Encountering Ephemera 1500-1800
Scholarship, Performance, Classroom
This collection redefines ephemera by challenging the opposition between the transitory and the enduring. Essays explore how materials from broadside ballads to performance reveal the dynamic unfixity of early modern and eighteenth-century cultural practices.
This collection redefines ephemera by challenging the opposition between the transitory and the enduring. Essays explore how materials from broadside ballads to performance reveal the dynamic unfixity of early modern and eighteenth-century cultural practices.
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In and Out
Eccentricity in Britain
This book provides an overview of the critical history of eccentricity, a defining feature of the English character. It explores the eccentric’s paradoxical status as both outsider and insider, and the struggle to retain individuality against standardization.
This book provides an overview of the critical history of eccentricity, a defining feature of the English character. It explores the eccentric’s paradoxical status as both outsider and insider, and the struggle to retain individuality against standardization.
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“Rapt in Secret Studies”
Emerging Shakespeares
Inspired by Prospero’s phrase “rapt in secret studies,” this collection of essays from emerging scholars imagines new pathways in Shakespeare Studies, exploring themes of obsession (“rapt”), spies and contagion (“secret”), and authorship (“study”).
Inspired by Prospero’s phrase “rapt in secret studies,” this collection of essays from emerging scholars imagines new pathways in Shakespeare Studies, exploring themes of obsession (“rapt”), spies and contagion (“secret”), and authorship (“study”).
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This collection of essays questions the traditional supremacy of Chaucer while reaffirming his lasting impact. Scholars explore his influence on writers like Shakespeare, offer a modern assessment of the Wife of Bath, and discuss making Chaucer relevant today.
This collection of essays questions the traditional supremacy of Chaucer while reaffirming his lasting impact. Scholars explore his influence on writers like Shakespeare, offer a modern assessment of the Wife of Bath, and discuss making Chaucer relevant today.
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This volume of essays investigates the “European civilizing mission” through conflict. Centered on a controversial debate, contributors review colonial and postcolonial imperial conflicts to offer new perspectives on the British Empire.
This volume of essays investigates the “European civilizing mission” through conflict. Centered on a controversial debate, contributors review colonial and postcolonial imperial conflicts to offer new perspectives on the British Empire.
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Constructing the Literary Self
Race and Gender in Twentieth-Century Literature
This volume explores the quest for self-definition among previously excluded groups. Its thirteen essays by recognized scholars depict strategies of escaping oppression through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, assimilation, and the family.
This volume explores the quest for self-definition among previously excluded groups. Its thirteen essays by recognized scholars depict strategies of escaping oppression through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, assimilation, and the family.
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The Fire Within
Desire in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
Hailed as the core of human identity, desire shapes our actions and dreams. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern Italian literature, showing it to be the secret motor of the narrative in works of the last two centuries.
Hailed as the core of human identity, desire shapes our actions and dreams. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern Italian literature, showing it to be the secret motor of the narrative in works of the last two centuries.
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Inside Knowledge
(Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities
Can art produce knowledge? Is the body a medium for knowing? This collection of essays offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of how we know what we know in the humanities, challenging conventional methodologies through concrete case studies.
Can art produce knowledge? Is the body a medium for knowing? This collection of essays offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of how we know what we know in the humanities, challenging conventional methodologies through concrete case studies.
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Shakespeare Studies in Colonial Bengal
The Early Phase
This study explores Shakespeare in colonial Bengal, focusing on Hindu College. It highlights the pioneering teachers who accelerated the Bengal Renaissance and exposes distorted readings of Shakespeare, challenging reductive postcolonial theories.
This study explores Shakespeare in colonial Bengal, focusing on Hindu College. It highlights the pioneering teachers who accelerated the Bengal Renaissance and exposes distorted readings of Shakespeare, challenging reductive postcolonial theories.
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This book presents the garden, comparing historical and contemporary models across literature, art, architecture, and philosophy. These contexts form “the metaphor of the garden”: a space where the order of Nature complements our understanding of reality.
This book presents the garden, comparing historical and contemporary models across literature, art, architecture, and philosophy. These contexts form “the metaphor of the garden”: a space where the order of Nature complements our understanding of reality.
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A Window on the Italian Female Modernist Subjectivity
From Neera to Laura Curino
These essays explore how women at the forefront of Italian modernity—in literature, photography, and theatre—redefined the self amid societal change, aiming to define a female Italian Modernism complementary to its male counterpart.
These essays explore how women at the forefront of Italian modernity—in literature, photography, and theatre—redefined the self amid societal change, aiming to define a female Italian Modernism complementary to its male counterpart.
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Aller(s)-Retour(s)
Nineteenth-Century France in Motion
The nineteenth century was an age of movement. This volume explores the political, artistic, and social shifts that defined France as a society in perpetual motion, confronting its own extremes of progress and renewal, stagnancy and regression.
The nineteenth century was an age of movement. This volume explores the political, artistic, and social shifts that defined France as a society in perpetual motion, confronting its own extremes of progress and renewal, stagnancy and regression.
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Following the advent of the printing press, Italian humanist Latin texts spread across Europe. This study is the first comprehensive account of their dissemination and impact on the Renaissance curriculum and the rising national literary traditions of the period.
Following the advent of the printing press, Italian humanist Latin texts spread across Europe. This study is the first comprehensive account of their dissemination and impact on the Renaissance curriculum and the rising national literary traditions of the period.
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To See the Wizard
Politics and the Literature of Childhood
Inspired by The Wizard of Oz, this volume interrogates the politics at work in children's literature. It analyzes how "wizards"—writers, publishers, and others—use stories to shape young readers' views on race, class, gender, and power.
Inspired by The Wizard of Oz, this volume interrogates the politics at work in children’s literature. It analyzes how “wizards”—writers, publishers, and others—use stories to shape young readers’ views on race, class, gender, and power.
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This collection of essays contributes to Potter Studies, examining Rowling's work as a literary and cultural phenomenon. International scholars explore the books' popularity, their effects on readers, film adaptations, and philosophical considerations of good and evil.
This collection of essays contributes to Potter Studies, examining Rowling’s work as a literary and cultural phenomenon. International scholars explore the books’ popularity, their effects on readers, film adaptations, and philosophical considerations of good and evil.
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Constructing Identities
The Interaction of National, Gender and Racial Borders
Border studies examines the conflicts and resolutions that occur when groups come into contact. This peer-reviewed selection of papers focuses on historical, national, gender, and racial borders, and their implications in the construction of an identity.
Border studies examines the conflicts and resolutions that occur when groups come into contact. This peer-reviewed selection of papers focuses on historical, national, gender, and racial borders, and their implications in the construction of an identity.
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Identity Issues
Literary and Linguistic Landscapes
A collection of essays exploring the complex phenomenon of identity from diverse angles. Literary explorations discuss class, race, and nation in contemporary literature, while linguistic studies draw on insights from sociology, psychology, and cognitive linguistics.
A collection of essays exploring the complex phenomenon of identity from diverse angles. Literary explorations discuss class, race, and nation in contemporary literature, while linguistic studies draw on insights from sociology, psychology, and cognitive linguistics.
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Refashioning Myth
Poetic Transformations and Metamorphoses
Mythology has been a field richly mined by poets and artists from antiquity to the present day. This volume presents a diverse collection of analytical and creative works by scholars, poets and visual artists exploring the prolific dialogue between myth and poetry.
Mythology has been a field richly mined by poets and artists from antiquity to the present day. This volume presents a diverse collection of analytical and creative works by scholars, poets and visual artists exploring the prolific dialogue between myth and poetry.
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Women Editing/Editing Women
Early Modern Women Writers and the New Textualism
This collection applies “the new textualism” to early modern women writers. Fusing seminal essays with original research, it offers a solution to editing authors with little biographical data by focusing on the material history of the text itself.
This collection applies “the new textualism” to early modern women writers. Fusing seminal essays with original research, it offers a solution to editing authors with little biographical data by focusing on the material history of the text itself.
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Peripheral Transmodernities
South-to-South Intercultural Dialogues between the Luso-Hispanic World and “the Orient”
This collection of essays explores the critical dialogue between the Hispanic/Latino world and Asian and Arab cultures. Bypassing old colonial centers, these South-to-South dialogues provide vivid examples of de-colonizing impetus and cultural resistance.
This collection of essays explores the critical dialogue between the Hispanic/Latino world and Asian and Arab cultures. Bypassing old colonial centers, these South-to-South dialogues provide vivid examples of de-colonizing impetus and cultural resistance.
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