Category: Literature & Cultural Studies

Reading Women–Now Available

11/14/2007

Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 Edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Cloth… READ MORE

Fallible Authors–Now Available

11/13/2007

Fallible Authors: Chaucer’s Pardoner and Wife of Bath Alastair Minnis 528 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4030-6 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in… READ MORE

Medicine Bundle–Now Available

11/02/2007

Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824-1932 Joshua David Bellin 272 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4034-4 | $55.00 | £36.00 Joshua David Bellin… READ MORE

Shamelessly Disorderly Reading

10/18/2007

If your leisure reading habits have been a bit haphazard lately, you are in good company. In a recent essay for Common-place, Matthew P. Brown shamelessly admits to grazing magazines… READ MORE

Performing Patriotism–Now Available

09/18/2007

Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater Jason Shaffer 264 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4024-5 | $45.00 | £29.50 A volume… READ MORE

Goodbye, Alex

09/12/2007

In Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World’s Most Talkative Bird, Bruce Thomas Boehrer quotes a short but telling conversation about nuts. Alex: Wanna nut.Irene: Want another one? How… READ MORE