This collection of essays explores consolation and mourning in the varied, sometimes provocative, readings of Boethius and of Stoic consolation by French, English, Italian and German authors, including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machaut, Chaucer, Wyatt and Queen Elizabeth I.
The contributors explores the intellectual, cultural, and political logics of the US-led war on terror and its consequences on lived... Læs mere
Focusing on dramatic criticism, this book explores the self authorizing strategies of writers such as Jonson, Dryden, Aphra Behn,... Læs mere
The history of American universities is punctuated by shifts in the terms on which the mission of higher education is... Læs mere
The British Eighteenth Century and the Postcolonial Moment challenges reigning clichés about 'modernity'. Indeed, rather than 'applying' postcolonial... Læs mere
This book is the first in-depth cultural history of cinema's polyvalent and often contradictory appropriations of Shakespearean drama and... Læs mere
Coups from Below represents the first major effort at studying coups carried out by the lumpen section or the subalterns of the armed... Læs mere
This volume fills an important gap in the analysis of early modern history and culture by reintroducing scholars to the... Læs mere
Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexuality, 1570-1640 brings together twelve new essays which situate the arguments about the multiple constructions of... Læs mere
A "New Woman" was announced in Egypt at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a new genre of prescriptive literature, new products, a new education, and a physically changed home, she increasingly emerged in public life.
In England's Internal Colonies , Netzloff examines how the literature and discursive practices of English colonialism emerged as an extension of internal colonialist ventures in regions of England, Scotland and Ireland.