Joanna Malicka ...
    Series Book 1 - English Literature and Culture in Context
    This book explores the many interdependencies and crossovers between living and writing, or, in more specific terms, between writers’ lives on the one hand and their literary output on the other. Thematically divided into four major parts, the book focuses on different literary concerns and discusses literary works from the 17th century to the present day. The first part approaches the issue of ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Nation and Migration

    The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765-1835

    by Juliet Shields ...
    Nation and Migration explores the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture, moving beyond traditional studies of transatlantic literature that focus on what Stephen Spender has described as the "love-hate relations" between the United States and England. By allowing England to stand in for the British archipelago, ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel

    Edited by Maryemma Graham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the US and Europe address some of the major issues in the genre: passing, the Protest novel, the Blues novel, and womanism among others. The essays are full of fresh insights for students into the symbolic, aesthetic, and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Blindness and Enlightenment: An Essay

    With a new translation of Diderot's 'Letter on the Blind' and La Mothe Le Vayer's 'Of a Man Born Blind'

    by Dr Kate E. Tunstall ...
    Blindness and Enlightenment presents a reading and a new translation of Diderot's Letter on the Blind. Diderot was the editor of the Encyclopédie, that Trojan horse of Enlightenment ideas, as well as a novelist, playwright, art critic and philosopher. His Letter on the Blind of 1749 is essential reading for anyone interested in Enlightenment philosophy or eighteenth-century literature because it ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • American Georgics

    Economy and Environment in Early American Literature

    by Timothy Sweet ...
    In classical terms the georgic celebrates the working landscape, cultivated to become fruitful and prosperous, in contrast to the idealized or fanciful landscapes of the pastoral. Arguing that economic considerations must become central to any understanding of the human community's engagement with the natural environment, Timothy Sweet identifies a distinct literary mode he calls the American ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Aesthetics of Democracy

    Eighteenth-Century Literature and Political Economy

    by Craig Carson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers an original and interdisciplinary interpretation of the relation between aesthetics and modern liberal democracy, uniting the fields of art theory with the democratic political philosophy and modern liberal economic theory. The central argument of the books offers an explanation of the theoretical limitations of the contemporary discourse concerning “political art,” while at the ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • A History of California Literature

    Edited by Blake Allmendinger ...
    Blake Allmendinger's A History of California Literature surveys the paradoxical image of the Golden State as a site of dreams and disenchantment, formidable beginnings and ruinous ends. This history encompasses the prismatic nature of California by exploring a variety of historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements affecting the state's development, from the colonial era to the ... Read more

    $159.99 CAD

  • American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age

    by D. Downey ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book shows just how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such as photographs, mourning paraphernalia, wallpaper and humble domestic furniture. Featuring uncanny tales from the big city to the small town and the empty prairie, it offers a new perspective on an old genre. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD