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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.
Jane Austen and Comedy
Edited by Erin Goss
Bucknell University Press
In bringing together Austen and comedy, which are both often dismissed as superfluous or irrelevant to a contemporary world, this collection of essays directs attention to the ways we laugh, the ways that Austen may make us do so, and the ways that our laughter is conditioned by the form in which Austen writes: comedy. Ultimately, Jane Austen and Comedy invites its reader to take seriously Austen’s production of laughter and to keep laughing nonetheless.
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