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  • Desire in the Renaissanceby Valeria Finucci; Regina Schwartz

    Princeton University Press 2001; US$ 46.95

    Drawing on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches, ten critics engage in exciting discussions of the ways the "inner life" is depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact with the "external" social and economic spheres. Spurred by the rise of capitalism and the nuclear family, Renaissance anxieties over changes in identity emerged in the period's unconscious--or, as Freud would have it, in its literature. Hence, much of Renaissance literature represents themes that have been prominent in the discourse of psychoanalysis: mistaken identity, incest, voyeurism, mourning, and the uncanny. The essays in this volume range from Spenser and Milton to Machiavelli and Ariosto, and focus on the fluidity of gender, the economics of... more...

  • Selected Works of RD Laingby RD Laing

    Routledge 1998; US$ 235.00

    The patterns delineated here have not yet been classified by a Linnaeus of human bondage. They are all, perhaps, strangely, familiar. In these pages I have confined myself to laying out only some of those I actually have seen. Words that come to mind to name them are: knots, tangles, fankles, impasses, disjunctions, whirligogs, binds. more...

  • Readings in Renaissance Women's Dramaby S.P. Cerasano; Marion Wynne-Davies

    Routledge 1998; US$ 39.95

    Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama brings together, for the first time, a significant collection of critical and historical essays. Authors include: Joanna Lumley, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth and the Cavendish sisters. more...

  • English Stage Comedy 1490-1990by Alexander Leggatt

    Routledge 1998; US$ 39.95

    A unique and beautifully written study of the comedy of the English stage from the Tudor period to the late twentieth century. It shows how this remarkably enduring genre has dealt with the tensions of social life. more...

  • Pinter Ethicby Penelope Prentice

    Routledge 2000; US$ 34.95

    The only comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists. more...

  • Women in Dramatic Place and Timeby Geraldine Cousin

    Routledge 1996; US$ 45.95

    This offers exciting insights into the diversity and excellence of contemporary plays by women. Presents detailed analysis of a wide range of plays by women dramatist from the last two decades, including the work of Caryl Churchill. more...

  • Men of Letters, Writing Livesby Trev Lynn Broughton

    Routledge 1998; US$ 41.95

    An in-depth look at developments within Victorian auto/biography, asking what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. more...

  • Plato and the English Romanticsby E. Douka Kabitoglou

    Routledge 1990; US$ 125.00

    Tackles the problematic relationship between Platonic philosophy and Romantic poetry, between the intellect (Apollo) and the emotions (Dionysus). It concentrates on the daemonic `mania' which the author sees as originating both. more...

  • James Joyce. Volume Iby Robert Deming

    Routledge 1997; US$ 52.99

    Writings include: Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, Dubliners . 2 Volumes cover 1906-1964. Extras: Appendices include a list of the early editions of Joyce's writings. more...

  • D.H. Lawrenceby R. P. Draper

    Routledge 1997; US$ 360.00

    Controversial English novelist, notorious for the explicitness of his writings. Writings include: Sons and Lovers, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Women in Love . Volume covers the period 1909-1931 (grouped by novels/poems). more...