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Mel Michelle Lewis
The Joyce of Everyday Life
Vicki Mahaffey
“A brilliant, lively guide to the joys of reading Joyce for intellectual stimulation and personal growth. With characteristic verve and lucidity, Mahaffey reminds us how Joyce’s words make us come alive to life and language as we glimpse ourselves in his nicely polished mirrors. Both new and veteran readers will benefit from Mahaffey’s deep, witty engagements with Joyce’s fictions.” —Robert Spoo, author of Modernism and the Law
Contemporary Francophone African Plays
An Anthology
Edited by Judith G. Miller
“Judith Miller, the foremost scholar in the field, has curated an indispensable and invaluable transhistorical and transnational anthology. Contemporary Francophone African Plays offers unprecedented insights into the work of some of the most experimental, innovative, and groundbreaking dramatists of the past five decades.” —Dominic Thomas, coauthor of New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres
The Essential Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych
Ecstasies and Elegies
By Bohdan Ihor Antonych
Translated by Michael M. Naydan
“These translations bring us the intimate and ecstatic visions of a young poet as he steps onto the world stage. . . . These are magical poems.” —James Brasfield, translator of The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha
Events
- Friday, 1 November 2024
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Native American Heritage Month (November 1-30)
Friday, 1 November 2024
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- Friday, 15 November 2024
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New-in-Paperback: Jane Austen and Masculinity, edited by Michael Kramp
Friday, 15 November 2024
This wide-ranging collection of contemporary scholarship is the first to consider representations of men and masculinity in the work and adaptations of Jane Austen. Established and emerging Austen scholars from around the world discuss critical issues raised by her fictional treatment of masculinity, such as evolving social expectations, brothers and fathers, male lovers, soldiers and the military, queer and alternative sexualities, violence, and male devotees of Austen. Read more.
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Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women's Writing, 1690-1790, by Nicolle Jordan
Friday, 15 November 2024
Land ownership—and engagement with land more generally—constituted a crucial dimension of female independence in eighteenth-century Britain. Because political citizenship was restricted to male property owners, women could not wield political power in the way propertied men did. Given its foundational socio-political function, land necessarily generated copious writing that vested it with considerable aesthetic and economic value. This book, then, situates these issues in relation to the historical transformation of landscape under emergent capitalism. Read more.
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- Friday, 13 December 2024
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British Romanticism and Prison Reform, by Jonas Cope
Friday, 13 December 2024
In eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the century—with the War of American Independence and legal and sociopolitical challenges to capital punishment—did the criminal justice system change, resulting in the reformed prison, or penitentiary, meant to educate, rehabilitate, and spiritualize even hardened felons. This volume is the first to explore the relationship between historical penal reform and Romantic-era literary texts by luminaries such as Godwin, Keats, Byron, and Jane Austen. Read more.
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The Last Judgment of Kings / Le Jugement dernier des rois: A Bilingual Edition, edited and translated by Yann Robert
Friday, 13 December 2024
First performed the day after Marie-Antoinette’s beheading, Le Jugement dernier des rois stages the burlesque trial of the remaining kings and queens of Europe—paraded in chains like animals, made to brawl over a barrel of crackers, and finally obliterated by a spectacular volcanic eruption. Such is the shocking context—at once tragic and farcical—of the most infamous play of the French Revolution, familiar to all specialists of the period. Until now, however, no standalone critical edition or English translation of this historic play existed. Read more.
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