New Cultural Studies – serie
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Complexion of Race
Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture
E-bok, 2010
559 kr
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In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being "Black as Coal." Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-century Britons-but neither was the statement that followed: "here, …
Writing the Image After Roland Barthes
E-bok, 2012
477 kr
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In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once an elegy to his dead mother and a treatise on photography. In Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, Jean-Michel RabatÉ and nineteen contributors …
Holy Wednesday
A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico
E-bok, 2010
562 kr
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Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. In Holy Wednesday, Louise Burkhart presents side-by-side English translations of the Nahuatl play and its Spanish source. An accompanying commentary analyzes the differences …
Ravishing Maidens
Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law
E-bok, 2010
488 kr
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In this study of sexual violence and rape in French medieval literature and law, Kathryn Gravdal examines an array of famous works never before analyzed in connection with sexual violence. Gravdal demonstrates the variety of techniques through which medieval discourse made rape acceptable: …
Forms and Meanings
Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer
E-bok, 2010
422 kr
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In this provocative work, Roger Chartier continues his extraordinarily influential consideration of the forms of production, dissemination, and interpretation of discourse in Early Modern Europe. Chartier here examines the relationship between patronage and the market, and explores how the form in …
Warm Brothers
Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe
Av Robert Tobin
E-bok, 2015
1050 kr
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In eighteenth-century Germany, the aesthetician Friedrich Wilhelm Basileus Ramdohr could write of the phenomenon of men who evoke sexual desire in other men; Johann Joachim Winckelmann could place admiration of male beauty at the center of his art criticism; and admirers and detractors alike of …
Fair Exotics
Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 172-185
Av Rajani Sudan
E-bok, 2013
1125 kr
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Arguing that the major hallmarks of Romantic literature-inwardness, emphasis on subjectivity, the individual authorship of selves and texts-were forged during the Enlightenment, Rajani Sudan traces the connections between literary sensibility and British encounters with those persons, ideas, and …
Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh
E-bok, 2012
489 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rather with the flesh, that disruptive aspect of body and soul which Augustine claimed was fissured with the Fall of Man. It is within this framework that …
Material London, Ca. 1600
E-bok, 2012
621 kr
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Between 1500 and 1700, London grew from a minor national capital to the largest city in Europe. The defining period of growth was the period from 1550 to 1650, the midpoint of which coincided with the end of Elizabeth I's reign and the height of Shakespeare's theatrical career.In Material London, …
Ravishing Maidens
Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law
Häftad, 1991
384 kr
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In this study of sexual violence and rape in French medieval literature and law, Kathryn Gravdal examines an array of famous works never before analyzed in connection with sexual violence. Gravdal demonstrates the variety of techniques through which medieval discourse made rape acceptable: …
Exotic Women
Literary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancient Regime France
Häftad, 1992
384 kr
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Julia V. Douthwaite describes the interrelated representations of cultural and sexual difference in key French works of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The heroines of this book are foreign women, brought to France through no will of their own, and forced into the margins of a new …
Shakespeare Trade
Performances and Appropriations
Häftad, 1998
449 kr
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In 1623 Ben Jonson touted Shakespeare as the soul of his age; three centuries later, a newspaper advertisement used Shakespeare's reputation to market Budweiser, "The King of All Bottled Beers." Spanning the past hundred years, The Shakespeare Trade looks at how present-day representations of …
Bodytalk
When Women Speak in Old French Literature
Häftad, 1993
384 kr
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Contemporary feminist readers have argued that old French literary representations of women-from the excessively beautiful lady of courtly romance to the lascivious shrew of fabliau and farce-are the products of misogynous male imagination and fantasy.In Bodytalk, E. Jane Burns contends that female …
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women
Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
Häftad, 1992
317 kr
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In Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, Jayne Ann Krentz and the contributors to this volume-all best-selling romance writers-explode myths and biases that haunt both the writers and readers of romances.In this seamless, ultimately fascinating, and controversial book, the authors dispute some of …
Case of Peter Pan, or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction
Häftad, 1992
555 kr
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Peter Pan, Jacqueline Rose contends, forces us to question what it is we are doing in the endless production and dissemination of children's fiction. In a preface, written for this edition, Rose considers some of Peter Pan's new guises and their implications. From Spielberg's Hook, to the lesbian …
Cultural Politics - Queer Reading
Häftad, 1994
483 kr
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Was Shakespeare gay? Is The Merchant of Venice anti-Semitic? How does mainstream reading differ from that of subcultural groups? In this lively and readable book, Alan Sinfield challenges the assumptions of English literature and investigates the principles and practices that may inform lesbian and …
Forms and Meanings
Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer
Häftad, 1995
317 kr
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In this provocative work, Roger Chartier continues his extraordinarily influential consideration of the forms of production, dissemination, and interpretation of discourse in Early Modern Europe. Chartier here examines the relationship between patronage and the market, and explores how the form in …
Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh
Häftad, 1994
390 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rather with the flesh, that disruptive aspect of body and soul which Augustine claimed was fissured with the Fall of Man. It is within this framework that …
Postmodern Apocalypse
Theory and Cultural Practice at the End
Häftad, 1995
390 kr
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From accounts of the Holocaust, to representations of AIDS, to predictions of environmental disaster; from Hal Lindsey's fundamentalist 1970s bestseller The Late Great Planet Earth, to Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man in 1992, the sense of apocalypse is very much with us. In …
Holy Wednesday
A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico
Häftad, 1996
449 kr
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Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. In Holy Wednesday, Louise Burkhart presents side-by-side English translations of the Nahuatl play and its Spanish source. An accompanying commentary analyzes the differences …
Writing the Image After Roland Barthes
Häftad, 1997
384 kr
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In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once an elegy to his dead mother and a treatise on photography. In Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, Jean-Michel RabatÉ and nineteen contributors …
Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time
Häftad, 1997
475 kr
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Nina Auerbach brilliantly reveals the Ellen Terry whose roles, on stage and off, embodied everything that a rapidly changing world exhorted women to be.
Renaissance Culture and the Everyday
Av Patricia Fumerton, Simon Hunt
Häftad, 1998
402 kr
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It was not unusual during the Renaissance for cooks to torture animals before slaughtering them in order to render the meat more tender, for women to use needlepoint to cover up their misconduct and prove their obedience, and for people to cover the walls of their own homes with graffiti.Items and …
Perennial Decay
On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadance
Av Liz Constable, Dennis Denisoff m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
449 kr
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When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was "not a man or a woman in the English-speaking world possessed of the treasure of a wholesome mind who is not under a deep debt of gratitude to the marquis of Queensberry for …
Material London, Ca. 1600
Häftad, 2000
519 kr
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Between 1500 and 1700, London grew from a minor national capital to the largest city in Europe. The defining period of growth was the period from 1550 to 1650, the midpoint of which coincided with the end of Elizabeth I's reign and the height of Shakespeare's theatrical career.In Material London, …
Complexion of Race
Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture
Häftad, 2000
616 kr
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In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being "Black as Coal." Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-century Britons-but neither was the statement that followed: "here, …
Early Modern Visual Culture
Representation, Race, and Empire in Renaissance England
Av Peter Erickson, Clark Hulse
Häftad, 2000
519 kr
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An interdisciplinary group of scholars applies the reinterpretive concept of "visual culture" to the English Renaissance. Bringing attention to the visual issues that have appeared persistently, though often marginally, in the newer criticisms of the last decade, the authors write in a diversity of …
Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England
Literature, Culture, Kinship, and Kingship
Inbunden, 1992
857 kr
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In Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England, Bruce Thomas Boehrer argues that a preoccupation with incest is built not the dominant social and cultural concerns of early modern England. Proceeding from a study of Henry III's divorce and succession legislation, through the reigns of Elizabeth I, …
Novel Possibilities
Fiction and the Formation of Early Victorian Culture
Inbunden, 1995
923 kr
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Joseph Childers contends that novels such as Benjamin Disraeli's Coningsby, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, and Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke were in direct competition with other forms of public discourse for interpretive dominance of their age. Childers examines the interactions between the …
Language of the Heart, 1600-1750
Inbunden, 1997
923 kr
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In The Motion of the Heart and Blood (1653), William Harvey had set forth the scientific model of a phallic, generative organ pumping blood through a feminized body; in Paradise Lost, it is through the protracted rape and violation of Eve's heart that the Fall of Man occurs; nearly a century later …
