"549" Result
Sort By:
"In Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism, Daniel Worden argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity, ' as dramatized in late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Nat Love, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck,…
"Local and imperial, insular and expansive, both English yet British: geographically and culturally, the sea continues to shape changing models of Englishness. This volume traces the many literary origins of insular identity from local communities to the entire archipelago, layi…
"Trains, literature and culture is the first work to thoroughly explore the railroad's connections with a full range of cultural discourses--including literature, visual art, music, graffiti, and television but also advertising, architecture, cell phones, and more ..."--Provided…
Monsters abound in Old and Middle English literature, from Grendel and his mother in Beowulf to those found in medieval romances such as Sir Gowther. Through a close examination of the way in which their bodies are sexed and gendered, and drawing from postmodern theories of gend…
Case studies of Wonders of the East, Beowulf, Mandeville's Travels, the Alliterative Morte Arthure and Sir Gowther reveal a shift in attitudes toward the gendered and sexed body, and thus toward identity, between the two periods: while Old English authors and artists respond to …
This book presents recent and ongoing research work aimed at understanding the mysterious relation between the computations of Feynman integrals in perturbative quantum field theory and the theory of motives of algebraic varieties and their periods. One of the main questions in …
"A regiment of women warriors strides across the battleifield of German culture--on the stage, in the opera house, on the page, and in paintaings and prints. Thsese warriors are re-imaginings by men of figures such as the Amazons, the Valkyries. and the biblical killer Judith. T…
What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such stan…
What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such stan…
Scented buttons and perfumed gloves : smelling things in Renaissance Italy / Evelyn Welch -- From the sacred to the secular : the gendered geography of veils in Italian cinquecento fashion / Eugenia Paulicelli -- Embellishing herself with a cloth : the contradictory life of the …
Renaissance people understood that honor and good graces were marked by being properly attired and by wearing distinctive ornaments. An examination of material life and fashion in the early modern period reveals the crucial role ornaments played in social, political, and cultura…
As an `innocent', which is to say non-specialist, reader of Shakespeare, I knew that one could find everything in his work, as in the Bible; what I had not imagined was that the Bard - what a devil of a man!-could also inspire one to reflect on a subject that so closely presses …
Examining popular fiction, life writing, poetry and political works, Rebecca Styler explores women's contributions to theology in the 19th century. Female writers, Styler argues, acted as amateur theologians by use of a range of literary genres.
"Based on travel writings, religious history and popular literature, Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination explores the encounter between English travellers and the Jews. While literary and religious traditions created an image of Jews as untrustworthy, even sinister, tra…
Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination explores how for English travelers, the Jew of the imagination contrasted with the Jew they actually encountered in southern Europe, North Africa and the Levant. Based on travel writings, religious history and popular literature, this…
