Literary studies: general

What is Restoration comedy?

Balancing long-overlooked and well-known works from early modern England, Same-sex desire in early modern England, 1550-1735: An anthology of literary texts and contexts is a collection of English texts about homoerotic love, relationships, desires, and sexual acts.

This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members which are rarely considered in relation to contemporary art.

The captivating story of former Wall Street Journal publisher Warren Phillips's rise to the topNewspaperman is at once a fascinating narrative of one man's journey through the newspaper business and an expert analysis of how the news is made.

This volume is the newest release in the authoritative series issued by the National Academy of Sciences on dietary reference intakes (DRIs).

This volume provides a clear, rigorous translation of one of the most important works of Platonic philosophy from late antiquity.

Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature argues that, ironically, custom was a supremely generative literary force for a range of Renaissance writers.

This Introduction provides an original, synthetic overview of the relations between literature and philosophy from ancient times to the present.

Endet mit der geschlechtlichen Vereinigung die Liebe des Mannes zur zuvor leidenschaftlich begehrten weiblichen Person?

Published in 1995: These three 14th century medieval Greek romances, which are presented here for the first time in English translation, form part of a curious and previously neglected corner of literature.

First published in 2000.

Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City engages in alternative ways of reading foreign visual representations of Havana through analysis of advertising images, documentary films, and photographic texts.

Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 is the first theoretical study of early modern women's contribution to the rise of the novel.

This book shows how depictions of etymology were used by twelfth-century poets, translators, bureaucrats and historians to portray Britain''s past.

Worlding America explores the circulation of short narratives in the early Americas through a combination of neglected primary materials and scholarly commentary.

*Winner of the Colonial Dames of America Book Award* Varina Anne “Winnie” Davis was born into a war-torn South in June of 1864, the youngest daughter of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his second wife, Varina Howell Davis.

The troubling ethics and politics of philanthropyIs philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today's democracy?

In 1682 the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle claimed the Mississippi River basin for France, naming the region Louisiana to honor his king, Louis XIV.

The Stuttering Son: A Literary Study of Boys and Their Fathers examines stuttering, a condition which overwhelmingly affects boys, in terms of the complex relationships a number of male authors have had with their fathers.

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years.

Blake's comic brilliance has been variously dismissed as the nervous ramblings of a neglected genius, the tomfool doodles of a distracted youngster, or a crude tool for destabilizing textual authority.

This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing-two writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar transregional cartographies, points of connection and translation, and imaginative kinships between different linguistic and cultural communities.

Freundschaft in Zeiten des Umbruchs: Eine Betrachtung der Briefwechsel Rahel Levin Varnhagens aus verschiedenen BlickwinkelnRahel Levin Varnhagen, eine der großen Schriftstellerinnen und berühmte Salonière des 19.

This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society.

Through an approach strongly oriented to socio-health contexts and healthcare facilities, with multidisciplinary contributions on the methodological and technical aspects, or legislative issues, the book provides tools and design strategies to plan and realize therapeutic places and healing gardens for care, rehabilitation, interaction, and social inclusion.

Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 1862, "e;What shall we do with the negro?

Born in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors.

Melville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled.

In classical scholarship, the presence of legal language in love poetry is commonly interpreted as absurd and incongruous.

From William Langland's Piers Plowman, through the highly polemicized literary culture of fifteenth-century Lollardy, to major Reformation writers such as Simon Fish, William Tyndale and John Bale, and into the 1590s, this book argues for a vital reassessment of our understanding of the literary and cultural modes of the Reformation.

Entropic comedy is the phrase coined by Patrick O'Neill in this study to identify a particular mode of twentieth-century narrative that is not generally recognized.

Literatur ist immer auch beeinflusst vom gesellschaftspolitischen Umfeld, in dem sie entsteht.

"e;After reading Neuromancer for the first time,"e; literary scholar Larry McCaffery wrote, "e;I knew I had seen the future of [science fiction] (and maybe of literature in general), and its name was William Gibson.

Originally published in 1978, this volume addresses the scientific, economic, and administrative aspects of the public policy problem raised by the United States' Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, southern France witnessed first a burgeoning, then a decline in the poetry of women troubadourstrobairitz.

This book draws out connections between ideas of space in cultural and social theory and developments in contemporary poetry.