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Northrop Frye
Taylor and Francis 1994; US$ 104.95An indispensable introduction to one of the great critics of the twentieth century, whose work on ideology, aesthetics and social criticism has ensured his place at the centre of cultural studies and contemporary theoretical debates. more...
Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 115.00Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World explores a range of images and texts that shed light on the complexity of the European reception and interpretation of the New World. Jonathan Hart examines Columbus's first representation of the natives and the New World, the representation of him in subsequent ages, the portrayal of... more...
Comparing Empires
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 32.00By consulting rare manuscripts, images, maps, and books, Jonathan Hart explores the relatively neglected empires of Portugal and the Netherlands to draw new conclusions about those of Spain, France, and England (as well as its successor the US). The book ranges from the Portuguese voyages to Africa to the Spanish-American War of 1898 and concentrates... more...
Contesting Empires
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 100.00Based on extensive archival research, Contesting Empires looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France, and England more...
Representing the New World
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 125.00Representing the New World argues for the importance of Spain in the New World as an example of France and England in their efforts to establish colonies and suggests that this example was ambivalent and contradictory as well as surprisingly persistent in the representations of Spain in French and English texts concerning the Americas. more...
Shakespeare
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 85.00Veteran scholar Jonathan Hart explores notions of 'text' and 'context' in Shakespeare's work, highlighting the nuanced social and historical commentary that imbue The Bard's work. more...
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 95.00Shakespeare and His Contemporaries begins with Shakespeare's England and expands to a world before, after, and beyond. With an eye to language, genre, drama, and literary and historical narrative, this book examines the comedy of Shakespeare in the context of comedies from Italy, Spain, and France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. more...
Literature, Theory, History
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00In this interdisciplinary work that ranges from the ancients through the Renaissance to the present, Jonathan Hart examines systems, law, theatre, nature, stereotype, otherness, authority, new historicism, deconstruction, feminism, reading, interpretation, poetry, and poetics. Whatever the period, this towering study assumes that meaning, genre,... more...
Fictional and Historical Worlds
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00Examines possible and fictional worlds, author and authority, otherness and recognition, translation, alternative critique, empire, education, imagination, comedy, history, poetry, and culture. The analyzed works include classical and modern texts and theorists of the past sixty years ranging from Jerome Bruner to Stephen Greenblatt. more...
Textual Imitation
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 38.00Textual Imitation offers a new critique of the space between fiction and truth, poetry and philosophy. In a nimble, yet startlingly wide-ranging argument, esteemed scholar Jonathan Hart argues that recognition and misrecognition are the keys to understanding texts and contexts from the Old World to the New World. more...









