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Wounds & Words: Childhood & Family Trauma in Romantic & Postmodern Fiction by Christa Schonfelder
RRP: $93.58$76.26Trauma has become a hotly contested topic in literary studies. But interest in trauma is not new; its roots extend to the Romantic period, when novelists and the first psychiatrists influenced each others' investigations of the "wounded mind". This book... -
Renaissance Culture and the Everyday by Patricia Fumerton
RRP: $58.48$50.68It was not unusual during the Renaissance for cooks to torture animals before slaughtering them in order to render the meat more tender, for women to use needlepoint to cover up their misconduct and prove their obedience, and for people to cover the... -
Romanticism and Philosophy: Thinking with Literature by Sophie Laniel-Musitelli
RRP: $77.98$68.37This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to offer new perspectives on the relationship between Romanticism and philosophy. The entanglement of Romantic literature with philosophy is increasingly recognized, just as Romanticism is increasingly... -
Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England by Daniel Vitkus 9780231119054
RRP: $58.50$44.50These narratives recount the harrowing experiences of Englishmen abducted by the Barbary pirates of North Africa. After being sold into slavery, the narrators succeeded in returning to their homeland where their stories were printed. Never before... -
Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism by Laura Frost
RRP: $74.10$63.67Salvador Dali's autobiography confesses that "Hitler turned me on in the highest," while Sylvia Plath maintains that "every woman adores a Fascist." Susan Sontag's famous observation that art reveals the seamier side of fascism in bondage, discipline,... -
The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Negritude, Vitalism, and Modernity by Donna V. Jones 9780231145497
RRP: $54.60$41.65In the early twentieth century, the life philosophy of Henri Bergson summoned the elan vital, or vital force, as the source of creative evolution. Bergson also appealed to intuition, which focused on experience rather than discursive thought and... -
Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities by Mark Bassin
RRP: $72.13$57.23Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, questions of identity have dominated the culture not only of Russia, but of all the countries of the former Soviet bloc. This timely collection examines the ways in which cultural activities such as fiction, TV,... -
Derek Walcott by John Thieme 9780719042065
RRP: $29.23$25.99This book provides a unique account of Walcott's development as a writer in addition to being the fullest study of his poetry and plays to date.Discusses all his major works and includes information on his out-of-print and unpublished plays along with ... -
Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy by Sigrid Weigel
RRP: $54.58$46.14Arguing that the importance of painting and other visual art for Benjamin's epistemology has yet to be appreciated, Weigel undertakes the first systematic analysis of their significance to his thought. She does so by exploring Benjamin's dialectics of... -
The Body in Early Modern Italy by Julia L. Hairston
RRP: $121.88$105.89Human bodies have been represented and defined in various ways across different cultures and historical periods. As an object of interpretation and site of social interaction, the body has throughout history attracted more attention than perhaps any... -
Marie or, Slavery in the United States: A Novel of Jacksonian America by Gustave de Beaumont
RRP: $49.73$47.56Gustave de Beaumont's 1835 work, Marie, or Slavery in the United States is structured as a fascinating essay on race interwoven with a novel. It is the story of socially forbidden love between an idealistic young Frenchman and an apparently white... -
Vergil in the Middle Ages by Domenico Comparetti
RRP: $107.25$100.80From its first complete Italian printing in 1872 up to the present day, Domenico Comparetti's Vergil in the Middle Ages has been acknowledged as a masterpiece, regarded by some critics as "a true and proper history of European consciousness from... -
Monstrous Imagination by Marie-Helene Huet 9780674586499
RRP: $68.15$53.92"What woeful maternal fancy produced such a monster?" This was once the question asked when a deformed infant was born. From classical antiquity through the Enlightenment, the monstrous child bore witness to the fearsome power of the mother's imagination... -
Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular by Martin Eisner
RRP: $60.43$38.98Giovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as author of the Decameron, but also as scribe of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti. Using a single codex written... -
Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther by Martin Swales
RRP: $60.43$37.13The tradition of the German novel, before the emergence of its 'classic' writers in the first half of the twentieth century (Thomas Mann, Kafka, Hesse, Musil), does not have an assured place in the canon of European literature. Not that it has wanted for... -
Views from the Inside: Czech Underground Literature and Culture (1948-1989) by Martin Machovec
$22.80From political novels to surrealist poetry and censored rock and roll, Czech underground culture of the later twentieth century displayed an astonishing, and unheralded, variety. This fascinating exploration of that underground movement the historical,... -
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.3: The Songs and Sonets: Part 3: Texts, Commentary, Notes, and Glosses by John Donne
RRP: $148.20$126.77This tenth, and final, volume in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne presents newly edited critical texts of 32 love lyrics. Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have... -
Proust Among the Stars by Malcolm Bowie 9780231114912
$63.59For many, Proust is the supreme European writer of the twentieth century. This book tackles his achievement head-on. Art, death, sex, politics, loss, guilt, morality-Proust's major themes are revealed and explained here. Proust Among the Stars is a... -
Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery by Brian Boyd
$82.13Pale Fire is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece. The novel has been hailed as one of the most striking early examples of postmodernism and has become a famous test case for theories about reading because of the apparent impossibility of... -
Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature by Simon Gaunt
RRP: $85.78$74.37This wide-ranging study explores the ideological framework of genre in Old French and Occitan literature by charting the relationship between ideology and gender in five key genres: the chansons de geste, courtly romance, the Occitan canso, hagiography,... -
Hermann Hesse: Life and Art by Joseph Mileck
RRP: $52.65$41.01"A critical biography far surpassing the previous ones." (Times Higher Education Supplement). "There are to be sure many writers whose biographies are more interesting than their fiction but Hesse is not one of these. He led a long and sometimes eventful... -
Environmental Humanities on the Brink: The Vanitas Hypothesis by Vincent Bruyere 9781503638631
RRP: $42.88$36.64In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amid spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse. The vanitas paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries... -
The Speeches in Vergil's Aeneid by Gilbert Highet 9780691619491
RRP: $101.40$82.17In the Aeneid men, women, gods, and goddesses are characterized by the speeches assigned to them far more than by descriptions of their appearance or behavior. Most of the speeches are highly emotional and individualized, reminding us of the most... -
Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001 by David L. Pike
RRP: $66.30$57.97In Metropolis on the Styx, David L. Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking about, and living in the modern city. Expanding on the cultural history of underground construction in his acclaimed... -
The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism in the French Realist Novel by Jennifer Yee
RRP: $191.10$162.42Nineteenth-century French Realism focuses on metropolitan France, with Paris as its undisputed heart. Through Jennifer Yee's close reading of the great novelists of the French realist and naturalist canon - Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant - The... -
Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation by Rebecca Walkowitz 9780231137515
RRP: $54.60$41.65In this broad-ranging and ambitious intervention in the debates over the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of cosmopolitanism, Rebecca L. Walkowitz argues that modernist literary style has been crucial to new ways of thinking and acting beyond the nation... -
Ovidian Transversions: 'Iphis and Ianthe', 1300-1650 by Valerie Traub
RRP: $54.58$49.74The only scholarly monograph to focus on Ovid's 'Iphis and Ianthe'.Book InformationISBN 9781474448918Author Valerie TraubFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction by Philip Tew
$55.61How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture and national identity, this volume... -
Inventions of the Imagination: Romanticism and Beyond by Richard T. Gray
RRP: $58.48$50.68The dialectic between reason and imagination forms a key element in Romantic and post- Romantic philosophy, science, literature, and art. Inventions of the Imagination explores the diverse theories and assessments of this dialectic in essays by... -
German Women's Life Writing and the Holocaust: Complicity and Gender in the Second World War by Elisabeth Krimmer
RRP: $66.28$59.14This important study examines women's life writing about the Second World War and the Holocaust, such as memoirs, diaries, docunovels, and autobiographically inspired fiction. Through a historical and literary study of the complex relationship between... -
Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siecle Paris by Vanessa R. Schwartz
RRP: $52.65$40.23During the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris emerged as the entertainment capital of the world. The sparkling redesigned city fostered a culture of energetic crowd-pleasing and multi-sensory amusements that would apprehend and represent real... -
Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher 9780231162647
RRP: $58.50$44.50Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a... -
Contemporary Fiction in French by Anna-Louise Milne 9781108468916
RRP: $44.83$44.56Our global literary field is fluid and exists in a state of constant evolution. Contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation; the collapse of the distinction between 'French' and... -
Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation by William Franke 9781009013819
RRP: $44.83$44.56Modelling knowledge as revelation and theology as poetry, this powerful new reading of the Vita nuova not only challenges Dante scholars to reconsider the book's speculative emphases but also offers the general reader an accessible yet penetrating... -
Dante and the Practice of Humility: A Theological Commentary on the Divine Comedy by Rachel K. Teubner 9781009315357
$195.23In this book, Rachel Teubner offers an exploration of humility in Dante's Divine Comedy, arguing that the poem is an ascetical exercise concerned with training its author gradually in the practice of humility, rather than being a reflection of authorial... -
The Divine Vision of Dante's Paradiso: The Metaphysics of Representation by William Franke 9781009016919
RRP: $44.83$44.56In Canto XVIII of Paradiso, Dante sees thirty-five letters of Scripture - LOVE JUSTICE, YOU WHO RULE THE EARTH - 'painted' one after the other in the sky. It is an epiphany that encapsulates the Paradiso, staging its ultimate goal - the divine vision... -
Cervantes the Poet: The Don Quijote, Poetic Practice, and the Conception of the First Modern Novel by Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer 9781316517390
RRP: $165.75$165.67Cervantes the Poet travels from the court of Isabel de Valois to Rome, Naples, Palermo, Algiers, and Madrid's barrio de las letras. Recovering Cervantes' nearly forty-year literary career before the publication of Don Quijote, Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer... -
Scandal on Stage: European Theater as Moral Trial by Theodore Ziolkowski 9780521112604
$128.10New plays and operas have often tried to upset the status quo or disturb the assumptions of theatre audiences. Yet, as this study explores, the reactions of the audience or of the authorities are often more extreme than the creators had envisaged, to... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture by Nicholas Rzhevsky 9781107002524
$123.86Russia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward and outward looking. Its history reflects the tension between very different approaches to what culture... -
Lyric in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne by Ullrich Langer 9781107110281
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