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A Manual of Sixteenth-Century Contrapuntal Style
Author: Charlotte Smith
This volume explores the expressive power of sixteenth-century vocal polyphony, giving special emphasis to the development of aural familiarity with the style. Every element of sixteenth-century counterpoint is defined, described, and liberally illustrated. Included for analysis and singing are complete compositions and movements by Palestrina, Lasso, Victoria, Byrd, Morales, and Joaquin.
ISBN: 0-87413-327-0 $45.00
The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century England
Author: George Justice
The Manufacturers of Literature explores the effect of the development of the publishing industry upon print culture generally, and literature specifically, during the eighteenth century. The book is structured around case studies of important writers and publishers, including Addison and Steele, Pope, Johnson, Robert Dodsley, and Frances Burney.
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ISBN: 978-0874137507 $49.00
Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing
Author: Jeffrey N. Peters
Mapping Discord examines a series of allegorical maps published in France during the seventeenth century that cast in spatial terms a number of heated aesthetic and social debates. It discusses the convergence of map-making and literary creation in the context of early modern cartographic practice, and demonstrates that the unique language of allegorical cartography raises important theoretical questions about the relations between rationalist discourses of science and the figural designs of imaginative writing.
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, Modern Language Association
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ISBN: 978-1611492408 $52.50
Mapping the Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas
Editors: Kathleen M. Glenn and Janet Pérez
The eleven essays of Mapping the Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas examine the intellectual preoccupations, narrative strategies, and rhetorical devices that distinguish the four volumes of short stories, two novels, the play, and the book of memoirs that Cristina Fernández Cubas has published to date.
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ISBN: 978-1611492712 $46.50
Marginalities: Diamela Eltit and the Subversion of Mainstream Literature in Chile
Author: Gisela Norat
This English-language study examines multiple works by the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit. Written in clear critical discourse, these essays are a practical tool for first-time or hesitant Eltit readers who seek discussion of a particular book and are not familiar with the author's entire production. This study will be beneficial for scholars interested in Latin American narrative, Latin American women's writing, Latin American feminism, feminism in general, comparative literature, women's studies, and culture studies.
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ISBN: 978-1611492057 $43.50
Marlowe's Empery: Expanding His Critical Context
Editors: Sara Munson Deats and Robert A. Logan
This collection of essays on Christopher Marlowe seeks to expand the critical perspectives on Marlowe's poems and plays by bringing together essays that examine diverse aspects of Marlowe's artistry, while simultaneously embedding his poems and plays within their theatrical, cultural, and social milieus.
ISBN: 0-87413-787-X $40.00
A Martyr for Sin: Rochester's Critique of Polity, Sexuality, and Society
Author: Kirk Combe
Rochester's hitherto underappreciated political thinking is reassessed in this study via a combination of postmodern critical approaches, particularly the theories of Foucault with close contextual readings of his works. Substantially new and politicized readings are offered for Rochester's satires, lyrics, prose, and drama-texts both rarely and much studied.
ISBN: 0-87413-647-4 $35.00
Masculinities, Childhood, Violence: Attending to Early Modern Women—and Men: Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium
Editors: Amy E. Leonard and Karen L. Nelson
This interdisciplinary volume includes essays and workshop summaries for the 2006 Attending to Early Modern Women—and Men symposium. Essays and workshop summaries are divided into four sections—"Masculinities," "Violence," "Childhood," and "Pedagogies"—that consider women's works, lives, and culture across geographical regions, primarily in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, the Caribbean, and the Islamic world.
Series: Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies
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ISBN: 978-1611490183 $85.00
Masking and Unmasking the Female Mind: Disguising Romances in Feminine Fiction, 1713-1799
Author: Mary Anne Schofield
This work concentrates on how eighteenth-century feminine novelists articulate the concerns important to women's lives and fates, and argues that these novelists used their romances to combat the controlling ideologies of the age.
ISBN: 0-87413-365-3 $38.50
The Masks of Anthony and Cleopatra
Author: Marvin Rosenberg
Editor: Mary Rosenberg
A sensitive and penetrating analysis, scene by scene, act by act, of this most complex and ambiguous of Shakespeare's great plays, seen through the eyes of both the literary critic and the student of theatrical history. The book also conveys the author's wholehearted enthusiasm for the play and his profound appreciation of Shakespeare's poetic and dramatic genius.
Winner of the Theatre Library Association's George Freedley Memorial Award
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ISBN: 978-1611492781 $80.00
The Masks of Hamlet
Author: Marvin Rosenberg
In this work, Rosenberg insists again and again that only the individual reader or actor can determine Shakespeare's design of Hamlet's characterand of the play. To interpret Hamlet's words and actions at the many crises, the reader needs to double in the role of actor, imagining the character from the inside and observing from the outside. Winner of the Theatre Library Association Award for 1993.
George Freedley Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association
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ISBN: 978-1611491630 $69.50
The Masks of King Lear
Author: Martin Rosenberg
This book seeks Shakespeare's intentions in King Lear in new ways. It explores major interpretations of distinguished actors and directors as well as of critics from England, the United States, France, Norway, Italy, Poland, and elsewhere; and it confronts issues of staging and visualization.
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ISBN: 978-1611491647 $30.00
The Masks of Othello
Author: Marvin Rosenberg
In what Norman Sanders has termed "[a] now classic study," noted Shakespearean Marvin Rosenberg sets out to discover how the complex, troubled characters of the play have been interpreted by actors and critics from Shakespeare's time to the present.
ISBN: 0-87413-481-1 $30.00
The Masque of Stuart Culture
Author: Jerzy Limon
Limon presents an unconventional approach to the Stuart masque, discussing the masque as a form of courtly ritual rather than a truly theatrical performance. As seen from this perspective, the masque is the deepest, most complex, and many-faceted reflection of early Stuart culture.
ISBN: 0-87413-396-3 $40.00
Matched Pairs: Gender and Intertextual Dialogue in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Author: Joseph F. Bartolomeo
By pairing individual novels by women with those by men, the author is able to explore multiple dimensions and implications of intertexuality across gender lines during the formative century of novel-writing in England. Dealing with pairs of novels by Eliza Haywood and Daniel Defoe, Henry and Sarah Fielding, Samuel Richardson and Charlotte Lenox, Tobias Smollett and Frances Burney, and Ann Radcliffe and Matthew G. Lewis allows Bartolomeo to describe, analyze, and elevate early women novelists' achievements.
ISBN: 0-87413-799-3 $44.50
Maternal Echoes: The Poetry of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Alphonse de Lamartine
Author: Aimée Boutin
Maternal Echoes examines maternal imagery in the poetry of two French Romantic poets, the increasingly popular Desbordes-Valmore and the critically marginalized Lamartine. Drawing on psychoanalytic theories on the maternal voice as well as feminist criticism, the book argues that both poets find a voice of their own by echoing their mother's voice.
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ISBN: 978-0874137279 $44.50
Maverick Management: Strategies for Success
Author: Al Giacco
Maverick Management: Strategies for Success is the memoir of Al Giacco, the former chairman and CEO of Hercules. The book focuses on Giacco's role in key developments at Hercules, and describes his leadership in the movement to lower taxes in order to attract new jobs to Delaware. It also explains his crucial role in transforming Delaware into the nation's banking capital.
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Series: Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore
ISBN: 0-87413-838-8 $29.95
The Mechanics of Solids: History and Evolution: A Festschrift in Honor of Arnold D. Kerr
Editors: Michael H. Santare and Michael J. Chajes
The Mechanics of Solids: History and Evolution: A Festschrift in Honor of Arnold D. Kerr includes a biography and publications list of Arnold D. Kerr, as well as twelve papers on various topics including contact mechanics, nondestructive evaluation of structures, ice mechanics, stability of structures, engineering of railway tracks and concrete pavements, sandwich structures, biomechanics and biomaterials, fracture and dislocation mechanics, carbon nanotechnology, and applied mathematics.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-991-4 57.50
Medusa's Mirrors: Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and the Metamorphosis of the Female Self
Author: Julia M. Walker
What common ground in the imaginations of these three very different writers produces such paradigms of disempowerment? The author has foregrounded three attempts both to construct and to control the female self; the common ground of the transformative mirror will tell the reader something about the poetic imaginations of the three canonical authors and provide insight into the problems of gender and power and representation in the English Renaissance.
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ISBN: 978-1611491777 $39.50
Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Editors: Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Marina Leslie
The essays in Menacing Virgins delineate the nexus of religious, political, economic, and aesthetic values that produce the Western European myth of virginity and examine how those complex cultural forces animate, empower, discipline, disclose, mystify, and menace the virginal body. The collection includes readings of Icelandic poems, Margaret Cavendish's Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, seventeenth-century dramatic song, and the iconography of Italian wedding chests.
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ISBN: 978-0874136494 $41.50
Merchant Adventurers of England: The Company and the Crown, 14741564
Author: Douglas R. Bisson
This book constitutes the first systematic treatment in English of the preeminent regulated company, the Merchant Adventurers of England, during the early sixteenth century. The author analyzes the symbiotic relationship between the Crown and Company and concludes with a discussion of how war and diplomacy influenced the Company's fortunes.
ISBN: 0-87413-465-X $29.50
Messiah or Antichrist? A Study of the Messianic Myth in the Work of Zola
Author: Anthony John Evenhuis
This new study of Zola seeks to do justice to the strong religious thread that runs through the whole of Zola's work. Messiah or Antichrist? examines the factors that may have induced Zola to embrace the messianic vision and then systematically traces the rejection and eventual readopting of that myth in prose works that span a period of some forty years. This pioneering literary analysis is a new reading of Zola's major fictional writings, especially the best-selling Rougon-Macquart cycle, but it draws attention to the early and relatively unknown late novels as well.
ISBN: 0-87413-634-2 $43.50
Metternich and the German Question: States' Rights and Federal Duties, 1820-1834
Author: Robert D. Billinger
This book discusses Metternich's attempt to turn the German Confederation into a "school of nationalism" for the German princes and shows that Metternich's goal for the Confederation was not Austrian mastery, but European security.
ISBN: 0-87413-407-2 $40.00
Middleton's "Vulgar Pasquin": Essays on a Game at Chess
Author: T. H. Howard-Hill
Here, discussion of A Game is grounded on a thorough examination of the textual witnesses and contemporary reports, some of them new. The essays are substantially revisionist, situating the play in critical, historical, and theatrical contexts. Extensive illustrative and textual appendixes supply information essential to editors and readers.
ISBN: 0-87413-534-6 $45.00
The Midshipman Culture and Educational Reform: The U.S. Naval Academy 1946-76
Author: Todd A. Forney
The Midshipman Culture and Educational Reform examines the effect of educational and professional reforms on the culture of Annapolis from 1946-76. The book includes a thorough survey of graduates from these years.
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ISBN: 0-87413-864-7 $65.00
The Mind's Landscape: William Bronk and Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Author: David W. Clippinger
The Mind's Landscape attempts to present a fresh perspective of twentieth-century literary history as seen through the lens of Bronk's writerly life.
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ISBN: 0-87413-914-7 $53.50
Mirror of Divinity: The World and Creation of J. K. Huysmans
Author: Robert Ziegler
Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book argues that the operation of art-as-mirror is the key to the hidden unity of Huysmans' fiction. The author claims that only the elimination of Huysmans' stylistic distortions enabled his art finally to become faithful and clear.
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ISBN 0-87413-873-6 $62.50
The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Editors: Catherine J. Golden and Joanna Schneider Zangrando
This collection underscores the contemporary relevance of Gilman's analysis of American society, the enduring value of her literary and theoretical work, but also raises questions about the limitations embodied and revealed in her analyses. These essays offer a range of assessments regarding Gilman's mixed legacy—her vision for a truly humane, egalitarian world alongside her persistent presentation of class, ethnic, and racial stereotypes.
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ISBN: 978-1611491876 $39.50
Modern Love: Personal Relationships in Twentieth-Century Britain
Author: Marcus Collins
Private life has altered beyond all recognition during the past one hundred years. Modern Love traces the trajectory of this new model of personal relationships over the course of the twentieth century, from its emergence out of the crucible of the suffrage campaign through its reshaping by the women's liberation movement.
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ISBN: 0-87413-915-5 $45.00
Modern Visual Poetry
Author: Willard Bohn
Devoted to poetry that is designed for the viewer as much as for the reader, Modern Visual Poetry covers the entire twentieth century, from the initial experiments by Guillaume Apollinaire to those by various Concrete poets and members of the Lettrist movement. In attempting to derive a visual poetics, the book concentrates on materials written in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, and Catalan. Through the detailed analysis of selected examples, it examines the theoretical assumptions underlying this fascinating art form. Illustrated.
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ISBN: 978-1611491920 $47.50
The Modest Ambition of Andrew Marvell: A Study of Marvell and His Relation to Lovelace, Fairfax, Cromwell, and Milton
Author: Patsy Griffin
A quasi-biographical, historical, and critical study of Andrew Marvell, this book deals with the specific historical presences and pressures that led Marvell to devise his defenses of "worthy men." Marvell's perception of his role as poet emerges through his reformation of conventional figures and structures.
ISBN: 0-87413-561-3 $35.00
Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles
Editors: Charles Ivar McGrath and Chris Fauske
This collection gathers together the expertise of scholars in several disciplines in order to examine the manner in which financial and economic arguments were expressed in pamphlets, broadsides, and longer works of literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and to assess to what extent the political realities of the day were informed by these debates or, alternatively, shaped the rhetoric.
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ISBN: 978-1611490923 56.00
Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Novel
Author: Jillmarie Murphy
Monstrous Kinships investigates the connection between realist fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth century and the psychoanalytic approach of John Bowlby's Attachment Theory. While traditional Freudian psychology derives from the conventional romanticism of the nineteenth century, Attachment Theory arises from the guiding principles of realism and the veratist's devotion to long-term, direct observation of subject matter.
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ISBN: 978-1611490503 $60.00
Moral Maxims
Author: Franois La Rochefoucauld, duc de
Edited with an Introduction and Further Notes by Irwin Primer
Every major author in the eighteenth century knew La Rochefoucauld's Maximes; Voltaire reported that the French knew these maxims by heart. Now, for the first time, scholars of Anglo-French literary relations can read each maxim in this period translation together with its French original. For added convenience, the editor has also supplied an appendix containing the authentic Rochefoucauld maxims that did not appear in the 1749 translation.
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ISBN: 0-87413-820-5 $39.50
Mutability and Division on Shakespeare's Stage
Author: Yo Jin Ko
This book explores how Shakespeare's plays dramatize the ways in which the struggle with mortality generates intractable divisions within human experience. The author illuminates how different plays uniquely illustrate, for example, the convergence in human affairs of political conflict and conflicting ways of answering life's finitude.
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ISBN: 0-87413-884-1 $43.50
The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early Modern England
Editors: Helen Ostovich, Graham Roebuck, and Mary V. Silcox
This collection of original essays explores the great quests and questions into the unknown that occupied and troubled the early modern world. The topics addressed are in many cases hitherto untouched by modern scholarship. Writings examined include canonical texts of early modern literature and other less familiar works engaged in the transcultural exchanges of their times. Strikingly illustrated with Renaissance art and woodcuts, the book is rounded out with a full index of names, ideas, and themes, making it accessible to scholars and readers with a thirst for the real mysteries of our past.
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ISBN: 978-1611493009 $63.50
The Myth of Apollo and Marsyas in Italian Renaissance Art: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Images
Author: Edith Wyss
The cruel myth of Apollo and Marsyas enjoyed surprising popularity in the Renaissance. Based on over one hundred representations, this investigation explores the intentions with which the artists and their patrons evoke the myth, including Perugino, Raphael and his circle, Giulio Romano, Parmagianino, Bonzino, Tintoretto, and Titian. Illustrated.
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ISBN: 978-1611491678 $69.50
