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The Lab'ring Muses: Work, Writing, and the Social Order in English Plebeian Poetry, 1730-1830
Author: William J. Christmas
The Lab'ring Muses is the first study to bring together a wide range of verse published by laboring-class authors between 1730 and 1830. The book examines a total of sixteen case studies that establish a specifically English tradition of laboring-class poetics.
ISBN: 0-87413-747-0 $55.00
The Languages of Creativity: Models, Problem-Solving, Discourse
Editor: Mark Amsler
Distinguished philosophers of science and scholars in biochemistry and linguistics describe the structure and contexts of creativity in the sciences and humanities.
ISBN: 0-87413-280-0 $32.50
The Languages of Difference: American Writers and Anthropologists Reconfigure the Primitive, 1878-1940
Author: Ronald E. Martin
Exploring the contentions and revisions involving the idea of the primitive in intellectual America of 1878-1940 and the related notions of race, civilization, and culture, this book focuses on the work of several anthropologists and literary writers whose original insight and skill enabled new and more complex understandings of human difference.
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ISBN: 0-87413-904-X $53.50
The Last and Greatest Art: Some Unpublished Poetical Manuscripts of Alexander Pope
Transcribed and Edited by Maynard Mack
Contains facsimiles of the manuscripts and transcriptions of each page of the Pastorals, Sappho to Phaon, and the Epistle to Jervas, among others. The collations made by Jonathan Richardson, Jr., from the lost manuscripts of the early Dunciad are included. All texts are fully annotated.
ISBN: 0-87413-183-9 $85.00
Late Woodland Cultures of the Middle Atlantic Region
Editor: Jay F. Custer
Provides a comparative overview of the late prehistoric cultures that lived in the Middle Atlantic region between A.D. 1000 and A.D. 1600. Regional specialists address issues regarding social complexity, community patterning and organization, social organizations, subsistence (especially the use of agriculture), warfare, and use of storage. Illustrated.
Series: Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore
ISBN: 0-87413-285-1 $36.50
The Later Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Author: Denise D. Knight
This book features 167 of Charlotte Gilman's favorite poems, including some of her finest satirical verse, philosophical poems, nature poems, light verse, and occasional poems. The edition is complete with a critical introduction recounting the history of the volume, explanatory notes, and primary and secondary bibliographies.
ISBN: 0-87413-586-9 $32.50
Law and Authority in Early Modern England: Essays Presented to Thomas Garden Barnes
Editors: Buchanan Sharp and Mark Charles Fissel
This collection of essays honors Thomas G. Barnes, Professor of History and Law at the University of California, Berkeley. It addresses some major issues and themes in English history from the 1590s to the 1840s that have been central to Dr. Barnes's own work in law and authority in the same period. The essays, all written by specialists in the field, illuminate the complex, sometimes conflicted, relationship between royal authority and the law and the impact of both upon the governed.
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ISBN: 0-87413-959-7 $50.00
Leadership in Asia: Persuasive Communication in the Making of Nations, 1850-1950
Author: Robert T. Oliver
An overview of the place of communications in the emergence of the fifteen major nations of Asia into modernism and independent nationalism from 1850 to 1950.
ISBN: 0-87413-353-X $47.50
Learning from Scant Beginnings: English Professor Expertise
Author: John V. Knapp
This case study describes the moves an expert professor makes in a semester-long process of teaching a literature far removed from most undergraduates' experiences in a day-to-day study of an advanced undergraduate course in the writings of John Milton. Employing a "situated learning" model to help explain the incremental growth of students' knowledge and critical skills, Dr. Knapp details how an expert professor teaches complex literary works to undergraduates with no previous exposure to an author's writings.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-026-3 $65.00
Learning from Lying: Paradoxes of the Literary Mystification
Author: Julia Abramson
In Learning from Lying the lens of mystification reveals a singular literary history. Analyses of works by Diderot, Mérimée, and Hildesheimer follow out the cosmopolitan roots of the genre in the Republic of Letters and show how it theorizes literature through practical experiment.
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ISBN: 0-87413-900-7 $42.50
Learning from Scant Beginnings: English Professor Expertise
Author: John V. Knapp
This study focuses on the moves the expert professor makes in a semester-long process of literary teachingof a literature far removed in time and space from most undergraduates' experience and discusses a day-to-day case study of an advanced undergraduate literature course in the writings of John Milton. By employing a "situated learning" model explaining the incremental growth of students' knowledge and critical skills, the author details how an expert professor teaches complex works to undergraduates with no previous exposure to an author's writings.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-026-3 $65.00
Leslie Fiedler and American Culture
Editors: Steven G. Kellman and Irving Malin
This collection of original essays examines and celebrates Fiedler's extraordinary contribution to the national conversation. Divided into three sections, the first section includes an interview with Fiedler himself, while the second section consists of critical analyses of Fiedler's varied work. The third section offers personal tributes from notables including John Barth.
ISBN: 0-87413-689-X $36.50
A Letter to My Love: Love Poems by Women First Published in the Barbados Gazette
Edited with an introduction, afterword, and notes by Bill Overton
This is a critical edition, with introduction, afterword, and notes, of forty-one poems written by one or more women in England and first published in one of the earliest Caribbean newspapers, the Barbados Gazette. The poems are of interest not only for their quality, but because they challenge widely held preconceptions about eighteenth-century verse.
ISBN: 0-87413-746-2 $32.50
Levinas and Nineteenth-Century Literature: Ethics and Otherness from Romanticism through Realism
Editors: Donald R. Wehrs and David P. Haney
Levinas and Nineteenth-Century Literature presents nine essays that reread major British, American, and European nineteenth-century literary texts in light of the post-deconstruction ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-057-7 $63.50
The Library of John Montgomerie, Colonial Governor of New York and New Jersey
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Governor John Montgomerie has often been denigrated for a lack of learning. But the surviving manuscript inventory of his library shows that this estimate of his intellectual abilities can no longer stand. This book reconstructs Montgomerie's library, and is an important contribution to the intellectual history of early America.
ISBN: 0-87413-711-X $35.00
Life After Death: Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen
Author: Karen Bloom Gevirtz
Life After Death shows how representations of the widow in the eighteenth-century novel express attitudes toward emerging capitalism and women's participation in it. Authors responded to the century's instability by using widows, who had the right to act economically and self-interestedly, to teach women that virtue meant foregoing the opportunities that the changing economy offered. Novelists thus helped to create expectations for women that linger today, and established the novel as a cultural arbiter.
ISBN 0-87413-923-6 Forthcoming
Literary Milieux: Essays in Text and Context Presented to Howard Erskine-Hill
Editors: David Womersley and Richard McCabe
These essays range over the fields of Erskine-Hill's own scholarship, from Shakespeare and early modern literature to Wordsworth, evincing in their own procedures and discriminations the influence of his own example: scrupulous care over the handling of evidence, an interdisciplinary impulse yoked always to a prizing of the literary (particularly of the poetic), a willingness to embrace an ambitious argument where it can be supported, a humaneness of temper, particularly in polemic.
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ISBN: 987-0-87413-990-7 $80.00
Literature and the Touch of the Real
Author: David Schalkwyk
Literature and The Touch of the Real offers a critique of neo-Saussurean theories of the constitution of the world through language, or the essential divorce of language from the real. It offers a critical account of the contradictions and omissions of Saussure's Course in General Linguistics; a revisionist reading of Jacques Derrida; and an account of Ludwig Wittgenstein's concepts of "grammar," "criteria," "aspect perception," and language-games."
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ISBN: 0-87413-791-8 $48.50
Literature, Religion, and East/West Comparison: Essays in Honor of Anthony C. Yu
Editor: Eric Ziolkowski
This book pays homage to the comparatist of Chinese and Western literature and religion, Anthony C. Yu, of The University of Chicago. The volume includes thirteen essays on topics such as literary texts and traditions of varying provenance and periods.
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ISBN: 0-87413-869-8 $52.50
Living Art: The Life of Paul R. Jones, African American Art Collector
Authors: Margaret L. Andersen and Neil F. Thomas
This book is a life history of the African American art collector, Paul R. Jones. Living Art chronicles the life of a man who grew up during the height of Jim Crow segregation in Alabama, the son of parents who embraced the dual ideals of racial pride and racial integration and who has become one of the nation’s leading collectors of African American art.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-073-7 $32.50
Lockwood de Forest: Furnishing the Gilded Age with a Passion for India
Author: Roberta A. Mayer
This is the first scholarly book on de Forest. It explores his career in the decorative arts by examining cultural context, material culture, biography, and patronage. Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932) is best known as an artistic decorator with a flair for designs based on the arts and crafts of the Middle East and India. Complemented by sixty color plates and 132 black-and-white illustrations.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-973-0 $49.50
Looking Westward: Poetry, Landscape, and Politics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author: Ordelle G. Hill
Looking Westward is a close study of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from the perspective of the poetry, landscape, and politics of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Wales and the Welsh March. This new literary, geographical, and historical perspective provides a better understanding of Sir Gawain and the virtues he embodies and acquires, and the relevance of these virtues in the turbulence of the poet's contemporary world.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-049-2 $51.50
Lord Byron and the History of Desire
Author: Ian Dennis
This book interprets a number of Lord Byron’s major literary works—Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1813, 1816, 1818), the Eastern Tales (1812-16), “Prometheus” (1816), “The Prisoner of Chillon” (1816), Manfred (1817), Cain (1821), Heaven and Earth (1823), and Don Juan (1819-24)—from a perspective informed by the Generative Anthropology of Eric Gans and the mimetic theory of René Girard.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-066-9 $55.00
Love's Pilgrimage: The Holy Journey in English Renaissance Literature
Author: Grace Tiffany
Love's Pilgrimage explores literary adaptations of the Catholic pilgrimage in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Protestant English literature generally, and pays specific regard to Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, and Bunyan. Its thesis is that while in the sixteenth century, during the early-to-middle stages of the English Reformation, conventional pilgrimages to saints' shrines disappeared from English life (as did the shrines themselves), the imaginative importance of the pilgrimage persisted, and manifested itself in various ways in life and literature.
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ISBN: 0-87413-948-1 $43.50
