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Books narrated by Charles Petit

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  • Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories from Antiquity to the Anthropocene

    by Christopher Schliephake, Evi Zemanek, Diana G. Barnes, Helga G. Braunbeck, Gregory J. Dehler, James Dunk, Jasmin Hettinger, Richard Hutchins, Darrel Janzen0, Serge Leopold Middendorf1, Astrid Möller2, Caroline Petit3, Lena Pfeifer4, Charles M. Pigott5, Martin Riedelsheimer6, Falko Schnicke7, Heiner Stahl8, Leila Michelle Vaziri9, Karolin Wetjen0, Rebecca J. H. Woods1 ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories from Antiquity to the Anthropocene studies the interplay of environmental perception and the way societies throughout history have imagined the future state of “nature” and the environments in which coming generations would live. What sorts of knowledge were and are involved in outlining future environments? What kinds of texts and narrative strategies were ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Epistolary Community in Print, 1580–1664

    by Diana G. Barnes ...
    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    Epistolary Community in Print contends that the printed letter is an inherently sociable genre ideally suited to the theorisation of community in early modern England. In manual, prose or poetic form, printed letter collections make private matters public, and in so doing reveal, first how tenuous is the divide between these two realms in the early modern period and, second, how each collection ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Mapping Mythologies

    Countercurrents in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry and Cultural History

    by Marilyn Butler, Heather Glen ...
    In this groundbreaking work of revisionary literary history, Marilyn Butler traces the imagining of alternative versions of the nation in eighteenth-century Britain, both in the works of a series of well-known poets (Akenside, Thomson, Gray, Collins, Chatterton, Macpherson, Blake) and in the differing accounts of the national culture offered by eighteenth-century antiquarians and literary ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Historical Austen

    by William H. Galperin ...
    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleJane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded both as a feminist ahead of her time and as a social conservative whose satiric comedies work to regulate rather than to liberate. Such viewpoints, however, do not take sufficient stock of the historical Austen, whose writings, as William Galperin shows, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy

    Edited by Alexander Leggatt ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    First published in 2001, this is an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace recurring issues, suggesting both the continuity and the variety of Shakespeare's practice and the creative use he made of the conventions he inherited. The first section puts Shakespeare in the context of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Castles and colonists

    An archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland

    by Eric Klingelhofer ...
    Series series The Manchester Spenser
    Castles and colonists is the first book to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire. Klinglehofer shows how an Ireland of colonising English farmers and displaced Irish 'savages' are ruled by an imported Protestant elite from their fortified manors and medieval castles.Richly illustrated, it displays how a generation of English 'adventurers' including such influential ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Pirates, Traitors, and Apostates

    Renegade Identities in Early Modern English Writing

    by Laurie Ellinghausen ...
    Examining tales of notorious figures in Renaissance England, including the mercenary Thomas Stukeley, the Barbary corsair John Ward, and the wandering adventurers the Sherley brothers, Laurie Ellinghausen sheds new light on the construction of the early modern renegade and its depiction in English prose, poetry, and drama during a period of capitalist expansion.Unlike previous scholarship which ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Michelangelo's Poetry and Iconography in the Heart of the Reformation

    by Ambra Moroncini ...
    Contextualizing Michelangelo’s poetry and spirituality within the framework of the religious Zeitgeist of his era, this study investigates his poetic production to shed new light on the artist’s religious beliefs and unique language of art. Author Ambra Moroncini looks first and foremost at Michelangelo the poet and proposes a thought-provoking reading of Michelangelo’s most controversial artistic ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems

    by A. D. Cousins ...
    Series series Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library
    Alongside Spenser, Sidney and the early Donne, Shakespeare is the major poet of the 16th century, largely because of the status of his remarkable sequence of sonnets. Professor Cousins' new book is the first comprehensive study of the Sonnets and narrative poems for over a decade. He focuses in particular on their exploration of self-knowledge, sexuality, and death, as well as on their ambiguous ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing

    by Philip Dickinson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination. From the decolonizing poetics of the Caribbean to the white writing of South Africa, from the aesthetics of post-imperial disappointment to postcolonial theory itself, it develops an account of the textual and philosophical interpenetration of postcolonial ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Experiencing Drama in the English Renaissance

    Readers and Audiences

    by Akihiro Yamada ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    This book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Renaissance.Around 1500 an absolute majority of population was illiterate. Henry VIII’s religious reformation changed this cultural structure of society. ‘The Act for the Advancement of True Religion’ of 1543, which prohibited the people belonging to the lower classes of society as ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Picture Titles

    How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names

    by Ruth Bernard Yeazell ...
    How the practice of titling paintings has shaped their reception throughout modern historyA picture's title is often our first guide to understanding the image. Yet paintings didn’t always have titles, and many canvases acquired their names from curators, dealers, and printmakers—not the artists. Taking an original, historical look at how Western paintings were named, Picture Titles shows how the ... Read more

    $31.69 USD