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Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture from a range of literary, religious, aesthetic, historical, medical, and theoretical perspectives. more...
Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00The readings gathered here include many rare texts that have not been reprinted for centuries, excerpted from biblical commentary, legal writings, medical and scientific writings, popular encyclopedias, and literature, as well as continental vernacular and Latin sources never before available in English translation. The selections are assembled in... more...
Writing Englishness: An Introductory Sourcebook
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 46.95What did it mean in the first half of this century to say `I am English?' A Practical Sourcebook on National Identity is a unique collection of extracts from writing of the era, all of which in some way raise this question. Drawn from a wide range of sources including letters, diaries, journalism, fiction, poems, parliamentary speeches and government... more...
Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00An analysis of the cultural meanings of Jewishness in the work of Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and others. more...
Anglophone Jewish Literatures
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 168.00Anglophone Jewish literature is not traditionally numbered among the new literatures in English. Rather, Jewish literary production in English has conventionally been classified as ?hyphenated? and has therefore not yet been subjected as such to the scrutiny of scholars of literary or cultural history. The collection of essays addresses this... more...
Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 124.99Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, Royalist Women Writers argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political sub-texts in the three writers' work and shows... more...
The History of British Women's Writing, 1750-1830
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00This period witnessed the first full flowering of women's writing in Britain. This illuminating volume features leading scholars who draw upon the last 25 years of scholarship and textual recovery to demonstrate the literary and cultural significance of women in the period, discussing writers such as Austen, Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. more...
The History of British Women's Writing, 1690 - 1750
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00This volume charts the most significant changes for a literary history of women in a period that saw the beginnings of a discourse of 'enlightened feminism'. It reveals that women engaged in forms old and new, seeking to shape and transform the culture of letters rather than simply reflect or respond to the work of their male contemporaries. more...
Moult a sans et vallour
Editions Rodopi 2012; US$ 112.00William W. Kibler is one of the most productive and versatile medievalists of his generation. Some scholars and students think of him primarily as a specialist in the medieval epic, whereas others consider him to be an Arthurian scholar. He is of course both, but he is also much more: a consummate philologist and editor of texts and also a prolific... more...
Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760
Taylor and Francis 1992; US$ 45.95The essays offer new feminist analysis of the early modern period and show how women's writing may undermine many of the received assumptions on which the history of the period has depended. more...









