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  • 'Ephelia'

    Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 8

    by Maureen E. Mulvihill ...
    Series Book 2 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II
    This facsimile edition reproduces the extant works of the seventeenth-century poet, 'Ephelia'. By tradition, the identity of 'Ephelia' has been a long-contested debate in English letters. In her extended Introductory Note, Maureen Mulvihill culls evidence from the 'Ephelia' texts and from contemporary sources to show that the most likely candidate is Mary Villiers, later Stuart, Duchess of ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

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    A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, ... Read more

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  • Why Kerouac Matters

    The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think)

    by John Leland ...
    Legions of youthful Americans have taken On the Road as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But there is much more to the book than that. In Why Kerouac Matters, John Leland embarks on a wry, insightful, and playful discussion of the novel, arguing that it still matters because it lays out an alternative road map to growing up. Along the way, Leland overturns many ... Read more

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  • The Consolations of Writing

    Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi

    by Rivkah Zim ...
    Why writing in captivity is a vitally important form of literary resistanceBoethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This classic philosophical statement of late antiquity has had an enduring ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Les Misérables and Its Afterlives

    Between Page, Stage, and Screen

    by Kathryn M. Grossman, Bradley Stephens ...
    Exploring the enduring popularity of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, this collection offers analysis of both the novel itself and its adaptations. In spite of a mixed response from critics, Les Misérables instantly became a global bestseller. Since its successful publication over 150 years ago, it has traveled across different countries, cultures, and media, giving rise to more than 60 international ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Labors of Modernism

    Domesticity, Servants, and Authorship in Modernist Fiction

    by Mary Wilson ...
    In The Labors of Modernism, Mary Wilson analyzes the unrecognized role of domestic servants in the experimental forms and narratives of Modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, and Jean Rhys. Examining issues of class, gender, and race in a transatlantic Modernist context, Wilson brings attention to the place where servants enter literature: the threshold. In tracking ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • British Literature and Classical Music

    Cultural Contexts 1870-1945

    by Dr David Deutsch ...
    Series series Historicizing Modernism
    British Literature and Classical Music explores literary representations of classical music in early 20th century British writing. Covering authors ranging from T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells and D.H. Lawrence, the book examines literature produced during a period of widely proliferating philosophical, educational, and performance-oriented musical activities in both ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Excursions with Thoreau

    Philosophy, Poetry, Religion

    by Professor Edward F. Mooney ...
    Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious.Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay “Walking” reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental ... Read more

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  • Literature and the Global Contemporary

    Edited by Mathias Nilges, Sarah Brouillette, Emilio Sauri ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book attempts to understand what ‘contemporary’ has meant, and should mean, for literary studies. The essays in this volume suggest that an attentive reading of recent global literatures challenges the idea that our contemporary moment is best characterized as a timeless, instantaneous ‘now’. The contributors to this book argue that global literatures help us to conceive of the contemporary ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature

    From the Satanic to the Effeminate Jew

    by Matthew Biberman ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Offering a profound re-assessment of the conceptual, rhetorical, and cultural intersections among sexuality, race and religion in English Renaissance texts, this study argues that antisemitism is a by-product of tensions between received Classical conceptions of masculinity and Christianity's strident critique of that ideal. Utilizing works by Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe and others, Biberman ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Early Modern Women's Manuscript Writing

    Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium

    by Jonathan Gibson ...
    Because print publishing was often neither possible nor desirable for women in the early modern period, in order to understand the range of writing by women and indeed women's literary history itself, it is important that scholars consider women's writing in manuscript. Since the body of critical studies on women's writing for the most part prioritizes print over manuscript, this essay collection ... Read more

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  • Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage

    by Peter Hyland ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre as well as on important aspects of the developing nation. In this study Peter Hyland considers a range of practical issues related to the performance of disguise. He goes on to examine various conceptual issues that provide a background to ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD