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Idle Pursuits: Literature and Oisiveté in the French Renaissance
Author: Virginia Krause
Idle Pursuits examines transformations of leisure in the literature and culture of early modern France. It traces a trajectory beginning with the initial detachment of the "idle condition" from religious contemplation in the thirteenth century, to the birth of the modern contemplative at the end of the Renaissance.
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ISBN: 0-87413-835-3 $48.50
Illusory Consensus: Bolingbroke and the Polemical Response to Walpole, 1730-1737
Author: Alexander Pettit
Drawing extensively on ephemeral plays, sermons, pamphlets, and newspapers that in their own day
were regarded as significant contributions to political discussion, Pettit analyzes the formation
of and the reaction against Bolingbroke's notion of a unified opposition. He argues that much of
the polemical literature of the 1730s responds anxiously to Bolingbroke's notion of a unified
opposition.
ISBN: 0-87413-592-3 $39.50
Imagery and Ideology: Fiction and Painting in Nineteenth-Century France
Author: William J. Berg
By juxtaposing the works of ten major writers and ten painters of comparable stature, Berg explores the various modalities and layers of meaning in nineteenth-century French art, both verbal and visual, and proposes ways of reading the ambivalent artifacts of "modernity."
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-995-2 $52.50
Images of Matter: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Editor: Yvonne Bruce
In Images of Matter, a collection of essays first presented at the Eighth Citadel Conference on Literature, the contributors address the complex relationship between words and images.
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ISBN: 0-87413-894-9 $53.50
Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern
Editors: Lois Potter and Joshua Calhoun
This collection explores the rich literary and visual origins and afterlives of the popular legend. It examines Robin's portrayal as outlaw hero and the significance of his traditional setting in the "merry greenwood," both in England and in the Brandywine Valley that became the Sherwood Forest of illustrators Howard Pyle and N.C. Wyeth. Complemented by thirty black-and-white illustrations and six color plates, the varied essays in this collection should deepen and enrich the study of a figure of seemingly endless variety.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-003-4 $65.00
Images of Shakespeare: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the International Shakespeare
Association, 1986
Editors: Werner Habicht, D. J. Palmer, and Roger Pringle
A wide range of approaches is presented in this collection, among them artists' images of
Shakespeare, Victorian Hamlets, changing images of the protagonists in Romeo and
Juliet, degrees of metaphor in King Lear, and Shakespeare's plays in
performance. Illustrated.
Series: The World Shakespeare Congress Proceedings
ISBN: 0-87413-329-7 $50.00
Imagining Architects: Creativity in the Religious Monuments of India
Author: Ajay J. Sinha
Imagining Architects analyzes a series of unusual formal experiments in a group of
eleventh-century stone temples built in the Karnataka region of southern India, demonstrating a
self-conscious modernity of architects who searched for a new architectural principle in their
design. Reinforced by contemporary inscriptions, the eight chapters of this book interweave
analytical text and vivid illustrations, offering a close, history-sensitive reading of the
moment of deliberate change as the eleventh-century makers themselves might have perceived it.
Illustrated.
ISBN: 0-87413-684-9 $57.50
Imagining Fascism: The Cultural Politics of the French Young Right, 1930-1945
Author: Paul Mazgaj
The role and influence of intellectuals is one of the flashpoints in the recurring debate on the nature and dimensions of French fascism. At the forefront of this debate is a group of emerging writers, collectively known as the "Young Right." Paul Mazgaj's study of the Young Right provides fresh perspectives.
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ISBN: 0-87413-949-X $65.00
Imagining Selves: Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks
Editors: Rivka Swenson and Elise Lauterbach
The thirteen essays in Imagining Selves survey diverse cultural artifacts that include memoirs, histories, plays, poems, courtesy manuals, children's tales, novels, paintings, and even resin from the early seventeenth century to the threshold of the twenty-first. These essays explore relationships between character, context, and text, and engage genres from realism to magic realism, and geographies from England, America, Afghanistan, and Spain.
ISBN: 978-0-87413-012-6 Forthcoming
The Impact of Art on French Literature: From de Scudéry to Proust
Author: Helen Osterman Borowitz
This book traces a direct line of tradition that unites the French précieux novel, Romantic and
Symbolist literature, and Proust's novel cycle. Illustrated.
ISBN: 0-87413-249-5 $45.00
Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire
Author: Peter Cosgrove
This fresh and lucid look at narrative and history also presents a new perspective on the
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that should give an impetus to Gibbon studies.
Cosgrove's book advances the bold thesis that the domain of intertextuality pervades historians'
use of the archives in their own employment. Impartial Stranger probes beneath the
uniform surface of Gibbon's work to reveal the mosaic of romance, epic, and ancient history that
tessellates the famous ironic prose.
ISBN: 0-87413-658-X $43.50
Impotent Fathers: Patriarchy and Demographic Crisis in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Author: Brian McCrea
This book is the first major study to apply recent research on population history to issues of
patriarchy, property, and gender in the early English novel. Impotent Fathers argues
that the absence of patriarchal power shapes the lives of characters otherwise as different as
Joseph Andrews, Roderick Random, and Clarissa Harlow. In novels by Fielding and Burney, Smollett
and Inchbald, Defoe and Lennox alike, the patriarch is an impaired, frequently absent figure—one
whose power must be represented, as it is in seventeenth-century legal writing, by a woman.
ISBN: 0-87413-656-3 $39.50
In Iberia and Beyond: Hispanic Jews Between Cultures. Proceedings of a Symposium to Mark the
Five Hundredth Anniversary of the Expulsion of Spanish Jewry
Editor: Bernard Dov Cooperman
Topics discussed in this book include government policy toward Jews and conversos, the image and
self-image of Jews and conversos in relation to the surrounding society, the dynamics of Jewish
poetics and philosophy on the Iberian Peninsula, and the role of women in the transmission of
converso identity from generation to generation.
Series: Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
ISBN: 0-87413-601-6 $47.50
In Sickness and in Health: Disease as Metaphor in Art and Popular Wisdom
Editor: Laurinda S. Dixon
The essays in this collection offer an expansive view of how medical concerns have shaped and continue to shape our lives and destinies through the subtle communicative power of the visual arts and their interpretation in historical context. Each author demonstrates how works of art and the imagery of popular culture both reflect and reinforce the power of medical beliefs to define and to limit human behavior, and how art and medicine work together to communicate social directives in support of a perceived common good.
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ISBN: 0-87413-857-4 $60.00
"In the Open": Jewish Women Writers and British Culture
Edited by Claire M. Tylee
This collection consists of essays of writing by Jewish women in Britain, contributed by twelve scholars from the fields of contemporary British literature and Jewish Studies. Between them they cover a range of topics: popular fiction (including romances and lesbian fiction); the "Woman's Novel"; multicultural literature; and post-Holocaust writing.
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ISBN: 0-87413-933-3 $48.50
India's Shakespeare: Translation, Interpretation, and Performance
Editors: Poonam Trivedi and Dennis Bartholomeusz
This is a collection on the diverse aspects of the interaction between Shakespeare and India, a process embedded in the contradictions of colonialism. The essays deal with how the plays were taught, translated, and adapted, as well as the literary, social, and political implications of this absorption into the cultural fabric of India.
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Series: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
ISBN: 0-87413-881-7 $57.50
The Infanticidal Logic of Evolution and Culture
Author: A. Samuel Kimball
This book argues that, because existence costs (the two words are cognates), any living thing must economize—-shift more of its energy costs onto the world, including other living things, than its competitors are able to; that to economize is therefore to engage in exchanges that are sacrificial at their core; and that such economization is infanticidal in its ultimate implications.
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ISBN: 0-87413-952-X $59.50
Infertility and the Novels of Sophie Cottin
Author: Michael J. Call
Sophie Cottin's story, little known to modern readers on either side of the Atlantic, may nevertheless be a perfect case study of a woman's "coming to writing" in post-revolutionary France. This critical analysis of the five major novels she produced in her lifetime explores the crucial connections between Cottin's self-perceived "defectiveness" and her literary production.
ISBN: 0-87413-807-8 $35.00
The Inlander: Life and Work of Charles Burchfield, 1893-1967
Author: John I. H. Baur
Examines Burchfield's art as the culmination of a vein of pantheism that stretches from Emerson,
Thoreau, and the Hudson River school to Burchfield's last great watercolors of the 1960s. The
author draws on Burchfield's journal and letters to trace the artist's development. (American Art
Series) Illustrated.
ISBN: 0-87413-186-3 $50.00
Integrating Delaware: The Reddings of Wilmington
Author: Annette Woolard-Provine
This book tells the story of Delaware's most nationally influential African-American family and reflects the story of the American
black middle class in the twentieth century. The Reddings took the lead in integrating Delaware, and played a hand on the national stage, as well.
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Series: Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore
ISBN: 0-87413-784-5 $46.50
Interpreting American Democracy in France: The Career of Édouard Laboulaye, 1811-1883
Author: Walter D. Gray
First situating Laboulaye's career in the context of nineteenth-century French liberal thought
and other influences, this work traces the growth and development of his interest in America
through his lectures at the Collège de France and his major work on America, Histoire des
États-Unis.
ISBN: 0-87413-461-7 $33.50
IntoThe Tunnel : Readings of Gass's Novel
Editors: Steven G. Kellman and Irving Malin
The diverse essays in this volume are an attempt to guide the reader through the prolixities and
perplexities of William H. Gass's The Tunnel, perhaps one of the most significant
American novels published since World War II. The Tunnel both defies and demands
commentary, and will be read as a landmark of postwar American fiction.
ISBN: 0-87413-642-3 $35.00
Invasion and Insurrection: Security, Defense, and War in the Delaware Valley, 1621-1815
Author: Jeffrey M. Dorwart
This book seeks to discover when, why, and how Delaware Valley communities, between 1621, when the Dutch West India Company issued instructions for the security and defense of the Delaware River until 1815, as the region abandoned its Committee of Defense of the Delaware at the end of the War of 1812, first used military force to repel invasion in times of war and suppress insurrection in peacetime. It traces how these mid-Atlantic communities confronted constant threats from real or imagined enemies, invasion and insurrection from earliest seventeenth-century settlement and articulated ideas and built institutions for security, defense, and war.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-036-2 $46.50
InVerse: Italian Poets in Translation, 2007
Editors: Brunella Antomarini, Berenice Cocciolillo, and Rosa Filardi
The InVerse anthology is the outcome of a project that began as a reading of Italian poets at John Cabot University in Rome in the spring of 2005. At the root of the project was the desire to introduce English-speaking audiences and readers to contemporary Italian poetry, since many interesting authors are as yet quite unknown internationally. Every spring the editors invite the poets themselves to read their texts in Italian, while the audience reads the Italian translations. This anthology collects, with facing translations, all the poems read during the two evenings of InVerse 2007.
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Series: John Cabot University Project
ISBN: 978-0-87413-042-3 $30.00
Ireland and Transatlantic Poetics: Essays in Honor of Denis Donoghue
Editors: Brian G. Caraher and Robert Mahony
"Transatlantic poetics" is the principal theme and the constructive burden of these essays. This collection foregrounds modern Dublin, its writers, its universities, its literary journals, its teachers, and critics of English Studies, as well as the contested critical construction of regional and international poetics and cultural politics that emerges from the often tense interaction of local and global literary practices and critical desires.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-972-3 $54.50
The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe
Author: Ian McAdam
This study recognizes Marlowe's psychological instability or uncertainty, analyzed as a version
of preoedipal narcissistic pathology. McAdam illustrates how two fundamental points of
destabilization in Marlowe's life and work—-his subversive treatment of Christian belief and his
ambivalence toward his homosexuality—-clarify the plays' interest in the struggle for
self-authorization.
ISBN: 0-87413-665-2 $47.50
Island of Daemons: The Lough Derg Pilgrimage and the Poets Patrick Kavanagh, Denis Devlin, and Seamus Heaney
Author: Terence Dewsnap
This work compiles the history of the Donegal pilgrimage as presented in historical texts, guidebooks, popular writing, devotional treatises, and newspaper and journal accounts. This material—with its cultural, political, as well as religious associations—provides background for these poets' Lough Derg poems, which relate their own pilgrimage experiences.
ISBN: 978-0-87413-023-2 Forthcoming
Italian Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Editors: Michele Marrapodi and Giorgio Melchiori
These essays present some significant Italian contributions to Shakespeare studies. Expressly
translated and revised for this occasion, they are representative of approaches to Shakespeare
and his contemporaries in Italy and they convey a sense of the vitality and extreme variety of
critical and scholarly attitudes in this field. A historical introduction by Michele Marrapodi
with a postscript by Giorgio Melchiori, and a detailed bibliography, complete the volume.
Series: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
ISBN: 0-87413-666-0 $45.00
The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama: Cultural Exchange and Intertextuality
Editor: Michele Marrapodi
This collection explores the Italian matrix of English Renaissance drama through new, challenging
aspects of influence and rewarding investigations into classical and Italian theatergrams. The
scope of the volume ranges from early Elizabethan to late Jacobean drama, relating at various
stages such authors as Gascoigne, Kyd, and Marlowe to Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Castiglione. The
essays throw fresh light on the study of Classical and Italian intertexts, and break new ground
in the Italian world of the English Renaissance.
ISBN: 0-87413-638-5 $49.50
Itinerant Observations in America
Author: Edward Kimber
Editor: Kevin J. Hayes
Itinerant Observations in America presents a vivid record of life in colonial America that is filled with poetic imagery and realistic and original descriptions of towns,
buildings, and fortifications. This and the complimentary poems Kimber wrote during his American
excursion are highly crafted works. Kimber produced a delightful factual account interspersed
with rhapsodic descriptions of the natural environment and containing a thrilling sea voyage.
ISBN: 0-87413-631-8 $29.50
