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The Sacred and Profane in English Renaissance Literature
Editor: Mary A. Papazian
This collection of thirteen original essays addresses how properly to define the intersection between the sacred and profane in early modern English literature. Growing out of recent work of church historians and the renewed interest in our own time to questions of how the religious and secular realms overlap, this volume defines anew the tension between the sacred and profane in Renaissance England.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-025-6 $75.00
Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France
Author: Anne E. Duggan
Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies is a study of the works of two of the most prolific seventeenth-century women writers, Madeleine de Scudéry and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy. Analyzing their use of the novel, the chronicle, and the fairy tale, Duggan examines how Scudéry and d'Aulnoy responded to and participated in the changes of their society, but from different generational and ideological positions.
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ISBN: 0-87413-897-3 $53.50
Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer: A Duty to Examine the Labors of the Learned
Author: Brian J. Hanley
Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer provides a comprehensive critical analysis of the forty-seven book reviews that Samuel Johnson contributed to three publications—the Gentleman's Magazine (three reviews), the Literary Magazine (forty reviews), and the Critical Review (four reviews). The emphasis is on Johnson's reviewing technique and the theory behind it. Considerable attention is also given to Johnson's practices as they relate to competing reviews published in other journals.
ISBN: 0-87413-736-5 $43.50
Samuel Johnson's "General Nature": Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse
Author: Scott D. Evans
This study illuminates the importance and meaning of the term "author" in eighteenth-century discourse from the perspective of its prominent usage by Samuel Johnson. It explains Johnson's employment of "nature" in his periodical essays, his qualified endorsement of the new science, and his commendation of Shakespeare's drama and other literary works on the basis of their "just representation of general nature."
ISBN: 0-87413-696-2 $32.50
Satire, History, Novel: Narrative Forms, 1665-1815
Author: Frank Palmeri
Displacing the novel from the central position it has held in studies concerned with the origin or rise of the English novel, Satire, History, Novel considers novelistic forms as part of a network of complementary and competing genres, including conjectural histories and narrative satires, and regards relations among these forms as most significant and revealing.
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ISBN: 0-87413-829-9 $62.50
Savage Indignation: Colonial Discourse from Milton to Swift
Author: Maja-Lisa von Sneidern
Savage Indignation is about a flexible and indiscriminate discourse during the window of license occurring between the end of an English divine polity (1649) and the emergence of science as arbiter of "true discourse" (ca. 1734). Rather than tracing the development of the expedient language of empire and ideological success, the book analyzes the resistance and the waste that are integral to that spectacle of the bourgeois progress.
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ISBN: 0-87413-882-5 $42.50
The School for Widows
Author: Clara Reeve
Editor: Jeanine M. Casler
Clara Reeve's 1791 epistolary novel The School For Widows 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 challenges accepted critical views of Reeve's writing and includes newly unearthed material about the author's life.
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ISBN: 0-87413-804-3 $60.00
Science, Rationality, and Neoclassical Economics
Author: Lance Keita
This work examines the claim to scienific status made by supporters and practitioners of neoclassical economics. The approach taken is that of the history and philosophy of science. Analysis points to the conclusion that theories of economic choice are necessarily normative, essentially because of the nature of human behavior.
ISBN: 0-87413-410-2 $35.00
Screening Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V
Author: Ace G. Pilkington
This book applies the videocassette to the study of Shakespeare on television and film. The result is that the films become texts, and Shakespeare in performance can be examined with the scholarly care that has been reserved for printed books.
ISBN: 0-87413-412-9 $39.50
The Sculpture and Sculptors of Yazilikaya
Author: Robert L. Alexander
About 100 miles east of the modern Turkish capital, Ankara, the Hittites created their largest surviving sanctuary within the group of huge, outcropping rocks known as Yazilikaya. About 90 figures of deities from the sanctuary still survive after some 35 centuries. This book is the first to present a stylistic study and establish a relative chronology for all the reliefs of Yazilikaya. Illustrated.
ISBN: 0-87413-279-7 $39.50
Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity
Author: Floyd Collins
This book traces Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's development as a poet, from his first book of poetry through his most recent, Electric Light. Each chapter examines a particular phase of Heaney's poetic career, with close, careful readings of those poems that best dramatize his crisis of identity.
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ISBN: 0-87413-805-1 $47.50
The Selected Letters of Robert Bridges
Editor: Donald E. Stanford
This edition contains over one thousand letters, most of them previously unpublished, by Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England from 1913 to 1930. These were written to his large and distinguished circle of friends, which included prominent scholars, poets, teachers, world travelers, and artists. There are many discussions of Bridges's own poetry, his theories of prosody, and his criticism that should lead to a greater understanding of his work. Illustrated.
ISBN: 0-87413-177-4 (v. 1)
ISBN: 0-87413-204-5 (v. 2) $85.00 per volume
Separate Theaters: Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean Stage
Author: Ken Jackson
The popular and academic understanding of the relationship between London's notorious psychiatric hospital, Bethlem, and the stage is that the hospital was some sort of theater, a place of perverse and fashionable entertainment, where the mad were shown to "vistors." But the dominant assumption that the stage depicted this institution and practice to tantalize "primitive" elements in its audience distorts both the complexity of the show of Bethlem, which had a very complicated charitable function, and the development of representational dramatic art.
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ISBN: 0-87413-890-6
Settlements in the Americas: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Editor: Ralph Bennett
The eleven papers that comprise this volume were presented at the University of Maryland symposium, "Settlements in the Americas: Cross-Cultural Perspectives." A range of interests was represented—architects and city planners joined historians in an effort to share very different insights into the history, form, and operation of New World settlements. Topics range from operational urban design to political history.
Series: Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
ISBN: 0-87413-411-0 $45.00
Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle: The Making of a "Central Problem"
Editors: Peter Cryle and Christopher E. Forth
It has come to be widely accepted that "sexuality" as we know it took shape at the end of the nineteenth century, around the time that Havelock Ellis declared it the "central problem of life." Yet however self-evident Ellis's claim about sexuality might seem, the act of placing something at the center is the consequence of insistent cultural work that engages with competing views about bodies and indeed about the "life" of society. This volume explores how habits of thinking about the centrality of sex were articulated, how they engaged with pre-existing approaches to personal identity, and what competing discourses had to be displaced in order for sexuality to become as central as sexologists claimed it was.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-037-9 $50.00
Shakespeare: A Wayward Journey
Author: Susan Snyder
The essays contained in this volume represent studies in Shakespeare over three decades. Apart from their abiding intrinsic interest and merit, they help trace the course of Shakespeare criticism during the latter half of the twentieth century, as emphasis on critical interpretation experienced a number of significant shifts. Genre studies, textual analyses, and feminist approaches are all represented here, along with three new essays never before published on The Winter's Tale and The Taming of the Shrew.
ISBN: 0-87413-795-0 $44.50
Shakespeare and Dramatic Tradition: Essays in Honor of S. F. Johnson
Editors: W. R. Elton and William B. Long
Eighteen new essays by respected critics on Shakespeare and his dramatic antecedents, contemporaries, and successors, offering an up-to-date survey-history of Renaissance theater and examples of scholarly and critical methodology.
ISBN: 0-87413-333-5 $42.50
Shakespeare and European Politics
Editors: Dirk Delabastita, Jozef De Vos, and Paul J. C. M. Franssen
This collection offers a selection of papers presented at a conference held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It reflects a new trend in Shakespeare studies: a tendency to study Shakespeare not just in his own historical or national contexts, but also as a cultural phenomenon with an international afterlife, transmitted in a variety of languages, first of all in Europe.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-004-1 $85.00
Shakepeare and His Contemporaries: Eastern and Central European Studies
Editors: Jerzy Limon and Jay L. Halio
This volume brings together some of the best critical work produced by Eastern and Central European scholars. The essays focus almost entirely upon Shakespeare's plays and cover topics such as the development of Shakespearean tragedy, a Hungarian reading of Measure for Measure, subjectivity and dramatic discourse in The Tempest, and Czech theatrical criticism.
Series: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
ISBN: 0-87413-475-7 $39.50
Shakespeare and Scandinavia: A Collection of Nordic Studies
Editor: Gunnar Sorelius
This anthology of essays offers a survey of the Scandinavian involvement with Shakespeare in different periods. The introduction is concerned with the place of Shakespeare in Scandinavian culture and theater generally. The particular essays range from August Strindberg's very personal relationship to a dramatist who deeply influenced his own drama to examples of how Shakespeare was used on the stage in the Second World War and during the Cold War years. Other essays deal with subjects such as Othello's color, the geography of Hamlet, and the contradictory loose ends, as well as the architectonic quality of some of the dramas.
Series: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
ISBN: 0-87413-806-X $44.50
Shakespeare and the Mediterranean: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Conference, Valencia, 2001
Editors: Tom Clayton, Susan Brock, and Vicente Forés
Shakespeare's career-long fascination with the Mediterranean made the association a natural one for this first World Shakespeare Congress of the Third Millennium. The plenary lectures and selected papers in this volume represent some of the best contemporary thought and writing on Shakespeare.
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Series: The World Shakespeare Congress Proceedings
ISBN: 0-87413-816-7 $60.00
Shakespeare and the Practice of Physic: Medical Narratives on the Early Modern English Stage
Author: Todd H. J. Pettigrew
Going beyond the usual questions posed about Shakespeare and medicine, this study explores Shakespeare's response to the early modern struggle for control of English medical practice. It does not rehearse the fundamentals of early modern medical thought such as the humoral system that have been more than adequately covered numerous times elsewhere. Instead, it undertakes a reading of popular English medical tracts in an effort to reconstruct the terms in which medical practitioners of all kinds were understood.
Winner of the first Jay L. Halio Prize in Shakespeare
and Early Modern Studies
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ISBN 0-87413-951-1 $43.50
Shakespeare and the Sense of Performance: Essays in the Tradition of Performance Criticism in Honor of Bernard Beckerman
Editors: Marvin and Ruth Thompson
In the tradition of performance criticism represented by the late Professor Bernard Beckerman of Columbia University, seventeen distinguished critics consider Shakespeare's plays from the perspectives of stage and study, as they focus on language, text, subtext, stage and stage imagery, actors, and audience.
ISBN: 0-87413-332-7 $40.00
Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Los Angeles, 1996
Editors: Jonathan Bate, Jill Levenson, and Dieter Mehl
This volume assembles a selection from the many papers delivered at the Sixth World Shakespeare Congress. Four plenary lectures are printed, including that of Jane Smiley on the creation of A Thousand Acres, her award-winning novel derived with King Lear. Twenty-two papers by well-known scholars also offer a wide range of responses to Shakespeare's art and international assessment of his presence in the world at the end of the twentieth century.
Series: The World Shakespeare Congress Proceedings
ISBN: 0-87413-652-0 $57.50
Shakespeare, Harsnett, and the Devils of Denham
Author: F. W. Brownlow
Part 1 of this book provides an annotated edition of Samuel Harsnett's famous attack on the practice of exorcism, which had a profound influence upon Shakespeare's conception and writing of King Lear. Part 2 explores the context of Shakespeare's reading of Harsnett's book.
ISBN: 0-87413-436-6 $49.50
Shakespeare in Performance: A Collection of Essays
Editor: Frank Occhiogrosso
The essays in this book deal with the nature of performance criticism, performance history, stage and screen productions of Shakespeare, and the physical playhouse. These essays, by John Russell Brown, James Bulman, Ralph Berry, Herbert Coursen, Jay Halio, James Lusardi, June Schlueter, Harry Keyishian, Alan Dessen, Pauline Kiernan, and Marvin Rosenberg, represent some of the best current thinking on the roles of performance in criticism of Shakespeare.
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ISBN: 0-87413-776-4 $37.50
Shakespeare, Man of the Theater: Proceedings of the Second Congress of the International Shakespeare Association, 1981
Editors: Kenneth Muir, Jay L. Halio, and D. J. Palmer
This volume presents a sampling of the more than 250 papers presented at the Congress of the ISA held at Stratford-upon-Avon in August 1981. Most of the papers are concerned with Shakespeare as a writer for the theater. Other essays deal with Shakespeare as a literary, rather than theatrical, writer. Several of the offerings cover subjects usually neglected, and develop fresh insight into his work. Illustrated.
Series: The World Shakespeare Congress Proceedings
ISBN: 0-87413-217-7 $38.50
Shakespeare Matters: History, Teaching, Performance
Editor: Lloyd Davis
Shakspeare Matters is a collection of original essays which addresses three significant areas in contemporary Shakespeare studies: interpretations of the plays in their historical and social contexts; the varying roles of Shakespeare's work in educational practices and traditions; and performance conventions and textual issues from the sixteenth century to the present.
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ISBN: 0-87413-790-X $55.00
Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R. A. Foakes
Editor: Grace Ioppolo
Many of the contributors to this collection, including E. A. J. Honigmann, M. M. Mahood, Jonathan Bate, and Stanley Wells (among others), have been centrally involved in examining, promoting, and sometimes questioning the critical dominance of the stable Shakespeare text, particularly as a result of performance. The essays range from the traditional poetical and theater history inquiries through bibliographical examinations and hermeneutical interpretations.
ISBN: 0-87413-732-2 $47.50
Shakespeare: World Views
Editors: Heather Kerr, Madge Mitton, and Robin Eaden
Shakespeare: World Views contains fifteen papers selected from the proceedings of the second conference of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association. Postcolonial and postmodern, political and theatrical, the papers range widely across a plurality of geographical, historical, and theoretical locations.
ISBN: 0-87413-565-6 $39.50
Shakespearean Illuminations: Essays in Honor of Marvin Rosenberg
Editors: Jay L. Halio and Hugh Richmond
Topics in this collection include discussions of acting the "Big Four," as well as studies on politics, language, and history. Contributors include Bernice Kliman, Günter Walch, Lois Potter, and Dunbar Ogden.
ISBN: 0-87413-657-1 $57.50
Shakespearean Narrative
Author: R. Rawdon Wilson
This book explores the variety and purposes of narrative in Shakespeare's plays. The author relates Shakespeare's understanding of narrative in the plays to the brilliant narrative poems that he wrote in the early 1590s, and examines the conventions that are used in the embedded, or inset, narratives in plays.
ISBN: 0-87413-525-7 $46.50
Shakespeare's Comedies: From Roman Farce to Romantic Mystery
Author: Robert Ornstein
Demonstrates the evolution of Shakespeare's art, and similarities of dramatic theme and artistic practice that connect Shakespeare's earliest romantic comedies to his dark comedies and his late romances. New light is shed on such issues as the "unsatisfactory" endings of many of the comedies, the troubling fates of "scapegoat" figures like Shylock and Malvolio, and elements of sadness in these plays.
ISBN: 0-87413-541-9 $17.95 (paper)
Shakespeare's Courtly Mirror: Reflexivity and Prudence in All's Well That Ends Well
Author: David Haley
A leading premise of this book is that modern psychological constructs are inadequate for understanding the courtly humanism dramatized by Shakespeare down to 1604. In All's Well, Shakespeare contrasts heroic prudence with Divine Providence, but he does so obliquely. Illustrated.
ISBN: 0-87413-443-9 $42.50
Shakespeare's Garter Plays: Edward III to Merry Wives of Windsor
Author: Giorgio Melchiori
This volume is a reexamination of the genesis and growth of the second cycle of Shakespeare's histories from Richard II to Henry V: the author uncovers the links of these plays to the earlier Edward III and The Merry Wives of Windsor, establishing a dramatic continuum.
ISBN: 0-87413-518-4 $29.50
Shakespeare's Speech-Headings
Editor: George Walton Williams
The concentration of this book is on the speech prefixes in printed and manuscript plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries with particular emphasis on All's Well, Coriolanus, Henry VI, and Romeo and Juliet. The contributors examine the evidence provided by these designators as it applies to the nature of the text, the performance, the acting companies, and the audience. Though many scholars have discussed the significance of speech headings, this is the first volume directed exclusively to this phenomenon, unique to the drama.
ISBN: 0-87413-637-7 $39.50
Shakespeare's Sweet Thunder: Essays on the Early Comedies
Editor: Michael J. Collins
This collection of essays examines such topics as the influence of New Comedy on The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew; explores the implications for performance of the two versions of The Shrew, as well as examining the woman's part; studies the relationship of Love's Labor's Lost to The Convent of Pleasure, and so forth.
ISBN: 0-87413-582-6 $40.50
Shakespeare's Third Keyboard: The Significance of Rime in Shakespeare's Plays
Author: Lorna Flint
The versatility of Shakespeare's performances on the keyboards of blank verse and prose has attracted critical attention. But the contribution of the third keyboard—his rhymed verse—has fallen on deaf ears. This analysis of rhyme in individual passages chosen from a variety of plays argues that Shakespeare's correlation of perfect and imperfect rhyme makes a subtly significant contribution to the total dramatic effect of every performance of every play.
ISBN: 0-87413-692-X $38.00
Shakespeare's Tragic Form: Spirit in the Wheel
Author: Robert Lanier Reid
Since about 1960, when five-act division in Shakespeare's plays was strongly disputed, most critics have focused on individual scenes rather than holistic form. This book argues for Shakespeare's use of five acts, arranged in three cycles to form a 2-1-2 pattern. It also examines the role of multiple plots and centers of consciousness, especially in the festive comedies and romances. Additionally, it traces Shakespeare's gradual mastery of the art of epiphany, compares it to Spenser's complementary focus on transcendent reality, and traces in Macbeth the dark mode of Shakespeare's dramaturgical pattern.
ISBN: 0-87413-725-X $34.50
Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: Textual Problems and Performance Solutions
Author: Roger Apfelbaum
This book studies a selection of variants and emendations in Troilus and Cressida with extensive reference to the theater history of the passages, showing how production decisions can provide a valuable commentary on editorial questions. Passages that have been the subject of editorial debate are examined from many points of view, beginning with the bibliographical and editorial questions.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-813-2 $52.50
Shakespeare's World, World Shakespeares: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Brisbane, 2006
Editors: Richard Fotheringham, Christa Jansohn, and R. S. White
This collection offers twenty-nine essays by many of the world's major scholars of the extraordinary diversity and richness of Shakespeare studies today. It ranges from examinations of the society William Shakespeare himself lived in, to recent films, plays, novels, and operatic adaptations for adults and children in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-989-1 $69.50
Shelley and the Romantic Imagination: A Psychological Study
Author: Thomas R. Frosch
This book is a study of Shelley's poetry at its most "romantic." It uses concepts of Freud and such later psychoanalytic writers as Géza Róheim, Heinz Hartmann, Ernst Kris, and Margaret Mahler, together with comparisons to such authors as Blake, Wordsworth, and Rousseau, to analyze Shelley's imaginings of eros and paradise. Discussing "Alastor," Prometheus Unbound, "The Triumph of Life," and a wide variety of other Shelley writings, the book brings out the cross-currents of anxiety, rage, competitive ambition, and conflicting desires in those imaginings.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-978-5 $65.00
Shifting the Scene: Shakespeare in European Culture
Editors: Ladina Bezzola Lambert and Balz Engler
Shifting the Scene adapts words from one of the Choruses in Henry V. Its essays try, without denying authority to the text and the theater, to widen the scene of inquiry to include other institutions, such as education, politics, language, and the arts, and to juxtapose the constructions of Shakespeare and his works that have been produced by them.
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Series: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
ISBN: 0-87413-860-4 $55.00
Sidney and Junius on Poetry and Printing: From the Margins to the Center
Author: Judith Dundas
Franciscus Junius the Younger (1591-1677) is famous as virtually the founder of Germanic philology. But he also composed, at the request of the Earl of Arundel, whom he served as librarian, an influential treatise on the art of painting as it is viewed in ancient literature. We are fortunate to have his recently discovered marginalia to the works of Philip Sidney. It is the relationship between his treatise, The Painting of the Ancients (1638), and his Sidney marginalia that is the focus of the present book.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-982-2 $57.50
Sidney Godolphin: Servant of the State
Author: Roy A. Sundstrom
This work is the first scholarly biography of Sidney Godolphin in over one hundred years, and thus fills a gaping hole in the history of late Stuart England. How Godolphin used his position to mold English diplomacy and military strategy is examined.
ISBN: 0-87413-438-2 $47.50
Simplest of Signs: Victor Hugo and the Language of Images in France, 1850-1950
Author: Timothy Raser
Timothy Raser traces the evolution of "simple signs" from the Romantic moment to the recent past, showing how a desire for direct signification informs both canonical Romantic texts and the art-critical texts of subsequent generations. Employing semiotic analyses, he isolates the devices used by poetry, plays, novels, and art criticism to produce effects of immediacy.
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ISBN: 0-87413-867-1 $46.50
"The Sins of Madame Eglentyne" and Other Essays on Chaucer
Author: Richard Rex
The essays in this collection are principally concerned with Madame Eglentyne—the demure and elegant prioress depicted in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Each essay stands alone because Madame Eglentyne and her tale are approached by way of a number of different considerations, and each essay contributes to our understanding of this Canterbury pilgrim in important ways.
ISBN: 0-87413-567-2 $35.00
Sir Robert Walpole's Poets: The Use of Literature as Pro-Government Propaganda, 1721-1742
Author: Tone Sundt Urstad
This is the first book-length study of the literature published in support of Walpole's administration. It explores important pro-government themes and explains how the propaganda network was organized and what precisely the Old Corps Whig leadership hoped to achieve. This book questions the myth that only Grub Street hacks were prepared to support Walpole. Over the years writers associated with him developed a fund of distinct themes, symbols, and imagery, and this rendered them capable of some aggressive myth-making of their own.
ISBN: 0-87413-690-3 $45.00
Small Georgian Houses in England and Virginia: Orgins and Development through the 1750s
Author: Daniel Reiff
This is the first study which has seriously and thoroughly examined the English post-Renaissance vernacular background for the famous Georgian houses of Virginia (ca. 1710-1760), and related them exhaustively to their American counterparts. Winner of the University of Delaware Press Award. Illustrated.
ISBN: 0-87413-254-1 $85.00
Sociable Criticism in England, 1625-1725
Authors: Paul Trolander and Zeynep Tenger
Sociable Criticism in England, 1625-1725 explores how for the period 1625 to 1725 cultural practices and discourses of sociability (rules for small-group discussion, friendship discourse, and patron-client relationships) determined the venues within which critical judgments were rendered, disseminated, and received. This study focuses on the interpersonal dimensions of seventeenth-century criticism.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-969-3 $49.50
Social Structure and Disaster
Editor: Gary A. Kreps
In a format of presentation, critique, and commentary, disaster researchers and sociological theorists address basic theoretical issues underlying studies of social structure and disaster. The editor's program of archival research on natural disasters, social movement organizations, and other types of social structure provides a basis for discussion.
ISBN: 0-87413-340-8 $55.00
Soi-disant: Life Writing In French
Editors: Juliana De Nooy, Joe Hardwick, and Barbara E. Hanna
A cross-section of current work in autobiographical studies, Soi-disant brings together essays on Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, Jean Genet, Jeanne Hyvrard, Amélie Nothomb, Yves Navarre, Catherine Pozzi, Marie Bashkirtseff, and the history of Maghreb literature. The book highlights the intertextual nature of autobiographical writing, the ways in which it is shaped by other texts of various genres and bears the traces of these textual intersections.
Series: Monash Romance Studies
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ISBN: 0-87413-932-5 $30.00
Sons and Authors in Elizabethan England
Author: Derek B. Alwes
This book explores the ways in which three exemplary English writers negotiated new social spaces for fiction writing, creating authorial identities that sought to escape the stigma of prodigality encoded in the dismissive cultural attitudes toward poetic "toys" by demonstrating the social value of fiction. From John Lyly's Euphues to Philip Sidney's Arcadia to Robert Greene's cony-catching pamphlets, this book traces a cultural trajectory from relatively conventional patronage appeals to increasingly audacious claims of "authority."
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ISBN 0-87413-858-2 $42.50
The Space of Culture: Critical Readings in Hispanic Culture
Editors: Stewart King and Jeffrey Browitt
This compilation of essays centered on Hispanic literary and cultural criticism utilizes space as an operational concept, not only in its real-geographic sense, but in its metaphorical, theoretical, and discursive manifestations, along with the related notions of the visible/invisible, dominant/dominated, empowered/powerless. The essays range from colonial domination and international struggles over territorial claims, to a meditation on the politics of location, to the issue of spatial representation of mature-age women and gay men within a dialectic of visibility/invisibility in Spanish theater and cinema.
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Series: Monash Romance Studies
ISBN: 0-87413-892-2 $30.00 (paperback)
Spanish Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Editor: José Manuel González
Spanish Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries offers a selection of the most significant studies on Shakespeare and his contemporaries from a variety of perspectives in order to present a fresh and inclusive vision of Shakespearean criticism in Spain to reach a worldwide readership. Plurality, maturity, and diversity are its outstanding characteristics as the transition has given shape to new critical attitudes, readings, and approaches in the analysis and study of Shakespeare in the new Spain.
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Series: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
ISBN: 0-87413-903-1 $60.00
The Spectator: Emerging Discourses
Editor: Donald J. Newman
This book offers the latest scholarship on this influential series of essays. Taking advantage of the insights provided by such critical perspectives as new historicism, feminism, postcolonialism, psychology, postmodernism, and cultural studies, the scholars represented here take a fresh look at The Spectator and its relation to the changing culture that influenced it—and was influenced by it.
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ISBN: 0-87413-910-4 $53.50
Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice: Godparenthood and Adoption in the Early Middle Ages
Author: Bernhard Jussen
Translator: Pamela Selwyn
This book deals with forms of kinship that are marginalized in most kinship studies: with kinship beyond concepts of descent and alliance. It is a study of godparenthood and adoption in Frankish society at the time when Roman adoption was disappearing and godparenthood was being invented as a social tool.
ISBN: 0-87413-632-6 $55.00
Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance
Author: Gregory M. Colón Semenza
This is the first book-length study of the crucial relationship between sport and the political and imaginative literature of Renaissance England. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, educators, medical practitioners, and military scientists were among the many contemporaries who praised sport as necessary and functional—physiologically beneficial to the individual practitioner, vital to the preparedness of the military, and necessary to the maintenance of traditional class hierarchy.
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ISBN: 0-87413-844-2 $49.50
Stages of Dismemberment: The Fragmented Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Drama
Author: Margaret. E. Owens
With a focus on visual representations of beheading, dismemberment, and mutilation in medieval and early modern drama, Stages of Dismemberment traces the impact of the Reformation on the semiotics of the body. The investigation covers a broad range of plays dating from the fifteenth century to the closing of the theaters in 1642; however, three chapters are devoted to extensive analysis of single plays: R. B.'s Apius and Virginia, Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI, and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.
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ISBN: 0-87413-888-4 $59.50
Stages of Play: Shakespeare's Theatrical Energies in Elizabethan Performance
Author: Michael W. Shurgot
Stages of Play assumes that Shakespeare wrote scripts for actors and audiences, not texts for readers; and second, that we can best appreciate how Shakespeare's scripts create dramatic meaning by attempting to visualize their performances in the theatrical settings for which they were originally created—the Theatre and the Globe. The argument is presented that with spectators arranged on three sides around the structure, complex and often divergent spectator reactions to the actual performance of the plays were created.
ISBN: 0-87413-614-8 $44.50
The Staging of Drama in the Medieval Church
Author: Dunbar H. Ogden
Using original rubrics from some 1,200 manuscripts, this book documents performance of the liturgical drama from the tenth through the sixteenth centuries. It lays out the staging space and traces the movements of the performers on architectural ground plans. The rubrics reveal a wealth of information about the creating of character through ecclesiastical vestments and other costumes. It also includes a surprising range of directives for voice, gesture, and dumb show. The book provides a major theatrical source book for students and scholars in the field of drama. Illustrated.
ISBN: 0-87413-709-8 $39.50
The Staging of Romance in Late Shakespeare: Text and Technique
Author: Christopher J. Cobb
Taking The Winter's Tale as a case study, the book's central chapters demonstrate how Shakespeare tests and transforms the techniques to create the sweeping, restorative transformations of individuals and communities that are central to both earlier dramatic romances and Shakespeare's own romance experiments. The book's three other chapters address the methodologies for study of spectator's experience through a dramatic text, the history of dramatic romance to 1610, and Shakespeare's further experiments with the staging of romance after The Winter's Tale.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-971-6 $60.00
Staging Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of Alan C. Dessen
Editors: Lena Cowen Orlin and Miranda Johnson-Haddad
The twelve essays in Staging Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of Alan C. Dessen explore the relationships between Shakespearean pedagogy, performance, and scholarship. The volume consists of four sections: "Acts of Recovery," "Performing the Moment," "Recordings," and "Extensions and Explorations." Throughout the volume the authors examine the ways in which performance criticism and performance studies illuminate our approaches to Shakespeare's plays.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-987-7 $53.59
"Steel for the Mind": Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse
Author: Charles H. Hinnant
This full-scale reexamination of Johnson's literary criticism locates these writings within the context of current critical debates. Through juxtapositions of Johnson with such movements as poststructuralism, reader-response criticism, feminism, and the new historicism, the author creates a justification for reexamining our conventional assumptions about Johnson's writings.
ISBN: 0-87413-492-7 $39.50
The Stonemasons of Creuse in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Author: Casey Harison
This book connects the story of a group of migrant workers to the question of why Paris became the nineteenth century's "capital of revolution," and why this stage of the city ended. Casey Harison draws upon research in archives and libraries, including the records of arrests, casualties, and compensation in rebellions, workers' memoirs, police reports, and studies of marchandage—a hated form of subcontracting whose history paralleled that of the masons.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-020-1 $65.00
Strange Communion: Motherland and Masculinity in Tudor Plays, Pamphlets, and Politics
Author: Jacqueline Vanhoutte
Strange Communion concerns the development in Tudor culture of a tendency to identify the common good with the health of the "motherland." Playwrights, polemicists, and politicians relied on maternal representations of England to evoke a sense of common purpose. Vanhoutte examines how such motherland tropes came to describe England, how they changed in response to specific political crises, and how they came, by the end of the sixteenth century, to shape literary ideals of masculinity.
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ISBN: 0-87413-832-9 $47.50
Structures and Subjectivities: Attending to Early Modern Women
Editors: Joan E. Hartman and Adele Seeff
"Structures and Subjectivities" refers to what we can and probably cannot know about women in the early modern period. Scholars study the societal structures their disciplines call attention to; they are left to infer the subjectivities, the lived experience, of women whose lives they attempt to reconstruct. The authors of the essays in the volume, the fifth to emerge from conferences held by the University of Maryland's Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies, place the largest possible meanings on structures.
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Series: Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
ISBN 0-87413-941-4 $52.50
Style: Essays on Renaissance and Restoration Literature and Culture in Memory of Harriett Hawkins
Editors: Allen Michie and Eric Buckley
These interdisciplinary essays demonstrate that style is a fertile juncture of literature, culture, politics, fashion, history, science, theology, and genre. Taken together, the essays point to the Renaissance and Restoration as two periods that find unity in underlying assumptions about the value of individual expression and the high stakes of aesthetic debate for transcending matters of transient fashion and tradition-bound genres.
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ISBN: 0-87413-909-0 $53.50
Subjects on the World's Stage: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Editors: David G. Allen and Robert A. White
This collection of essays on British literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance focuses on the point of contact between an artist and society that prompts the literary imagination to respond either with the creation of a new character or with the demonstration of change in an old one.
ISBN: 0-87413-544-3 $43.50
The Subverting Vision of Bulwer Lytton: Bicentenary Reflections
Editor: Allan Conrad Christensen
While the first essay in this collection analyzes the factors that caused Bulwer to be so highly regarded in his own day, the others deal with one of more of Bulwer's novels, which are related to the contemporary cultural context in Britain and Europe as well as to more recent critical theories. They consider Bulwer's England and the English, his history of Athens, his career as colonial secretary, and the crucial matter of his relationship with his wife. Illustrated.
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ISBN: 0-87413-856-6 $49.50
The Surpriser: The Life of Rowland, Lord Hill
Author: Gordon Teffeteller
Lord Hill has often been caricatured as an unctuous country squire, but this work corrects that impression. It details his fighting abilities, pointing out the brilliance with which he managed his troops and developed an esprit de corps among his men, and describes his ruthless, lightning-fast attacks that led to victories in the Peninsular campaign and at Waterloo. Illustrated.
ISBN: 0-87413-212-6 $38.50
Swift's Poetic Worlds
Author: Louise K. Barnett
The author shows how Swift's poetry reveals a structural unity when it is examined as a coherent whole. The structure that emerges is a dynamic relationship between the effort to order—the poem's "principle of unity"—and an opposing "principle of expansion."
ISBN: 0-87413-187-1 $32.50
Swift's Tory Politics
Author: F. P. Lock
This is an important new reading of Jonathan Swift as a political thinker and writer. It is a "Tory" interpretation, arguing that Swift was by no means the political liberal and unequivocal champion of "liberty" that some of his modern admirers would like him to have been.
ISBN: 0-87413-252-5 $32.50
The Symbolic Design of Windsor-Forest: Iconography, Pageant, and Prophecy in Pope's Early Work
Author: Pat Rogers
This is the first detailed exploration of one of the earliest major poems by Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest (1713). The book reveals how Pope used the artistic conventions of the Stuart court, such as masque, architecture, allegorical painting, and heraldry, to create the last great Renaissance poem in English.
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ISBN: 0-87413-837-X $52.50
