In the Sun King’s Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France explores the relationship between sensory experience, state ideology, and artistic form, examining literature and art inspired by comets that unsettled the heliocentric order to which French politics and culture aspired.
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.
Sex Changes with Kleist shows that Heinrich von Kleist responded in a unique way to a change in the conception of sex and gender that occurred in the late eighteenth century.
This edition of The Complete Fables of Jean de la Fontaine includes an English translation published alongside the French text. Norman Spector adapted the French text from the 1883–85 edition by Henri Régnier, adding four tales from the 1962 edition by Georges Couton. Spector’s translation is in rhymed verse, and remains faithful to the original not only in metrical patterns and rhyme schemes but also in tone: wit and le mot juste are skillfully and wonderfully combined. This translation gives the reader of English a chance to enjoy the grace, wit, and versatility of La Fontaine.
