Making Noise, Making News
Mary Chapman Oxford University Press 2014 For most people, the U.S. suffrage campaign is encapsulated by images of iconic nineteenth-century orators like the tightly coifed Susan B. Anthony or the wimpled Elizabeth Cady Stanton. However, as Mary Chapman shows, the campaign to secure the vote for U.S. women was also a modern and print-cultural phenomenon, […]
Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution
Dennis Danielson Cambridge University Press 2014 This volume brings John Milton’s Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo, whom Milton met and admired: a universe encompassing space travel, an earth that participates vibrantly in the cosmic dance, and stars that are “world[s] / Of destined habitation.” Milton’s bold […]
Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain
Amanda Hopkins, Robert Rouse, Cory James Rushton, Editors Boydell & Brewer 2014 It is often said that the past is a foreign country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of “doing” is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours. Our modern view of medieval sexuality is characterised by a polarising dichotomy between […]
Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase
Gisele Baxter, Brett Grubisic, and Tara Lee, editors Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2014 What do literary dystopias reflect about the times? In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, contributors address this amorphous but pervasive genre, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America is conveyed or portrayed in a perceived age of crisis, accelerated uncertainty, and […]
The Rival Widows or Fair Libertine
Tiffany Potter University of Toronto Press 2013 Elizabeth Cooper’s The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine provides a unique opportunity to restore to scholarly and pedagogical attention a neglected female writer and a play with broad and significant implications for studies of eighteenth-century history, culture and gender. Following the adventures of Lady Bellair, a “glowing, joyous […]
The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature
James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice, editors Oxford University Press 2014 This book explores Indigenous American literature and the development of an inter- and trans-Indigenous orientation in Native American and Indigenous literary studies. Drawing on the perspectives of scholars in the field, it seeks to reconcile tribal nation specificity, Indigenous literary nationalism, and trans-Indigenous […]
Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520-1640
Torrance Kirby and P.G. Stanwood, editors Brill 2014 The open-air pulpit within the precincts of St. Paul’s Cathedral known as ‘Paul’s Cross’ can be reckoned among the most influential of all public venues in early-modern England. Between 1520 and the early 1640s, this pulpit and its auditory constituted a microcosm of the realm and functioned […]
Marinetti Dines with the High Command
Richard Cavell Guernica Editions 2014 Marinetti Dines with the High Command is a work that dramatizes the turbulent life and times of F. T. Marinetti, founder of Futurism, the first global art movement. Marinetti’s artistic career raises enduring questions about art and politics because of his association with Fascism, and the second part of my […]
Studies in the History of the English Language VI
Laurel Brinton with Michael Adams and R, D. Falk, editors De Gruyter Mouton 2014 This volume brings together papers from the 11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference, held in Vancouver in May 2012. In the last few years, the cognitive study of language has begun to examine the interaction between language and other embodied […]