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  • Women's Letters Across Europe, 1400–1700

    Form and Persuasion

    by Jane Couchman ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    In response to a growing interest, among historians as well as literary critics, in women's use of the epistolary genre, Women's Letters Across Europe, 1400-1700: Form and Persuasion analyzes persuasive techniques in the personal correspondence of late medieval and early modern women. It includes studies of well-known women (Isabella d'Este, Teresa of Avila, Marguerite de Navarre, Catherine de ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

    by Jane Couchman ...
    Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine women’s lives, ideologies of gender, and the differences between ideology and reality through the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think)

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    Legions of youthful Americans have taken On the Road as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But there is much more to the book than that. In Why Kerouac Matters, John Leland embarks on a wry, insightful, and playful discussion of the novel, arguing that it still matters because it lays out an alternative road map to growing up. Along the way, Leland overturns many ... Read more

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  • In the Name of the Mother

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    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o ...
    Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of critical writing on African literature, politics and society have been highly significant. His best known critical work is Decolonising the Mind, which since publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced other writers, critics, scholars and students.These latest essays reflect Ngugi's continuing ... Read more

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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

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  • Reverberating Song in Shakespeare and Milton

    Language, Memory, and Musical Representation

    by Erin Minear ...
    In this study, Erin Minear explores the fascination of Shakespeare and Milton with the ability of music-heard, imagined, or remembered-to infiltrate language. Such infected language reproduces not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects. Shakespeare's and Milton's understanding of these effects was determined, she argues, by history and culture as well as individual ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion

    Edited by David Loewenstein, Michael Witmore ...
    Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, ... Read more

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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

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  • The Style of the State in French Theater, 1630–1660

    Neoclassicism and Government

    by Katherine Ibbett ...
    Engaging with recent thinking about performance, political theory and canon formation, this study addresses the significance of the formal changes in seventeenth-century French theater. Each chapter takes up a particularity of seventeenth-century theatrical style and staging”for example, the clearing of violence from the stage”and shows how the conceptualization of these French stylistic shifts ... Read more

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  • Environmental Humanities

    Voices from the Anthropocene

    Edited by Serpil Oppermann, Serenella Iovino ...
    Series series Rowman and Littlefield International – Intersections
    This important volume brings together scientific, cultural, literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures.At a time when the narrative and theoretical threads of the environmental humanities are more entwined than ever with the scientific, ethical, ... Read more

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    Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century

    by G. Gabrielle Starr ...
    Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements—the emergence of the novel and the development of Romantic lyric poetry. In fact, recent scholarship reveals that these genres are inextricably bound: constructions of interiority developed in novels changed ideas about what literature could mean and do, encouraging the new focus on ... Read more

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  • A Philosophical Walking Tour with C. S. Lewis

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    by Professor Stewart Goetz ...
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