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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.
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.
The Quotable Voltaire
Bucknell University Press
This unique illustrated volume collects over 800 examples of Voltaire’s wit and wisdom, on topics from adultery to Zoroaster, in both English and French. Along with a scholarly essay on Voltaire’s life and legacy, it also features more than 400 quotes about Voltaire, by everyone from Catherine the Great to Mike Tyson.
The Age of Johnson
A Scholarly Annual (Volume 24)
Edited by Jack Lynch and J. T. Scanlan
Bucknell University Press
Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian topics: his reaction to Milton, his relation to the Allen family, his notes in his edition of Shakespeare, his use of Oliver Goldsmith in his Dictionary, and his always fascinating Nachleben. The volume also includes articles on topics of strong interest to Johnson: penal reform, Charlotte Lennox's professional literary career, and the "conjectural history" of Homer in the eighteenth century.
Testimony
Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone
By Shanee Stepakoff; Foreword by Ernest D. Cole
Bucknell University Press
Derived from transcripts of public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone, this remarkable poetry collection delicately extracts heartbreaking human stories from the morass of legal jargon. Shanee Stepakoff finds a novel way to communicate not only the suffering of Sierra Leone’s people, but also their courage, dignity, and resilience.
1650-1850
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 26)
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. Readers of Volume 26 will explore the response among British women writers to Islam, female religious enthusiasts, theories of monarchy, famous authors living in villages, and a special feature on metaphor in the Enlightenment. Enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews.
Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years
Edited by Andreas K. E. Mueller and Glynis Ridley
Bucknell University Press
This wide-ranging collection brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking about the 1719 publications The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and who ask us to consider the enduring appeal of “Crusoe,” more recognizable today than ever before.
Latin American Literature at the Millennium
Local Lives, Global Spaces
Bucknell University Press
Latin American Literature at the Millennium studies canonical and peripheral literary texts that complicate links between locality and geographical place, revealing new configurations of the local. It explores the region’s transition into the twenty-first century and evaluates Latin American authors’ reconciliation of conflicting forces in their construction of everyday places and modes of belonging.
Calila
The Later Novels of Carmen Martín Gaite
Bucknell University Press
This is the first comprehensive study of the later novels of Spain’s most honored contemporary woman writer. Brown shares unpublished letters and conversations with Carmen Martín Gaite—a dear friend whom she called Calila—to elucidate her last six novels, all of which explore themes that are highly relevant today.
Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843
Edited by Misty Krueger
Bucknell University Press
This collection examines images of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers in historical and literary works. The volume features women of a variety of races, ethnicities, and social classes traveling in all directions of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the people they encounter in their travels and residences.
Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843
Edited by Misty Krueger
Bucknell University Press
This collection examines images of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers in historical and literary works. The volume features women of a variety of races, ethnicities, and social classes traveling in all directions of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the people they encounter in their travels and residences.
Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey
A Legacy to the World
Edited by W. B. Gerard and M-C. Newbould
Bucknell University Press
Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed more accessible than Sterne’s Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and often assigned as a college text, A Sentimental Journey has received its share of critical attention, but—unlike Tristram Shandy—to date it has not been the subject of a dedicated anthology of critical essays. This volume fills that much-needed gap with fresh perspectives on Sterne’s novel that will appeal to students and critics alike. Together with an introduction that situates each essay within A Sentimental Journey’s reception history, and a tailpiece detailing the culmination of Sterne’s career and his death, this volume presents a cohesive approach to this significant text that is simultaneously grounded and revelatory.
Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey
A Legacy to the World
Edited by W. B. Gerard and M-C. Newbould
Bucknell University Press
Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed more accessible than Sterne’s Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and often assigned as a college text, A Sentimental Journey has received its share of critical attention, but—unlike Tristram Shandy—to date it has not been the subject of a dedicated anthology of critical essays. This volume fills that much-needed gap with fresh perspectives on Sterne’s novel that will appeal to students and critics alike. Together with an introduction that situates each essay within A Sentimental Journey’s reception history, and a tailpiece detailing the culmination of Sterne’s career and his death, this volume presents a cohesive approach to this significant text that is simultaneously grounded and revelatory.
Exemplary Violence
Rewriting History in Colonial Colombia
Bucknell University Press
Exemplary Violence explores the violent colonial history of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela) by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts—Pedro Simón’s Noticias historiales, Juan Rodríguez Freile’s El carnero, and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita’s Historia general—each of which reveals the colonizer’s reliance on the threat of violence to sustain order.
Boswell and the Press
Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell
Edited by Donald J. Newman
Bucknell University Press
Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets, and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he worked influenced what he wrote and how he wrote it. This book will also be of interest to historians of journalism and the publishing industry of eighteenth-century Britain.
Boswell and the Press
Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell
Edited by Donald J. Newman
Bucknell University Press
Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets, and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he worked influenced what he wrote and how he wrote it. This book will also be of interest to historians of journalism and the publishing industry of eighteenth-century Britain.
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.
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.
Hemispheres and Stratospheres
The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment
Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Bucknell University Press
Hemispheres and Stratospheres offers eight essays that address the art, literature, science, and politics of distance during the long eighteenth century. This volume celebrates the intercontinental expansiveness of Enlightenment distance culture—a culture that continues to encourage modern pursuits such as space travel, tourism, telecommunication, multiculturalism, and international research collaboration.
Hemispheres and Stratospheres
The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment
Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Bucknell University Press
Hemispheres and Stratospheres offers eight essays that address the art, literature, science, and politics of distance during the long eighteenth century. This volume celebrates the intercontinental expansiveness of Enlightenment distance culture—a culture that continues to encourage modern pursuits such as space travel, tourism, telecommunication, multiculturalism, and international research collaboration.
Association and Enlightenment
Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830
Bucknell University Press
Association and Enlightenment focuses on the distinctive and complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. This edited volume offers a new approach to their history, bringing together the polite culture of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment with the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.
Indiscreet Fantasies
Iberian Queer Cinema
Edited by Andrés Lema-Hincapié and Conxita Domènech
Bucknell University Press
Offering in-depth analyses of fifteen different queer films from the Iberian Peninsula, this collection shows how a diverse group of filmmakers from regions including Catalonia, Portugal, Castile, Galicia, and the Basque Country have produced films that challenge the region’s conservative religious values and gender norms, while intervening in vital debates about politics, history, and nation.
Writing Home
A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier; the Letters of Emma Botham Alderson
Edited by Donald Ingram Ulin; By Emma Alderson
Bucknell University Press
Writing Home is the critically annotated correspondence of Emma Alderson, an 1840s immigrant from England to Ohio, mingling details of daily life with observations on slavery, American customs, religious communities, the impending war with Mexico, and more. Ending with Alderson’s death in 1847, the letters formed the basis for Mary Howitt’s popular children’s book Our Cousins in Ohio (1849).
Paper, Ink, and Achievement
Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship
Edited by Kevin L. Cope and Cedric D. Reverand II
Bucknell University Press
AMS Press president Gabriel Hornstein stimulated the revival of “long” eighteenth-century studies, sponsoring countless publications while creating a global audience for an obscure specialty. Paper, Ink, and Achievement celebrates Hornstein through three sets of essays evaluating the influence of publishers on cultural legacies; the effect of book enthusiasts on literary canons; and favorite long-eighteenth-century literary modes. Paper, Ink, and Achievement commemorates a publishing magnate whose temperate energy propelled his favorite discipline in multitudinous new directions.
Mormons in Paris
Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892
Edited by Corry Cropper and Christopher M. Flood; Translated by Corry Cropper and Christopher M. Flood
Bucknell University Press
These are the first English translations of four popular French musical comedies about Mormons: Mormons in Paris (1874), Berthelier Meets the Mormons (1875), Japheth’s Twelve Wives (1890), and Stephana’s Jewel (1892). The book’s introduction and notes contextualize the plays, examining how Mormons were depicted by French playwrights, and connecting France’s shifting social landscape to representations of this new and controversial American religion.
Mormons in Paris
Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892
Edited by Corry Cropper and Christopher M. Flood; Translated by Corry Cropper and Christopher M. Flood
Bucknell University Press
These are the first English translations of four popular French musical comedies about Mormons: Mormons in Paris (1874), Berthelier Meets the Mormons (1875), Japheth’s Twelve Wives (1890), and Stephana’s Jewel (1892). The book’s introduction and notes contextualize the plays, examining how Mormons were depicted by French playwrights, and connecting France’s shifting social landscape to representations of this new and controversial American religion.
Johnson in Japan
Bucknell University Press
Johnson in Japan reflects not just the history of Samuel Johnson studies in Japan, but also the broader current conditions of scholarship in Japanese academia. In addition to Johnson’s works, the essays in this volume engage with works by other important English writers, such as Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, and Matthew Arnold, and also with later Japanese writers.
Challenging the Black Atlantic
The New World Novels of Zapata Olivella and Gonçalves
Bucknell University Press
This incisive new study demonstrates how Columbian writer Manuel Zapata Olivella’s novel Changó el gran putas (1983) and Brazilian-born Ana Maria Gonçalves’ saga Um defeito de cor (2006) transcend Paul Gilroy’s paradigm of the Black Atlantic to show revolutions, communities, and femininities that prophesy a just “New World.”
Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Tanya M. Caldwell
Bucknell University Press
Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material “from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs,” each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy.
Rewriting Crusoe
The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media
Edited by Jakub Lipski
Bucknell University Press
Published in 1719, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. This celebratory collection of tercentenary essays testifies to the Robinsonade’s endurance, analyzing its various literary, aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural implications in historical context.
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