Bucknell University Press
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 97-108 of 136 items.
Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities
Edited by Jeremy Chow
Bucknell University Press
This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection demonstrates how eighteenth-century studies can be taught through the lens of the environmental humanities. Activating topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism to interpret eighteenth-century literature and culture, each essay includes recommendations for innovative teaching and learning.
- Copyright year: 2023
Families of the Heart
Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
By Ann Campbell
Bucknell University Press
Families of the Heart introduces surrogate families as a new literary device for analyzing a set of novels by Defoe, Richardson, Haywood, and Burney. This radical convention with its feminist and egalitarian potential, Campbell argues, allowed female protagonists to navigate the social world before and beyond marriage across the long eighteenth century.
- Copyright year: 2023
Reading Homer's Iliad
Bucknell University Press
Reading Homer’s "Iliad" is a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s major themes, meant to inform students new to the work. Endnotes elaborate on myths Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume includes a general bibliography, in addition to bibliographies accompanying each book’s commentary.
- Copyright year: 2023
Planet Work
Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene
Edited by Ryan Hediger
Bucknell University Press
Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years. Yet, surprisingly, work norms have not been sufficiently interrogated for their profound roles in climate change and other crises gathered under the term “Anthropocene.” Essays in this book expose deep flaws in ideas of work and investigate leisure practices for (sometimes radically) alternative ways of life.
- Copyright year: 2023
Velocipedomania
A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France
By Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden
Bucknell University Press
The immediate forerunner of the bicycle, the velocipede inspired a cultural craze in late 1860s France that reflected changing cultural attitudes and challenged gender norms. Velocipedomania is the first in-depth study of this fad and the popular culture it inspired, including translations and illustrations from rare texts.
- Copyright year: 2023
British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830
Edited by Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon
Bucknell University Press
British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 examines the relationship between literature and technology in two directions: not only the impact of technology on Enlightenment British literature, but also the impact of literature on conceptions of, attitudes toward, and implementations of technology in the period.
- Copyright year: 2023
British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830
Edited by Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon
Bucknell University Press
British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 examines the relationship between literature and technology in two directions: not only the impact of technology on Enlightenment British literature, but also the impact of literature on conceptions of, attitudes toward, and implementations of technology in the period.
- Copyright year: 2023
Mayaya Rising
Black Female Icons in Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Culture
By Dawn Duke
Bucknell University Press
This work of restorative scholarship centers and honors Afro-Latin American heroines present in the work of Cuban, Dominican, Columbian, and Nicaraguan women writers, and the reception of their work by literary critics. Three literary case studies explore the archetypal regional figures of Teodora and Micaela Ginés, Miss Lizzie, and the palenqueras.
- Copyright year: 2023
The Aesthetics of Kinship
Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century
Bucknell University Press
The Aesthetics of Kinship interrupts discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations in literature of the period, this book complicates assumptions about the linear development of modern social, political, and aesthetic forms and presents a more heterogeneous view of the eighteenth-century literary social world.
- Copyright year: 2023
Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama
Reception and Afterlives
By Amy Garnai
Bucknell University Press
Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama reintroduces Holcroft as a central figure in the 1790s and beyond. His life is examined alongside his plays, memoir, diary, and personal correspondence, along with the critical and popular response to his radical drama, showing how theater functions in times of political repression. Holcroft’s robust afterlife is also discussed, especially his play The Road to Ruin, revived worldwide throughout the nineteenth century.
- Copyright year: 2023
1650-1850
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 28)
Edited by Kevin L. Cope and Samara Anne Cahill
Bucknell University Press
1650–1850 combines fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy. Packed with essays by prominent as well as upcoming scholars, volume 28 delivers two innovative special features: one venturing around the delightfully futuristic world of adaptation and digitization, with special emphasis on the legacy of Laurence Sterne, and one probing the elusively entertaining, energetically enigmatic legacy of philosopher-poet Bernard Mandeville. Enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews.
- Copyright year: 2023
The Secret Life of Things
Animals, Objects, and It-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England
Edited by Mark Blackwell
Bucknell University Press
The essays in The Secret Life of Things approach it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike, from various theoretical and historical vantage points. While sketching the cultural biography of a neglected literary form, these wide-ranging essays both enrich and complicate the history of prose fiction in the second half of the eighteenth century.
- Copyright year: 2023
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