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Wanton Wager
A Whitechapel Wagers Novella
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Wanton Wager is a sensual novella of approximately 30,000 words. Set against the backdrop of Victorian London's dangerous East End, a young woman's disappearance brings together a wounded war veteran and the one woman who can see beyond his scars. As a probationary nurse at Whitechapel’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Names such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Sam Spade are perhaps better known than the names of the authors who created them. The woman detective has also had worldwide appeal; yet, with the exception of Christie's Miss Marple, the names of female detectives and their authors have only recently...
Objects Observed
The Poetry of Things in Twentieth-Century France and America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Objects Observed explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century. John C. Stout provides comprehensive examinations of Pierre Reverdy, Francis Ponge, Jean Follain, Guillevic, and Jean Tortel. Stout argues that the object furnishes...
Selections from Canadian Poets
With Occasional Critical and Biographical Notes and an Introductory Essay on Canadian Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Selections from Canadian Poets set an important precedent when it was published in 1864. It was the first anthology of native Canadian poetry and was compiled, as Edward Hartlet Dewart explained, in order to 'rescue from oblivion some of the floating pieces of Canadian authorship worthy of preservation...
They Need Nothing
Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, They Need Nothing draws attention to many essential but understudied Spanish-language texts from this era. Robert Richmond Ellis provides an engaging, interdisciplinary examination of how...
Lorca in Tune with Falla
Literary and Musical Interludes
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Federico García Lorca (1889-1936) is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish poet of the twentieth century; Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) is Spain’s most performed composer of the same period. The two were very different – Lorca was gay, liberal, and a member of the avant garde, while Falla was...
by Enrique Fernandez
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europe’s “culture of dissection” to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self. Enrique Fernandez explores the ways in which sixteenth and seventeenth-century...
Christopher Columbus's Naming in the 'diarios' of the Four Voyages (1492-1504)
A Discourse of Negotiation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
In this fascinating book, Evelina Gužauskytė uses the names Columbus gave to places in the Caribbean Basin as a way to examine the complex encounter between Europeans and the native inhabitants.
Gužauskytė challenges the common notion that Columbus’s acts of naming were merely an imperial...
Heroic Forms
Cervantes and the Literature of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Before he was a writer, Miguel de Cervantes was a soldier. Enlisting in the Spanish infantry in 1570, he fought at the battle of Lepanto, was seized at sea and held captive by Algerian corsairs, and returned to Spain with a deep knowledge of military life. He understood the costs of heroism, the fragility...
Snorri Sturluson and the Edda
The Conversion of Cultural Capital in Medieval Scandinavia
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Why would Snorri Sturluson (c. 1179-1241), the most powerful and rapacious Icelander of his generation, dedicate so much time and effort to producing the Edda, a text that is widely recognized as the most significant medieval source for pre-Christian Norse myth and poetics? Kevin J. Wanner brings...
Sanctity in the North
Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2008
With original translations of primary texts and articles by leading researchers in the field, Sanctity in the North gives an introduction to the literary production associated with the cult of the saints in medieval Scandinavia.
For more than five hundred years, Nordic clerics and laity venerated...
Egil, the Viking Poet
New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga'
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil’s transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder,...
Narrative Pulse of Beowulf
Arrivals and Departures
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
One of the most consistent critiques levelled against Beowulf is that it lacks a steady narrative advance and that its numerous digressions tend to complicate if not halt the poem's movement. As those passages often look backward or far ahead in narrative time, they seem to transform the poem into...
Weaving Words and Binding Bodies
The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
References to weaving and binding are ubiquitous in Anglo-Saxon literature. Several hundred instances of such imagery occur in the poetic corpus, invoked in connection with objects, people, elemental forces, and complex abstract concepts.
Weaving Words and Binding Bodies presents the first...