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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 73-84 of 118 items.
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
Designing Women
The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture
By Tita Chico
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
Families of the Heart
Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
By Ann Campbell
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
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
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
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
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
The Novel Stage
Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen
By Marcie Frank
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
The Dark Eclipse
Reflections on Suicide and Absence
By A.W. Barnes
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
Transmedia Creatures
Frankenstein’s Afterlives
Edited by Francesca Saggini and Anna Enrichetta Soccio
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
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
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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