Bucknell University Press imprint: 206 books
Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715
Seditious Frivolity
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution...
Acting Up
Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Acting concentrated both the aspirations and anxieties of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, where theater was a defining element of urban sociability. In Acting Up: Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France, Jeffrey M. Leichman argues for a new understanding of the relationship between...
by Yaël Schlick
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores travel as a “technology of gender.” It also investigates the way travel’s utopian dimension and feminism’s...
by William Park
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
What is Film Noir? surveys the various theories of film noir, defines film noir, and explains how the genre relates to the style and the period in which noir was created. It also provides a very useful theory of genre and how it relates to film study.
Wreckage
My Father’s Legacy of Art & Junk
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
In this memoir, Sascha Feinstein recounts life with his father, Sam Feinstein, who was both a brilliant
artist and a hoarder of monumental proportions. He collected only uncollectible objects—artifacts that
required him to give them importance—and at the time of his death in 2003, his hoarding...
Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film
Inclusion, Loss, and Cultural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959. Andrea Easley Morris analyzes the artists’ participation in and questioning of the revolutionary government’s revision of national identity...
Reading 1759
Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British “year of victories” during the Seven Years’ War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics....
The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790–1814
The Struggle for History's Authority
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814. During these years, intersections between history, political ideology, and fiction, as well as the various meanings of the term “history” itself,...
by David Allan, Pam Perkins, Catherine Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal...
Impassioned Jurisprudence
Law, Literature, and Emotion, 1760–1848
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The law’s claims to reason provided a growing citizenry that was beginning to establish its...
Effeminate Years
Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain investigates the gendered, eroticized, and xenophobic ways in which the controversies in the 1760s surrounding the political figure John Wilkes (1725-97) legitimated some men as political subjects, while forcefully...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture critically reassesses the significance of American novelist, editor, critic, and activist John Neal to the transatlantic literary culture of the nineteenth century. Long appreciated primarily as a powerful advocate of literary nationalism...
Alexander Wilson
Enlightened Naturalist
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
When talking about the Enlightenment, ornithology is seldom the first topic of conversation. Still, Enlightenment and ornithology converge in one important respect, that of abundance. In our time, new-wave ornithologists have renewed their faith in eighteenth-century expectations for the discovery...
Disputed Titles
Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798–1832
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Disputed Titles: Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798-1832 argues for the centrality of inheritance—often impeded, disrupted inheritance—to the novel’s rise to preeminence in Britain during the Romantic period. Novels by Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, Charles Maturin, Walter...