European Literature

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The Dybbuk Century

The Jewish Play That Possessed the World

Edited by Debra Caplan & Rachel Merrill Moss
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Jewish Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

How a 100-year-old play about spiritual possession beyond the grave continues to engage and fascinate

Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance

By Emily Houlik-Ritchey
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

An innovative comparative study of Middle English and medieval Castilian romance

The Right to Difference

Interculturality and Human Rights in Contemporary German Literature

By Nicole Coleman
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Race and Ethnicity

Develops a theory of intercultural literature to reconcile diversity with traditional notions of German identity

The Philosophy of Parochialism

Originally published as Filosofija Palanke

By Radomir Konstantinovic
Volume editor Branislav Jakovljevic
Translated by Ljiljana Nikolic & Branislav Jakovljevic
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, European Studies, Balkans, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Political Theory

Available for the first time in English—an essay with important insights on the sources of totalitarianism, intolerance, and racism

Beholding Disability in Renaissance England

By Allison P. Hobgood
Subjects: Disability Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

How disability and ableism took shape in Renaissance England

Kafka's Zoopoetics

Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier

By Naama Harel
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies

Traces the dissolution of the boundary between human and other animals in the work of Franz Kafka and, in doing so, radically revisits interspecies relations

Commerce with the Classics

Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers

By Anthony Grafton
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, History
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

A distinctive history of the traditions of reading and life in the Renaissance library, as seen in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece

Kid pro quo?

By Gonda Van Steen
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, European History, Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

Monstrous Kinds

Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability

By Elizabeth Bearden
Subjects: Disability Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Elucidates how Renaissance writers used monstrosity to imagine what we now call disability

The Neapolitan Recipe Collection

Cuoco Napoletano

By Terence Peter Scully
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, Literary Studies, European Literature

Feasting as a window into medieval Italian culture

The Real and the Sacred

Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

By Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, History, European History, Religion, Art, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, American Literature

A cultural history of representations of Jesus in nineteenth-century European and American fiction and visual art

Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel

Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690

By Gerhild Scholz Williams
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Media Studies, Journalism, Literary Studies, European Literature

A fascinating and exciting reevaluation of the 17th-century novels of Eberhard Happel

New York-Paris

Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City

By Laure Katsaros
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History, European History, Intellectual History, European Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, European Literature, 19th Century Literature

A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization

The Culture of the Body

Genealogies of Modernity

By Dalia Judovitz
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

A cultural history of the evolution of the modern body, as glimpsed at six critical moments

German Literature on the Middle East

Discourses and Practices, 1000-1989

By Nina Berman
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Literary Studies, European Literature
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An investigation of Germany and the Middle East through literary sources, in the context of social, economic, and political practices

Thomas Mann's World

Empire, Race, and the Jewish Question

By Todd Kontje
Subjects: Biography, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature, European Literature

A comprehensive reevaluation of Thomas Mann

Artaud and His Doubles

By Kimberly Jannarone
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies, Art
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A radical re-thinking of one of the most canonized figures in theater history, theory, and practice

Listening to Homer

Tradition, Narrative, and Audience

By Ruth Scodel
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A discussion of how ancient Greek bards ensured that their poetry would reach audiences of various backgrounds

Macaronic Sermons

Bilingualism and Preaching in Late-Medieval England

By Siegfried Wenzel
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, History

A fascinating analysis of a language and culture in transition

Mapping Michel Serres

By Niran Abbas
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, European Literature, Cultural Studies, Philosophy
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

International scholars shed new light on the work of renowned French philosopher Michel Serres

Middle English Dictionary

Plan and Bibliography, 2nd Edition

Edited by Robert E. Lewis
Subjects: Reference, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature
Series: Middle English Dictionary

The final installment of the most important modern reference work for Middle English studies

Dead Lovers

Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe

Edited by Basil Dufallo & Peggy McCracken
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature

Explores the variety of bonds that are formed between writers and the figure of the dead lover

Myth, Montage, and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture

Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea

By Marilynn Robin Desmond & Pamela Sheingorn
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

A broad multidisciplinary study that uses the Epistre Othea to examine the visual presentation of knowledge

Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton

By David L. Sedley
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 16th and 17th Century Literature, European Literature

Boldly investigates the relationship between the sublime as an aesthetic category and the emergence of skepticism as a philosophical problem

Strong Voices, Weak History

Early Women Writers and Canons in England, France, and Italy

Edited by Pamela Joseph Benson & Victoria Kirkham
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Gender Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature
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