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  • Recipes for Thought

    Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen

    par Wendy Wall ...
    Collections series Material Texts
    For a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only country in which recipes were explicitly addressed to housewives. Recipes for Thought analyzes, for the first time, the full range of English manuscript and printed recipe collections produced over the course of two centuries.Recipes reveal much more than the history of ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD

  • Recipes for Thought

    Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen

    par Wendy Wall ...
    Collections series Material Texts
    For a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only country in which recipes were explicitly addressed to housewives. Recipes for Thought analyzes, for the first time, the full range of English manuscript and printed recipe collections produced over the course of two centuries.Recipes reveal much more than the history of ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

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  • Defining the World

    The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary

    par Henry Hitchings ...
    "[A] marvelous account" of Johnson's towering achievement, nearly a decade of labor and linguistic fact-finding, presented by "a buoyant, zestful writer" ( The Boston Globe).By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Rogues and Early Modern English Culture

    Modifié par Craig Dionne, Steve Mentz ...
    "Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or both, simultaneously-the marginal rogue became ideologically central and has remained so for historians, cultural critics, and literary critics alike. In this collection, early modern rogues represent the ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Criticism

    Ideas in Profile

    par Catherine Belsey ...
    Collections series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsAt the heart of criticism lies one question: What do you think of it? Every time we comment on an artefact, whether a poem, a play, a painting, a novel or a piano concerto, we are acting as critics, making our own judgements and interpretations. Among the most fundamental of human intellectual activities, criticism offers a starting point for many ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Ephemeral History of Perfume

    Scent and Sense in Early Modern England

    par Holly Dugan ...
    In contrast to the other senses, smell has long been thought of as too elusive, too fleeting for traditional historical study. Holly Dugan disagrees, arguing that there are rich accounts documenting how men and women produced, consumed, and represented perfumes and their ephemeral effects. She delves deeply into the cultural archive of olfaction to explore what a sense of smell reveals about ... En savoir plus

    $80.99 CAD

  • Renaissance Paratexts

    Modifié par Helen Smith, Louise Wilson ...
    In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The essays challenge and extend Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as both a material and a conceptual ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Gendering the Nation

    Identity Politics and English Comic Theatre of the Long Eighteenth Century

    par Chandrava Chakravarty ...
    Gendering the Nation studies the role of the comic theatre in Britain during the long eighteenth century as a nation-building discourse. It evaluates the impact of the cultural phenomenon of Sentimentality on the English comic stage in conceptualising gendered identities for the men and women of a polite, genteel nation. The book analyses certain popular comic plays of the time to ascertain the ... En savoir plus

    $7.04 CAD

  • Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book

    par Helen Williams ...
    Scrutinising Sterne's fiction through a book history lens, Helen Williams creates novel readings of his work based on meticulous examination of its material and bibliographical conditions. Alongside multiple editions and manuscripts of Sterne's own letters and works, a panorama of interdisciplinary sources are explored, including dance manuals, letter-writing handbooks, newspaper advertisements, ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment

    Gender, Sexuality, and Race

    Modifié par Valerie Traub ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars and intellectuals writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD

  • In the Kitchen, 1550-1800

    Reading English Cooking at Home and Abroad

    Modifié par Madeline Bassnett, Hillary Nunn ...
    Collections series Food Culture, Food History before 1900
    In the Kitchen insists that the preparation of food, whether imaginative, physical, or spatial, is central to a deeper understanding of early modern food cultures and practices. Devoted to the arts of cooking and medicine, early modern kitchens concentrated on producing, processing, and preserving materials necessary for nourishment and survival; yet they also fed social and economic networks and ... En savoir plus

    $91.99 CAD

  • A History of Food in Literature

    From the Fourteenth Century to the Present

    par Charlotte Boyce, Joan Fitzpatrick ...
    When novels, plays and poems refer to food, they are often doing much more than we might think. Recent critical thinking suggests that depictions of food in literary works can help to explain the complex relationship between the body, subjectivity and social structures. A History of Food in Literature provides a clear and comprehensive overview of significant episodes of food and its consumption ... En savoir plus

    $85.99 CAD