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  • Social Dance and the Modernist Imagination in Interwar Britain

    by Rishona Zimring ...
    Social dance was ubiquitous in interwar Britain. The social mingling and expression made possible through non-theatrical participatory dancing in couples and groups inspired heated commentary, both vociferous and subtle. By drawing attention to the ways social dance accrued meaning in interwar Britain, Rishona Zimring redefines and brings needed attention to a phenomenon that has been overshadowed ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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    by Fredric Jameson ...
    The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, and George Eliot are in the most profound sense inimitable, yet continue to dominate the novel form to this day. Novels to emerge since ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dictionary of Untranslatables

    A Philosophical Lexicon

    Edited by Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, Michael Wood ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters.This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Bestiarium Judaicum

    Unnatural Histories of the Jews

    by Jay Geller ...
    Given the vast inventory of verbal and visual images of nonhuman animals—pigs, dogs, vermin, rodents, apes disseminated for millennia to debase, dehumanize, and justify the persecution of Jews, Bestiarium Judaicum asks: What is at play when Jewish-identified writers tell animal stories?Focusing on the nonhuman-animal constructions of primarily Germanophone authors, including Sigmund Freud, ... Read more

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  • Stealing Helen

    The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective

    by Lowell Edmunds ...
    It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story’s best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth—the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern of the abducted beautiful wife and makes a detailed comparison with the Helen of Troy myth. Lowell ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Alice Sutcliffe

    Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 7

    by Patrick Cullen ...
    Series Book 1 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I
    Alice Sutcliffe was married in 1624 (her birth and death dates are not known, nor her exact marriage date) to John Sutcliffe who was Esquire to the Body of James I. He later became Groom of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Chamber at the Court of Charles I and it is suggested by some of her writings that Alice also had a role at Court. Meditations of Man’s Mortalitie consists of six prose ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Defences of Women: Jane Anger, Rachel Speght, Ester Sowernam and Constantia Munda,

    Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 4

    by Susan Gushee O'Malley ...
    Series Book 1 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I
    Jane Anger her Protection for Women A Mouzell for Melastomus Ester hath hang’d Haman The Worming of a mad Dogge Of the many tracts in defence of women published in early modern England only these four bear women’s names. All four were written in response to misogynist attacks. Of these writers, only Speght (1597-c.1630) is historically identifiable. Two or possibly three of the others use ... Read more

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  • Fatherhood, Authority, and British Reading Culture, 1831-1907

    by Melissa Shields Jenkins ...
    During a period when the idea of fatherhood was in flux and individual fathers sought to regain a cohesive collective identity, debates related to a father’s authority were negotiated and resolved through competing documents. Melissa Shields Jenkins analyzes the evolution of patriarchal authority in nineteenth-century culture, drawing from extra-literary and non-narrative source material as well ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Eleanor Davies

    Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 3

    by Teresa Feroli ...
    Series Book 2 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I
    Little is known of the upbringing of Lady Eleanor Davies, what is known is that her life was mired in both flamboyant personal conflict and in the notoriety of the Castlehaven scandal (resulting in the execution of her brother), and that her writings were embroiled in political affairs. Married in 1609 to Sir John Davies, her husband tried to discourage her prophetic writing and burned her early ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Possessed Victorians

    Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writings

    by Sarah A. Willburn ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    In her absorbing study of nineteenth-century mystical writings, Sarah Willburn formulates a new conception of individualism that offers a fresh look at Victorian subjectivity. Drawing upon extensive archival work in the British Library, Willburn analyzes séance accounts, novels about mediumship, and metaphysical treatises to make important connections between contemporary writings on mysticism and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Anne Cooke Bacon

    Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 1

    by Valerie Wayne ...
    Series Book 2 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I
    Anne Cooke Bacon was highly educated and was known for her ability to read Latin, Greek, Italian and French. She married Sir Nicholas Bacon, Queen’s Keeper of the Great Seal and a member of Elizabeth’s Privy Council. The directions of the new Church of England were heavily influenced by her husband and Anne too was actively involved in the religious controversies of her day, her translations ... Read more

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  • Textual Exposures

    Photography in Twentieth Century Latin American Narrative Fiction

    by Dan Russek ...
    Series Book 11 - Latin American and Caribbean Studies
    Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography's powers and limitations, and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated in fictional form the conventions and assumptions of this medium. While the book is essentially a study of literary ... Read more

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