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Staged Readings
Staged Readings studies the social consequences of 19th-century America’s two most prevalent leisure forms: theater and popular literature. In the midst of watershed historical …
Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance
Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes towards race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the nature of physical …
Reading Contagion
Eighteenth-century British culture was transfixed by the threat of contagion, believing that everyday elements of the surrounding world could transmit deadly maladies from one body …
Reading Victorian Poetry
Reading Victorian Poetry Richard Cronin s exceptionally fine book carries out just what its title promises reading. The pleasure of his adroit, meticulously imaginative insights …
Impressive Shakespeare
Impressive Shakespeare reassesses Shakespeare’s relationship with "print culture" in light of his plays’ engagement with the language and material culture of three interrelated …
Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater
Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped …
Edith Wharton and Genre
So muchmore than an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Wharton is reconsideredin this book as a controversial playwright, a gifted poet, a trailblazing travelwriter, an …
Reading and Writing Italian Homosexuality
Derek Duncan's timely study is the first book in English to examine constructions of male homosexuality in Italian literature. In admirably clear and elegant prose, Duncan analyzes …
Popular Reading in English c. 1400–1600
This book is about reading practice and experience in late medieval and early modern England. It focuses on the kinds of literatures that were more readily available to the widest …
Biblical Readings and Literary Writings in Early Modern England, 1558-1625
The Bible had a profound impact on early modern culture, and bible-reading shaped the period's drama, poetry, and life-writings, as well as sermons and biblical commentaries. This …
Reading Victorian Literature
Reading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad. At the same time, the …
Sensibility, Reading and Illustration
Sensibility, Reading and Illustration: Spectacles and Signs in Graffigny, Marivaux and Rousseau