Contributions by John Rumrich, Sydney Bartlett, Erin Webster, Rachel Trubowitz, Achsah Guibbory, Jennifer Wallace, Ryan Hackenbracht, Mario Murgia, Angelica Duran, Reginald A. Wilburn, Marissa Greenberg and Steve Fallon
Featuring contributions from established and emerging scholars, this collection brings unprecedented focus to the forms, spaces, and implications of embodied motion in Milton’s writing.
Contributions by Tracey Sedinger, Julia Lupton, Jennifer R. Rust, Andrew Sisson, Joan Pong Linton, Joel M. Dodson, Colby Gordon, Hugh Grady, Lydia Heinrichs and Russ Leo
This book examines the relationship between art and politics in Shakespeare and the early modern era, with a focus on the relation between aesthetics and sensory experience.
Feeling Faint is a book about human consciousness in its most basic sense: the awareness, at any given moment, that we live and feel. Such awareness, it argues, is distinct from the categories of selfhood to which it is often assimilated, and can only be uncovered at the margins of first-person experience. What would it mean to be conscious without being a first person—to be conscious in the absence of a self?
Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist, originally published in 1951, makes the original argument that the renowned English critic Matthew Arnold contributed to the climate of “racialism” current...
Internal Evidence and Elizabethan Dramatic Authorship provides one the earliest attempts to write a theoretical method for evidence within plays to help determine authorship or to help distinguish...
Paul Kent Alkon’s Samuel Johnson and Moral Discipline provides reading of Johnson that emphasizes his moral discourse. Shortly after its publication, Alkon’s book became first of all...
William Warner’s Syrinx, or a Sevenfold History, may be the first English novel. Unlike others of the time, though, Warner wrote a realistic novel whose ancestors include the adventure...
In Yeats's Shakespeare, the first full-length study of Yeats’s interest in Shakespeare, Rupin W. Desai explores how Shakespearean works influenced Yeats’s poetry and mythological drama....
Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Iseult) remains one of the most popular romances ever written. Although the tale was believed to have originated in Germany, bards in France and Britain composed...
