Bucknell University Press
Internationally distinguished in Iberian, Latin American, Irish and 18th-century studies, Bucknell University Press has been publishing in the arts, humanities and social sciences for more than 50 years. Showing 13-24 of 136 items.
Historicizing the Enlightenment (2 Vol Set)
Bucknell University Press
This book “historicizes” the British Enlightenment, 1650-1800, as the beginning of the modern world by reconstructing what it was like to live through the emergence of concepts and practices that have come to define the character of daily existence.
- Copyright year: 2023
Biomythography Bayou
Bucknell University Press
More than just a book of memoir, Biomythography Bayou is a ritual for conjuring queer embodied knowledges and decolonial perspectives. Showcasing the nature, folklore, dialect, foodways, music, and art of the Gulf South communities in which she is rooted, Mel Michelle Lewis finds poetic ways to celebrate their power and wisdom.
- Copyright year: 2025
The Joyce of Everyday Life
Bucknell University Press
Through a close examination of Joyce’s joyous, musical prose, Vicki Mahaffey shows how language provides us with a means of revitalizing daily experience and social interactions across a huge, diverse, everchanging world. A book for everyone who loves words, The Joyce of Everyday Life is a lyrical romp through quotidian existence.
- Copyright year: 2025
Planet Work
Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene
Edited by Ryan Hediger
Bucknell University Press
Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years. Yet, surprisingly, work norms have not been sufficiently interrogated for their profound roles in climate change and other crises gathered under the term “Anthropocene.” Essays in this book expose deep flaws in ideas of work and investigate leisure practices for (sometimes radically) alternative ways of life.
- Copyright year: 2023
Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843
Edited by Misty Krueger
Bucknell University Press
This collection examines images of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers in historical and literary works. The volume features women of a variety of races, ethnicities, and social classes traveling in all directions of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the people they encounter in their travels and residences.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Complete Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (3 vol set)
The Stoke Newington Editions
Bucknell University Press
A three-volume set of the definitive Stoke Newington Editions of Robinson Crusoe. The novels and essays with introductions, line notes, and full bibliographical notes. Includes: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World.
- Copyright year: 2021
Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Bucknell University Press
Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World examines portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck’s symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates.
- Copyright year: 2022
A Clubbable Man
Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham
Edited by Anthony W. Lee
Bucknell University Press
Gathering essays by some of the most distinguished scholars in eighteenth-century studies, A Clubbable Man takes as its theme textual and social group formations, while simultaneously honoring the achievements of Greg Clingham. Rounding out the collection are tributes from former students and colleagues, including original poetry.
- Copyright year: 2022
Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction
Bucknell University Press
Edna O’Brien and the Art of Fiction provides an urgent retrospective consideration of one of the English-speaking world’s best-selling and most prolific contemporary authors. This study considers the pioneering ways O’Brien represents women’s experience, family relationships, the natural world, sex, creativity, and death, and her work’s long anticipation of movements such as #metoo.
- Copyright year: 2022
Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World
The Stoke Newington Edition
Bucknell University Press
This collection of essays commenting on the themes of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is invaluable for understanding Defoe’s attitudes toward these particular works and toward his fiction in general.
- Copyright year: 2022
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The Stoke Newington Edition
Bucknell University Press
Defoe’s The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe—presented here independent of its famous predecessor, The Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe—is an exciting adventure novel by itself. Crusoe returns to his island to learn about his colony, and then travels to Madagascar, India, and China before returning to England after some exciting encounters. Complete with an introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes, this is an edition like no other.
- Copyright year: 2022
Hannah Whitman Heyde
The Complete Correspondence
Edited by Maire Mullins; By Hannah Whitman Heyde [1823-1908]
Bucknell University Press
The correspondence of Hannah Whitman Heyde (1823-1908), younger sister of poet Walt Whitman, provides a rare glimpse into the life of a nineteenth-century woman. Married to well-known Vermont landscape artist Charles Louis Heyde (1820-1892), Hannah documented in letters to her mother, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman (1795-1873), and other family members, her lived experience of ongoing physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband.
- Copyright year: 2022
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