Bucknell University Press imprint: 206 books
Commonplace Commitments
Thinking through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Joseph P. Fell proposes that the solution to the problem of nihilism is found in the common experience of persons and the everyday commitments that one makes to people, practices, and institutions. In his landmark 1979 book Heidegger and Sartre, and in his subsequent essays, Fell describes a quiet...
Literature of Crisis
Spain's Engagement with Liquid Capital
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The book explores novels, essays and poetry published by Spanish writers in response to the global economic crisis that began in 2008. Spain has been experiencing the crisis in a particularly painful way, and the artistic response to these traumatic events has been powerful and abundant. The literature...
Signifying Loss
Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction (James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Elias Khoury, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida), Signifying Loss studies not only how loss is signified,...
Lady Anne
A Chronicle in Verse
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse by Antjie Krog is the first English translation of an award winning book published in Afrikaans in 1989. It engages critically and creatively with a key moment of colonial history—the time Lady Anne Barnard spent at the Cape of Good Hope, from 1797 to 1802. Usually...
Cities Called Athens
Studies Honoring John McK. Camp II
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The fourteen essays in this volume share new and evolving knowledge, theories, and observations about the city of Athens or the region of Attica. The contents include essays on topography, architecture, religion and cult, sculpture, ceramic studies, iconography, epigraphy, trade, and drama. This volume...
by Miranda Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England considers the ways sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fears of poisoning prompt new models for understanding the world even as the fictive qualities of poisoning frustrate attempts at certainty. Whether English writers invoke literal poisons, as they do in...
by Margaret Doody, David Fairer, Sophie Gee
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered beginswith the brute fact that poetry jostledup alongside novels in the bookstallsof eighteenth-century England. Indeed,by exploringunexpected collisions and collusionsbetween poetry and novels, this volumeof exciting, new essays offers...
Enlightenment in Ruins
The Geographies of Oliver Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) moved between the genres and geographies of enlightenment writing with considerable dexterity. As a consequence he has been characterized as a passive purveyor of enlightenment thought, a hack, a harried translator of the French enlightenment for an English audience,...
Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment
Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This book examines the role of the novelists and historians of the eighteenth century in developing a vision of political modernity that questions traditional narratives about the rise of liberalism and the decline of sovereign power. It provides a new way to link the literature and philosophy of...
Thomas Sheridan's Career and Influence
An Actor in Earnest
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Ambitious polymath Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) was the lynchpin of the most fascinating family in Anglo-Irish literary history. The godson (and future biographer) of Jonathan Swift, the son of Thomas Sheridan senior, a talented poet and scholar, the husband of the novelist Frances Sheridan and the...
by Rivka Swenson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
John Locke asked, “since all things that exist are merely particulars, how come we by general terms?” Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832 tells a story about aesthetics and politics that looks back to the 1603 Union of Crowns and James VI/I’s emigration...
Stael’s Philosophy of the Passions
Sensibility, Society and the Sister Arts
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Sensibility, or the capacity to feel, played a vital role in philosophical reflection about the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts in eighteenth-century France. Yet scholars have privileged the Marquis de Sade’s vindication of physiological sensibility as the logical conclusion...
Pícaro and Cortesano
Identity and the Forms of Capital in Early Modern Spanish Picaresque Narrative and Courtesy Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
In this book on the relationship between pícaro and cortesano, Felipe E. Ruan argues that these two cultural figures are linked by a shared form of deportment centered on prudent self-accommodation. This behavior is generated and governed by a courtly ethos or habitus that emerges as the result of...
Imperial Tapestries
Narrative Form and the Question of Spanish Habsburg Power, 1530–1647
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Imperial Tapestries represents a transnational approach to questions of monarchical power and literary form in early modern Europe. In line with Barbara Fuchs’s recent call for considerations of center versus periphery in Old World contexts, it explores the ways in which some of the most significant...