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Boudica and Her Stories: Narrative Transformations of a Warrior Queen מאת Carolyn D. Williams This book begins with a study of the few ancient texts which provide the source material for all subsequent accounts of the seventh-century British queen Boudica and her ferocious yet ultimately unsuccessful rebellion against the Romans. It shows how their information was assembled over centuries to...

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Shakespeare in Shorthand: The Textual Mystery of King Lear מאת Adele Davidson The year 2008 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the first publication of "King Lear", and for four centuries the play has remained a consummate bibliographical mystery. Winner of the 2007 Jay L. Halio prize for best manuscript in Shakespeare studies, "Shakespeare in Shorthand" demonstrates tha...

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The Time Is Out Of Joint: Skepticism In Shakespeare's England מאת Benjamin Bertram The final decades of the sixteenth century brought tumultuous change in England. Bitter disputes concerning religious reformation divided Catholics and Protestants, radical reformers, and religious conservatives. The Church of England won the loyalty of many, but religious and political dissent cont...

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The School for Widows מאת Clara Reeve Clara Reeve's 1791 novel tells the stories of childhood friends Frances Darnford and Rachel Strictland, both of whom have lived hard lives as the virtuous wives of improvident and immoral husbands, and of another tragic widow Isabella di Soranzo. The introduction to this new edition of Reeve's novel...

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The Culture Of Epistolarity: Vernacular Letters And Letter Writing In Early Modern England, 1500-1700 מאת Gary Schneider This book is an extensive investigation of letters and letter writing across two centuries, focusing on the sociocultural function and meaning of epistolary writing - letters that were circulated, were intended to circulate, or were perceived to circulate within "the culture of epistolarity" in earl...

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Creek Walking: Growing Up in Delaware in the 1950s (Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore) מאת Jacqueline Jones This is both the story of a little girl growing up in Christiania, Delaware, in the 1950s and the history of an American crossroads. Wedged between two dramatically different extended famiiles, she tries to make sense of the social signifiers that crosscut even this tiny village in New Castle County...

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Hysteria, Hypnotism, the Spirits, and Pornography: Fin-de-Siecle Cultural Discourse in the Decadent Raschilde מאת Michael R. Finn This book explores the life and fiction of the French decadent writer Rachilde (pen name of Marguerite Eymery), using her as a case study to examine the impact late nineteenth-century theories about female hysteria, medical hypnotism, mediums, and spiritualism had on the female creative psyche. It i...

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Into Print: The Production of Female Authorship in Early Modern France מאת Leah L. Chang In Into Print Leah Chang explores how market tensions, the intellectual and financial interests of printers, editors, and writers, the material features of printed volumes, as well as the content of the text helped shape the idea of female authorship in sixteenth and early seventeenth-centu...

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The Aesthetics of the "Beyond": Phantasm, Nostalgia, and the Literary Practice in Contemporary China מאת Jianguo Chen This book is about an alternative mode of reading, thinking, and representing the intricacies of human experience in Chinese literature of the late twentieth century, which the author calls the aesthetics of the 'beyond.' It investigates how contemporary Chinese writers, by means of dynamic interfac...

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Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity, and Individualism in Eighteenth-Century English Prints (Studies in Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture) מאת Amelia Rauser This book is the first to examine the meaning encoded in the very form of caricature, a form of popular and polemical visual art that burst suddenly on the scene in late eighteenth-century England, and to explain its rise as a consequence of the emergence of modernity, especially the modern self. Ca...

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Lord Byron and the History of Desire מאת Ian Dennis "Lord Byron and the History of Desire" uses Eric Gans' 'generative anthropology' and Rene Girard's theory of imitative desire to interpret Byron's major literary works. It argues that the poet learned something about centrality, identity, and desire through the course of his career, and was able to ...

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Spenser's Ovidian Poetics מאת M. L. Stapleton No history of the longstanding critical tradition of exploring the Spenser-Ovid relationship has been written. In this book Professor Stapleton constructs such a critical history: the annotations of E. K. in "The Shepheardes Calender" (1579), the Enlightenment editions of "The Faerie Queene", the ph...

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Trains and Technology: The American Railroad in the Nineteenth Century : Track and Structures Anthony J. Bianculli

Trains and Technology: The American Railroad in the Nineteenth Century : Track and Structures מאת Anthony J. Bianculli The radial prophets of the English civil wars were fascinating figures, combining a devout belief in the power of divine inspiration with a passionate desire for social change and a distinctly eccentric rhetorical style. Tracing the prophets who rant, rage, and wreak havoc through the works of Butle...

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Organizing, Role Enactment, and Disaster: A Structural Theory Gary A. Kreps

Organizing, Role Enactment, and Disaster: A Structural Theory מאת Gary A. Kreps

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Notes and Remembrances, 1871-1872 מאת Ludovic Halevy This is an eyewitness account of the brutal ending of the civil war in France in 1871; the military destruction of the Commune of Paris by the national government in Versailles; and, the subsequent legal judgments rendered against the insurgents. Ludovic Halevy, better known as a librettist and nove...

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A Place In The Story: Servants And Service In Shakespeare's Plays מאת Linda Anderson This book explores the virtues Shakespeare made of the cultural necessities of servants and service. Although all of Shakespeare's plays feature servants as characters, and many of these characters play prominent roles, surprisingly little attention has been paid to them or to the concept of service...

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Ouida the Phenomenon: Evolving Social, Political, and Gender Concerns in Her Fiction מאת Natalie Schroeder This first full-length study of the works of best-selling Victorian novelist Ouida (Marie Louise Rame) examines the evolution of social, political, and gender issues in Ouida's fiction, from her 'high society' romances of the 1860s to her satirical exposes of contemporary society in the 1980s. Schro...

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The Philadelawareans, and Other Essays Relating to Delaware (Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore) מאת John A. Munroe This volume presents a varied sampling of the author's writings from the past sixty years, along with some previously unpublished materials. It begins with a long prologue that the author calls a literary autobiography, and this story is continued and amplified in introductory notes that accompany e...

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Elizabeth Carter, 1717-1806: An Edition Of Some Unpublished Letters מאת Gwen Hampshire This edition includes 111 letters and a brief note. Written by Miss Carter, they date from October 1737 to May 1804, less than two years before her death, they have not been published before and are a very small portion of the thousands of letters that she sent and received. Part of their value lies...

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Bringing Travel Home to England: Tourism, Gender, and Imaginative Literature in the Eighteenth Century מאת Susan Lamb We hold tourism in common as we might a currency or a language. Yet rarely have we thought seriously about how it has shaped our lives, our sense of sexual, religious, political, and social alternatives, or our literatures. This book is the first to identify and examine the circulations and mutually...

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The Art Of The Persian Letters: Unlocking Montesquieu's "Secret Chain" מאת Randolph Paul Runyon Some thirty years after the initial publication of Montesquieu's "Persian Letters" in 1721, the author hinted at the presence of "a secret, and somehow unnoticed, chain" tying together this entertaining, insightful, yet disparate collection of fictional letters to and from two Persian travellers in ...

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Nests of the Gentry: Family, Estate, and Local Loyalties in Provincial Russia מאת Mary W. Cavender This study establishes the deep loyalty of a segment of the Russian gentry to life in the provinces during the period 1820-1860, centering on the family but extending to estates, peasants, and neighborhood society. Arguing against the previously accepted position that the Russian gentry cared only f...

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Wit's Voices: Intonation in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry מאת John R. Cooper This work shows how seventeenth-century English lyric poets were able to control the way that their poetry sounds when read aloud, and thus to influence emotional force and meaning. It begins by criticizing the contemporary treatments of meter. It then gives a theoretical and descriptive account, ba...

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Washed by the Gulf Stream: The Historic and Geographic Relation of Irish and Caribbean Literature מאת Maria McGarrity This is an historically comparative postcolonial study asserting the dialogic relation between Irish and Caribbean narrative form, relating Irish Big House and Caribbean Plantation novels, the 'errantry' of Jocye's and Walcott's epic geographies, and the transition from traditional bildrungsroman mo...

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From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broadway: The Emergence of Women on the New York Stage, 1880-1927 מאת Pamela Cobrin This book examines how women shaped theater and how theater shaped women during the most explosive time in American women's history: from pre-enfranchisement through 1920, when women won the right to vote. In 1880, women had no place in public life and, likewise, few opportunities in theater beyond ...

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Deep Play: John Gay and the Invention of Modernity מאת Dianne Dugaw Examines the emergence of modern self- and social-consciousness in the works of the eighteenth-century playwright...

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"A Dream of Stone": Fame, Vision, and Monumentality in Nineteenth-Century French Literary Culture מאת Michael D. Garval With democratization of fame in the wake of the French Revolution, writers enjoyed ever greater celebrity status. But in nineteenth-century France, the availability and perceived impermanence of such renown cheapened it, and prompted longing for enduring fame, exemplified by monuments - commemorativ...

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Learning From Lying: Paradoxes Of The Literary Mystification מאת Julia Abramson Writers who mystify operate through paradox. Since the eighteenth century, when the term was coined in French, the cycle of temporarily taking in a reader by means of a deceptive text, then deliberately uncovering the fake, has enacted a drama of Enlightenment. Obfuscation reveals trickery, in an ex...

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Heroic Mode and Political Crisis, 1660-1745 מאת Elaine Mcgirr This book explores a cultural language, the heroic, that remained consistently powerful through the social, political, and dynastic turbulence of the long eighteenth century. The heroic provided an accessible and vivid shorthand for the ongoing ideological debates over the nature of authority and po...

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Unlikely Exemplars: Reading and Imitating Beyond the Italian Canon in French Renaissance Poetry Joann Dellaneva

Unlikely Exemplars: Reading and Imitating Beyond the Italian Canon in French Renaissance Poetry מאת Joann Dellaneva This book explores questions of reading and writing practices in the French Renaissance. While the imitation of great masters of the past, such as Petrarch, was a staple of Renaissance poetics, French poets of the mid-1500s, including Saint-Gelais, Du Bellay, Ronsard, Baif, and Magny, often turned t...