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  • Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art

    Studies in Scatology

    Edited by Jeff Persels, Russell Ganim ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    Feces, urine, flatus, phlegm, vomitus - unlike ourselves, our most educated forebears did not disdain these functions, and, further, they employed scatological references in all manner of works. This collection of essays was provoked by what its editors considered to be a curious lacuna: the relative academic neglect of the copious and ubiquitous scatological rhetoric of Early Modern Europe, here ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Mimesis

    The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (New Expanded Edition)

    by Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Recovering Your Story

    Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison

    by Arnold Weinstein ...
    “Great art discovers for us who we are,” writes eminent literature professor and critic Arnold Weinstein in this magisterial new book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers. Professor Weinstein, author of the highly acclaimed A Scream Goes Through the House, has spent a lifetime guiding students through the work of great writers, and in ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • New Essays on Maria Edgeworth

    Edited by Julie Nash ...
    Devoted to the varied writings of the influential novelist, children's author, and educator, this collection situates Edgeworth's writing in the context of her life and times. Combining postcolonial, historical, and gender criticism, the contributors offer fresh readings of Edgeworth's novels, stories, letters, and educational texts, including Belinda, Moral Tales, Practical Education, Helen, and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • This Contentious Storm: An Ecocritical and Performance History of King Lear

    by Dr Jennifer Mae Hamilton ...
    Series series Environmental Cultures
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.From providential apocalypticism to climate change, this ground-breaking ecocritical study traces the performance history of the storm scene in King Lear to explore our shifting, fraught and deeply ideological relationship with stormy weather across time.This ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Building Socialism

    Architecture and Urbanism in East German Literature, 1955-1973

    by Dr. Curtis Swope ...
    Series series New Directions in German Studies
    Building Socialism reveals how East German writers' engagement with the rapidly changing built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s constitutes an untold story about the emergence of literary experimentation in the post-War period. It breaks new ground by exploring the centrality of architecture to a mid-century modernist literature in dialogue with multiple literary and left-wing ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Court Trials in Mark Twain and other Essays

    by D.M. MacKeithan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The major section of this volume, dealing with court trials in Mark Twain, is here published for the first time with the of the discussion of the trial of Silas Phelps. The exception account of this trial and the essay entitled "The Source of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, Detective" were originally published to gether as "Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, Detective" in Studia Neophilologica in 1953 (XXV, 161 ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • W.B. Yeats and World Literature

    The Subject of Poetry

    by Barry Sheils ...
    Arguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeats’s work in the light of contemporary studies of world literature, Barry Sheils shows how reading Yeats enables a fuller understanding of the relationship between the extensive map of world literary production and the intensities of poetic practice. Yeats’s appropriation of Japanese Noh theatre, his promotion of translations of Rabindranath ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Lydia Ginzburg's Prose

    Reality in Search of Literature

    by Emily Van Buskirk ...
    The Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902–90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs. Yet she viewed her most vital work to be the extensive prose fragments, composed for the desk drawer, in which she analyzed herself and ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Representing Female Artistic Labour, 1848–1890

    Refining Work for the Middle-Class Woman

    by Patricia Zakreski ...
    Patricia Zakreski's interdisciplinary study draws on fiction, prose, painting, and the periodical press to expand and redefine our understanding of women's relationship to paid work during the Victorian period. While the idea of 'separate spheres' has largely gone uncontested by feminist critics studying female labour during the nineteenth century, Zakreski challenges this distinction by showing ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Marian Moments in Early Modern British Drama

    Edited by Regina Buccola, Lisa Hopkins ...
    Concerning itself with the complex interplay between iconoclasm against images of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation England and stage representations that evoke various 'Marian moments' from the medieval, Catholic past, this collection answers the call for further investigation of the complex relationship between the fraught religio-political culture of the early modern period and the theater ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine (1735)

    Edited by Tiffany Potter ...
    Series series The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions
    Elizabeth Cooper's The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine provides a unique opportunity to restore to scholarly and pedagogical attention a neglected female writer and a play with broad and significant implications for studies of eighteenth-century history, culture and gender. Following the adventures of Lady Bellair, a "glowing, joyous young Widow," the storyline regenders standard expectations ... Read more

    $64.99 USD