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Did medieval women have the power to choose? This is a question at the heart of this book which explores three court cases from Yorkshire in the decades after the Black Death. Alice de Rouclif was a child heiress made to marry the illegitimate son of the...

This volume examines the common medieval notion of life experience as a source of wisdom and traces that theme through different texts and genres to uncover the fabric of experience woven into the writings by, for, and about women.

PART I: Francis in Medieval Text and Painting * Franciscan Spirituality and Narrative at Assisi: The Legend of St. Francis in Text and Painting - Beth Mulvaney * The Miraculous Moment: Expressing the Spiritual Experience in Thirteenth-Century Frescos at...

This book interrogates our ideas about heterosexuality through examination of medieval romance narratives. Familiar configurations of romantic fiction such as male desire overwhelming feminine reluctance and the aloof masculine hero undone by love derive...

The Real History of Tom Jones revivifies historical materials from which Henry Fielding constructed the greatest comic novel of the eighteenth-century. This study recovers and explores the contexts necessary to understand Fielding's subtle art, such as...

Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Prone to violence, including rape, assault, and extortion, the poet was employed first at domestic personal service and subsequently at policework of various sorts,...

Acknowledgements Introduction Precarious Bread - Charlotte Smith I 'A Disciple of a Better System' - Charlotte Smith II 'Poetry [and] Politics' - Mary Robinson I "The Best and the Wisest" - Mary Robinson II 'Newgate Before My Eyes' - Elizabeth Inchbald I...

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation charts a new chapter in the changing fortunes of a unique cultural phenomenon. This book examines the afterlives of the Byronic hero through the work of nineteenth-century women...

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Theorizing Postcolonial Diasporas; M.Keown, D.Murphy & J.Procter PART ONE: DISCOVERING EUROPE European Tribes: Transnational Diasporic Encounters; J.McLeod Postcolonial Studies in the Context of the...

This new study analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf's historiographical imagination and the thought of Walter Benjamin, German...

Introduction PART I: DIRECTIONS Realising the Sacred: Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God Dramatising the Sacred: Wole Soyinka's 'The Fourth Stage' and Kongi's Harvest Politicising the Sacred: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between PART II: INDIRECTIONS Sacred...

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Evasion Confrontation Resignation Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

At present, many governments are privatizing social security programs, largely on the ground that these programs are expensive and harmful to economic development. This book provides the first systematic analysis of the relationship between social...

Acknowledgements Introduction Reconfiguring Domestic Space for Female Privacy: The Garden, the Study, and the Room Public Privacy: Women, the City, and the Car Privileging Privacy: The Pre-modern Role Models of the Witch and the Primitive 'We Have Gone...

Globalization has created a new set of opportunities and challenges for late industrialization. This book identifies the underlying factors for latecomer firms to catch up as system integrators or to upgrade as suppliers in fastglobalizing industries...

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Note on Primary Texts Prefatory Essay: B.S. Johnson and Academia; J.Coe Introduction: Re-Reading B.S. Johnson; G.White & P.Tew Chronology: Concerning Bryan Stanley Johnson; P.Tew PART ONE:...

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.Stiles PART I: CATALYSTS Howled Out of the Country: Wilkie Collins and H.G. Wells Retry David Ferrier; L.Otis Our Lady of Darkness: Decadent Arts and the Magnetic Sleep of...

This study sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating writing for the stage during an era of censorship, the monopolistic royal theatres, and an emerging plebeian public sphere of drama located in London's new playhouses and "spouting...

This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions as historical icons of the medieval past. Over time, the eight major women's convents of Vienna become linked in the popular mind with the broader mythology of...

In the newly-identified genre of medieval patience literature, female protagonists move to the center of the action-an unusual feature compared to most medieval literature. Out of this development, fresh interpretations of early medieval works and...

Market Power explores society and economy in medieval Iberia, examining the intersection of regional commercial interests, lordship, and royal authority as part of the evolution of a small village into a rural market town. This analysis of notarial...

Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance is a path-breaking study of a timeless masterpiece. Based on new readings of Cicero's late works, De legibus, De re publica, and De officiis, Michaela Paasche Grudin and Robert Grudin show that...

The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622 studies the conception of Persia in the literary, political and pedagogic writings of Renaissance England and Britain. It argues that writers of all kinds debated the means and merits of...

This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony within a variety of contexts, ranging chronologically from Plato to 18th-century England. This original collection of essays engages with contemporary debates...

Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing-lost to disease or neglect, kidnapping or forced marriage, denied the economic and political security of wages or membership in a larger social order-Shakespeare...

This books presents the first extended study of the relationship between British modernist poetry and the environment. Challenging reductive associations of modernism as predominantly anthropocentric in character and urban in focus, the book's central...

This book makes an important contribution to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world. The collection identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable...

This book makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the ways in which women responded to the regulation of their behavior by focusing on representations of women speakers and their audiences in moments Smith identifies as "scenes of...

Drawing evidence from transatlantic literary texts of childhood as well as from nineteenth and early twentieth century children's and family card, board, and parlor games and games manuals, Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of...

The author analyzes how Ovidian-inspired mythologies and bibliographical aetiologies informed the sixteenth-century creation, reproduction, and representation of books, and provides alternative models for thinking about the dynamics of reception,...

The eight essays within this volume offer the first sustained analysis of the ways that consumers read and understood Songes and Sonettes (1557), a radically new and highly influential form of poetic collection compiled by printer Richard Tottel. ...

The first of its kind to situate the early modern debate on sovereignty within a 'popular culture' dramatic context, this project examines the changing ideological conceptions of sovereignty and their on-stage representations in public theaters from 1580...

Examining the appropriations and revisions of Indian identity first carried out by Anglo-American engravers and later by early Anglo-American women writers, Cathy Rex shows the ways in which iconic images of Native figures inform not only an emerging...

Providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on nineteenth-century British periodicals, this volume surveys the current state of research and offers researchers an in-depth examination of contemporary methodologies, including...

This book studies the maximalist novels of Wallace, Baker, Pynchon, and others, considering how overly-detailed writing serves the institutional, emotional, and intellectual needs of contemporary readers and writers. It argues that maximalist novels not...

In the two golden centuries that followed the death of Socrates, ancient philosophy underwent a tremendous transformation that culminated in the philosophical systematizations of Plato, Aristotle and the Hellenistic schools. Fundamental figures other...

Acknowledgements - Preface - James Fenton's 'narratives': some reflections on Postmodernism - Theatre of Trope: Craig Raine and Christopher Reid - Waiting for the end: absences in the poetry of Michael Hofmann - History to the defeated: Geoffrey Hill's...

General Editor's Preface - Preface - List of Abbreviations - A HARDY CHRONOLOGY - Principal Sources - Index

Note on Editions, Abbreviations, References and Italics List of Abbreviations Introduction: Memory, History, and George Eliot Narrative and 'Immovable Roots': Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede Sources of the Self and Moral Agency in The Lifted Veil,...

Preface Acknowledgements A Note on References and Abbreviations List of Plates PART ONE: THE SHOCK OF THE OLD Introduction The Space of the Audience Dramatic Illusion in the Open Playhouse Dramaturgy, 3-D Acting and Daylight Space PART TWO: STAGING...

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 'The Uttermost Parts of Their Maps': Frontiers of Gender Joan of Arc, Margaret of Anjou, and the Instability of Gender Textual Encodings in The Merchant of Venice Textual Intersections: Othello and...

Preface The Philosophical Realism of Virginia Woolf Bertrand Russell: The Logic of a Literary Symbol Bloomsbury Letters Keynes, Lawrence and Cambridge Revisited E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Literary History Towards the Literary History of A...