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  • The Forms of Utopia

    Paradox, Labyrinth, and Recursion in the Renaissance

    by Jenny C. Mann ...
    A new analysis of utopia as a literary form, with recursive patterns that draw from early modern logic and mathematicsIn this ingenious and provocative book, Jenny Mann asks us to shift our understanding of utopia from its politics to its form. Beginning with Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), one of the most influential books of all time, Mann shows that utopia’s recursive patterns—its frames, folds, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Outlaw Rhetoric

    Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England

    by Jenny C. Mann ...
    A central feature of English Renaissance humanism was its reverence for classical Latin as the one true form of eloquent expression. Yet sixteenth-century writers increasingly came to believe that England needed an equally distinguished vernacular language to serve its burgeoning national community. Thus, one of the main cultural projects of Renaissance rhetoricians was that of producing a "common ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Trials of Orpheus

    Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime

    by Jenny C. Mann ...
    A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquenceIn ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled animals, rocks, and trees to obey his commands. This mythic power inspired Renaissance philosophers and poets as they attempted to discover the hidden powers of verbal eloquence. They wanted to ... Read more

    Was $35.99 USD Now $23.09 USD

  • The Archaeology of the Lower City and Adjacent Suburbs

    by Jenny Mann, Alan Vince, Jane Young ...
    Series Book 4 - Lincoln Archaeology Studies
    This volume contains reports on excavations undertaken in the lower walled city at Lincoln, which lies on sloping ground on the northern scarp of the Witham gap, and its adjacent suburbs between 1972 and 1987, and forms a companion volume to LAS volumes 2 and 3 which cover other parts of the historic city. The earliest features encountered were discovered both near to the line of Ermine Street and ... Read more

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  • Finds from the Well at St Paul-in-the-Bail, Lincoln

    by Jenny Mann ...
    Series Book 9 - Lincoln Archaeology Studies
    This report examines the finds from the 17th-century backfill of a well in the churchyard of St. Paul-in-the-Bail. Dug possibly as early as the 1st century, the well lay within the east range of the later forum , and may have been used subsequently as the baptistry of two successive early churches, built some time between the late 4th and 7th centuries. The history and use of the well is briefly ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Heart

    Every Beat Surrendered to Our Unchanging God

    by Julie Manning ...
    What if you were told there’s a possibility you would not be alive to see this afternoon or wake up tomorrow morning? Do you think you would live differently? How would this reality affect every single moment of the life you have been given?Julie Manning was in the middle of giving birth to her second child when doctors noticed an irregularity in her heartbeat. Within six weeks, tests revealed it ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare Studies

    Volume 51

    by James R. Siemon, Diana E. Henderson, J.F. Bernard, Beatrice Bradley, Christie Carson, Christopher D'addario, John Drakakis, Evyan Dale Gainey, Martin Harries0, Brooke Harvey1, Jill Ingram2, Yu Jin Ko3, Hannah Korell4, Unhae Park Langis5, Anna Lewton-Brain6, Julia Reinhhard Lupton7, Jenny C. Mann8, Gail Kern Paster9, Laurence Senelick0, Laura Seymour1, Justin P. Shaw2, Bailey Sincox3, Garrett A. Sullivan Jr.4, Nicholas Utzig5, Denise A. Walen6, Paul Yachnin7, John Yargo8, Laurie Maguire9 ...
    Series series Shakespeare Studies
    Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, but embraces theoretical and historical studies of socio-political, intellectual and artistic contexts that extend well beyond the early modern English theatrical milieu. In addition to ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Politicking While Female

    The Political Lives of Women

    by Robert Mann, Rosalyn Cooperman, Tessa Ditonto, David Andersen, Sylvia Gonzalez, Mirya Holman, Mary-Kate Lizotte, Danielle Lemi, Anna Mahoney, Meghan Kearney, Carly Shaffer, Monica C. Schneider, Jennie Sweet-Cushman ...
    Series series Media and Public Affairs
    Politicking While Female traces the challenges and opportunities that shape the experiences of women who pursue and hold positions of political leadership in the United States. In this volume, Nichole M. Bauer gathers new essays studying the forces that keep women out of political institutions, along with the hurdles faced by female candidates and politicians once they overcome those barriers ... Read more

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  • Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    This entertaining and learned volume contains book reviews, lectures, and hard to find articles from the late C. S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the twentieth–century reader how to read and understand old books and manuscripts. Highlighting works by Spenser, Dante, Malory, Tasso, and Milton, Lewis provides a refreshing update to medieval and Renaissance criticism, and equips modern ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

    Edited by Piero Boitani, Jill Mann ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Homer

    Edited by Robert Fowler ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and modern times. Written by an international team of scholars, it is intended to be the first port of call for students at all levels, with introductions to important subjects and suggestions for further exploration. Alongside traditional ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Arts of Dying

    Literature and Finitude in Medieval England

    by D. Vance Smith ...
    People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory—but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn't due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone is dead is nonsense, as the person no longer is. The one thing that can talk about something that is not, as D. Vance Smith shows in this innovative, ... Read more

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