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  • Christian Worldview and the Academic Disciplines

    Crossing the Academy

    Edited by Deane E. D. Downey, Stanley E. Porter ...
    Series Book 1 - McMaster General Studies Series
    This book--an edited compilation of twenty-nine essays--focuses on the difference(s) that a Christian worldview makes for the disciplines or subject areas normally taught in liberal arts colleges and universities. Three initial chapters of introductory material are followed by twenty-six essays, each dealing with the essential elements or issues in the academic discipline involved. These ... Read more

    $42.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age

    by D. Downey ...
    Series series Palgrave Gothic
    This book shows just how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such as photographs, mourning paraphernalia, wallpaper and humble domestic furniture. Featuring uncanny tales from the big city to the small town and the empty prairie, it offers a new perspective on an old genre. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    by Michel de Montaigne ...
    Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience. He ... Read more

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  • William Shakespeare: The Complete Collection ( included 150 pictures & Active TOC) (AtoZ Classics)

    by William Shakespeare ...
    This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! It comes with 150 original illustrations which are the engravings John Boydell commissioned for his Boydell Shakespeare GalleryThis book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The Comedies of William ... Read more

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  • Susan Glaspell in Context

    American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915-48

    by J. Ellen Gainor ...
    Susan Glaspell in Context not only discusses the dramatic work of this key American author -- perhaps best known for her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" and its dramatic counterpart, Trifles -- but also places it within the theatrical, cultural, political, social, historical, and biographical climates in which Glaspell's dramas were created: the worlds of Greenwich Village and Provincetown ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature

    by Paul Downes ...
    Series Book 173 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature pursues the question of democratic sovereignty as it was anticipated, theorized and resisted in the American colonies and in the early United States. It proposes that orthodox American liberal accounts of political community need to be supplemented and challenged by the deeply controversial theory of sovereignty that was articulated in Thomas ... Read more

    $119.79 USD

  • Narratives of the Self

    Edited by Pawel Schreiber, Joanna Malicka ...
    Series Book 1 - English Literature and Culture in Context
    This book explores the many interdependencies and crossovers between living and writing, or, in more specific terms, between writers’ lives on the one hand and their literary output on the other. Thematically divided into four major parts, the book focuses on different literary concerns and discusses literary works from the 17th century to the present day. The first part approaches the issue of ... Read more

    $60.59 USD

  • Nation and Migration

    The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765-1835

    by Juliet Shields ...
    Nation and Migration explores the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture, moving beyond traditional studies of transatlantic literature that focus on what Stephen Spender has described as the "love-hate relations" between the United States and England. By allowing England to stand in for the British archipelago, ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel

    Edited by Maryemma Graham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the US and Europe address some of the major issues in the genre: passing, the Protest novel, the Blues novel, and womanism among others. The essays are full of fresh insights for students into the symbolic, aesthetic, and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • American Georgics

    Economy and Environment in Early American Literature

    by Timothy Sweet ...
    In classical terms the georgic celebrates the working landscape, cultivated to become fruitful and prosperous, in contrast to the idealized or fanciful landscapes of the pastoral. Arguing that economic considerations must become central to any understanding of the human community's engagement with the natural environment, Timothy Sweet identifies a distinct literary mode he calls the American ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Aesthetics of Democracy

    Eighteenth-Century Literature and Political Economy

    by Craig Carson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers an original and interdisciplinary interpretation of the relation between aesthetics and modern liberal democracy, uniting the fields of art theory with the democratic political philosophy and modern liberal economic theory. The central argument of the books offers an explanation of the theoretical limitations of the contemporary discourse concerning “political art,” while at the ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century

    Seduction and Sentiment

    Edited by T. Bowers, T. Chico ...
    Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field. The contributors model new ways to understand the unexpected roles that seduction stories and sentimental narratives played for readers struggling to negotiate previously unimagined differences between and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD