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. 
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Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 2

Literature, the Arts, and the Aesthetic in Britain

Bucknell University Press

The Enlightenment has been misconceived as the culmination of traditional thought about art and literature. The focus of Volume 2 is instead the Enlightenment innovation of the modern concept of the aesthetic and its most important features, which has been wrongly credited to later generations.  

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Designing Women

The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture

Bucknell University Press

As a symbol of both progressive and retrograde versions of femininity, Designing Women establishes the dressing room trope in eighteenth-century literature as redefining the gendered constitution of private spaces, and offers a corrective to our literary history of generic influence and development between satire and the novel.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Families of the Heart

Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

Bucknell University Press

Families of the Heart introduces surrogate families as a new literary device for analyzing a set of novels by Defoe, Richardson, Haywood, and Burney. This radical convention with its feminist and egalitarian potential, Campbell argues, allowed female protagonists to navigate the social world before and beyond marriage across the long eighteenth century.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities

Edited by Jeremy Chow
Bucknell University Press

This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection demonstrates how eighteenth-century studies can be taught through the lens of the environmental humanities. Activating topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism to interpret eighteenth-century literature and culture, each essay includes recommendations for innovative teaching and learning.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Odysseys of Recognition

Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Kleist

Bucknell University Press

Odysseys of Recognition claims that interpersonal recognition is constituted by performance, and brings performance theory into dialogue with poetics, politics, and philosophy. By observing Odysseus figures from Homer to Kleist, Ellwood Wiggins offers an alternative to conventional intellectual histories that situate the invention of the interior self in modernity.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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African American Arts

Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity

Edited by Sharrell D. Luckett; Foreword by Carrie Mae Weems
Bucknell University Press

This collection explores the role of African American arts in shaping the future, and further informing new directions we might take in honoring and protecting the success of African Americans in the U.S. The essays engage readers in critical conversations by activists, scholars, and artists reflecting on national and transnational legacies of African-American activism as an element of artistic practice, particularly as they concern artistic expression and race relations, and the intersections of creative processes with economic, sociological, and psychological inequalities.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 25)

Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Bucknell University Press

1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines literature, philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Novel Stage

Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen

Bucknell University Press

The Novel Stage traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel’s narrative form and to the modern organization of literature.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Dark Eclipse

Reflections on Suicide and Absence

Bucknell University Press

The Dark Eclipse is a book of personal essays in which author A.W. Barnes seeks to come to terms with the suicide of his older brother, Mike, in 1993. While the rest of the family seems to have forgotten about Mike, Barnes has not been able to let him go.
 

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Transmedia Creatures

Frankenstein’s Afterlives

Bucknell University Press

Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein’s Afterlives presents cutting-edge studies of Frankenstein by international scholars who use a variety of contemporary approaches and highly original perspectives to investigate how cultural content is redistributed through multiple media, forms and modes of production on the 200 th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Pretexts for Writing

German Romantic Prefaces, Literature, and Philosophy

Bucknell University Press

In this incisive, original book, Seán Williams reads prefaces to German literature and philosophy around 1800 as pretexts for writing, examining three of the most remarkable preface-writers of that era—Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel—in the contexts not only of German, but also European print culture, thought, and literature.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change

Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder

Edited by Jennifer Smith
Bucknell University Press

This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contributions. The critical analyses are situated within their specific socio-historical context, and shed new light on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, and culture.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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