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  • Psalms in the Early Modern World

    by Linda Phyllis Austern, Kari Boyd McBride ...
    Psalms in the Early Modern World is the first book to explore the use, interpretation, development, translation, and influence of the Psalms in the Atlantic world, 1400-1800. In the age of Reformation, when religious concerns drove political, social, cultural, economic, and scientific discourse, the Bible was the supreme document, and the Psalms were arguably its most important book.The Psalms ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • Country House Discourse in Early Modern England

    A Cultural Study of Landscape and Legitimacy

    by Kari Boyd McBride ...
    In this study, Kari Boyd McBride defines 'country house discourse' as a network of fictions that articulated and mediated early modern concerns about the right use of land and the social relationships that land engendered. McBride provides new perspectives on the roles of the discourse she identifies, linking it with a number of larger historical shifts during the time period. Her ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

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  • How to Read Novels Like a Professor

    A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Ideas and the Novel

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    In this eye-opening book, Mary McCarthy shares her love of the novel and her fear that it is becoming an endangered literary species"He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it."So begins Mary McCarthy's fascinating critical analysis of the novel (and its practitioners) from her double-edged perspective as both reader and writer. The bestselling author of The Group takes T. S. Eliot's ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of Airports

    by Dr. Christopher Schaberg ...
    If air travel was once the bold future, it has now settled into a mundane, on-going present. We no longer expect romantic experiences or sublime views, but just hope that we get from here to there with minimal hassle. In The End of Airports, Christopher Schaberg suggests that even as the epoch of flight approaches a threshold of banality, there are still mysteries to be unraveled around our ... Read more

    $31.69 CAD

  • Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion

    Edited by David Loewenstein, Michael Witmore ...
    Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Deep Zoo

    Essays

    by Rikki Ducornet ...
    Rikki Ducornet’s essays explore eros, violence, dreams, fairy tales, and art as alchemy—the Deep Zoo at the core of humanity.Within the writer’s life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe the monarch butterfly that metamorphosed into the Key of Life. Ducornet names these powers The Deep ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake

    by Kathryn Freeman ...
    It is not surprising that visitors to Blake’s cosmology – the most elaborate in the history of British text and design – often demand a map in the form of a reference book. The entries in this volume benefit from the wide range of historical information made available in recent decades regarding the relationship between Blake’s text and design and his biographical, political, social, and religious ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Genealogy of the Tragic

    Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy

    by Joshua Billings ...
    Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek drama? In Genealogy of the Tragic, Joshua Billings answers these and related questions by tracing the emergence of the modern theory of the tragic, which was first developed around 1800 by thinkers associated with German Idealism. The book ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London

    by Anna Bayman ...
    Thomas Dekker (c.1572-1632) was a prolific playwright and pamphleteer chiefly remembered for his vivid and witty portrayals of everyday London life. This book uses Dekker’s prose pamphlets (published between 1613 and 1628) as a way in to a crucial and relatively neglected period of the history of pamphleteering. Under James I, after the aggressive Elizabethan exploitation of the new media, ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • Baptist Women's Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680

    by Rachel Adcock ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Although literary-historical studies have often focused on the range of dissenting religious groups and writers that flourished during the English Revolution, they have rarely had much to say about seventeenth-century Baptists, or, indeed, Baptist women. Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 fills that gap, exploring how female Baptists played a crucial role in the group’s ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • 'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700

    by Frances Timbers ...
    'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England between the early sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century. Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including government documents, pamphlets, rogue literature, and plays), and archival material (quarter ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD