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  • Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France

    Mastering Memory

    by Faith E. Beasley ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers, they also served as critics for the literary sphere as a whole. In the second half of the book Beasley examines how historians and literary critics subsequently portrayed the seventeenth century literary realm, which became identified with ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal

    François Bernier, Marguerite de la Sablière, and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France

    by Faith E. Beasley ...
    Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of France’s "Great Century" and the early Enlightenment. Focusing on the salon of Marguerite de La Sablière and its encounter with the traveler and philosopher François Bernier, this book resurrects the conversations about India inspired by Bernier’s travels and ... Read more

    $72.79 USD

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  • Deborah and Her Sisters

    How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage

    by Jonathan M. Hess ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Before Fiddler on the Roof, before The Jazz Singer, there was Deborah, a tear-jerking melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover. Within a few years of its 1849 debut in Hamburg, the play was seen on stages across Germany and Austria, as well as throughout Europe, the British Empire, and North America. The German-Jewish elite complained that the playwright, Jewish writer S. H. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Love and Louis XIV

    The Women in the Life of the Sun King

    by Antonia Fraser ...
    Louis XIV, the highly-feted “Sun King”, was renowned for his political and cultural influence and for raising France to a new level of prominence in seventeenth-century Europe. And yet, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was equally legendary in the domestic sphere. Indeed, a panoply of women—his mother, Anne; mistresses such as Louise de la Vallière, Athénaïs de Montespan, and the puritanical ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Inferno Revealed

    From Dante to Dan Brown

    by Deborah Parker, Mark Parker ...
    Using Dan Brown's book as a jumping off point, Inferno Revealed will provide readers of Brown's Inferno with an engaging introduction to Dante and his world. Much like the books on Leonardo that followed the release of the Da Vinci Code, this book will provide readers with more information about the ever-intriguing Dante. Specifically, Inferno Revealed explores how Dante made himself the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Write or be Written

    Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural Constraints

    by Ursula Appelt ...
    Although the field of early modern women's studies has blossomed in recent years, little attention has been paid to women poets of the period. This new collection is specifically designed to fill the gap, applying new critical methodologies and theories to this group of early modern writers. Write or Be Written also contributes to ongoing debates about canonicity, periodicity, disciplinarity, and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The End of the World

    Contemporary Philosophy and Art

    Edited by Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback, Susanna Lindberg ...
    Series series Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies
    The 'end of the world' opens up philosophical questions concerning the very notion of the world, which is a fundamental element of all existential, phenomenological and hermeneutical philosophy. Is the 'end of the world' for us 'somebody's' death (the end of 'being-in-the-world') or the extinction of many or of all (the end of the world itself)? Is the erosion of the 'world' a phenomenon that does ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Politics and Genre in the Works of Elizabeth Hamilton, 1756–1816

    by Claire Grogan ...
    In the first book-length study of the well-respected and popular British writer Elizabeth Hamilton, Claire Grogan addresses a significant gap in scholarship that enlarges and complicates critical understanding of the Romantic woman writer. From 1797 to 1818, Hamilton published in a wide range of genres, including novels, satires, historical and educational treatises, and historical biography. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • En Garde!

    Swashbuckling Skirmish Wargames Rules

    by Craig Woodfield ...
    Series Book 12 - Osprey Wargames
    En Garde! is a small-scale skirmish game based on the successful Ronin rules, in which small groups of warriors fight each other for honour or riches. Rather than just rolling a few dice, the rules allow players to make tactical decisions about how the models that they control will fight – offensively, defensively, or by applying special skills and abilities. En Garde! covers the conflicts of the ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Modern Print Activism in the United States

    Edited by Rachel Schreiber ...
    The explosion of print culture that occurred in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century activated the widespread use of print media to promote social and political activism. Exploring this phenomenon, the essays in Modern Print Activism in the United States focus on specific groups, individuals, and causes that relied on print as a vehicle for activism. They also take up the variety ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Kipling's Children's Literature

    Language, Identity, and Constructions of Childhood

    by Sue Walsh ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    Despite Kipling's popularity as an author and his standing as a politically controversial figure, much of his work has remained relatively unexamined due to its characterization as 'children's literature'. Sue Walsh challenges the apparently clear division between 'children's' and 'adult' literature, and poses important questions about how these strict categories have influenced critical work on ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Seeking Truth: Roger North's Notes on Newton and Correspondence with Samuel Clarke c.1704-1713

    by Jamie C. Kassler ...
    In the early 1690s Roger North was preparing to remove from London to Rougham, Norfolk, where he planned to continue his search for truth, which for him meant knowledge of nature, including human nature. But this search was interrupted by three events. First, between c.1704 and the early part of 1706, he read Newton’s book on rational (quantitative) mechanics and, afterwards, his book on optics in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD