Foreign Language Books

This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of pleasure and self-assertion and revealed the ambiguities of respectability. more...

Price: $69.95

Shedding much-needed light on one of Shakespeare’s most intriguing and significant plays, this book features contributions from leading scholars who critically examine the play from a variety of perspectives. more...

Price: $95.00

American Elegy reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism. Max Cavitch begins by considering eighteenth-century elegists such as Franklin and Bradstreet. He then turns to elegy's adaptations during the Jacksonian age. Devoting unprecedented attention to the early African-American elegy, Cavitch sees in the poems the development of an African-American genealogical imagination. more...

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Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature examines the Gothic's engagement with the Jewish Question and British national identity over the course of a century. Beginning with an exploration of Jewish demonology from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Davison interprets the changing significance of the trans-national Wandering Jew in classic Gothic fiction who later migrates into Victorian realism. What emerges is the elucidation of an anti-Semitic 'spectropoetics' that convey how the spectres of Jewish difference and Jewish assimilation haunt British literature. more...

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Esta publicación —conclusión de un estudio de más de dos años— examina los problemas que los sistemas de atención de salud confrontaron durante los años ochenta y analiza su presente capacidad y posibilidad futura de proporcionar protección adecuada de salud a los pobres. more...

Price: $28.00