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 61-72 of 120 items.
Velocipedomania
A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France
By Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden
Bucknell University Press
The immediate forerunner of the bicycle, the velocipede inspired a cultural craze in late 1860s France that reflected changing cultural attitudes and challenged gender norms. Velocipedomania is the first in-depth study of this fad and the popular culture it inspired, including translations and illustrations from rare texts.
- Copyright year: 2023
Reading Homer's Iliad
Bucknell University Press
Reading Homer’s "Iliad" is a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s major themes, meant to inform students new to the work. Endnotes elaborate on myths Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume includes a general bibliography, in addition to bibliographies accompanying each book’s commentary.
- Copyright year: 2023
Screen Time
Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age
Edited by Richard Rinehart, with Phillip Prodger
Bucknell University Press
Published on the occasion of the art exhibition Screen Time: Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age, this catalog features a selection of leading international artists whose work engages with and critiques the role of media in contemporary society.
- Copyright year: 2022
British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830
Edited by Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon
Bucknell University Press
British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 examines the relationship between literature and technology in two directions: not only the impact of technology on Enlightenment British literature, but also the impact of literature on conceptions of, attitudes toward, and implementations of technology in the period.
- Copyright year: 2023
Mayaya Rising
Black Female Icons in Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Culture
By Dawn Duke
Bucknell University Press
This work of restorative scholarship centers and honors Afro-Latin American heroines present in the work of Cuban, Dominican, Columbian, and Nicaraguan women writers, and the reception of their work by literary critics. Three literary case studies explore the archetypal regional figures of Teodora and Micaela Ginés, Miss Lizzie, and the palenqueras.
- Copyright year: 2023
Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama
Reception and Afterlives
By Amy Garnai
Bucknell University Press
Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama reintroduces Holcroft as a central figure in the 1790s and beyond. His life is examined alongside his plays, memoir, diary, and personal correspondence, along with the critical and popular response to his radical drama, showing how theater functions in times of political repression. Holcroft’s robust afterlife is also discussed, especially his play The Road to Ruin, revived worldwide throughout the nineteenth century.
- Copyright year: 2023
The Aesthetics of Kinship
Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century
Bucknell University Press
The Aesthetics of Kinship interrupts discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations in literature of the period, this book complicates assumptions about the linear development of modern social, political, and aesthetic forms and presents a more heterogeneous view of the eighteenth-century literary social world.
- Copyright year: 2023
Nature Fantasies
Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America
Bucknell University Press
Nature Fantasies is a work of literary criticism and theory that presents and critiques a current of Latin American thought characterized by a desire to return to nature. It considers how nature fantasies involved in the decolonization and the formation of the Latin American nation state have turned into an engine of the state’s undoing.
- Copyright year: 2024
Louis Sébastien Mercier
Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Bucknell University Press
This book examines Louis Sébastien Mercier’s impassioned representations of social injustice in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century. Mercier’s urban chronicles argue that society must enact Enlightenment values to educate the populace as a whole; otherwise, representative democracy and social equity are impossible to sustain, and widespread fanaticism is impossible to prevent.
- Copyright year: 2023
Space, Drama, and Empire
Mapping the Past in Lope de Vega's Comedia
Bucknell University Press
Space, Drama, and Empire examines the role that space played as a vehicle to imperialize Spain’s history in Lope de Vega’s theater. Lope’s national history plays, this book argues, used the landscapes and settings of the past to foretell and legitimize Spain’s imperial present and to “map” or plot its expansionist trajectory throughout the centuries.
- Copyright year: 2023
Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now
Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement
Edited by Kate Parker and Miriam L. Wallace
Bucknell University Press
Teacher-scholars of “the long eighteenth century” consider teaching in this historical moment. Essays link eighteenth-century content with pedagogical approaches that engage contemporary students as developing scholars. Authors reflect on what it is that we do when we teach—how our pedagogies can be more meaningful, more impactful, and more relevant.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
- Copyright year: 2024
Making Modern Spain
Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production
Bucknell University Press
Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production is a scholarly work on Spanish religious and cultural history. It is an interdisciplinary study that offers fresh insights into political and religious changes in nineteenth-century Spain by foregrounding social experiences through historical analysis and literary criticism.
- Copyright year: 2024
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