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  • Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670-1730

    by Laura Linker ...
    In the first full-length study of the figure of the female libertine in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century literature, Laura Linker examines heroines appearing in literature by John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter, Delariviere Manley, and Daniel Defoe. Linker argues that this figure, partially inspired by Epicurean ideas found in Lucretius's De rerum natura, interrogates gender ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • The Age of Insight

    The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

    by Eric Kandel ...
    A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to art.At the turn of the century, Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe. Artists and scientists ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The Daemon Knows

    Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

    by Harold Bloom ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWSHailed as “the indispensable critic” by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom—New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University—has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and ... Read more

    $13.99 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

  • Touché

    The Duel in Literature

    by John Leigh ...
    The monarchs of seventeenth-century Europe put a surprisingly high priority on the abolition of dueling, seeing its eradication as an important step from barbarism toward a rational state monopoly on justice. But it was one thing to ban dueling and another to stop it. Duelists continued to kill each other with swords or pistols in significant numbers deep into the nineteenth century. In 1883 ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Literature Class, Berkeley 1980

    by Julio Cortázar ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These “classes” are as much reflections on Cortázar’s own writing career as they are about ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

    A Critical Study

    by Patrick Grant ...
    Series series Cultural Dialectics
    When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he is now justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of letters—more than eight hundred of them, addressed to his parents, to friends such as Paul Gauguin, and, above all, to his brother Theo. His letters have long been admired for their exceptional literary quality, and ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Hawthorne, Sculpture, and the Question of American Art

    by Deanna Fernie ...
    Deanna Fernie analyzes the significance of sculpture in Hawthorne's fiction through the recurring motif of the fragment in its double guise as ruin and project. Her book casts new light on Hawthorne's memorable ruined and unfinished images, from the rough-hewn figurehead of 'Drowne's Wooden Image' (1844) to the tattered letter 'A' in the unfinished loft of the Custom House in The Scarlet Letter ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Possessed Victorians

    Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writings

    by Sarah A. Willburn ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    In her absorbing study of nineteenth-century mystical writings, Sarah Willburn formulates a new conception of individualism that offers a fresh look at Victorian subjectivity. Drawing upon extensive archival work in the British Library, Willburn analyzes séance accounts, novels about mediumship, and metaphysical treatises to make important connections between contemporary writings on mysticism and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Dickens, Sexuality and Gender

    Edited by Lillian Nayder ...
    Series series A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens
    This volume of essays examines Dickens's complex representations of sexuality and gender as well as his use of gender ideologies and sexual and gender differences over the course of his literary career, from his first sketches and early novels to his late works of fiction. The essays approach gender issues in Dickens's writing by focusing on a number of topics: his treatment of gender ideals and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture

    Towards Comparative Masculinity Studies

    by Stefan Horlacher, Kevin Floyd ...
    Analyzing literary texts, plays, films and photographs within a transatlantic framework, this volume explores the inseparable and mutually influential relationship between different forms of national identity in Great Britain and the United States and the construction of masculinity in each country. The contributors take up issues related to how certain kinds of nationally specific masculine ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Irish Poets and Modern Greece

    Heaney, Mahon, Cavafy, Seferis

    by Joanna Kruczkowska ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon. Delving into travel writing, ecocriticism, translation and allusion, it offers a fresh comparative link between Greek modernity and Irish poetry that counterbalances the preeminence of Greek antiquity in existing criticism. The first section, devoted to travel and landscape, ... Read more

    $98.09 USD