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  • Gertrude Stein

    Woman without Qualities

    by G.F. Mitrano ...
    In her provocative study of Gertrude Stein, G.F. Mitrano argues that Stein's particular take on modernity has special relevance for today. Tracing what she describes as Stein's deeply modernist story of transformation from a nineteenth-century American woman to the disquieting muse of avant-garde culture portrayed in Picasso's famous portrait, Mitrano illuminates Stein's immense appetite for life, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    by Mary McCarthy ...
    In this eye-opening book, Mary McCarthy shares her love of the novel and her fear that it is becoming an endangered literary species"He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it."So begins Mary McCarthy's fascinating critical analysis of the novel (and its practitioners) from her double-edged perspective as both reader and writer. The bestselling author of The Group takes T. S. Eliot's ... Read more

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  • Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England

    The Representation of History in Printed Books

    by James A. Knapp ...
    Illustrating the Past is a study of the status of visual and verbal media in early modern English representations of the past. It focuses on general attitudes towards visual and verbal representations of history as well as specific illustrated books produced during the period. Through a close examination of the relationship of image to text in light of contemporary discussions of poetic and ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Ritual and the Idea of Europe in Interwar Writing

    by Patrick R. Query ...
    While most critical studies of interwar literary politics have focused on nationalism, Patrick Query makes a case that the idea of Europe intervenes in instances when the individual and the nation negotiate identity. He examines the ways interwar writers use three European ritual forms-verse drama, bullfighting, and Roman Catholic rite-to articulate ideas of European cultural identity. Within the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Romantic Adaptations

    Essays in Mediation and Remediation

    by Cian Duffy, Peter Howell ...
    How did romanticism define its relationship with its sources? How has romanticism since been understood and misunderstood across a range of cultural activities? These are among the questions taken up in this reexamination of the place of adaptation within romanticism. Renegotiating the cultural topography of the period and the place of romanticism in subsequent cultural history, the volume focuses ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Slavery, Colonialism and Connoisseurship

    Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literary Transnationalism

    by Nandini Bhattacharya ...
    Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century. In this book, Nandini Bhattacharya examines the works of such writers as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Colman Jr., James Cobb and Phillis Wheatley, who redefined ideas about Value and Taste. Writers re-presented the ethical ... Read more

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  • The Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660–1714

    Political Pornography and Prostitution

    by Melissa M. Mowry ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    With this original study, Melissa Mowry makes a strong contribution to a provocative interdisciplinary conversation about an important and influential sub genre: seventeenth-century political pornography. This book further advances our understanding of pornography's importance in seventeenth-century England by extending its investigation beyond the realm of cultural rhetoric into the realm of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures

    Reading Transnational Cultural Commodities

    Edited by Andrea Ruthven, Belén Martín-Lucas ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about how the marketing of transnational cultural commodities capitalizes on difference and its appeal for cosmopolitan consumers in our postmodern globalized world. At what price? What ethical and political conundrums does the artist/writer/reader confront when going global? This volume analyzes why difference - whether gender, sexual, racial, ethnic, or linguistic - has become such ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Elizabeth Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers

    Edited by Susan M. Felch ...
    Series series The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions
    In 1574, Christopher Barker published a volume of prayers and poems collected and composed by Elizabeth Tyrwhit, an intimate member of Katherine Parr's circle, governess to the princess Elizabeth, wife of a Tudor court functionary, and a wealthy widow. Later, Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers was selected by Thomas Bentley to be republished in his 1582 compilation of devotional works, The ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Privacy, Domesticity, and Women in Early Modern England

    Edited by Corinne S. Abate ...
    The ten essays in this collection explore the discrete yet overlapping female spaces of privacy and domesticity in early modern England. While other literary critics have focused their studies of female privacy on widows, witches, female recusants and criminals, the contributors to this collection propose that the early modern subculture of femaleness is more expansive and formative than is ... Read more

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  • The Place of God in Piers Plowman and Medieval Art

    by Mary Clemente Davlin ...
    Probing spatial questions about God posed by Piers Plowman, the author of this interdisciplinary study turns to pictorial evidence-the use of religious space and relationships within such space in English art of the same period. The Place of God in Piers Plowman and Medieval Art is not only a study of the sense of God and of the relationship between God and creatures in the great religious poem, ... Read more

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  • Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell

    by Lesa Scholl, Emily Morris ...
    Critical assessments of Elizabeth Gaskell have tended to emphasise the regional and provincial aspects of her writing, but the scope of her influence extended across the globe. Building on theories of space and place, the contributors to this collection bring a variety of geographical, industrial, psychological, and spatial perspectives to bear on the vast range of Gaskell’s literary output and on ... Read more

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