Category: Literature & Cultural Studies

Dolan’s Book Makes for a Heavy Wedding Favor

Chronicle of Higher Education reviewer Carlin Romano sees many contemporary applications for the lessons found in Frances E. Dolan’s Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy. "Oh, how the quality… READ MORE

The TLS on Minnis’s Chaucer Study

"In pages rich with explication of scholastic, literary and historical material, [Alistair] Minnis recovers a medieval notion of authorial fallibility," wrote Seth Lerer in his The Times Literary Supplement review… READ MORE

Inexpressible Privacy–Now in Paperback

Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature Milette Shamir 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3906-5 | $55.00 | £36.00 Paper… READ MORE

Tragicomic Redemptions–Now Available

Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage Valerie Forman 296 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4096-2 | $59.95 | £39.00 Valerie Forman contends… READ MORE

Inventing the New Negro–Now Available

Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography Daphne Lamothe 256 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4093-1 | $55.00 | £36.00 Daphne Lamothe explores how many… READ MORE

Crossing Borders–Now Available

Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer 264 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4087-0 | $55.00 | £36.00 A volume… READ MORE

Engendering the Fall–Now Available

Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers Shannon Miller 304 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4086-3 | $65.00 | £42.50 Engendering the Fall argues… READ MORE