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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. 
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Cultivating Peace

The Virgilian Georgic in English, 1650-1750

Bucknell University Press

Like Virgil, who depicted a farmer’s scythe suddenly recast as a sword, the poets discussed here imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must be sustained by constant labor.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 24)

Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Bucknell University Press

The annual 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: 2019
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To the Fairest Cape

European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope

Bucknell University Press

Beginning by considering the early hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Cape and their culture, Malcolm Jack focuses on the encounter that the European visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, sometimes sympathetic but often exploitative from the time of the Portuguese to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Avenues of Translation

The City in Iberian and Latin American Writing

Bucknell University Press

Avenues of Translation explores how translation perpetuates, diversifies, deepens, and expands the literary production of cities in their greater cultural context, and how translation shapes an understanding of and access to a city's past and present literary and cultural practices.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Memory Sessions

Bucknell University Press

Suzanne Farrrell Smith’s father was killed by a drunk driver when she was six, and a devastating fire nearly destroyed her house when she was eight. She remembers those two—and only those two—events from her first nearly twelve years of life. Her entire childhood was, seemingly, erased. In The Memory Sessions, Smith attempts to excavate lost childhood memories. Rather than recount a childhood, this memoir creates one from research, archives, imagination, and the memories of others.
 

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Woven Shades of Green

An Anthology of Irish Nature Literature

Edited by Tim Wenzell
Bucknell University Press

Woven Shades of Green: An Anthology of Irish Nature Literature contains a wealth of literature from authors whose work focuses on the ever-changing natural world and beauty of Ireland. The anthology’s collection features a range of literature that reflects that change beginning with the work of Irish monks and continuing with essays, novel excerpts, works of well-known writers like Yeats and Synge, modern Irish nature poetry, prose, philosophical nature writing, and a comprehensive list of environmental organizations in Ireland.
 

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Art of Time

Levinas, Ethics, and the Contemporary Peninsular Novel

Bucknell University Press

Ethics, or the systematized set of inquiries and responses to the question “what should I do?” has infused the history of human narrative for more than two centuries. Academicians and journalists in Spain and abroad have recently fastened on an emerging cluster of peninsular writers who, they argue, pertain to a discernible literary generation, provisionally referred to as Generación X. This book studies Levinas, ethics, and these contemporary Spanish writers who trace the temporal movement of alterity through narrative.
 

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Intelligent Souls?

Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Bucknell University Press

Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century British culture. Samara Anne Cahill’s ambitious study explores two separate but overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam in the eighteenth century which produce the phenomenon of “feminist orientalism.” One strand describes seventeenth-century ideas about the nature of the soul used to denigrate religio-political opponents, and the other tracks the transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s.
 

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building

National Sentiments, Transnational Realities, 1897-1940

Bucknell University Press

Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building focuses on the processes of Puerto Rican national identity formation as seen through the historical development of cinema on the island between 1897 and 1940. Anchoring her work in archival sources in film technology, economy, and education, Garcia-Crespo argues that Puerto Rico’s position as a stateless nation allows for a fresh understanding of national cinema based on perceptions of productive cultural contributions rather than on citizenship or state structures.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Faust

A Tragedy, Part I

Bucknell University Press

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poetic drama Faust, A Tragedy is his best-known work and a classic of world literature. Stelzig's beautiful new translation shines new light on Faust’s almost inexhaustible, mysterious, and enchanting poetic and cultural power.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Reading Homer’s Odyssey

Bucknell University Press

Reading Homer’s Odyssey is a book by book commentary on the epic’s major themes. Each of the epic’s 24 books are divided into sections to stress the length and the importance placed on specific topics and episodes. Footnotes are provided throughout to clarify and complete myths that Homer leaves unfinished, to explain certain terms and phrases, and to provide background information whenever necessary. Additionally, there is a bibliography on the Odyssey, as well as bibliographies that accompany each book’s commentary.
 

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Global Wordsworth

Romanticism Out of Place

Bucknell University Press

The Global Wordsworth examines Anglophone writers who repurposed William Wordsworth’s poetry. By reading Wordsworth in dialog with J. M. Coetzee, Lydia Maria Child, and Jamaica Kincaid, Katherine Bergren revitalizes our understanding of Wordsworth’s career and its place in the canon.
 

  • Copyright year: 2019
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