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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Aesthetic Border
Colombian Literature in the Face of Globalization
Bucknell University Press
This groundbreaking study examines how modern Colombian literature—from Gabriel García Márquez to Juan Gabriel Vásquez—reflects one of the world’s most tumultuous entrances into globalization. While these literary icons, one canonical, the other emergent, bookend Colombia’s fall and rise on the world stage, the period between the two was inordinately violent, spanning the Colombian urban novel’s evolution into narco-literature.
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.
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.
1650-1850
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 27)
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. Volume 27 expands around a landmark special feature on worlds and worldmaking—on the imagining of new, exotic, unexplored, ideal, and utopian worlds ranging from south sea islands to polar utopias to zones of intercultural encounter to the conjectural territories of interpretive cartography. Enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews.
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.
Screen Time
Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age
Edited by Richard Rinehart, with Phillip Prodger
Bucknell University Press
Published on the occasion of the art exhibition Screen Time: Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age, this catalog features a selection of leading international artists whose work engages with and critiques the role of media in contemporary society.
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.
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.
Hannah Whitman Heyde
The Complete Correspondence
Edited by Maire Mullins; By Hannah Whitman Heyde [1823-1908]
Bucknell University Press
The correspondence of Hannah Whitman Heyde (1823-1908), younger sister of poet Walt Whitman, provides a rare glimpse into the life of a nineteenth-century woman. Married to well-known Vermont landscape artist Charles Louis Heyde (1820-1892), Hannah documented in letters to her mother, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman (1795-1873), and other family members, her lived experience of ongoing physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband.
The Unexpected Dante
Perspectives on the Divine Comedy
Edited by Lucia Alma Wolf
Bucknell University Press
The Unexpected Dante brings together five leading scholars who offer fresh perspectives on the interpretation and reception of The Divine Comedy. Some explore the poem’s esoteric allusions to topics ranging from musical instruments to Roman law, while others illustrate the depth and variety of this literary masterpiece’s global influence over the past seven centuries.
Published by Bucknell University Press in association with the Library of Congress. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Published by Bucknell University Press in association with the Library of Congress. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
The Unexpected Dante
Perspectives on the Divine Comedy
Edited by Lucia Alma Wolf
Bucknell University Press
The Unexpected Dante brings together five leading scholars who offer fresh perspectives on the interpretation and reception of The Divine Comedy. Some explore the poem’s esoteric allusions to topics ranging from musical instruments to Roman law, while others illustrate the depth and variety of this literary masterpiece’s global influence over the past seven centuries.
Published by Bucknell University Press in association with the Library of Congress. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Published by Bucknell University Press in association with the Library of Congress. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The Stoke Newington Edition
Bucknell University Press
Defoe’s The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe—presented here independent of its famous predecessor, The Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe—is an exciting adventure novel by itself. Crusoe returns to his island to learn about his colony, and then travels to Madagascar, India, and China before returning to England after some exciting encounters. Complete with an introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes, this is an edition like no other.
White Light
The Poetry of Alberto Blanco
Bucknell University Press
White Light: The Poetry of Alberto Blanco explores the interplay of complementary images and concepts in A la luz de siempre, the Mexican writer and visual artist's vast trilogy of poems from 1979-2018. By focusing on listening and seeing, Blanco's highly interdisciplinary poetry transforms his inspirations into the inspiration of his readers.
Two Women
A Novel
Translated by Barbara F. Ichiishi; By Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814-1873); Introduction by Brígida M. Pastor
Bucknell University Press
The first openly feminist novel published in Spanish, Two Women tells the riveting tale of a tumultuous love triangle among a brilliant, young, widowed countess, her inexperienced lover, and his pure and virtuous wife. This first English translation captures the lyrical romanticism of the novel’s prose and includes a scholarly introduction to the author and her work.
Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France
Edited by Fayçal Falaky and Reginald McGinnis
Bucknell University Press
This collection of essays brings together different critical perspectives on play in eighteenth-century France. From dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries to the ludic nature of narrative and theatrical performance, this volume offers a new outlook on how play was used to represent and reimagine the world.
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