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  • Women and Medieval Literary Culture

    From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century

    Edited by Corinne Saunders, Diane Watt ...
    Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literary texts, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time. Engaging with Latin, French, German, Welsh and Gaelic ... Read more

    $137.79 USD

  • Medieval Romance, Arthurian Literature

    Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Archibald

    by Dr. Michael J. Huxtable, Edward Donald Kennedy, Andrew Lynch, Barry A Windeatt, Ad Putter, Professor Neil M.R. Cartlidge, Venetia Bridges, Dr. Aisling Byrne, Carolyne Larrington, Helen Cooper, Corinne Saunders, Megan G. Leitch, Jordi Sanchez-Marti, A C Spearing ...
    The essays in this volume honour the distinguished career of Professor Elizabeth Archibald. They explore two areas that her scholarship has done so much to illuminate: medieval romance, and Arthurian literature. Several chapters examine individual romances, including Emar**é, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Roman de Silence. Others focus on wider concerns in romances and related works in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts

    Edited by Hilary Powell, Corinne Saunders ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods. In the Middle Ages, these experiences were interpreted according to frameworks that could credit visionaries or voice-hearers with spiritual knowledge, and allow them to inhabit social roles that were as much ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain

    by Amanda Hopkins, Margaret Robson, Michael Cichon, Robert Rouse, Simon Meecham-Jones, Sue Niebrzydowski, Thomas Howard Crofts, Tony Grand, Cory Rushton0, Alexander Davis1, Anthony Bale2, Corinne Saunders3, Jane Bliss4, Kristina Hildebrand5 ...
    This volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain, primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression, the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

    by Corinne Saunders, David Fuller ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine

    Classical to Contemporary

    Edited by David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
    This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victorian, ... Read more

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  • Reading Breath in Literature

    by Arthur Rose, Stefanie Heine, Naya Tsentourou, Corinne Saunders, Peter Garratt ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
    This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a transhistorical literary device. Drawing together scholars of Medieval Romance, Early Modern Drama, Fin de Siècle Aesthetics, American ... Read more

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    Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... Read more

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  • The Wife of Bath

    A Biography

    by Marion Turner ...
    From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few ... Read more

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  • Flesh in the Age of Reason

    by Roy Porter ...
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  • The Woman Reader

    by Belinda Jack ...
    This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring what and how women of widely differing cultures have read through the ages.Jack traces a history marked by persistent efforts to prevent women ... Read more

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  • Medieval Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Elaine Treharne ...
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