The essays in this volume portray the public debates concerning freedom of speech in the 18th century in France and Britain as well as Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories.
The essays in this volume portrays the public debates concerning freedom of speech in the 18th century in France and Britain as well as Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories
Remembering the forgotten mother is a major theme in Myth and Mother in Spanish Novels and reflects the current interest in the recuperation of historic memory in Spain. The novels in this study featu
As a comprehensive introduction to Eavan Boland’s work, this book provides an essential guide to the work of one of the most important and challenging voices in contemporary poetry. Approachable for t
In this book a gathering of exceptional thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engage a common theme: In what ways do language, and storytelling in particular, deal with ethics in science, in l
In Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, Mita Choudhury argues that the eighteenth-century British theater is a dynamic expression and register of the anxieties and tensions of a cult
This work is an investigation of the sociocultural phenomenon of the American art museum in the decades between 1890 and 1930 when these institutions experienced a building boom. The author concludes
An in-depth study to date of Garcia Lorca's "dark period," this volume moves away from biographical criticism to relate the darkness to the duende's presence. It examines how Lorca meshes biblical apo
This book argues that George Meredith as a writer of Victorian fiction is most critical for us today because of the ways in which he wrote against convention. The focus is on 'An Essay on Comedy' and
This anthology is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that builds on the presentations from a conference held at Bucknell University that addressed the issue of the persistence of race in the ne
In this original contribution to the history of American poetry in the twentieth century, Bethany Hicok traces the influence of the women's college on the poetic development of three American poets?Ma
Our volume examines the philosophical, political, and personal convictions that informed Stael’s theory of the passions and the social and aesthetic innovations to which it gave rise. Moving from her
Forth and Back broadens the scope of Hispanic trans-Atlantic studies by shifting its focus to Spain s trans-literary exchange with the United States at the end of the twentieth century. Santana analyz
Masculinity, Senses, Spirit brings together current work by leading scholars in the fields of gender studies, religion, history, and cultural studies to examine the complex interrelationship between g
Robert Burns in Global Culture is a collection that breaks new ground in treating Burns' poetry and influence in an international context. Widely recognized as poet of global significance in the ninet
By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction (James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Elias Kho
This book takes the case of Gregory Rabassa, translator into English of such canonical novels as Garcia Marquez's Cien anos de soledad and Cortazar's Rayuela. In the chapters, the author historicizes
In Pursuit of Poem Shadows: Pureza Canelo's Second Poetics deciphers the intricate poetic language of Pureza Canelo (Spain, 1946) through a close analysis of her mature works. Designed to complement N
The poetry of Laurence Whyte (1740–1742) provides a fascinating window into the literary, political, and musical cultures of eighteenth-century Ireland. Situating Whyte as a missing link between the p
