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  • Romantic Beasts

    Pervasion, Eccentricity, Exhibition

    par Christopher R. Clason, Alastair Hunt, Pamela Buck, John Gardner, Jane Spencer, Allison Dushane, Kathryn Desplanque, Peter Erickson, Frederick Burwick0 ...
    Collections series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    By staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how "human" animals could be and how "animal" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted perplexing animal intrusions upon humans. Sometimes the intruders were mystifying or terrifying, like Coleridge’s albatross or Poe’s raven; sometimes they were mundane, as in “The Swallow” by Smith or ... En savoir plus

    $55.79 CAD

  • Inglorious Artists

    Art World Satire and the Emergence of a Capitalist Art Market in Paris, 1750-1850

    par Kathryn Desplanque ...
    Collections series Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture
    Inglorious Artists traces the origins of the image of the starving artist to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, where practicing and aspiring visual artists mobilized the emerging genre of graphic satire to publish hundreds of satirical images that satirized the Paris art world. By examining many of these images, which have never before been studied or published, this book ... En savoir plus

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  • The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited

    par David Lowenthal ...
    The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction

    Modifié par Jerrold E. Hogle ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Children's Literature

    A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

    par Professor Seth Lerer ...
    Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter.The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children’s literature in its full ... En savoir plus

    $28.59 CAD

  • Context Collapse

    A Poem Containing a History of Poetry

    par Ryan Ruby ...
    **Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom.One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2024**Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet—from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafés of Grub Street and the ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Becoming Yellow

    A Short History of Racial Thinking

    par Michael Keevak ...
    The story of how East Asians became "yellow" in the Western imagination—and what it reveals about the problematic history of racial thinkingIn their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to ... En savoir plus

    $79.19 CAD

  • The Sexuality of History

    Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565–1830

    par Susan S. Lanser ...
    The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch court records, in passionate verse, in the rising novel, and in cross-dressed flirtations on the English and Spanish stage, poets, playwrights, ... En savoir plus

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  • Fairy Tale

    par Andrew Teverson ...
    Collections series The New Critical Idiom
    This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It:explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genreassesses the various methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of fairy taleprovides a detailed account of the historical development of the fairy tale as a literary formengages with the major ideological controversies ... En savoir plus

    $56.99 CAD

  • Shakespearean Genealogies of Power

    A Whispering of Nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter’s Tale

    par Anselm Haverkamp ...
    Collections series Discourses of Law
    Shakespearean Genealogies of Power proposes a new view on Shakespeare’s involvement with the legal sphere: as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law and well able to negotiate legal and political, even constitutional concerns, Shakespeare’s theatre opened up a new perspective on normativity. His plays reflect, even create, "history" in a new sense on the premises of the older ... En savoir plus

    $90.99 CAD

  • Specters of the Marvelous

    Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale

    par Kimberly J. Lau, Anne E. Duggan ...
    Collections series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    A transformative lens revealing the historical racial context that profoundly influenced European fairy tales.Winner, Chicago Folklore Prize 2025!In stories retold for generations, wondrous worlds and magnificent characters have defined the genre of European fairy tales with little recognition of yet another defining aspect—racism and racialized thinking. Engaging four classic fairy-tale ... En savoir plus

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  • Ape to Apollo

    Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century

    par David Bindman ...
    ‘Race’ was essentially a construction of the 18th century, a means by which the Enlightenment could impose rational order on human variety. In this book, the art historian David Bindman argues that ideas of beauty were from the beginning inseparable from race, as Europeans judged the civility and aesthetic capacity of other races by their appearance. These judgements were combined with a conflict ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD