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  • Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play

    Performing National Identity

    by Ralf Hertel ...
    Applying current political theory on nationhood as well as methods established by recent performance studies, this study sheds new light on the role the public theatre played in the rise of English national identity around 1600. It situates selected history plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe in the context of non-fictional texts (such as historiographies, chorographies, political treatises, or ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Early Modern Encounters with the Islamic East

    Performing Cultures

    Edited by Sabine Schülting, Sabine Lucia Müller, Ralf Hertel ...
    Series series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    An exploration of early modern encounters between Christian Europe and the (Islamic) East from the perspective of performance studies and performativity theories, this collection focuses on the ways in which these cultural contacts were acted out on the real and metaphorical stages of theatre, literature, music, diplomacy and travel. The volume responds to the theatricalization of early modern ... Read more

    $79.99 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

    $61.99 USD

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  • Empires of Love

    Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity

    by Carmen Nocentelli ...
    Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries—epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation—Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of "India," as the vast coastal stretch from the Gulf of Aden to the South China Sea was often called. If Asia was thought of as a place of sexual deviance and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Crimes of Love : Heroic and tragic Tales, Preceeded by an Essay on Novels

    Heroic and tragic Tales, Preceded by an Essay on Novels

    by Marquis de Sade ...
    Translated by David Coward ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows...' Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories; tragedy, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds

    Ways of Telling the Self

    by Marina Warner ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    by James Joyce ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo ' So begins one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Its originality shocked contemporary readers on its publication in 1916 who found its treating of the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England

    Memorial Cultures of the Post Reformation

    Edited by Andrew Gordon, Thomas Rist ...
    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    The early modern period inherited a deeply-ingrained culture of Christian remembrance that proved a platform for creativity in a remarkable variety of forms. From the literature of church ritual to the construction of monuments; from portraiture to the arrangement of domestic interiors; from the development of textual rites to drama of the contemporary stage, the early modern world practiced 'arts ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Montaigne

    A Life

    by Philippe Desan ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall, Lisa Neal ...
    A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his back on the world, and stoically detaching himself from his ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • 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

    $35.29 USD

  • Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy

    Rebellious Daughters, 1786–1826

    by Orianne Smith ...
    Series Book 98 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Convinced that the end of the world was at hand, many Romantic women writers assumed the role of the female prophet to sound the alarm before the final curtain fell. Orianne Smith argues that their prophecies were performative acts in which the prophet believed herself to be authorized by God to bring about social or religious transformation through her words. Utilizing a wealth of archival ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

    by Marcus Tomalin ...
    Series series British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
    From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, businessmen, travel writers, and philosophers brooded about the merits and demerits of the French language. The decades under consideration encompass a particularly tumultuous period in Anglo-French relations that witnessed the Seven Years' War (1756 ... Read more

    $61.99 USD