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  • - A Bilingual Edition
    af Yann Robert
    208,95 - 891,95 kr.

    First performed the day after Marie-Antoinette's beheading, Le Jugement dernier des rois stages the burlesque trial of the remaining kings and queens of Europe--paraded in chains like animals, made to brawl over a barrel of crackers, and finally obliterated by a spectacular volcanic eruption. Such is the shocking context--at once tragic and farcical--of the most infamous play of the French Revolution, familiar to all specialists of the period. Until now, however, no standalone critical edition or English translation of this historic play existed. This bilingual edition revives Maréchal's play and reveals its centrality to scholarly debates about Revolutionary notions of justice, religion, commemoration, comedy, and propaganda. Provocative, written in accessible prose, and short--perfect for students in a French or history seminar--Le Jugement dernier des rois offers an ideal introduction to the most important and contentious questions of the Revolutionary period. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

  • af Jonas Cope
    628,95 - 1.973,95 kr.

    In eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the century--with the War of American Independence and legal and sociopolitical challenges to capital punishment--did the criminal justice system change, resulting in the reformed prison, or penitentiary, meant to educate, rehabilitate, and spiritualize even hardened felons. This volumeis the first to explore the relationship between historical penal reform and Romantic-era literary texts by luminaries such as Godwin, Keats, Byron, and Jane Austen. The works examined here treat incarceration as ambiguous: prison walls oppress and reinforce the arbitrary power of legal structures but can also heighten meditation, intensify the imagination, and awaken the conscience. Jonas Cope skillfully traces the important ideological work these texts attempt: to reconcile a culture devoted to freedom with the birth of the modern prison system that presents punishment as a form of rehabilitation. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

  • af Mel Michelle Lewis
    214,95 - 532,95 kr.

    Biomythography Bayou is a ritual, making available multigenerational blood memory, nonlinear time, and spiritual connection. Eurocentric epistemologies are drowned down deep. Each section of the text opens with an explicatory essay, animating the powers of particular elements in nature and thereby offering context to history, location, community, and cultural specificity. Essays are followed by a collection of thematic narrative portraits that maintain a relationship with the element and with one another; they embody nonlinear generational connection, scene, setting, and theme. Influenced by Audre Lorde's biomythographic form, Alexis DeVeaux's embodiments in queer time, and Octavia Butler's historical harkening and speculative futurist meditations, the author quilts the narrative contours of decolonial Black and Indigenous queerness and kinship across time and place. The text's primary foundations lie in the anthropological narratives and cultural analyses, both fiction and non-fiction, of Zora Neale Hurston and the political poetic portraits of Gwendolyn Brooks.

  • af Michael Kramp
    426,95 kr.

    This wide-ranging collection of contemporary scholarship is the first to consider representations of men and masculinity in the work and adaptations of Jane Austen. Established and emerging Austen scholars from around the world discuss critical issues raised by her fictional treatment of masculinity, such as evolving social expectations, brothers and fathers, male lovers, soldiers and the military, queer and alternative sexualities, violence, and male devotees of Austen. Encompassing the novels, juvenilia, and popular adaptations of her work, Jane Austen and Masculinity makes an important intervention, building on established scholarship in masculinity studies and inviting further research on gender and sexuality within Austen's corpus. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

  • - Landscape and British Women's Writing, 1690-1790
    af Nicolle Jordan
    1.571,95 kr.

    Land ownership--and engagement with land more generally--constituted a crucial dimension of female independence in eighteenth-century Britain. Because political citizenship was restricted to male property owners, women could not wield political power in the way propertied men did. Given its foundational socio-political function, land necessarily generated copious writing that vested it with considerable aesthetic and economic value. This book, then, situates these issues in relation to the historical transformation of landscape under emergent capitalism. The women writers featured herein--including Jane Barker, Anne Finch, Sarah Scott, and Elizabeth Montagu--participated in this transformation by celebrating female estate stewardship and evaluating the estate stewardship of men. By asserting their authority in such matters, these writers acquired a degree of independence and self-determination that otherwise proved elusive.

  • af Vicki Mahaffey
    244,95 - 855,95 kr.

  • af Judith G. Miller
    552,95 kr.

    Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology presents performable English translations of eleven West African plays, dating from 1970 to 2021. Works by Dadié, Labou Tansi, Zinsou, Liking, Pliya, Alem, Kwahulé, Éfoui, Akakpo, Mukagasana, and Diouf skewer colonization, grapple with identity, and retell history and myth from African perspectives.

  • af Kate Parker & Miriam L. Wallace
    343,95 - 1.393,95 kr.

  • af Daniel DiMassa
    323,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • af Ignacio Lopez Alemany & Jason Mccloskey
    1.421,95 kr.

  • af Borbala Farago
    1.257,95 kr.

  • af Sarah Leggott & Ross Woods
    1.165,95 kr.

  • af Alfred Kentigern Siewers
    1.476,95 kr.

  • - The American Register and Other Writings, 1807-1810
     
    1.996,95 kr.

    The sixth volume of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents for the first time writing from the final years of Brown's life, including from his magisterial periodical project, the American Register, in which Brown narrates a contemporary history of the United States and Europe during the Napoleonic Wars.

  • - Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature
    af Anne M. Thell
    524,95 kr.

  • - Political Pamphlets
     
    1.562,95 kr.

    The fourth volume of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents the political pamphlets and related writings of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810), a key writer of the U.S. early republic. The texts address the national and wider global contexts of the Louisiana Purchase and Jefferson's Embargo, accompanied by historical commentary.

  • - An Interdisciplinary Study
     
    582,95 kr.

    Postracial America? argues that the notion of "postracial" does not begin with the election of Barack Obama, nor will it end with his administration. The "postracial" is an expression of the protean nature of white supremacy in America, and the articles collected here demonstrate the variations of this seemingly innocuous and salutary expression.

  • - The Re-accentuation of the World's Greatest Literary Hero
     
    623,95 kr.

    This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world's greatest literary hero takes place in film, theater, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject.

  • - Poems
     
    1.553,95 kr.

    The seventh volume of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown showcases a comprehensive collection of his poetry. While Brown is well known as a novelist, his poetry has never before been collected and many of the works included in this book appear in print for the first time in two hundred years.

  • - The Literary Magazine and Other Writings, 1801-1807
     
    2.169,95 kr.

    The third volume of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents a selection of Brown's published writings between 1801 and 1807. The majority of the volume is devoted to texts that appeared in The Literary Magazine, and American Register, which Brown edited from October 1803 to December 1807, through fifty-one issues.

  • - Marcel Proust and the Dissident Novelists of Memory
    af Samuel O'Donoghue
    1.235,95 kr.

    Rewriting Franco's Spain proposes a new reading of some of the most culturally significant and closely studied works of Spanish memory fiction from the past seventy years. This book explores how the work of the French writer Marcel Proust has shaped the ways Spanish novelists write about the Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship.

  • - Jose Marti and the Shaping of National Identity
     
    1.507,95 kr.

    This book focuses on Jose Marti's reflections and critique of social, cultural, and political events in the United States between the years of 1880 and 1895, bringing together some of the most recognized scholars from the United States, Cuba, South America, and Europe studying Marti in a unique contribution and collaborative international effort.

  • - Strangers at the Gate
    af Lindsay Anne Balfour
    1.153,95 kr.

    Strangers at the Gate promises, for the first time, to examine culture since 9/11 from the perspective of hospitality. It asks new questions about how we engage with others and strangers and claims hospitality as an imperative political concern as well as a social, cultural, and ethical one.

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    1.086,95 kr.

    This book studies the phenomenon of "cultural transfer" via a gallery of case studies from Europe's early modernity. Perhaps its most original feature is to relate the European phenomenon to events in Europe's "East" (Central Europe) and developing practices of European Orientalism in the Middle East and India.

  • - Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina
    af Silvia R. Tandeciarz
    1.631,95 kr.

    This book explores practices of recollection in contemporary Argentina that helped define the nation's approach to transitional justice in the first decades of the twenty-first century and enhances the critical literature on historical memory and trauma in Latin America by integrating affect theory to cultural representations of state violence.

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    1.035,95 kr.

    Jane Austen and Masculinity provides a diverse selection of critical essays on representations of men and masculinity in Austen's work. This anthology will attract interest from scholars of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature as well as gender studies scholars who are interested in the widening scope of masculinity studies.

  • - Domestic Service and the Cultural Transformation of British Society, 1650-1850
    af Kristina Booker
    935,95 kr.

  • - The Re-accentuation of the World's Greatest Literary Hero
     
    1.367,95 kr.

    This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world's greatest literary hero takes place in film, theater, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject.