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These essays illustrate how the muse of Italian Renaissance literature wandered over Western Europe, inspiring the best of writers: Ronsard, Lopez Pinciano, Burton, Marheurite de Navarre, Desportes, and indeed, even down to such as modern as Rilke.Book...

This collection of twelve essays written in English and French honors Victor Henri Brombert, the eminent humanist, thinker, and scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European letters. Though their subjects range broadly over the literature, music,...

Mario Pei (1901-1978) was a writer, linguist, translator, and academic who wrote more than fifty books and had a distinguished career at Columbia University. This volume of Pei's scholarly articles was selected by his students and colleagues, and...

A new edition of a satire on Richardson's PAMELA, featuring the character of Parson Adams. With explanatory notes by A R Humphreys.Book InformationISBN 9780393002744Author Henry FieldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW...

The latest groundbreaking work in eighteenth-century studies.Showcasing exciting new research across disciplines, Volume 53 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores the juxtaposition between the fanciful romances and historical realities of the...

The 1990s were a period of tremendous artistic vigour, experimentation, and liberation for Ukrainian culture. The artists who emerged at this time unleashed a tidal wave of creativity that deliberately and aggressively reshaped inherited models. In...

In the second volume of The Weight of Words Series, Jeremy Black continues his efforts to present and preserve Britain's literary genius. Its intelligence and enduring influence is in large part reliant on the underlining conservatism that has motivated...

What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. Through close readings of short stories and novellas by Poe, James,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042909618Author Yuyuan ZhaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 33Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher Peeters Publishers

This grammar is a reference grammar of the modern Hindi language as it is written, spoken and taught in the Hindi-speaking areas of North India. It describes the phonological, morphological and grammatical features of the Hindi language as clearly as...

The reality of the fantastic combines a 'new philological' close study of a fifteenth-century Icelandic manuscript compilation of fifteen fornaldarsoegur and riddarasoegur, AM 343a 4to, with an historically-based analysis of the manuscript's various...

The articles in this number of Romantik include new research on reverie and dream as the locus of metaphor in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; an enquiry into the Royal Swedish Society for the Publication of Manuscripts Relating to Scandinavian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771248531Author Frits AndersenFormat HardbackPage Count 692Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825369996Author Lena DornFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 776g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503566733Author Aisling ByrneFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 290g

Robin Davies here demonstrates that Nabokov's Pale Fire has a classical unity and represents a direct attack on T.S. Eliot's philosophical position, particularly as given in The Waste Land and as represented by Eliot's later tendency for conservatism in...

Literary Activism - activism that revisits and interrogates an idea of literature - emerges from a radically altered landscape for both publishing and academia, where market pressures are effecting changes - on language, on the measuring of value, on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842331231Author Stanley MiddletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Trent EditionsPublisher Trent Editions

This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. Changing satire demonstrates how satire...

"As to Europe-keep it in a gray, ominous, evil fog."-Ayn Rand (1905-1982) thus commented on the role of Europe in her key novel, Atlas Shrugged (1957). The same could be said of the way Europe features in her own biography and in the general...

Featuring a selection of brand new essays by a group of accomplished scholars, Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel covers all of Koestler's novels published in his lifetime, the first book to attempt this in English since Mark Levene's...

Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal,1600-1800 explores the oppositions created by the official exclusion of banned sexual practices and the resistance to that exclusion through widespread acceptance of those outlawed...

Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness explores the novel's participation in eighteenth-century "inquiries after happiness," an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of wellbeing in early modern...

New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions concerning the delineation that makes discussion...

Mr. Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of genius-and pseudo-genius-at work, and investigates the use and abuse of intelligence. Drawing on figures as various as Plutarch and Hegel, Kierkegaard and P.G...

Originally published in 1968. The contribution of eighteenth-century Englishmen to the study of medieval life and literature is fairly well known, but it is commonly assumed that in France, the center of Enlightenment, no one-with the exception of a few...

Focused on conventions of technology, labor, and tolerance on the one hand, and on artistic intentionality on the other hand, these essays also address the implications of this past in our own research today. The first section, "Representing Humans...

The first section of this volume consists of a panel, "Transnational Quixotes and Quixotisms," introduced by Catherine Jaffe. It includes essays by Amelia Dale on how female quixotes differed from male quixotes in eighteenth-century England; by...

In the early 1990s, Stephen Nichols introduced the term "new medievalism" to describe an alternative to the traditional philological approach to the study of the romantic texts in the medieval period. While the old approach focused on formal...

Volume 42 explores material culture, the visual arts, literature, opera, and the stage during the long eighteenth century in France, Britain, the Americas, and China. These essays examine encounters between Europe and the Americas, the Orient and the...

This volume's essays focus on the relationships between texts and readers, images and viewers, performance and audience during the Enlightenment in France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and North America. The essays range from exploring the...

A selection of the most exciting current work in eighteenth-century studies. Focusing on the fraught ways in which communities are defined, volume 51 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture showcases groundbreaking research in all of the disciplines...

Originally published in 1986. The ghastly fate of a drowned man brought to a lake's surface in Wordsworth's "Prelude" typifies a fundamental pattern in Romantic writing, argues Cynthia Chase. Disfiguration involves not only a departure from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349198511Author Michael MakinFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 256g

Translated into English, this title presents a discourse on the re-invention of love but beginning on a sombre note of suicide.Book InformationISBN 9780981808871Author Luca GherasimFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Black Widow PressPublisher Black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957574731Author Dinos SiotisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780945636991Author Donald P. KaczvinskyFormat HardbackPage Count 183Imprint Susquehanna University PressPublisher Associated University Presses

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934223423Author Robert KocisFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Lehigh University PressPublisher Associated University Presses

This is more than a literary critique - it is a work of perception, of analysis that reveals a portrait of Kundera the novelist as one of the greatest demystifiers of our time. This significant work deals with all of Milan Kundera's novels up to his...

Thirteen contributors from a variety of backgrounds tackle the use of irony, contrast, narrative, themes of belonging, Englishness, imperialism, portrayals of women, and conceptions of truth and evil as they were expressed in the work of Joseph Conrad. ...