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  • Galileo's Reading

    by Crystal Hall ...
    Galileo (1564–1642) incorporated throughout his work the language of battle, the rhetoric of the epic, and the structure of romance as a means to elicit emotional responses from his readers against his opponents. By turning to the literary as a field for creating knowledge, Galileo delineated a textual space for establishing and validating the identity of the new, idealized philosopher. Galileo's ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel

    Edited by Peter Bondanella, Andrea Ciccarelli ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors are ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris

    Edited by Anna-Louise Milne ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    No city more than Paris has had such a constant and deep association with the development of literary forms and cultural ideas. The idea of the city as a space of literary self-consciousness started to take hold in the sixteenth century. By 1620, where this volume begins, the first in a long line of extraordinary works of the human imagination, in which the city represented itself to itself, had ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

    Edited by Michael Wyatt ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to students, scholars, and non-specialists, it introduces the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Collected Works of Erasmus

    Paraphrase on Luke 1–10, Volume 47

    by Desiderius Erasmus ...
    Series Book 47 - Collected Works of Erasmus
    Erasmus yearned to make the New Testament an effective instrument of reform in society, church, and everyday life, and to this end he composed the Paraphrases, in which the words of Holy Scripture provide the core of a text that was vastly expanded to embrace the reforming “philosophy of Christ.” Paraphrase on Luke 1–10 contains the first half of Erasmus’s Paraphrase on Luke – the second half of ... Read more

    $146.99 USD

  • Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance

    by Elizabeth Spiller ...
    Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes towards race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the nature of physical identity. As reading was understood to happen in and to the body, what you read could change who you were. In a culture in which learning about the world and its human boundaries came increasingly through reading, one place ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Aesthetics of Democracy

    Eighteenth-Century Literature and Political Economy

    by Craig Carson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers an original and interdisciplinary interpretation of the relation between aesthetics and modern liberal democracy, uniting the fields of art theory with the democratic political philosophy and modern liberal economic theory. The central argument of the books offers an explanation of the theoretical limitations of the contemporary discourse concerning “political art,” while at the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature

    From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque

    Edited by J. A. Garrido Ardila ...
    Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Alemán, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cela and Mann. Contemporary authors of neopicaresque are renewing this traditional form to express twenty-first-century concerns. Notwithstanding its major contribution to literary history, as one of the founding forms of the modern novel, the ... Read more

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  • Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres

    Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony

    Edited by Jacomien Prins, Maude Vanhaelen ...
    Series series Warwick Series in the Humanities
    This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony within a variety of contexts, ranging chronologically from Plato to 18th-century England. This original collection of essays engages with contemporary debates concerning the relationship between music, philosophy, and science, and challenges the view that Renaissance discussions on cosmic harmony are ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe

    Telling Failures

    Edited by Ralf Hertel, Michael Keevak ...
    Series series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    While inquiries into early encounters between East Asia and the West have traditionally focused on successful interactions, this collection inquires into the many forms of failure, experienced on all sides, in the period before 1850. Countering a tendency in scholarship to overlook unsuccessful encounters, it starts from the assumption that failures can prove highly illuminating and provide ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Changing Sentiments and the Magdalen Hospital

    Luxury, Virtue and the Senses in Eighteenth-Century Culture

    by Mary Peace ...
    This book charts the complex ideological territory of eighteenth-century sentimental discourse through the uniquely revealing lens of the London Magdalen Hospital for Penitent Prostitutes. The establishment of the London Magdalen House in 1758 is read as the cultural high watermark of sentimental confidence in the compatibility of virtue and commerce. It is the product of a whiggish, moral-sense ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Early Modern Constructions of Europe

    Literature, Culture, History

    Edited by Florian Kläger, Gerd Bayer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Between the medieval conception of Christendom and the political visions of modernity, ideas of Europe underwent a transformative and catalytic period that saw a cultural process of renewed self-definition or self-Europeanization. The contributors to this volume address this process, analyzing how Europe was imagined between 1450 and 1750. By whom, in which contexts, and for what purposes was ... Read more

    $69.99 USD