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Talking Back to Shakespeare
Author: Martha Tuck Rozett
Appropriations and transformations that "talk back" to Shakespeare offer alternatives and fill in gaps while challenging what they see as the plays' ideological premises. Among the many works discussed here are relatively unknown plays (Arnold Wesker's The Merchant, Charles Marowitz's Shakespeare collages), fictional transformations of women writers (Mary Cowden Clarke's Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, Lillie Wyman's Gertrude of Denmark, Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres), and the Shakespearean transformations of the 1960s.
ISBN: 0-87413-529-X $42.50
Tangier Island: Place, People, and Talk
Author: David L. Shores
This book is an account of the island's inhabitants from their beginnings in the late 1700s to their portrayal as an isolated community under siege, and a description of the way they talk. Talk has the prior claim, but place and people deserve and get equal notice because talk could not be fully understood without an appreciation of the inhabitants' history and as well as social and working lives.
Series: Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore
ISBN: 0-87413-717-9 $47.50
The Teaching Legacy of O. B. Hardison, Jr.: With Selected Readings on Education
Author: Dennis F. Brestensky
This book documents how and why Hardison was a successful teacher and assembles for the first time the best of his writings on education which reveal the methods and theories that underpin his particular style of teaching. The profile of O. B. Hardison as a master teacher serves as an inspirational model for others to emulate, gauge themselves against, and use as a point of reference when attempting to establish their own identities in the liberal arts/humanities teaching continuum.
ISBN: 0-87413-764-0 $48.50
Teaching with Shakespeare: Critics in the Classroom
Editors: Bruce McIver and Ruth Stevenson
In this work, six Shakespeare scholars and critics (Helen Vendler, R. A. Foakes, Leah Marcus, John Wilders, Patricia Parker, and Annabel Patterson), in a series of lectures delivered to undergraduates, explain distinctive critical strategies that they and other contemporary critics use for interpreting Shakespeare's poems and plays. Workshops illustrating the practice of these strategies follow the lectures.
ISBN: 0-87413-491-9 $41.50
The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France
Author: Peter Cryle
This book tells how the diverting array of pleasures in eighteenth-century libertine fiction gave way, through a process of thematic drift and realignment, to a powerfully linear story that actually defined sex and the gender roles pertaining to it. Many of the key notions in modern talk about sex are in fact narrative ones: "climax," "foreplay," and "the sex act" are all said to lie at the heart of human sexuality. But The Telling of the Act questions whether these notions deserve to be thought of as timeless, and in fact locates their emergence in the second half of the eighteenth century.
ISBN: 0-87413-748-9 $52.50
Telling Performances: Essays on Gender, Narrative, and Performance
Editors: Brian Nelson, Anne Freadman, and Philip Anderson
These essays engage with narratives and narrative issues, in particular on the issue of performance in and of narrative, with the telling of performance and the performance of telling, and the way stories perform gender and identity. They focus on narrative as such, on narrative genres, and on particular narratives, but they all seek to inform thinking on narrative. Illustrated.
ISBN: 0-87413-707-1 $44.50
Terræ-filius, Or, The Secret History of the University of Oxford (1721; 1726)
Author: Nicholas Amhurst
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by William E. Rivers
In his Terræ-Filius essays of 1721, Nicholas Amhurst describes and satirizes Oxford life as he saw it during the 1710s and early 1720s. This modern critical edition of the Terræ-Filius reprints all the essays (including those omitted in the 1726 collected editions) and provides an introduction and extensive explanatory notes that set the essays in their historical and cultural context.
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ISBN: 0-87413-801-9 $65.00
The Text of Great Britain: Theme and Design in Defoe's Tour
Author: Pat Rogers
This book is the first full-length analysis of one of the key books of the eighteenth century—Daniel Defoe's Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain. The creation of Defoe's Tour, its sources and models, and its relationship to earlier topographic literature are discussed. The Text of Great Britain argues that Defoe evolved a rhetorical design that would express his sense of Britain as a working system constructed around cities, the countryside, and roads to form an intelligible whole.
ISBN: 0-87413-617-2 $40.50
Textual Formations and Reformations
Editors: Laurie E. Maguire and Thomas L. Berger
Valuable to cultural historians and textual scholars alike, this volume analyzes the development of textual theory and practice in the twentieth century, questioning not just the assumptions and methodologies of textual study but its very genesis, as well as current definitions of the field.
ISBN: 0-87413-655-5 $47.50
The Theatre of Praise: The Panegyric Tradition in Seventeenth-Century English Drama
Author: Joanne Altieri
A critical examination of panegyrical theatre from its beginnings in the masque, city pageant, and history plays to its varied culmination on the Restoration musical stage.
ISBN: 0-87413-275-4 $40.00
Theism in the Discourse of Jonathan Edwards
Author: R. C. De Prospo
This book proposes that a new semiotic category called theism can more intelligibly classify the discursive pattern that precedes modern humanism in American literature than such standard historicist categories as Puritanism or Calvinism or medievalism, and that the writings of Jonathan Edwards exemplify this theist discursive pattern.
ISBN: 0-87413-281-9 $42.50
Theodore Dreiser's Uncollected Magazine Articles, 1897-1902
Editor: Yoshinobu Hakutani
This edition of Dreiser's work consists of thirty-four uncollected magazine articles published between 1897 and 1902. In this period, before writing Sister Carrie, Dreiser contributed 111 freelance articles to various magazines. A great majority of these magazine articles have been collected in two previous editions, including Selected Magazine Articles of Theodore Dreiser: Life and Art in the American 1890s, published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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ISBN: 0-87413-818-3 $52.50
Theory and History of Ideological Production: The First Bourgeois Literature (the 16th Century)
Author: Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Translator: Malcolm K. Read
To explain a text, according to Rodríguez, is to locate it precisely, at a real historical conjuncture, to situate it ideologically.
This insistence on the historicity of literature saved Rodríguez from the fate that, from the late 1970s onward, overtook many Althusserians. For Rodríguez, ideology could not be the discourse of the subject, for the simple reason that the subject was itself a historical category, whose origins were to be found in animism, the ideology of the bourgeoisie during its early, mercantilist phase.
Series: Monash Romance Studies
ISBN: 0-87413-809-4 $30.00 (paper)
Things Supernatural and Causeless: Shakespearean Romance
Author: Marco Mincoff
After centuries of denigration, Shakespeare's romances came to be seen by many critics as among his most profound works. This work sets out to propose another way of looking at Pericles and the plays that followed it.
ISBN: 0-87413-456-0 $28.50
Thomas Hardy and the Law: Legal Presences in Hardy's Life and Fiction
Author: William A. Davi
Thomas Hardy and the Law argues that Hardy's extensive legal research and experience drove his writing of fiction throughout his career. The book studies Hardy's legal research and friendships, his work as a Dorchester magistrate, actual Victorian law cases from which he drew novel material, nineteenth-century legal reform, the legal "machinery" of the novels, and Hardy's position as an advocate for the reform of marriage laws.
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ISBN: 0-87413-798-5 $39.50
Thomas Paine's American Ideology
Author: A. Owen Aldridge
This book analyzes the entire spectrum of Paine's intellectual career between 1775 and 1787, not merely his attitude toward American independence. The author summarizes Paine's writings as an apprentice magazine editor, sketches the publishing history of Common Sense, explains its major philosophical doctrines and contemporary issues, and indicates the relations of these ideas to earlier manifestations.
ISBN: 0-87413-260-6 $45.00
The Threads of The Scarlet Letter: A Study of Hawthorne's Transformative Art
Author: Richard Kopley
This work offers new discoveries regarding the origins of Hawthorne's masterpiece, as well as critical interpretations based on these discoveries. The book illuminates Hawthorne's transformation of Poe's celebrated tale "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Lowell's long-neglected poem "A Legend of Brittany" and, identifying the hitherto-unknown author of the seminal narrative "The Salem Belle," investigates Hawthorne's brilliant borrowing from that novel as well.
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ISBN: 0-87413-769-1 $42.50
Three-Part Inventions: The Novels of Thomas Bernhard
Author: Thomas J. Cousineau
The epigraph to Correction, Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard's masterpiece, reads: "A body needs at least three points of support, not in a straight line, to fix its position." Three-Part Inventions finds in this simple geometrical axiom a surprisingly complex key to an understanding of Bernhard's major novels.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-018-8 $48.50
Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity
Author: Susannah B. Mintz
Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity is a study of the challenge intersubjective experience poses to doctrinal formulations of difference. Focusing on Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, and using feminist and relational psychoanalytic theory, the project examines representations of looking, working, eating, conversing, and touching, to argue that encounters between selves in "threshold space" dismantle the binary oppositions that support categorical thinking.
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ISBN: 0-87413-822-1 $46.50
Thwarting the Wayward Seas: A Critical and Theatrical History of Shakespeare's Pericles in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Author: David Skeele
In Thwarting the Wayward Seas, Skeele offers a fascinating account of the reaction to Pericles by the typical Victorian critic, including a discussion of the play's anomalously successful Victorian stage production. He also discusses its critical and theatrical rebirth at the hands of a wide variety of modernists and postmodernists.
ISBN: 0-87413-646-6 $36.50
The Time is Out of Joint: Skepticism in Shakespeare's England
Author: Benjamin Bertram
The final decades of the sixteenth century brought tumultuous change to England. The Time is Out of Joint situates the work of four skeptics—Reginald Scot, Thomas Harriot, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare—within the context of religious and social change.
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ISBN: 0-87413-885-X $46.50
To Analyze Delight: A Hedonist Criticism of Shakespeare
Author: Gary Taylor
This book is an attempt to analyze why certain moments in Shakespeare's plays give more pleasure than others. Too often, according to the author, literary criticism filters out pleasure in the pursuit of meaning, reducing poems to their lowest common denominator. He would rather analyze delight by replacing the modern emphasis upon interpretation with a kind of critical hedonism—the study of drama as a "superior amusement."
ISBN: 0-87413-269-X $35.00
To Kill a Text: The Dialogic Fiction of Hugo, Dickens, and Zola
Author: Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
To Kill a Text analyzes the intertextual conflicts between four monuments of nineteenth-century fiction: Notre-Dame de Paris, Bleak House, Le Ventre de Paris and Germinal. The fundamental hypothesis of the book is that Dickens and Zola exemplify Hugo's conception of the novel as a "graft" of one work upon another, producing hybrid mixtures of genres and styles of representation.
ISBN: 0-87413-539-7 $39.50
To Provide for the General Welfare: A History of the Federal Spending Power
Author: Theodore Sky
The framers of the United States Constitution gave Congress the power to tax in order to provide for the "general welfare of the United States." This book traces the constitutional controversy to which that power gave rise and its role in fueling a massive expansion in federal activity and authority.
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ISBN: 0-87413-793-4 $75.00
Tobias Smollett, Scotland's First Novelist: New Essays in Memory of Paul-Gabriel Boucé
Editor: O M Brack, Jr.
This collection takes a fresh look at issues raised not only in Smollett's novels, for which he is usually remembered, but also in other works of this prolific Scottish author. Essays include a demonstration beyond reasonable doubt, after more than two centuries of debate, that it was indeed Smollett who authored "The Memoires of a Lady of Quality" in the Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, with material supplied to him by Frances, Lady Vane.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-988-4 $63.50
Tocqueville & Beyond: Essays on the Old Regime in Honor of David D. Bien
Editors: Robert M. Schwartz and Robert A. Schneider
This collection of essays by French and American historians testifies to the enduring importance of Alexis de Tocqueville's The Old Regime and the French Revolution, first published in 1856. The essays in Tocqueville & Beyond join this trend, draw on recent research to offer both an appreciation and critique of Tocqueville's remarkable work.
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ISBN: 0-87413-830-2 $52.50
Traffic and Turning: Islam and English Drama, 1579-1624
Author: Jonathan Burton
Bringing together English, Ottoman, and North African sources to outline the discourse on Muslims, Traffic and Turning offers an extended discussion of the theater and its place in this discourse, while presenting important methodological and theoretical theses with regard to the analysis of cross-cultural encounters in early modern England.
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ISBN: 0-87413-913-9 $55.00
Tragic Instance: The Sequence of Shakespeare's Tragedies
Author: Ralph Berry
Tragic Instance follows Shakespeare's progress through his tragedies. Each of the tragedies, including Richard III and Richard II, is studied in order of composition, and each explores the collusion between the protagonist and Fate. The author also describes the leading patterns in each play that most impress him.
ISBN: 0-87413-685-7 $39.50
Trains and Technology: The American Railroad in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Anthony J. Bianculli
This series of four lavishly illustrated volumes provides a thorough grounding in the maturation of the American railroad through an exposition of railroad technology in an age of unprecedented technological expansion. Vol. 1: Locomotives details locomotive design and application from 1850 to 1900. Vol. 2: Cars is devoted to passenger, freight, and non-revenue cars of nineteenth-century America. Vol. 3: Track and Structures covers the technologies involved in locating and building the railroad and all its aspects of rail development. The structures portion of this volume investigates stations and structures needed to service the equipment and conduct operations. Vol. 4: Bridges and Tunnels, Signals is an exposition of the various types of bridges, their foundations, and the materials of which they were made. Tunnels, marine railroad operations, and the development of the signal systems is also fully covered here.
vol. 1, ISBN: 0-87413-729-2 $59.50
vol. 2, ISBN: 0-87413-730-6 $65.00
vol. 3, ISBN: 0-87413-802-7 $65.00
vol. 4, ISBN: 0-87413-803-5 $65.00
A Traitor and a Scoundrel: Benjamin Hedrick and the Cost of Dissent
Author: Michael Thomas Smith
Historians mostly remember Benjamin Hedrick was dismissed from the faculty of the University of North Carolina for publicly proclaiming his antislavery views. This new biography—the first full-length examination of this important but neglected figure—explores these and other aspects of Hedrick's career.
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ISBN: 0-87413-841-8 $45.00
Transforming the Word: Prophecy, Poetry, and Politics in England, 1650-1742
Author: Margery A. Kingsley
The radical prophets of the English civil wars were fascinating figures, combining a devout belief in the power of divine inspiration with a passionate desire for social change and a distinctly eccentric rhetorical style. Tracing the prophets who rant, rage, and wreak havoc through the works of Butler, Dryden, Mandeville, Pope, and other less familiar writers of the period, Transforming the Word pursues the fate of radical prophecy between 1660 and 1742.
ISBN: 0-87413-749-7 $39.50
Tuned and Under Tension: The Recent Poetry of W. D. Snodgrass
Editor: Philip Raisor
The essays in this book constitute a close reading of the later poetry of W. D. Snodgrass. Each writer has taken a work or theme that has led to the complexities of Snodgrass's dense layerings of content and technique. These essays also begin to define his relationship to the modern tradition.
ISBN: 0-87413-659-8 $35.00
Turning Up the Flame: Philip Roth's Later Novels
Editors: Jay L. Halio and Ben Siegel
Philip Roth is that literary rarity—an American novelist who gets better with age, as is shown in timely gathering of fourteen critical essays by some of the leading Roth specialists in this country
and abroad.
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ISBN: 0-87413-902-3 $42.50
Twentieth-Century Epic Novels
Author: Theodore L. Steinberg
Twentieth-Century Epic Novels argues that epics continued to exist as a vibrant genre throughout the twentieth century. Critics have often denied the continuing viability of epic on the basis of such formal characteristics as verse, elevated diction, and the traditional role of the hero, but this study contends that those formal elements are largely incidental and that the true essence of epic lies in its subject matter.
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ISBN: 0-87413-889-2 $48.50
Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Art: Essays in Honor of Gabriel P. Weisberg
Editors: Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Laurinda S. Dixon
This book presents an interdisciplinary and inclusive view of nineteenth-century art, observed from the vantage point of the new twenty-first century. The areas of expertise represented by the thirty essays herein span the full range of nineteenth-century studies, and include discussions of such artistic styles as realism, impressionism, romanticism, and art nouveau, as well as early twentieth-century movements that owe their formative influence to the nineteenth century. Topics span the historical gamut from revivalism to the roots of modernism.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-011-9 $45.00
A Twice-Told Tale: Re-Inventing the Encounter in Iberian/Iberian-American Literature and Film
Editors: Santiago Juan-Navarro and Theodore Robert Young
A Twice-Told Tale analyzes contemporary reconstructions of the age of "discovery," exploration, and conquest vis-à-vis fifteenth- and sixteenth-century sources. It explores the cultural construction of colonial alterity, sexual difference and textual politics, the myths of mestizaje, the re-invention of the past through apocryphal chronicles, the (re-)presentation of the Old World-New World encounter, and the carnivalization of history in contemporary Iberian/Iberian-American literature and film. The contributors also discuss the problem of interpreting the encounter from historical periods that foster radically different perspectives.
ISBN: 0-87413-733-0 $43.50
The Tyranny of Heaven: Milton's Rejection of God as King
Author: Michael Bryson
The Tyranny of Heaven argues for a new way of reading the figure of Milton's God, contending that Milton rejects kings on earth and in heaven. Though Milton portrays God as a king in Paradise Lost, he does this neither to endorse kingship nor to recommend a monarchical model of deity. Instead, he recommends the Son, who in Paradise Regained rejects external rule as the model of politics and theology for Milton's "fit audience though few."
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ISBN: 0-87413-859-0 $43.50
