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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.
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.
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