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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.
Play in the Age of Goethe
Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800
Edited by Edgar Landgraf and Elliott Schreiber
Bucknell University Press
The essays in this volume discuss critical developments in the philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, politics, and poetics of play around 1800. They illustrate that, in this time period, the parameters are set that continue to guide our debates about what are good rather than bad games or practices of play.
Narrative Mourning
Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
Bucknell University Press
Narrative Mourning argues that the cultural disappearance of the dead/dying body in eighteenth-century Britain found expression in fictional representations of the relic (object) or relict (person) within certain British novels. These relics/relicts exist as material signs of loss and as compensation for loss; they exist as surrogates for the absent (living, dead, or dying) and as reliquaries for their “psychic” essences.
Between Market and Myth
The Spanish Artist Novel in the Post-Transition, 1992-2014
Bucknell University Press
Between Market and Myth is a study of novels about artists and the art world written in Spain in the years following the Transition to democracy after Francisco Franco’s death. The novels studied portray a clash between the myth of artistic freedom and artists’ willing recruitment or cooptation by market forces or political influence.
Transpoetic Exchange
Haroldo de Campos, Octavio Paz, and Other Multiversal Dialogues
Bucknell University Press
Transpoetic Exchange illuminates the poetic interactions between Octavio Paz (1914-1998) and Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003) from three perspectives--comparative, theoretical, and performative. The poem Blanco by Octavio Paz, written when he was Ambassador to India in 1966, and Haroldo de Campos’ translation (or what he calls a “transcreation”) of that poem, published as Transblanco in 1986, as well as Campos’ Galáxias, written from 1963 to 1976, are the main axes around which the book is organized.
Paz and Campos, one from Mexico and the other from Brazil, were central figures in the literary history of the second half of the 20th century, in Latin America and beyond. Both poets signal the direction of poetry as that of translation, understood as the embodiment of otherness and of a poetic tradition that every new poem brings back as a Babel re-enacted.
This volume is a print corollary to and expansion of an international colloquium and poetic performance held at Stanford University in January 2010 and it offers a discussion of the role of poetry and translation from a global perspective. The collection holds great value for those interested in all aspects of literary translation and it enriches the ongoing debates on language, modernity, translation and the nature of the poetic object.
Transpoetic Exchange
Haroldo de Campos, Octavio Paz, and Other Multiversal Dialogues
Bucknell University Press
Transpoetic Exchange illuminates the poetic interactions between Octavio Paz (1914-1998) and Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003) from three perspectives--comparative, theoretical, and performative. The poem Blanco by Octavio Paz, written when he was Ambassador to India in 1966, and Haroldo de Campos’ translation (or what he calls a “transcreation”) of that poem, published as Transblanco in 1986, as well as Campos’ Galáxias, written from 1963 to 1976, are the main axes around which the book is organized.
Paz and Campos, one from Mexico and the other from Brazil, were central figures in the literary history of the second half of the 20th century, in Latin America and beyond. Both poets signal the direction of poetry as that of translation, understood as the embodiment of otherness and of a poetic tradition that every new poem brings back as a Babel re-enacted.
This volume is a print corollary to and expansion of an international colloquium and poetic performance held at Stanford University in January 2010 and it offers a discussion of the role of poetry and translation from a global perspective. The collection holds great value for those interested in all aspects of literary translation and it enriches the ongoing debates on language, modernity, translation and the nature of the poetic object.
Lothario's Corpse
Libertine Drama and the Long-Running Restoration, 1700-1832
Bucknell University Press
Lothario’s Corpse explores the persistent appeal of Restoration libertine drama (and its absolutist heroes and scenarios of lawless license) in the century following its supposed disappearance from the British stage. Tracing the stage libertine’s haunting of post-1688 culture, Gustafson illustrates how its literary and political manifestations document a fantasy of sovereign power at the heart of the emergent liberal imagination.
Romantic Automata
Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms
Edited by Michael Demson and Christopher R. Clason
Bucknell University Press
A deep dread of puppets and the machinery that propels them surfaced in Romantic literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century; Romantic Automata is a collection of essays examining the rise of cultural suspicion of all imitations of homo sapiens and similar machinery, as witnessed in the literature and arts of the time.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The Stoke Newington Edition
Bucknell University Press
Robinson Crusoe has been an international best-seller for three hundred years. This edition of the novel with its introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has been no other edition like it.
Beside the Bard
Scottish Lowland Poetry in the Age of Burns
Bucknell University Press
Whether male or female, loyalist or radical, urban or rural, literati or autodidacts, Scottish Lowland poets in the age of Burns adamantly refuse to imagine a single British nation. Instead, they pose the question of “Scotland” as a revolutionary category, always subject to creative destruction and reformation.
The Novel Stage
Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen
By Marcie Frank
Bucknell University Press
The Novel Stage traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel’s narrative form and to the modern organization of literature.
1650-1850
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 25)
Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Bucknell University Press
1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines literature, philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences.
The Imprisoned Traveler
Joseph Forsyth and Napoleon's Italy
By Keith Crook
Bucknell University Press
The Imprisoned Traveler is a fascinating portrait of a unique book, its context, and its elusive author. Joseph Forsyth, a Napoleonic “detainee” of 1803, wrote his travel writing classic in a bid for release from prison. Keith Crook uncovers his protests against Napoleon’s tyranny, concealed beneath his discerning art criticism and vivid impressions of Italians.
African American Arts
Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity
Edited by Sharrell D. Luckett; Foreword by Carrie Mae Weems
Bucknell University Press
This collection explores the role of African American arts in shaping the future, and further informing new directions we might take in honoring and protecting the success of African Americans in the U.S. The essays engage readers in critical conversations by activists, scholars, and artists reflecting on national and transnational legacies of African-American activism as an element of artistic practice, particularly as they concern artistic expression and race relations, and the intersections of creative processes with economic, sociological, and psychological inequalities.
African American Arts
Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity
Edited by Sharrell D. Luckett; Foreword by Carrie Mae Weems
Bucknell University Press
This collection explores the role of African American arts in shaping the future, and further informing new directions we might take in honoring and protecting the success of African Americans in the U.S. The essays engage readers in critical conversations by activists, scholars, and artists reflecting on national and transnational legacies of African-American activism as an element of artistic practice, particularly as they concern artistic expression and race relations, and the intersections of creative processes with economic, sociological, and psychological inequalities.
The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today
Bucknell University Press
Drawing on original contributions from four major contemporary Spanish voices--Luis Muñoz, Abraham Gragera, Josep M. Rodríguez, and Ada Salas—The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today argues that for these writers the poem is the fundamental means of exploring the nature of both knowledge and poetry.
Woven Shades of Green
An Anthology of Irish Nature Literature
Edited by Tim Wenzell
Bucknell University Press
Woven Shades of Green: An Anthology of Irish Nature Literature contains a wealth of literature from authors whose work focuses on the ever-changing natural world and beauty of Ireland. The anthology’s collection features a range of literature that reflects that change beginning with the work of Irish monks and continuing with essays, novel excerpts, works of well-known writers like Yeats and Synge, modern Irish nature poetry, prose, philosophical nature writing, and a comprehensive list of environmental organizations in Ireland.
The Memory Sessions
Bucknell University Press
Suzanne Farrrell Smith’s father was killed by a drunk driver when she was six, and a devastating fire nearly destroyed her house when she was eight. She remembers those two—and only those two—events from her first nearly twelve years of life. Her entire childhood was, seemingly, erased. In The Memory Sessions, Smith attempts to excavate lost childhood memories. Rather than recount a childhood, this memoir creates one from research, archives, imagination, and the memories of others.
Mikhail Bakhtin
The Duvakin Interviews, 1973
Bucknell University Press
This annotated book is a first English translation of 12-hours of interviews of Victor Duvakin with Mikhail Bakhtin recorded in 1973. From Freud to Kant, from the French Symbolists to the German Romantics, Bakhtin shares his knowledge and appreciation of various Western European authors and thinkers. As a result, Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973, invites us to reconsider the importance of Western art and thought to Bakhtin himself, and Russian culture in general.
Faust
A Tragedy, Part I
Edited by Eugene Stelzig; Translated by Eugene Stelzig; By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832); Introduction by Eugene Stelzig
Bucknell University Press
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poetic drama Faust, A Tragedy is his best-known work and a classic of world literature. Stelzig's beautiful new translation shines new light on Faust’s almost inexhaustible, mysterious, and enchanting poetic and cultural power.
Faust
A Tragedy, Part I
Edited by Eugene Stelzig; Translated by Eugene Stelzig; By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832); Introduction by Eugene Stelzig
Bucknell University Press
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poetic drama Faust, A Tragedy is his best-known work and a classic of world literature. Stelzig's beautiful new translation shines new light on Faust’s almost inexhaustible, mysterious, and enchanting poetic and cultural power.
The Art of Time
Levinas, Ethics, and the Contemporary Peninsular Novel
Bucknell University Press
Ethics, or the systematized set of inquiries and responses to the question “what should I do?” has infused the history of human narrative for more than two centuries. Academicians and journalists in Spain and abroad have recently fastened on an emerging cluster of peninsular writers who, they argue, pertain to a discernible literary generation, provisionally referred to as Generación X. This book studies Levinas, ethics, and these contemporary Spanish writers who trace the temporal movement of alterity through narrative.
The Printed Reader
Gender, Quixotism, and Textual Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Britain
By Amelia Dale
Bucknell University Press
The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in the fascination with Don Quixote and in a proliferation of narratives about quixotic readers, readers who attempt to reproduce and embody their readings. The collection brings together key debates concerning quixotic narratives, print culture, sensibility, empiricism, book history, and the material text, connecting developments in print technology to gendered conceptualizations of quixotism.
Novel Bodies
Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Bucknell University Press
Novel Bodies examines the significant role that disability plays in shaping the British literary history of sexuality. Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists represent disability and sexuality in flexible ways to reconfigure the political and social landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain. In imagining the lived experience of disability as analogous to—and as informed by—queer genders and sexualities, the authors featured reveal emerging ideas of able-bodiedness and heterosexuality as interconnected systems that sustain dominant models of courtship, reproduction, and degeneracy.
Fire on the Water
Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886
Bucknell University Press
Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature by focusing on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction.
Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building
National Sentiments, Transnational Realities, 1897-1940
Bucknell University Press
Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building focuses on the processes of Puerto Rican national identity formation as seen through the historical development of cinema on the island between 1897 and 1940. Anchoring her work in archival sources in film technology, economy, and education, Garcia-Crespo argues that Puerto Rico’s position as a stateless nation allows for a fresh understanding of national cinema based on perceptions of productive cultural contributions rather than on citizenship or state structures.
Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory
Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels
By Earl E. Fitz
Bucknell University Press
This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, widely hailed as one of Brazil’s greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in great works of Western literature and an imaginative reader of French Symbolist poetry, Machado creates a “new narrative,” one that will presage the groundbreaking theories of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure by showing how even the language of narrative cannot escape being elusive and ambiguous in terms of meaning.
The Global Wordsworth
Romanticism Out of Place
Bucknell University Press
The Global Wordsworth examines Anglophone writers who repurposed William Wordsworth’s poetry. By reading Wordsworth in dialog with J. M. Coetzee, Lydia Maria Child, and Jamaica Kincaid, Katherine Bergren revitalizes our understanding of Wordsworth’s career and its place in the canon.
Intelligent Souls?
Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Bucknell University Press
Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century British culture. Samara Anne Cahill’s ambitious study explores two separate but overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam in the eighteenth century which produce the phenomenon of “feminist orientalism.” One strand describes seventeenth-century ideas about the nature of the soul used to denigrate religio-political opponents, and the other tracks the transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s.
Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts
Transnational Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century Greater Mexico
Bucknell University Press
Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts traces the existence of forgotten histories of inter-American alliance-making, transnational community formation, and intercultural collaboration between Mexican and Anglo American elites. Using close readings of literary texts, including novels, diaries, letters, newspapers, political essays, and travel narratives produced by nineteenth-century writers throughout Greater Mexico, Kinnally brings to light how elite Mexicans and Mexican Americans defined themselves and their relationship with Spain, Mexico, the United States, and Anglo America in the nineteenth century.
Cultivating Peace
The Virgilian Georgic in English, 1650-1750
Bucknell University Press
Like Virgil, who depicted a farmer’s scythe suddenly recast as a sword, the poets discussed here imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must be sustained by constant labor.
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