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  • Romantic Beasts

    Pervasion, Eccentricity, Exhibition

    de Christopher R. Clason, Alastair Hunt, Pamela Buck, John Gardner, Jane Spencer, Allison Dushane, Kathryn Desplanque, Peter Erickson, Frederick Burwick0 ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    By staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how "human" animals could be and how "animal" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted perplexing animal intrusions upon humans. Sometimes the intruders were mystifying or terrifying, like Coleridge’s albatross or Poe’s raven; sometimes they were mundane, as in “The Swallow” by Smith or ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Passport to Poverty

    The '90S Stock Market and What It Can Still Do to You

    de Peter Erickson ...
    How the Clinton Administration and Fed regulators manipulated the stock market to make the economy appear healthy, when it was not. Multitudes were transfixed by the mirage of a continuing cornucopia, while in the background, internationalist financial interests were helping Red China direct its cheap labor and educated elite first against other Asia countries and, eventually, against the United ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Romantic Automata

    Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms

    de Frederick Burwick, Ashley Shams, Peter Erickson, Wendy C. Nielsen, Erin M. Goss, Kate Singer, Kathryn S. Freeman, Stefani Engelstein, Lenora Hanson, Christina Maria Weiler ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    For most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among the Romantics, however, they prompted a contradictory apprehension about mechanization and contrivance: such science and engineering threatened the spiritual nature of life, the source of compassion in human society. A deep dread of puppets and the machinery that propels ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

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  • The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction

    Edición de Jerrold E. Hogle ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Children's Literature

    A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

    de Professor Seth Lerer ...
    Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter.The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children’s literature in its full ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Context Collapse

    A Poem Containing a History of Poetry

    de Ryan Ruby ...
    **Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom.One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2024**Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet—from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafés of Grub Street and the ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Becoming Yellow

    A Short History of Racial Thinking

    de Michael Keevak ...
    The story of how East Asians became "yellow" in the Western imagination—and what it reveals about the problematic history of racial thinkingIn their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to ... Leer más

    $51.89 USD

  • The Sexuality of History

    Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565–1830

    de Susan S. Lanser ...
    The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch court records, in passionate verse, in the rising novel, and in cross-dressed flirtations on the English and Spanish stage, poets, playwrights, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Fairy Tale

    de Andrew Teverson ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It:explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genreassesses the various methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of fairy taleprovides a detailed account of the historical development of the fairy tale as a literary formengages with the major ideological controversies ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Shakespearean Genealogies of Power

    A Whispering of Nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter’s Tale

    de Anselm Haverkamp ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    Shakespearean Genealogies of Power proposes a new view on Shakespeare’s involvement with the legal sphere: as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law and well able to negotiate legal and political, even constitutional concerns, Shakespeare’s theatre opened up a new perspective on normativity. His plays reflect, even create, "history" in a new sense on the premises of the older ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Specters of the Marvelous

    Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale

    de Kimberly J. Lau, Anne E. Duggan ...
    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    A transformative lens revealing the historical racial context that profoundly influenced European fairy tales.Winner, Chicago Folklore Prize 2025!In stories retold for generations, wondrous worlds and magnificent characters have defined the genre of European fairy tales with little recognition of yet another defining aspect—racism and racialized thinking. Engaging four classic fairy-tale ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus