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Public Acoustics
The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime Literature
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512829471
Pub Date: May 2026
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Proust's Songbook
Songs and Their Uses
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512825961
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Jennifer Rushworth argues for a new approach to Proust’s novel, reading it as a “songbook” because of its intermittent but intense engagement with song. She uncovers multiple Proustian uses of song, and shows how these are linked by desire, memory, repetition, and different kinds of resistance.
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.
Engaging the Ottoman Empire
Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512825534
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
496 Pages
Daniel O'Quinn investigates the complex interpersonal, political, and aesthetic relationships between Europeans and Ottomans in the long eighteenth century. Richly illustrated and provocatively argued, Engaging the Ottoman Empire demonstrates that study of the Ottoman world is vital to understanding European modernity.
Sex Lives
Intimate Infrastructures in Early Modernity
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512824605
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Showing how sex, including sexual racism, structured everyday life in early modernity, Sex Lives reshapes how we understand Renaissance literature, the history of sexuality, and the meaning of sex in both early modern Europe and our own moment.
Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries
Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812225297
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Paperback
432 Pages
Stand back, cries farce, because this is not the Church's Middle Ages! From perverted monks to pregnant nuns, there is nothing sacred at the early French theater, especially the sacred. But, with a good strong dose of feminist staging, its searing satires can still come alive today.
Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries
Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English
ISBN: 9781512823943
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: eBook
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.
Heinrich von Kleist
Studies in His Works and Literary Character
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781512829822
Pub Date: January 1962
Format: Hardcover
A collection of new and previously published essays by Walter Silz, a lifelong scholar of Heinrich von Kleist.
Public Acoustics
The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime Literature
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512829471
Pub Date: May 2026
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Proust's Songbook
Songs and Their Uses
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512825961
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Jennifer Rushworth argues for a new approach to Proust’s novel, reading it as a “songbook” because of its intermittent but intense engagement with song. She uncovers multiple Proustian uses of song, and shows how these are linked by desire, memory, repetition, and different kinds of resistance.
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.
Engaging the Ottoman Empire
Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512825534
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
496 Pages
Daniel O'Quinn investigates the complex interpersonal, political, and aesthetic relationships between Europeans and Ottomans in the long eighteenth century. Richly illustrated and provocatively argued, Engaging the Ottoman Empire demonstrates that study of the Ottoman world is vital to understanding European modernity.
Sex Lives
Intimate Infrastructures in Early Modernity
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512824605
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Showing how sex, including sexual racism, structured everyday life in early modernity, Sex Lives reshapes how we understand Renaissance literature, the history of sexuality, and the meaning of sex in both early modern Europe and our own moment.
Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries
Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812225297
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Paperback
432 Pages
Stand back, cries farce, because this is not the Church's Middle Ages! From perverted monks to pregnant nuns, there is nothing sacred at the early French theater, especially the sacred. But, with a good strong dose of feminist staging, its searing satires can still come alive today.
Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries
Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English
ISBN: 9781512823943
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: eBook
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.
Heinrich von Kleist
Studies in His Works and Literary Character
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781512829822
Pub Date: January 1962
Format: Hardcover
A collection of new and previously published essays by Walter Silz, a lifelong scholar of Heinrich von Kleist.