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Internationally distinguished in Iberian, Latin American, Irish and 18th-century studies, Bucknell University Press has been publishing in the arts, humanities and social sciences for more than 50 years. Showing 61-72 of 136 items.
Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World
The Stoke Newington Edition
Bucknell University Press
This collection of essays commenting on the themes of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is invaluable for understanding Defoe’s attitudes toward these particular works and toward his fiction in general.
- Copyright year: 2022
Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction
Bucknell University Press
Edna O’Brien and the Art of Fiction provides an urgent retrospective consideration of one of the English-speaking world’s best-selling and most prolific contemporary authors. This study considers the pioneering ways O’Brien represents women’s experience, family relationships, the natural world, sex, creativity, and death, and her work’s long anticipation of movements such as #metoo.
- Copyright year: 2022
A Clubbable Man
Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham
Edited by Anthony W. Lee
Bucknell University Press
Gathering essays by some of the most distinguished scholars in eighteenth-century studies, A Clubbable Man takes as its theme textual and social group formations, while simultaneously honoring the achievements of Greg Clingham. Rounding out the collection are tributes from former students and colleagues, including original poetry.
- Copyright year: 2022
Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Bucknell University Press
Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World examines portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck’s symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates.
- Copyright year: 2022
The Complete Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (3 vol set)
The Stoke Newington Editions
Bucknell University Press
A three-volume set of the definitive Stoke Newington Editions of Robinson Crusoe. The novels and essays with introductions, line notes, and full bibliographical notes. Includes: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World.
- Copyright year: 2021
Founders of the Future
The Science and Industry of Spanish Modernization
Bucknell University Press
In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shaped cultural and national discourses in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain. Here, Useche offers fresh readings of canonical writers such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Concha Espina, Benito Pérez Galdós, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and José Echegaray as well as lesser known authors.
- Copyright year: 2022
Oriental Networks
Culture, Commerce, and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century
Edited by Bärbel Czennia and Greg Clingham
Bucknell University Press
Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century. Contributors discuss relationships between individuals and institutions as precursors to modern networks as they facilitated the exchange of cultural commodities (plants, animals, and artifacts), practices, and ideas. Highlighting ambiguities and unexpected outcomes of networking, the volume adds historical perspective to our understanding of globalization.
- Copyright year: 2021
Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District
A Geographical Text Analysis
By Joanna E. Taylor and Ian N. Gregory
Bucknell University Press
Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District pioneers, implements, and critiques a new approach to literary analysis in the digital age. Focusing on a corpus of writing about the English Lake District from 1622-1900, this study exemplifies how geospatial tools can enhance our appreciation of the literary geographies that condition the way we perceive and respond to landscapes.
- Copyright year: 2022
The Limits of Familiarity
Authorship and Romantic Readers
Bucknell University Press
The Limits of Familiarity analyzes the intensely personal feelings that Romantic-era readers came to have for authors. Contributing to reception studies, celebrity studies, and literary history, this book reveals how anxieties about the cultural value of familiarity shaped both Romanticism and conceptions of authorship.
- Copyright year: 2022
Dystopias of Infamy
Insult and Collective Identity in Early Modern Spain
Bucknell University Press
Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century religious, political, and literary texts, including the works of Cervantes, Dystopias of Infamy reconsiders how insults and infamy were imagined as potential sites of resistance to subjectification in early modern Spain.
- Copyright year: 2022
Political Affairs of the Heart
Female Travel Writers, the Sentimental Travelogue, and Revolution, 1775-1800
Bucknell University Press
By examining four sentimental travelogues written by British women travelers during the American and French Revolutions, Political Affairs of the Heart argues that this genre, by combining eyewitness authority with the language of sensibility, constitutes a significant site of women’s engagement in national and gender politics.
- Copyright year: 2022
Dante in Deutschland
An Itinerary of Romantic Myth
Bucknell University Press
Around 1800, German Romantics fixated on Dante’s Divine Comedy as a model for the creation of a new mythology of reason. This book traces that fixation across Romantic and Neo-Romantic texts, showing how the Romantic Dante cult in fact generated ominous amalgams of art, myth, and fascism in the twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 2022
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