The Latest Early American Literature both negatively critiques how the latest scholarly receptions of early American literature differ insignificantly from the earliest ones and positively proposes how a transnationalist concession-that America's neocolonial culture lags behind that of Europe-might advance postmodern theorizing.
This diverse collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand. Their varied approaches-literary and cultural, historical and political, scientific and artistic-exemplify how his biographies of Byron and his edition of the letters and journals attract both academic and popular audiences.
The Other Rise of the Novel relies on new research concerning the relevance of bourgeois values and ideals in the early modern period in France to question the extent to which characters in works of fiction portray the rise of individualistic and self-interested behavior.
Literature and the English Catholic Community, 1688 - 1791
The Papist Represented situates eighteenth-century literature within the history and culture of the English Catholic community and its interactions with the nation's Protestant majority. It demonstrates Catholic influence on some of the period's most popular and experimental literary works, challenging the assumption that eighteenth-century ......
A Vocabulary Compiled for Esther Johnson and Copied in Her Own Hand
Appearing for this first time in print, Word-Book is Swift's dictionary of words and definitions for his protege Esther Johnson. The volume includes photographs from and a transcript of the original book. Supplementing the transcript are the editors notations showing Swift's corrections in Johnson's text, essays comparing Swift's dictionary to ......
A Richard Selzer Reader: Blood and Ink is a career-spanning collection, including major short stories and essays by the renowned doctor-author. In the 1960s, while practicing as a general surgeon and teaching surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, Richard Selzer began publishing unique creative work in magazines such as Harper's and Esquire. ......
French Intellectual Identity Reimagined, 1898 - 2000
Resentment and the Right explores the construction of a distinctive identity by intellectuals of the French extreme right that separated them from the mainstream or left-wing political and intellectual world. In doing so, it also provides new insight into several ongoing historiographical debates.
This volume presents in-depth and contextualized analyses of a wealth of visual materials. The images included in the book provide readers with a mesmerizing and informative glimpse into how the early modern world was interpreted by image-makers and presented to viewers during a period that spans from manuscript culture to the age of caricature.
Using the letter as its main evidence, Literary Sociability in Early Modern England examines early-modern English literary networks, focusing on the period 1620 to 1720, finding that author manuscripts were increasing understood as seedbeds of knowledge production and humanistic creativity and therefore as natural predecessors to print.
