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Shakespeare, Marlow and the Politics of France
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 132.00Taking a wide-ranging intertextual approach, Richard Hillman sets Early Modern English play-texts against political and cultural discourses concerning France, as these informed contemporary English consciousness. The English works explored go beyond those directly representing French affairs; the French examples include dramatic treatments of Joan... more...
Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama
Palgrave Macmillan 1997; US$ 159.00This book documents the changing representation of subjectivity in Medieval and Early Modern English drama by intertextually exploring discourses of 'self-speaking', including soliloquy. Pre-modern ideas about language are combined with recent models of subject formation, especially Lacan's, to theorize and analyze the stage 'self' as a variable linguistic... more...
French origins of English tragedy
Manchester University Press 2010; US$ 95.00Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period. With primary, though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and on the French side to a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic material,... more...
Writing the Silences
University of California Press 2010; US$ 50.00The poems in Writing the Silences represent more than 60 years of Richard O. Moore?s work as a poet. Selected from seven full-length manuscripts written between 1946 and 2008, these poems reflect not only Moore?s place in literary history?he is the last of his generation of the legendary group of San Francisco Renaissance poets?but also his reemergence... more...
Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 25.00During her lifetime, the gifted writer Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645) was celebrated as one of the "seventy most famous women of all time" in Jean de la Forge's Circle of Learned Women (1663). The adopted daughter of Montaigne, as well as his editor, Gournay was a major literary force and a pioneering feminist voice during a tumultuous period... more...
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