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Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus by Jane Gallop 9781478001263
RRP: $165.90$144.29Drawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging work to undermine one's sense of self. She challenges common... -
Imagination and Science in Romanticism by Richard C. Sha 9781421439839
RRP: $64.05$57.48Richard C. Sha argues that scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped literary Romanticism. Challenging the idea that the imagination found a home only on the side of the literary, as a mental vehicle for transcending the worldly... -
Downward Mobility: The Form of Capital and the Sentimental Novel by Katherine Binhammer 9781421437606
RRP: $169.05$149.42How do the stories we tell about money shape our economies?Beginning in the late eighteenth century, as constant growth became the economic norm throughout Europe, fictional stories involving money were overwhelmingly about loss. Novel after novel tells... -
Artifacts: How We Think and Write about Found Objects by Crystal B. Lake 9781421436494
$172.26In the eighteenth century, antiquaries-wary of the biases of philosophers, scientists, politicians, and historians-used old objects to establish what they claimed was a true account of history. But just what could these small, fragmentary, frequently... -
Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel by Stephanie Insley Hershinow 9781421429670
RRP: $90.30$80.05The early novel was not the coming-of-age story we know today-eighteenth-century adolescent protagonists remained in a constant state of arrested development, never truly maturing.Between the emergence of the realist novel in the early eighteenth century... -
Harm's Way: Tragic Responsibility and the Novel Form by Sandra Macpherson 9781421429014
RRP: $64.05$57.48A field-defining study of the novel as a tragic form.Sandra Macpherson's groundbreaking study of the rise of the novel connects its form to developments in liability law across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. In particular, Macpherson argues for... -
Writing in Public: Literature and the Liberty of the Press in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Trevor Ross 9781421426310
RRP: $99.75$88.14What is the role of literary writing in democratic society?Building upon his previous work on the emergence of "literature," Trevor Ross offers a history of how the public function of literature changed as a result of developing press freedoms during the... -
Imagination and Science in Romanticism by Richard C. Sha 9781421425788
RRP: $108.15$96.20How did the idea of the imagination impact Romantic literature and science?2018 Winner, Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize, The International Conference on RomanticismRichard C. Sha argues that scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped... -
Word of Mouth: Gossip and American Poetry by Chad Bennett 9781421425375
RRP: $90.30$80.89Can the art of gossip help us to better understand modern and contemporary poetry? Gossip's ostensible frivolity may seem at odds with common conceptions of poetry as serious, solitary expression. But in Word of Mouth, Chad Bennett explores the dynamic... -
Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel by Daniel Wright 9781421425177
RRP: $99.75$88.14How did the Victorians think about love and desire?"Reader, I married him," Jane Eyre famously says of her beloved Mr. Rochester near the end of Charlotte Bronte's novel. But why does she do it, we might logically ask, after all he's put her through? The... -
Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature by Sonya Posmentier 9781421422657
RRP: $90.30$80.05At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or of the destruction and displacement brought... -
Energy Humanities: An Anthology by Imre Szeman 9781421421889
$188.18Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied research. Responding to growing public concern about... -
The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature between the Darwins by Devin Griffiths 9781421420769
RRP: $99.75$88.98Erasmus Darwin and his grandson, Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Although their ideas and methods differed, both Darwins were prolific and inventive writers: Erasmus composed... -
Distraction: Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Natalie M. Phillips 9781421420127
RRP: $90.30$80.05Early novel reading typically conjures images of rapt readers in quiet rooms, but commentators at the time described reading as a fraught activity, one occurring amidst a distracting cacophony that included sloshing chamber pots and wailing street... -
The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS by Dagmawi Woubshet 9781421416557
$77.09His world view colored by growing up in 1980s Ethiopia, where death governed time and temperament, Dagmawi Woubshet offers a startlingly fresh interpretation of melancholy and mourning during the early years of the AIDS epidemic in The Calendar of Loss... -
Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing by Anthony Reed 9781421415208
RRP: $81.90$72.83Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow-era segregation. Histories of African American literature... -
Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary by Brad Pasanek 9781421416885
$97.21An encyclopedic dictionary along the lines of Voltaire's classic Dictionnaire Philosophique, Metaphors of Mind provides an in-depth look at the myriad ways in which Enlightenment writers used figures of speech to characterize the mind. Drawn from Brad... -
Exquisite Masochism: Marriage, Sex, and the Novel Form by Claire Jarvis 9781421419930
RRP: $90.30$80.05How did realist novelists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries hint at sex while maintaining a safe distance from pornography? Metaphors helped: waves, oceans, blooms, and illuminations were all deployed in respectable realist novels to allude... -
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media by Marie-Laure Ryan 9781421412238
RRP: $160.65$144.23The study of what is collectively labeled "New Media" - the cultural and artistic practices made possible by digital technology - has become one of the most vibrant areas of scholarly activity and is rapidly turning into an established academic... -
Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture by Corinne Saunders 9781403921994
RRP: $94.48$94.44This collection of essays explores the relation between literature and madness from the Medieval through to the Modern period. The essays examine how literature represents the experience of madness and cultural responses to it, and how madness may... -
The Emergence of Pre-Cinema: Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination by Alberto Gabriele 9781349958771
$97.21The book investigates the dispersed emergence of the new visual regime associated with nineteenth-century pre-cinematic spectacles in the literary imagination of the previous centuries. Its comparative angle ranges from the Medieval and Baroque period to... -
The Sociology of Literature by Gisèle Sapiro 9781503633179
RRP: $174.30$151.43The Sociology of Literature is a pithy primer on the history, affordances, and potential futures of this growing field of study, which finds its origins in the French Enlightenment, and its most salient expression as a sociological pursuit in the work of... -
Sense and Singularity: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Interruption of Philosophy by Georges Van Den Abbeele 9781531503307
RRP: $52.48$45.51Philosophical thinking is interrupted by the finitude of what cannot be named, on the one hand, and that within which it is subsumed as one of multiple modes of sense-making, on the other. Sense and Singularity elaborates Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophical... -
Framing & Fiction: Studies in the Rhetoric of Novel, Interpretation & History by Morten Kyndrup 9788772884158
RRP: $25.20$23.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772884158Author Morten KyndrupFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical Times by Betty Joseph 9781421446974
RRP: $200.55$176.67How contemporary novels use narrative time to counter cultural homogenization and historical flattening.In From Empire to Anthropocene, Betty Joseph celebrates how contemporary fiction contributes to a novel framing of world literature by playing with... -
Modernism after Postcolonialism: Toward a Nonterritorial Comparative Literature by Mara de Gennaro 9781421439464
RRP: $169.05$149.42A polemical reaction against a trend in global modernist studies which still privileges European and Anglophone texts.Existing studies of literary modernism generally read Anglophone Atlantic texts through the lens of critical theories emanating from... -
In Defense of Secrets by Anne Dufourmantelle 9780823289226
RRP: $186.90$162.16Finalist, French-American Foundation Translation Prize In an age that prizes political and personal transparency, In Defense of Secrets champions the secret as what permits relation and ensures our humanity. Psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne... -
Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms by Jeffrey Bilbro 9780813176406
$57.44For over fifty years, Wendell Berry has argued that our most pressing ecological and cultural need is a renewed formal intelligence -- a mode of thinking and acting that fosters the health of the earth and its beings. Yet the present industrial economy... -
Tragedy Walks the Streets: The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama by Matthew S. Buckley 9780801884344
$101.18Tragedy Walks the Streets challenges the conventional understanding that the evolution of European drama effectively came to a halt during France's Revolutionary era. In this interdisciplinary history on the emergence of modern drama in European culture,... -
Optical Impersonality: Science, Images, and Literary Modernism by Christina Walter 9781421413631
$113.61Western accounts of human vision before the nineteenth century tended to separate the bodily eye from the rational mind. This model gave way in the mid-nineteenth century to one in which the thinking subject, perceiving body, perceptual object, and... -
The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957–2007 by Hayden White 9780801894794
RRP: $116.55$103.43Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph, Metahistory, in 1973, White's work has been crucial to disciplines where narrative is of primary concern, including history,... -
Encountering Choran Community: Literary Modernism, Visual Culture, and Political Aesthetics in the Interwar Years by Emily Hinnov 9781575911304
$209.58This book identifies and describes modernist 'choran community' as a previously understudied key counternarrative to Modernism's engagement with early twentieth-century master narratives. The author uses the term choran community to emphasize the almost... -
The Drama of Storytelling in T.E. Brown's Manx Yarns by Max Keith Sutton 9780874134094
$179.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874134094Author Max Keith SuttonFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher Associated University Presses -
New Species Of Criticism: Eighteenth-Century Discourse on the Novel by Joseph F. Bartolomeo 9780874134889
$186.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874134889Author Joseph F. BartolomeoFormat HardbackPage Count 209Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher Associated University Presses -
The Politics Of Mourning: Grief Management in Cross-Cultural Fiction by Almeida Rochelle 9780838640272
$188.18As international terrorism has become a commonplace phenomenon, a growing body of multiethnic short fiction has turned to depictions of loss and mourning. Characters in short stories and novellas deal with grief in ways that are appropriate to their... -
State, Stage, Language: The Production of the Subject by Juan Carlos Rodriquez 9780874130560
RRP: $94.50$77.18Juan Carlos Rodriguez's "State, Stage, Language: the Production of the Subject", now in its third Spanish edition (2001), first appeared in 1984, and has become, alongside the same author's "Theory and History of Ideological Production" (1974, 1990), one... -
Why Study Literature? by Jan Alber 9788779345515
RRP: $42.00$35.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788779345515Author Jan AlberFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)... -
Information: Keywords by Michele Kennerly 9780231198769
RRP: $193.20$150.80For decades, we have been told we live in the “information age”—a time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such methodologies and... -
Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan by Eric Hayot 9780231197847
RRP: $168.00$129.97Ask just about any humanist, and you will hear that the humanities are in a crisis. Facing utilitarian approaches to education, the corporatization of the university, plummeting enrollments, budget cuts, and political critiques from right, left, and... -
Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond by Matthew Omelsky 9781478020615
RRP: $182.70$159.45Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.