Cultural studies breaks down traditional boundaries between disciplines, between high and low culture, and between public and private culture in order to study the nature of cultural constructions. The body, gender, and sexuality are seen as discursive constructions related in complex ways to their social context. The New Cultural Studies series is committed to providing a forum for new works that explore these issues. The series is closed to new submissions.
Edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté and Jean-Michel Rabaté
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812215960
Pub Date: July 1997
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Contributors examine the import of Barthes's shifting positions on photography and visual representation and the impact of his work on current developments in cultural studies and theories of the media and popular culture.
In Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, scholars illuminate the sometimes surprising issues at stake in such common matters of daily life as mirrors, books, horses, money, laundry baskets, graffiti, embroidery, and food during the Renaissance in England and on the Continent.
"A feminist analysis of the writing of the fifteenth-century English mystic, showing how Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text, violated taboos, and responded to the constraints of her time."—Book News, Inc.
Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 172-185
Rajani Sudan
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812236569
Pub Date: July 2002
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
"An original and elegant work that will make signal contributions to the fields of eighteenth-century studies and Romanticism, and to the study of British nationalism and colonialism."—Adela Pinch, University of Michigan
Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value
Paul Yachnin
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812233957
Pub Date: May 1997
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
"Yachnin's implicit claim here is that Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton in effect created the basic institutions of the commercial theater along with the social habitus of the cultural consumer. An important and badly needed contribution to the field of early modern studies."—Michael Bristol, McGill University
"Well argued, clearly written, with interesting emphases and ambitious breadth, this excellent book maintains a uniformly high level of scholarship."—Choice
Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer
Roger Chartier
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812215465
Pub Date: September 1995
Format: Paperback
144 Pages
In Forms and Meanings, Chartier explores what effect changes in form will have on the way we come to know texts in the future, placing his projections within a larger historical perspective that spans from stone tablet to Guttenberg bible and beyond.
Barbara Leckie mines novels, newspapers, and court and parliamentary records to explore how adultery became visible in the public sphere in the second half of the nineteenth century and how the history of the Victorian novel is revised when the culture's concern with adultery and censorship is brought into focus.
