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  • The Matter of Mind

    Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes

    by Christopher Braider ...
    What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In The Matter of Mind, Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of Descartes' groundbreaking theory to seventeenth-century French culture. He details the broad opposition to rational self-government among Descartes' contemporaries, and attributes conventional links between ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Experimental Selves

    Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe

    by Christopher Braider ...
    Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, Experimental Selves argues that ‘person,’ as early moderns understood this concept, was an ‘experimental’ phenomenon—at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience. Person so conceived was discovered to be a four-dimensional creature: a composite of mind or 'inner' personality; of the body ... Read more

    $76.39 USD

  • Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth

    Hercules at the Crossroads

    by Christopher Braider ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    In his monumental study, Christopher Braider explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines the period of cultural transition called the 'baroque'. For example, Annibale Carracci's portrayal of the Stoic legend of Hercules at the Crossroads departs from earlier, more static representations that depict an emblematic demigod who has already rejected the fallen path of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Proust at the Movies

    by Martine Beugnet, Marion Schmid ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    Film established itself as an artistic form of expression at the same time that Proust started work on his masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu. If Proust apparently took little interest in what he described as a poor avatar of reductive, mimetic representation, the resonances between his own radical reworking of writing styles and the novelistic forms, and cinema as the art of time are ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A Short History of England

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    Chesterton takes a rather romanticised view of the absolute monarchy of olden times and naturally gets increasingly more political as his history nears his own time period of World War I. It's an intriguing look at England written in an engaging style not lacking in humour. (Goodreads) ... Read more

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  • The Monument of Matrones Volume 1 (Lamps 1–3)

    Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women, Series III, Part One, Volume 4

    by Colin B. Atkinson ...
    Series Book 1 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women Series III
    As its compiler Thomas Bentley writes, The Monument of Matrones (1582) is a 'domesticall librarie plentifullie stored and replenished'. This 1500-page book is one of a long line of books of secular prayer reaching from the Middle Ages through the sixteenth-century English compilations of prayer and meditations that grew out of the English Reformation. It is unique because it is addressed ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Christopher Marlowe

    Poet & Spy

    by Park Honan ...
    Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading, teachers, and early achievements, including a new letter with a new date for the famous ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century

    Keats, Tennyson, and Hopkins

    by Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol ...
    Beginning with John Keats and tracing a line of influence through Alfred Lord Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Betsy Tontiplaphol draws on established narratives of the nineteenth century's social and literary developments to describe the relationship between poetics and luxury in an age when imperial trade and domestic consumerism reached a fevered pitch. The "luscious poem," as Tontiplaphol ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Trickster Travels

    A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

    by Natalie Zemon Davis ...
    An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readersAl-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Maximilian I ruled as Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 until 1519. He is perhaps best known for marrying his son Philip to Joanna of Castille, creating the Hapsburg dynasty. This short biography of Maximilian I includes a table of contents. ... Read more

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  • Proust's Cup of Tea

    Homoeroticism and Victorian Culture

    by Emily Eells ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    Proust's Cup of Tea analyzes Proust's reading of various Victorian authors and shows how they contributed to A la recherche du temps perdu. This book proves that British literature and art played a fundamental role in Proust's writing process by citing from the manuscript versions of his novel, as well as from his correspondence, essays and the lengthy critical appartus accompanying his ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Masks of Conquest

    Literary Study and British Rule in India

    by Gauri Viswanathan ...
    A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no ... Read more

    $28.79 USD