This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism. Several of the essays strive to reformulate the very critical language we use to think... Læs mere
Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Chaucer's Jobs shows that the servile and disciplinary nature of the daily work Chaucer did was... Læs mere
Emily Dickinson (1830-86) recasts British-Romantic themes of natural and spiritual perception for an American audience. Her lyrics... Læs mere
Necessary Conjunctions is an original study of how regular medieval people created their public social identities. Employing a highly... Læs mere
In what varieties of ways is late medieval literature inflected by spiritual insight and desires? What weaves of literary... Læs mere
This multi-disciplinary collection of essays draws on various theoretical approaches to explore the highly visual nature of the Middle Ages and expose new facets of old texts and artefacts.
Drawing on political choice theories in IR and policy decision making, this book provides a deep theoretical understanding of... Læs mere
This study examines Hart Crane's canonical ambitions in The Bridge and argues for a new species of epic, 'the modernist epic,' which also includes Pound's The Cantos, Eliot's The Waste Land, and Williams's Paterson.
Focusing on Shakespeare and race, this book addresses the status of Othello in our culture. Erickson shows that contemporary writers' revisions of Shakespeare can have a political impact on our vision of America.
In their literary autobiographies, modernists Vita Sackville-West,... Læs mere
Offers a three-country macroeconomic model that provides researchers with a framework for analyzing the international economic and ecological effects of alternative public policies - monetary, fiscal, and environmental.
The first study to juxtapose medieval effigy tombs and personal seals, the two forms of cultural patronage through which royal women crafted a visual imagery for queenship in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century France.