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  • Reinventing King Arthur

    The Arthurian Legends in Victorian Culture

    by Inga Bryden ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    In her systematic reassessment of the remaking of the Arthurian past in nineteenth-century British fiction and non-fiction, Inga Bryden examines the Victorian Arthurian revival as a cultural phenomenon, offering insights into the relationship between social, cultural, religious, and ethnographic debates of the period and a wide range of texts. Throughout, she adopts an intertextual and historical ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Melville’s Philosophies

    Edited by Professor Branka Arsic, Dr. K. L. Evans ...
    Melville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville in order to detect just how much of it he knew or understood. To the contrary, they try to hear the philosophical arguments themselves-often very strange and quite radical-that Melville ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Poetic Trespass

    Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine

    by Lital Levy ...
    A Palestinian-Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, "Homelandic," is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew. A Jewish-Israeli author imagines a "language plague" that infects young Hebrew speakers with old world accents, and sends the narrator in search of his Arabic heritage. In Poetic Trespass, Lital Levy brings together such startling visions to offer the first in-depth study of the ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community

    A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650–1700

    by Catie Gill ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Focussing on Quaker pamphlet literature of the commonwealth and restoration period, Catie Gill seeks to explore and explain women’s presence as activists, writers, and subjects within the early Quaker movement. Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community draws on contemporary resources such as prophetic writing, prison narratives, petitions, and deathbed testimonies to produce an account of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • English Travel Narratives in the Eighteenth Century

    Exploring Genres

    by Jean Viviès ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern English Literature
    The eighteenth century, commonly described as the age of the novel, is also the golden age of travel narratives. In this English edition of Le Récit de voyage en Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle, the genre of the travel narrative receives a treatment based on its development in close relationship with fiction. The book provides a survey of famous travel narratives: James Boswell's journal of a tour to ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Print and Power in France and England, 1500-1800

    by Adrian Armstrong ...
    What was the relationship between power and the public sphere in early modern society? How did the printed media inform this relationship? Contributors to this volume address those questions by examining the interaction of print and power in France and England during the 'hand-press period'. Four interconnected and overlapping themes emerge from these studies, showing the essential historical and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Publishing Women's Life Stories in France, 1647-1720

    From Voice to Print

    by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    In this new study, Elizabeth Goldsmith continues her pursuit of issues treated in her earlier books on conversation, epistolary writing, and the female voice in literature. She examines how French women in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries first came to publish their private life stories; in doing so, she explores what the writers have to say about why they decide to write about ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Mary Wroth

    Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 10

    by Josephine A. Roberts ...
    Series Book 1 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I
    Mary Wroth (1587-1653?) was niece and god-daughter of Mary Sidney Herbert. She was married in 1604 to Sir Robert Wroth with whom she joined the Court circle of James I. In 1618 she began work on her enormous prose romance The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania. The first known work of original fiction by an Englishwoman it reflects her experience as an eyewitness to the turbulent Jacobean Court. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama

    From the Raising of Lazarus to King Lear

    by Katharine Goodland ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Grieving women in early modern English drama, this study argues, recall not only those of Classical tragedy, but also, and more significantly, the lamenting women of medieval English drama, especially the Virgin Mary. Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster, this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. First, it explores ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • 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

    $61.99 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

    $61.99 USD

  • The Temptation of Despair

    Tales of the 1940s

    by Werner Sollors ...
    In Germany, the years immediately following World War II call forward images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. The temptation of despair was hard to resist, and to contemporary observers the road toward democracy in the Western zones of occupation seemed rather uncertain. Drawing on a vast array of American, German, and other sources--diaries, ... Read more

    $30.29 USD