Bucknell University Press: 205 books
Poetic Sisters
Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
In Poetic Sisters, Deborah Kennedy explores the personal and literary connections among five early eighteenth-century women poets: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea; Elizabeth Singer Rowe; Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford; Sarah Dixon; and Mary Jones. Richly illustrated and elegantly written,...
by Manushag N. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals by Manushag N. Powell embraces periodicals across the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century to argue that this mode of writing, packed with humor and verve, originates the figure of the mass-market author as a literary character. Powell...
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Impresario in Political and Cultural Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This new collection of essays on Richard Brinsley Sheridan brings the most important British playwright of the eighteenth century back to the forefront of literary and cultural studies of the era. While his pyrotechnic life as a romantic hero, playwright, Member of Parliament, and theatre manager...
Charlotte Lennox
Correspondence and Miscellaneous Documents
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
This volume compiles and annotates for the first time the complete correspondence of the eighteenth-century British author Charlotte Lennox, best known for her novel The Female Quixote. Lennox corresponded with famous contemporaries from different walks of life such as James Boswell, David Garrick,...
Horace Walpole's Letters
Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century masculinity. Walpole talks about himself obsessively: his wants, his needs, his desires; hies physical...
Interiors and Narrative
The Spatial Poetics of Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, and Leopoldo Alas
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Interiors and Narrative shows how crucial interiors are for our understanding of the nature of narrative. A growing cultural fascination with interior dwelling so prevalent in the late nineteenth century parallels an intensification of the rhetorical function interior architecture plays in the development...
Espectros
Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Espectros is a compilation of original scholarly studies that presents the first volume-length exploration of the spectral in literature, film, and photography of Latin America, Spain, and the Latino diaspora. In recent decades, scholarship in deconstructionist "hauntology," trauma studies, affect...
From Amazons to Zombies
Monsters in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
How did it happen that whole regions of Latin America—Amazonia, Patagonia, the Caribbean—are named for monstrous races of women warriors, big-footed giants and cannibals? Through history, monsters inhabit human imaginings of discovery and creation, and also degeneration, chaos, and death. Latin...
Editing Lives
Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge...
by Louis Kirk McAuley
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
In Print Technology in Scotland and America Louis Kirk McAuley investigatesthe mediation of popular-political culturein Scotland and America, from thetransatlantic religious revivals known as theGreat Awakening to the U.S. presidentialelection of 1800. By focusing on Scotlandand America—and, in...
Bayard Taylor
Determined Dreamer of America’s Rise, 1825–1878
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
At once a literary biography of a fascinating and influential American writer and a case study that reinvigorates scholarly engagement with other Genteel writers, this work is the first book-length study of Taylor in forty years. This critical reconsideration of Taylor’s life and works demonstrates...
by Hans Bots, Isabel Bour, Daniel Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
This books attends to what in French, since the 1980s, has been called the passeur, the figure of the intellectual, mediator, translator or journalist, who is also a socialized being in the world.The volume sets out from biographical contexts in such a way that the work as a whole is offered as a...
Collecting from the Margins
Material Culture in a Latin American Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
From the cabinets of wonderof the Renaissance to the souvenir collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are and what we value. Collecting, both private and institutional, has been instrumental in the consolidation...
Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
Narrating Creole Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: Narrating Creole Subjectivity casts new light on the role of exemplary narrative in nineteenth-century Spanish America, highlighting the multiplicity of didactic writing and its dynamic relationship with readers as interpretive agents....