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  • Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction

    Speaking of Dread

    by Sue Chaplin ...
    This work offers, firstly, a fresh historical, philosophical and cultural interpretation of the relation between the eighteenth-century discourse of sensibility, the sublime, and the theory and practice of eighteenth-century law. Secondly, the work exposes and explores the influence of this combination of discourses upon the formation of gender identities in this period. The author argues that it ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

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  • Literature Class, Berkeley 1980

    by Julio Cortázar ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These “classes” are as much reflections on Cortázar’s own writing career as they are about ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Laughing Cry

    An African Cock and Bull Story

    by Henri Lopes ...
    Translated by Gerald Moore ...
    This novel,a classic of African literature, still speaks to us today. We look back at Africa’s grotesques like Idi Amin of Uganda, Bokassa of the Central African Empire or Zaire’s Mobutu, but now we must also look around us at comic opera heads of state posturing extravagantly on our domestic stages. We need this cleansing laughter.“Is the funny bone a literary erogenous zone? Anyone who thinks so ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Playful Intelligence

    Digitizing Tradition

    by Professor Henry Sussman ...
    This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other. Henry Sussman rereads pivotal moments in literary, philosophical and cultural modernity as anticipating the cybernetic discourse that has increasingly defined theory since the computer revolution. Cognitive science, psychoanalysis and systems theory are ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

    A Critical Study

    by Patrick Grant ...
    Series series Cultural Dialectics
    When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he is now justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of letters—more than eight hundred of them, addressed to his parents, to friends such as Paul Gauguin, and, above all, to his brother Theo. His letters have long been admired for their exceptional literary quality, and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Agatha Christie on Screen

    by Mark Aldridge ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a comprehensive exploration of 90 years of film and television adaptations of the world’s best-selling novelist’s work. Drawing on extensive archival material, it offers new information regarding both the well-known and forgotten screen adaptations of Agatha Christie’s stories, including unmade and rare adaptations, some of which have been unseen for more than half a century. This ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Three Estates

    A Pleasant Satire in Commendation of Virtue and in Vituperation of Vice

    by Nigel Mace ...
    This is the first ever English translation of Sir David Lindsay’s masterpiece of 16th-century Scottish political theatre, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis in Commendatioun of Vertew and Vituperatioune of Vyce. The work’s importance lies in its status as a well-known piece of national literature, and as a historical document of interest to historians of Scottish and European court politics ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Pudentiana Deacon

    Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three, Volume 4

    by Frans Blom ...
    Series Book 3 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I
    Delicious entertainments of the soule is a translation of a collection of conferences which Francis de Sales held for the Order of the Sisters of the Visitation. This order took the form of an institute for young girls and widows who wanted to enter a convent but lacked the strength or the inclination for the physical austerities of the great orders. It was for these sisters that Francis held ... Read more

    $109.99 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

    $42.99 CAD

  • Fashioning Childhood in the Eighteenth Century

    Age and Identity

    by Anja Müller ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    This innovative collection of essays re-examines conventional ideas of the history of childhood, exploring the child's increasing prominence in eighteenth-century discourse and the establishment of the category of age as a marker of social distinction alongside race, class and gender. While scholars often approach childhood within the context of a single nation, this collection takes a comparative ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Theater and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany

    by Michael J. Sosulski ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    In 1767, more than a century before Germany was incorporated as a modern nation-state, the city of Hamburg chartered the first Deutsches Nationaltheater. What can it have meant for a German playhouse to have been a national theater, and what did that imply about the way these theaters operated? Michael Sosulski contends that the idea of German nationhood not only existed prior to the Napoleonic ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse

    by Gina M. Dorré ...
    The horse was essential to the workings of Victorian society, and its representations, which are vast, ranging, and often contradictory, comprise a vibrant cult of the horse. Examining the representational, emblematic, and rhetorical uses of horses in a diversity of nineteenth-century texts, Gina M. Dorré shows how discourses about horses reveal and negotiate anxieties related to industrialism and ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD