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Seeing Double
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 36.00The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining the way in which he viewed the increasing... more...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Study Guide
Saddleback Publishing 2008; US$ 12.95Containing 11 reproducible exercises to maximize vocabulary development and comprehension skills, these guides include pre-and post-reading activities, story synopses, key vocabulary, and answer keys. more...
Around the World in Eighty Days Study Guide
Saddleback Publishing 2008; US$ 12.95Containing 11 reproducible exercises to maximize vocabulary development and comprehension skills, these guides include pre-and post-reading activities, story synopses, key vocabulary, and answer keys. more...
The Saint-Domingue Plantation; or, The Insurrection
LSU Press 2008; US$ 19.95Based on events that began in Saint-Domingue on August 21, 1791, The Saint-Domingue Plantation; or, The Insurrection vividly dramatizes the genesis and outbreak of a slave revolt. When a representative of the French Assemblée nationale, Monsieur de Tendale, arrives at the Valombre family plantation to examine the condition of slaves in Saint-Domingue... more...
Material Figures
Editions Rodopi 2012; US$ 65.00Ideological debates about economics and aesthetics raged hotly in nineteenth-century France. French political economy was taking shape as a discipline that would support free-market liberalism, while lart pour lart theories circulated, and utopian systems with aesthetic and economic agendas proliferated. Yet, as this book argues, the discourses... more...
Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95Examining literary discourses on female intimacy in seventeenth-century France, this study explores the effect of a homosocial and homopriviledged heritage on the deployment and constructions of female friendship and homoerotic relationships as thematic narratives in works by male and female writers. It reveals a new literary genealogy of female intimate... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 24.00A comprehensive and stimulating guide to the extraordinary poet, his work, and his influence on modern literature. more...
Counterfeit Capital
Stanford University Press 2008; US$ 52.50Counterfeit Capital is a comparative and interdisciplinary study exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship between irony and capital in the texts of Baudelaire and Marx and arguing for the renewed relevance of their work to contemporary thinking about the place of aesthetic and cultural experience in social and political life. more...
La convergence des styles en art et littérature dans La Légende dUlenspiege
The Edwin Mellen Press 2009; US$ 139.95This study analyzes certain paintings by Bruegel and texts from the Légende dUlenspiegel to establish the thematic convergence of the two artists works in their perception of sixteenth-century Flanders. De Coster and Bruegel equally celebrate the wonder of nature depicting Flemish scenes of customs and habits. In addition, the two... more...
Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 114.95Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature is an in-depth analysis of normative masculinity in a specific corpus from pre-modern Europe: narrative literature devoted to the subject of adultery and cuckoldry. Reading such historical documents as early modern legal texts, penance manuals, and criminal records in relation to the Cent nouvelles... more...









