Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Women and Romance
The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox,...
Echoes of Desire
English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Echoes of Desire variously invokes and interrogates a number of historicist and feminist premises about Tudor and Stuart literature by examining the connections between the anti-Petrarchan tradition and mainstream Petrarchan poetry. It also addresses some of the broader implications of contemporary...
Hard Interests, Soft Illusions
Southeast Asia and American Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam—that the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important...
The Expense of Spirit
Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period...
Outlaw Rhetoric
Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A central feature of English Renaissance humanism was its reverence for classical Latin as the one true form of eloquent expression. Yet sixteenth-century writers increasingly came to believe that England needed an equally distinguished vernacular language to serve its burgeoning national community....
Writing History for the King
Henry II and the Politics of Vernacular Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Writing History for the King is at once a reassessment of the reign of Henry II of England (1133–1189) and an original contribution to our understanding of the rise of vernacular historiography in the high Middle Ages. Charity Urbanski focuses on two dynastic histories commissioned by Henry: Wace’s...
Blood on the Snow
The Killing of Olof Palme
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At the time of his death, Palme was deeply involved in Middle East diplomacy and was working under UN auspices to end the Iran-Iraq...
The Political Writings
"Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Alfarabi was among the first to explore the tensions between the philosophy of classical Greece and that of Islam, as well as of religion generally. His writings, extraordinary in their breadth and deep learning, have had a profound impact on Islamic and Jewish philosophy. This volume presents four...
The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris)
A Medieval Household Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman...
Art of the Ordinary
The Everyday Domain of Art, Film, Philosophy, and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Cutting across literature, film, art, and philosophy, Art of the Ordinary is a trailblazing, cross-disciplinary engagement with the ordinary and the everyday. Because, writes Richard Deming, the ordinary is always at hand, it is, in fact, too familiar for us to perceive it and become fully aware of...
by Morris Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Every medievalist with a sense of humor has wanted to do this sort of book, but too few have. Morris Bishop gives us a delightful collection of medieval storytelling, ranging from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, in Latin, Norse, French, Spanish, Italian, and English. Recommended for all popular...
Border Games
Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The U.S.-Mexico border is the busiest in the world, the longest and most dramatic meeting point of a rich and poor country, and the site of intense confrontation between law enforcement and law evasion. Border control has changed in recent years from a low-maintenance and politically marginal activity...
Trafficking Justice
How Russian Police Enforce New Laws, from Crime to Courtroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
In response to a growing human trafficking problem and domestic and international pressure, human trafficking and the use of slave labor were first criminalized in Russia in 2003. In Trafficking Justice, Lauren A. McCarthy explains why Russian police, prosecutors, and judges have largely ignored this...
Beyond Borders
Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a "back door" to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and...