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The Death of Elizabeth I
Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
The death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 was greeted by an outpouring of official proclamations, gossip-filled letters, tense diary entries, diplomatic dispatches, and somber sermons. English poets wrote hundreds of elegies to Elizabeth, and playwrights began bringing her onto the stage. This book uses...
Bret Easton Ellis
Underwriting the Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This book reads the whole of Bret Easton Ellis's oeuvre to date from Less Than Zero to Imperial Bedrooms and asks to what extent Ellis's novels can be read as critiquing the cultural moments of which they are a part. Ellis's work can be thought of as an enactment of a process of underwriting contemporary...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Leadership an Elizabethan Culture studies the challenges confronted by government and church leaders (local and central), the counsel given them, the consequences of their decisions, and the views of leadership circulating in late Tudor literature and drama.
The Name of a Queen
William Fleetwood's Itinerarium ad Windsor
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Itinerarium ad Windsor concerns a central question of the Elizabethan era: Why should a woman be allowed to rule with the same powers as a king? The man who poses this controversial question within Itinerarium is none other than Queen Elizabeth's powerful favorite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester....
Mama's Boy
Momism and Homophobia in Postwar American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
In postwar America, the discourse of Momism advanced the idea that an over-affectionate or too-distant mother hampers the social and psychosexual development of her children, in particular her sons. Deemed worst of all was the outcome of homosexuality, since the period saw an intense policing of sexual...
by P. Outka
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Drawing on theories of sublimity, trauma, and ecocriticism, this book examines how the often sharp division between European American and African American experiences of the natural world developed in American culture and history, and how those natural experiences, in turn, shaped the construction of race.
Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities
Gender, Genre, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush eras - against a backdrop of...
The Subject of Minimalism
On Aesthetics, Agency, and Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Utilizing a wide range of theoretical and creative texts, Phillips offers an examination of subjectivity as considered, enacted, and embodied, through the frame of minimalist aesthetics. Provocatively, he makes the claim that lived experience is capable of being refined according to the paradoxically rich parameters of a minimalist aesthetic.
New World Irish
Notes on One Hundred Years of Lives and Letters in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies.
Literary Geographies
Narrative Space in Let The Great World Spin
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geograp hie s examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spi n . Hones examines concepts such as narrative space, literary and academic collaboration, and the geographies of creation, production, and reception.
Feminism
Transmissions and Retransmissions
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Adding to the debate on a range of issues, this book presents a critical and deeply personal history of Mexican feminism in the last thirty five years. Drawing from her many years of activism and anthropological scholarship, influential thinker Marta Lamas covers topics such as the political development...
Carl Gustav Jung
Avant-Garde Conservative
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Carl Gustav Jung has always been a popular but never a fashionable thinker. His ground-breaking theories about dream interpretation and psychological types have often been overshadowed by allegations that he was anti-Semitic and a Nazi sympathizer. Most accounts have unfortunately been marred by factual...
Royal Romances
Sex, Scandal, and Monarchy in Print, 1780-1821
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
This text explores the reception of the royal family during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and its representation in fiction, poetry, and the popular press. Samuelian finds that popular response to the royal family has reflected the public's belief in their right of access to the private life of royalty.
by William D. Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how it reveals important and much-debated issues about this time period. Brewer shows chameleonism evoked anxieties about both social instability and British selfhood.