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Reading the Literary Past
Critical History and the Interpretation of Early Modern Texts
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512829860
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
What Makes Islamic Literature Islamic?
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512828696
Pub Date: January 2026
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
Exploring literature in Arabic, Bengali, Persian, Punjabi, Urdu, Telugu, and Turkish, this collection of essays answers important questions about the place of religion in society, secularity and literature, the complexities of treating religion as a stable category, and its relationship to virtue, ethics, legitimacy and social hegemony.
Facsimile
Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512827057
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain, Facsimile shows how reproductions of medieval manuscripts were central to a renewal of interest in the Middle Ages in the public at large; the consolidation and emergence of scholarly disciplines; and the increase in institutions that cared for medieval manuscripts.
The First Last Man
Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812254020
Pub Date: April 2024
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Mary Shelley’s enduring contribution stems perhaps from the legacy of her lesser-known novel, The Last Man (1826). Reading Shelley’s fiction alongside her other writings, including her personal journals, Eileen M. Hunt reveals how Shelley gave rise to a tradition of postapocalyptic thought that asks: What do humans do after disaster?
Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography
The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512824155
Pub Date: January 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
In Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography, Stefan H. Uhlig turns to the decades around 1800 to show how three schools of literary study—rhetoric teaching, theories of poetry, and literary history—emerged and clashed during this time, offering near-contemporaneous, yet divergent, visions of how to understand literature.
Won in Translation
Textual Mobility in Early Modern Europe
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812253832
Pub Date: May 2022
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
In Won in Translation Roger Chartier considers the mobility of the early modern text and the plurality of circulating versions of the same work. The agent for both is translation, for through their lexical, aesthetic, and cultural decisions, translators always assign new meaning or new status to what they translate.
Reading the Literary Past
Critical History and the Interpretation of Early Modern Texts
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512829860
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
What Makes Islamic Literature Islamic?
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512828696
Pub Date: January 2026
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
Exploring literature in Arabic, Bengali, Persian, Punjabi, Urdu, Telugu, and Turkish, this collection of essays answers important questions about the place of religion in society, secularity and literature, the complexities of treating religion as a stable category, and its relationship to virtue, ethics, legitimacy and social hegemony.
Facsimile
Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512827057
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain, Facsimile shows how reproductions of medieval manuscripts were central to a renewal of interest in the Middle Ages in the public at large; the consolidation and emergence of scholarly disciplines; and the increase in institutions that cared for medieval manuscripts.
The First Last Man
Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812254020
Pub Date: April 2024
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Mary Shelley’s enduring contribution stems perhaps from the legacy of her lesser-known novel, The Last Man (1826). Reading Shelley’s fiction alongside her other writings, including her personal journals, Eileen M. Hunt reveals how Shelley gave rise to a tradition of postapocalyptic thought that asks: What do humans do after disaster?
Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography
The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512824155
Pub Date: January 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
In Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography, Stefan H. Uhlig turns to the decades around 1800 to show how three schools of literary study—rhetoric teaching, theories of poetry, and literary history—emerged and clashed during this time, offering near-contemporaneous, yet divergent, visions of how to understand literature.
Won in Translation
Textual Mobility in Early Modern Europe
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812253832
Pub Date: May 2022
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
In Won in Translation Roger Chartier considers the mobility of the early modern text and the plurality of circulating versions of the same work. The agent for both is translation, for through their lexical, aesthetic, and cultural decisions, translators always assign new meaning or new status to what they translate.