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  • Unseen Shadows: Modern Haunted Houses of the United States

    by Erwin Timothy ...
    Prepare to venture into the shadows of America's modern-day haunted houses, where the living and the dead collide in mysterious and spine-chilling ways. Unseen Shadows: Modern Haunted Houses of the United States is an exploration of the paranormal encounters that lurk in the corners of today's society, transcending the boundaries of traditional ghost stories and offering a fresh perspective on the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment

    The Genius of Every Place

    by Kevin L. Cope, Samara Anne Cahill, Stephen Clarke, Greg Clingham, Bärbel Czennia, Stephen DeMaria Jr., Timothy Erwin, Stephen Karian, A. W. Lee, Maximillian Novak0, David Nunnery1, Philip Smallwood2, David Venturo3, Lance Wilcox4, James Engell5 ...
    Seeking to honor and extend the critical legacy of Howard Weinbrot, this volume re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship. The collection is divided into four thematic sections, beginning with a series of chapters offering fresh analyses of Swift, Dryden, Hogarth, and other major authors and artists of the period. In the sections that ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 29)

    by Deborah Kennedy, Angelina Dulong, Mona Scheuermann, Paul Tankard, Christina Ionescu, Leigh D. Dillard, Catherine J. Lewis Theobald, Jeanne M. Britton, Timothy Erwin, Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, Ileana Baird, Yanzhang Cui, Duane Coltharp, Thomas Hothem, John C. Traver, Christopher Trigg, Paul deGategno, Courtney A. Hoffman, Elizabeth Kraft, John Knapp, Gefen Bar-On Santor, Susan Spencer, Greg Clingham, Christopher D. Johnson, Anthony W Lee, Leigh G. Dillard ...
    Series Book 29 - 1650-1850
    Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies of emerging topics to unveil a vivid rendering of a dynamic period, simultaneously committed to singular genius and universal improvement. Welcoming ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • Beyond Sense and Sensibility

    Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth

    by Leslie A. Chilton, Timothy Erwin, Evan Gottlieb, Christopher D. Johnson, Heather King, Rhona Brown, James Noggle, Adrianne Wadewitz, Adam Rounce ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation, critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound questions about the formation of moral identities and communities. Beyond Sense and Sensibility addresses those questions. What authority does reason retain as a moral faculty in an age of sensibility? How ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Textual Vision

    Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture

    by Timothy Erwin ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    A stylish critique of literary attitudes towards painting, TextualVision explores the simultaneous rhetorical formation and empirical fragmentation of visual reading in enlightenment Britain. Beginning with an engaging treatment of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Timothy Erwin takes the reader on a guided tour of the pointed allusion, apt illustration, or the subtle appeal to the mind's eye within a wide ... Read more

    $52.69 USD

  • Reconsidering Biography

    Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson

    by Martine Watson Brownley, Greg Clingham, Timothy Erwin, Christopher D. Johnson, Thomas Kaminski, Myron D. Yeager, O M Brack Jr., Martine W. Brownley ...
    As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over forty-five years, challenged certain adulatory views of Johnson and has continued to raise interesting ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

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  • The Secret Life of Words

    How English Became English

    by Henry Hitchings ...
    "A colorful, thematic history of the English language . . . a fine choice for libraries and a 'smorgasbord' for language aficionados. Highly recommended." —E. L. Battistella, ChoiceWords are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think ... Read more

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  • Translation

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Matthew Reynolds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our languages would be unrecognisable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thought-provoking account of the field, ... Read more

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  • The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited

    by David Lowenthal ...
    The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Being Cultured

    in defence of discrimination

    by Angus Kennedy ...
    Series Book 19 - Societas
    Today culture is everywhere as maybe never before. We read culture reviews, watch culture shows, live in Cities of Culture, and witness the Cultural Olympiad. Government, museums and arts councils worry that we are not getting enough culture and shape policy around notions of art and culture for all. Access and inclusion are in. Difficulty and exclusivity out. In "Being Cultured: in defence of ... Read more

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  • Ugliness

    A Cultural History

    by Gretchen E. Henderson ...
    ‘Ugly as sin’, ‘ugly duckling’, ‘rear its ugly head’. The word ‘ugly’ is used freely, yet it is a loaded term: from the simply plain and unsightly to the repulsive and even offensive, definitions slide all over the place. Hovering around ‘feared and dreaded’, ugliness both repels and fascinates. But the concept of ugliness has a lineage that has long haunted our cultural imagination.In this ... Read more

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  • The Domestic Space Reader

    Edited by Chiara Briganti, Kathy Mezei ...
    Tune in to HGTV, visit your local bookstore's magazine section, or flip to the 'Homes' section of your weekend newspaper, and it becomes clear: domestic spaces play an immense role in our cultural consciousness. The Domestic Space Reader addresses our collective fascination with houses and homes by providing the first comprehensive survey of the concept across time, cultures, and disciplines.This ... Read more

    $47.99 USD