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  • Unspeakable

    Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11

    by Peter C. Herman ...
    Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11 explores the representation of terrorism in plays, novels, and films across the centuries. Time and time again, writers and filmmakers including William Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Gillo Pontecorvo, Don DeLillo, John Updike, and Steven Spielberg refer to terrorist acts as beyond comprehension, “a deed without a name ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Early Modern Others

    Resisting Bias in Renaissance Literature

    by Peter C. Herman ...
    Early Modern Others highlights instances of challenges to misogyny, racism, atheism, and antisemitism in the early modern period. Through deeply historicizing early modern literature and looking at its political and social contexts, Peter C. Herman explores how early modern authors challenged the biases and prejudices of their age.By examining the works of Thomas More, William Shakespeare, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Theology and Batman

    Examining the Religious World of the Dark Knight

    by Michael Uslan, Armond Boudreaux, Francesco Del Bianco, Stephen Garner, Ryan Haecker, Peter C. Herman, Randall M. Jensen, Katherine Kelaidis, Andrew Kuzma, Drew McIntyre, Rafael Medoff0, Michael D. Nichols1, Michael Anthony Novak2, Joseph Turner3, Joshua Wise4, Vernon W. Cisney5, Wesley D. Cray6, Clint W. Jones7, Christina M. Knopf8, John C. McDowell9, John M. Thompson0, Matthew William Brake2, C. K. Robertson4 ...
    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    Batman is one of the most recognized and popular pop culture icons. Appearing on the page of Detective Comics #27 in 1939, the character has inspired numerous characters, franchises, and spin-offs over his 80+ year history. The character has displayed versatility, appearing in stories from multiple genres, including science fiction, noir, and fantasy and mediums far beyond his comic book origins. ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Milton's Paradise Lost

    by Regina Schwartz, Achsah Guibbory, Jessica Wolfe, Abraham Stoll ...
    Series series Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Milton's Paradise Lost addresses Milton in the light of the digital age, new critical approaches to his poem, and his continued presence in contemporary culture. It aims to help instructors enliven the teaching of Paradise Lost and address the challenges presented to students by the poemâ€"the early modern syntax and vocabulary, the political and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Terrorism and Literature

    Edited by Peter C. Herman ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Concepts
    Terrorism has long been a major shaping force in the world. However, the meanings of terrorism, as a word and as a set of actions, are intensely contested. This volume explores how literature has dealt with terrorism from the Renaissance to today, inviting the reader to make connections between older instances of terrorism and contemporary ones, and to see how the various literary treatments of ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • A Short History of Early Modern England

    British Literature in Context

    by Peter C. Herman ...
    A Short History of Early Modern England presents the historical and cultural information necessary for a richer understanding of English Renaissance literature.Written in a clear and accessible style for an undergraduate level audienceGives an overview of the period’s history as well as an understanding of the historiographic issuesExplores key historical and literary events, from the Wars of the ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • The New Milton Criticism

    Edited by Peter C. Herman, Elizabeth Sauer ...
    The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume move Milton's open-ended poetics to the centre of Milton studies by showing how analysing irresolvable questions – religious, philosophical and literary critical – transforms interpretation and enriches ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

    by M.G. Aune, Bruce E. Brandt, Douglas Bruster, Sheila T. Cavanagh, Alice Dailey, Silver Damsen, Laurie Ellinghausen, Laura Grace Godwin, Anne F. Gossage, Peter H. Greenfield, Jay L. Halio, Peter C. Herman, James Hirsch, Shawn Kairschner, Wesley Kisting, Cynthia Lewis, Todd M. Lidh, Laury Magnus, Robert Matz, Michael McClintock, Joseph M. Ortiz, Margaret Maurer, Meg F. Pearson, Joseph Ricke, Edward L. Rocklin, James M. Welsh ...
    Series Book 123 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    The impetus for this Approaches to Teaching volume on The Taming of the Shrew grew from the editors' desire to discover why a play notorious for its controversial exploration of conflicts between men and women and the challenges of marriage is enduringly popular in the classroom, in the performing arts, and in scholarship. The result is a volume that offers practical advice to teachers on editions ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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    How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration." —Dan Cryer, NewsdayStephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • God's Fury, England's Fire

    A New History of the English Civil Wars

    by Michael Braddick ...
    A brilliantly researched and vividly written history of the English Civil Wars, from one of Britain's most prominent Civil War historiansThe sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were ... Read more

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  • Tyrant

    Shakespeare on Politics

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    **"Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable." —Philip RothWorld-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.**Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

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  • The Tudors

    by Richard Rex ...
    The Tudor Age began in August 1485 when Henry Tudor landed with a small force at Milford Haven intent on snatching the English throne from Richard III. For more than a hundred years England was to be dominated by the personalities of the fi ve Tudor monarchs, ranging from the brilliance and brutality of Henry VIII to the shrewdness and vanity of the virgin queen, Elizabeth I. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD