Lehigh University Press: 75 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Memorials of Harriet Martineau by Maria Weston Chapman was published in 1877 as volume three of Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. While the triple-decker was a popular format of the era, the configuration of a two-volume autobiography authored by one and a one-volume biography written by another...
Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820
A Calendar of Performances
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager...
China's Saints
Catholic Martyrdom During the Qing (1644–1911)
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
While previous works on the history of Christianity in China have largely centered on the scientific and philosophical areas of Catholic missions in the Middle Kingdom, China's Saints recounts the history of Christian martyrdom, precipitated as it was by cultural antagonisms and misunderstanding....
Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820
A Calendar of Performances
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager at...
Clean Politics, Clean Streams
A Legislative Autobiography and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In this legislative autobiography Franklin L. Kury tells the story about his election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and later the Senate, against the senior Republican in the House and an entrenched patronage organization. The only Democrat elected from his district to serve in the...
Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820
A Calendar of Performances
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager...
Goethe's Faust and Cultural Memory
Comparatist Interfaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Goethe’s Faust and its derivatives in European, North American, and South American cultural contexts. It takes both a canonic and archival approach to Faust in studies of adaptations, performances, appropriations, sources, and the...
by John F. Vickrey
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Readers of Old English would generally agree that the poem Genesis B, a translation into Old English of an Old Saxon (that is, continental) retelling of the story of the Fall, is a vigorous and moving narrative. They would disagree, however, as to the meaning of the poem. Some hold that it reflects...
The Wife of Bath in Afterlife
Ballads to Blake
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
By focusing on one literary character, as interpreted in both verbal art and visual art at a point midway in time between the author’s era and our own, this study applies methodology appropriate for overcoming limitations posed by historical periodization and by isolation among academic specialities....
by Carson Bergstrom, Sandro Jung, Christopher R. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Critics since the eighteenth century have puzzled over the form of James Thomson’s composite long poem, The Seasons (1730, 1744, 1746), its generically hybrid make-up, and its relationship to established genres both Classical and modern. The textual condition of the work is complicated by the fact...
Gardens of a Chinese Emperor
Imperial Creations of the Qianlong Era, 1736–1796
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
The Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuanming Yuan) in the western suburbs of the Quing capital, Beijing, was begun by the great Kangxi (r. 1661-1722) and expanded by his son, Yongzheng (r. 1722-1736) and brought to its greatest glory by his grandson, Qianlong (r. 1736-1796). A lover of literature and...
by Jack De Bellis
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
John Updike’s Early Years reveals for the first time the young Updike’s developing personality and precocious creativity. Relying upon interviews with classmates and friends, and offering extensive connections to his mature work, De Bellis shows how his school years incubated his mature work....
A Voluntary Exile
Chinese Christianity and Cultural Confluence since 1552
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Western missionaries in China were challenged by something they could not have encountered in their native culture; most Westerners were Christian, and competitions in their own countries were principally denominational. Once they entered China they unwittingly became spiritual merchants who marketed...
The New American Poetry
Fifty Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later is a collection of critical essays on Donald Allen’s 1960 seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, an anthology that Marjorie Perloff once called “the fountainhead of radical American poetics.”
The New American Poetry is referred to in every...