Bucknell University Press imprint: 206 books
Descendants of Waverley
Romancing History in Contemporary Historical Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Descendants of Waverley examines contemporary novelists’ combination of historical authority and narrative art to create authentic and accessible depictions of the past. This technique, the “romance of history,” challenges conventional theories that the novel as a genre erased the romance. Individual...
Santayana the Philosopher
Philosophy as a Form of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Regarding Santayana it has been claimed that he lacks a system while contradicting himself in outrageous ways. An attentive analysis of his complete œuvre, however, reveals something else entirely. It is not easy to classify a thinker as a Platonic materialist, an ironic nihilist, a spiritual atheist,...
by Sharon Alker, Emile Bojesen, Jess Domanico
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled people who lived in the eighteenth century. The first four essays consider philosophical writing dating between 1663 and 1788, when the understanding of disability altered dramatically. We begin with Margaret Cavendish, whose natural...
Making Love
Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Making Love closely reexamines the literary history of sentimentalism in order to open up new ways of understanding the history of sexuality. Paul Kelleher argues that British sentimental authors in the eighteenth century imagine heterosexual desire and conjugal love as forms of moral sensibility;...
by Judith G. Caballero, Erin Alice Cowling, Ronna Feit
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This book uses a gender perspective to study the female Amerindian characters in Early Modern Spanish Comedias. The chapters in this collection bring different approaches and perspectives that intersection between feminism and cultural studies while they also critically deconstruct the European representation of Amerindian women.
Memory and Trauma in the Postwar Spanish Novel
Revisiting the Past
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been characterized by debates about collective and historical memory, stemming from a national obsession with the past that has seen an explosion of novels and films about the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship. This growth of so-called memory...
Citizens of Memory
Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Citizens of Memory explores efforts at recollection in post-dictatorship Argentina and the hoped-for futures they set in motion. The material, visual, narrative, and pedagogical interventions it analyzes address the dark years of state repression (1976-1983) while engaging ongoing debates about how...
by Scott M. DeVries
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region’s literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth century to the most recent fiction. The book begins with a consideration of the way in which Argentine...
Staging Marriage in Early Modern Spain
Conjugal Doctrine in Lope, Cervantes, and Calderon
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Staging Marriage in Early Modern Spain examines selected dramatic works where the vicissitudes of matrimony play center stage. Various aspects of conjugal relations including courtship, divorce, and widowhood take on particular relevance in the Spanish comedia in light of the intense debates raging...
by Craig D. Atwood, Claudia Bruns, Philippe C. Dubois
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Masculinity, Senses, Spirit brings together current work by leading scholars in the fields of gender studies, religion, history, and cultural studies to examine the complex interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and the realms of the spirit and the senses in the Atlantic world from the 18th...
by Mai-Lin Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest explores the importance to Romantic literature of a concept of human interest. It examines a range of literary experiments to engage readers through subjects and styles that were at once "interesting" and that, in principle, were in their "interest."...
by Christine Lehleiter
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
At the turn of the eighteenth century, selfhood was understood as a “tabularasa” to be imprinted in the course of an individual’s life. By the middle of the nineteenth-century, however, the individual had become defined as determined by heredity already from birth. Examining novels by Goethe,...
Writing the Americas in Enlightenment Spain
Literature, Modernity, and the New World, 1773–1812
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 1931
How did literary discourse about empire contribute to discussions about the implications of modernity and progress in eighteenth-century Spain? Writing the Americas seeks to answer this question by examining how novels, plays and short stories imagined and contested core notions about enlightened...
Macho Ethics
Masculinity and Self-Representation in Latino-Caribbean Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Masculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous one—a fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances. Because of its opacity and instability, masculinity, like more recognizable systems of oppression, resists discernibility. In Macho Ethics: Masculinity and...