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Shakespeare’s Surrogates
Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' …
Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century
Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and appearances. While every era witnesses change, the eighteenth …
Literatures of Madness
Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health brings together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies, feminist theory, Indigenous studies, postcolonial …
Vizi, virtù, imprese. Alessandro Magno
Alessandro Magno, pennellato dalle "Vite parallele", un racconto avvincente: azione, amore, guerra, imprese epiche, religione, vizi privati e virt , un'avventura leggendaria ma …
Shakespeare's Rome
This book studies Shakespeare’s changing vision of Rome in the six works where the city serves as a setting. Unlike other scholars treatment, the subject Dr Miola offers a coherent …
Consuming Pleasures
How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and …
Cultures in Contact
'Cultures in Contact' deals with the complex cultural relations surrounding the translation and reception of Alessandro Manzoni's novel 'I promessi sposi' (1827) in …
The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat
Penrose, a cat with a knack for math, takes children on an adventurous tour of mathematical concepts from fractals to infinity.
Representing Shakespeare
This text traces the changing theatrical and cultural identity of the History plays in the context of postwar social and political conflict, crisis and change. Since the company's …
Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze
Bringing together high profile scholars in the fields of Deleuze and postcolonial studies, this book highlights the overlooked connections between two major schools of contemporary …
Misadventures of Salem Hyde
When Salem's school puts on an ice pageant during winter break, our reluctant witch is determined to be a snow angel. But there's one problem: Salem doesn't know how to skate. So …
The Home, Nations and Empires, and Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces
This book explores ephemeral exhibition spaces between 1750 and 1918. The chapters focus on two related spaces: the domestic interior and its imagery, and exhibitions and museums …