Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture collects the work of scholars whose different methodologies and fields of specialty provide a starting point to appraise the enduring significance of the ninetee
In Corpore collects essays devoted to the critical exploration of the presence and impact of bodies in recent and contemporary Italian cultural producation, in light of current developments in thinkin
To refine a critical understanding of early modern acting styles, Shakespeare’s Dramatic Persons explores how the classical rhetorical tradition would inform an actor’s personation of character.
This collection of essays by both theater scholars and practitioners examines the political and aesthetic consequences of the marriage of Shakespearean text and realist performance style, considering
A Studio of One's Own: Fictional Women Painters and the Art of Fiction is a critical study of the portrayal of women artists in nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels in English, including British,
Global Dilemmas documents the cultural debates of a key community of the British Empire from the 1840s to 1925. It completes the account of its printed legacy as pioneer of Reformation, Parliamentary
This study examines the third generation ethnic return to the homeland and its identity quest through myth, history, and storytelling as seen in late-twentieth-century novels. Through a comparison bet
This critical volume offers an overview and close analysis of Italian women’s autobiographical writings from the twentieth century, engaging with issues of form and content and identifying recur
Lucian Blaga was an early twentieth-century European philosopher whose work was suppressed at the height of his career by the creation of the Romanian Socialist Republic. The thesis of this book is th
Through an innovating collection of sources which brings together reform, theatrical, and legal texts, The Wayward Woman: Progressivism, Prostitution, and Performance in the United States, 1888–
In Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I, well-known scholars of history, political science, film, literature, and cultural studies explore the impact that the Great War had on twentieth-cent
Lawrence Durrell’s Poetry offers an in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell’s entire poetic opus, from his early collections in the 1940s up to his last one published in 1973. Thirty years o
Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump focuses on utopias and dystopias that either prefigure or suggest alternatives to the rise of individuals such as Donald J. Trump and the changing conditions of
The history of Western philosophy and science is marked by numerous moments when a major development has emerged from conditions that are manifestly adverse to intellectual activity. This book surveys
