The Transnational Emergence of Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
Pamela L. Cheek
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826166
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
In Heroines and Local Girls, Pamela L. Cheek explores the rise of women's writing as a distinct, transnational category in Britain and Europe over the long eighteenth century, characterized by stories about heroines who transcend their gendered destiny.
Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England
Ingrid Nelson
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512824803
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
In Lyric Tactics, Ingrid Nelson argues that the lyric poetry of later medieval England is a distinct genre defined not by its poetic features—rhyme, meter, and stanza forms—but by its modes of writing and performance, which are ad hoc, improvisatory, and situational.
Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States
Derrick R. Spires
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512824469
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Paperback
352 Pages
The Practice of Citizenship traces the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship. Considering a variety of texts by both canonical and lesser-known authors, Derrick R. Spires demonstrates how black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship.
Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America
Gordon Fraser
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812252927
Pub Date: June 2021
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
In Star Territory Gordon Fraser charts how the project of rationalizing the cosmos enabled the nineteenth-century expansion of U.S. territory and explores the alternative and resistant cosmologies of free and enslaved Blacks and indigenous peoples.
The first study of the poetics of vocational crisis in Langland, Hoccleve, and Audelay, and many unattributed works, The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry discusses class, meritocracy, the gig economy, precarity, and the breaking of intellectual elites, speaking to both past and present employment urgencies.
Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England
Katherine Eggert
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224856
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
368 Pages
Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of humanistic learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the benefits of relying on alchemy despite its recognized flaws.
The Strangers Book explores how a constellation of nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger.
Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670-1850
Miranda Eva Stanyon
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812253085
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
What does the sublime sound like? Miranda Stanyon traces competing varieties of the sublime, a crucial modern aesthetic category, as shaped by the antagonistic intimacies between music and language. In resounding the history of the sublime over the course of the long eighteenth century, she finds a phenomenon always already resonant.
With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources dating from antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment and concerned with the natural world and humankind's place within it, The Marvels of the World offers a corrective to the still-prevalent tendency to dismiss premodern attitudes toward nature as simple or univocal.
A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century France
Raisa Adah Rexer
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812252866
Pub Date: March 2021
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Between 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form were produced in France. Drawing upon government records, legal decisions, newspaper accounts, and contemporary literature, Raisa Adah Rexer recounts the history of these images and elucidates their immense cultural and artistic reach.
