Bucknell University Press imprint: 206 books
Playing the Martyr
Theater and Theology in Early Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Playing the Martyr is a book about the interplay between theater and religion in early modern France. Challenging the standard narrative of modernity as a process of increased secularization Christopher Semk demonstrates the centrality of religious thought and practices to the development of neoclassical...
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing
Juan de Castellanos's Elegies of Illustrious Men of the Indies
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing examines the intricate bond between poetry and history writing that shaped the theory and practice of empire in early colonial Spanish-American society. The book explores from diverse perspectives how epic and heroic poetry served...
Antigone's Daughters?
Gender, Genealogy and the Politics of Authorship in 20th-Century Portuguese Women's Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Antigone's Daughters? provides the first detailed discussion in English of six well-known Portuguese women writers, working across a wide range of genres: Florbela Espanca (1894-1930), Irene Lisboa (1892-1958), Agustina Bessa Lu's, (1923- ), Nat_lia Correia (1923-93), HZlia Correia (1949 -) and L'dia...
by Myronn Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Catastrophic Bliss contemplates the longing to understand connections and disconnections within a world ever more fragmented yet interdependent. With allusions to Dante, Stevie Wonder, Fernando Pessoa, Persephone and Marianne Moore, these poems move from the tumultuous to the sublime: a pit bull killing...
Impossible Mourning
HIV/AIDS and Visuality After Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Impossible Mourning argues that while the HIV/AIDS epidemic has figured largely in public discourse in South Africa over the last ten years, particularly in debates about governance and constitutional rights post-apartheid, the experiences of people living with HIV for the most part remain invisible...
Urbanism and Urbanity
The Spanish Bourgeois Novel and Contemporary Customs (1845–1925)
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Through the study of more than twenty novels produced in Spain from the 1840s to the 1920s, this book explores the literary means by which the social options available to modern Spanish bourgeois citizens were discursively constructed, occasionally before and often concomitantly to their production...
Coal Dust on Your Feet
The Rise, Decline, and Restoration of an Anthracite Mining Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Coal Dust on Your Feet is a historical ethnography of Shamokin, Pennsylvania and its surrounding borough of Coal Township. This anthracite coal fueled the industrial revolution and its miners generated the rise of organized labor, both of which make the region of northeast Pennsylvania one of great...
Excitable Imaginations
Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660–1760
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Excitable Imaginations offers a new approach to the history of pornography. Looking beyond a counter-canon of bawdy literature, Kathleen Lubey identifies a vigilant attentiveness to sex across a wide spectrum of literary and philosophical texts in eighteenth-century Britain. Esteemed public modes...
Textual Studies and the Enlarged Eighteenth Century
Precision as Profusion
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Scholars, librarians, students, and database vendors have all applauded the increase in access to rare, old, venerated, and obscure texts that has resulted from the rise of electronic resources. Almost everyone associated with any branch of cultural history has heard the claims about unlimited research...
Reading Riddles
Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud explores how the riddle becomes a figure for reading and writing in early German Romanticism and how this model then enables Sigmund Freud's approach to the psyche. It traces a migration of ideas from literature to psychoanalysis and...
by Priscilla Archibald
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Imagining Modernity in the Andes is an interdisciplinary work that deals with the intersection of projects of modernity with constructions of race and ethnicity in the Andes. This book focuses initially on Indigenismo, attempting to recuperate the intellectual energy of writers and artists from the...
Stage Mothers
Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660–1830
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Stage Mothers explores the connections between motherhood and the theater both on and off stage throughout the long eighteenth century. Although the realities of eighteenth-century motherhood and representations of maternity have recently been investigated in relation to the novel, social history,...
Dark Assemblages
Pilar Pedraza and the Gothic Story of Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book examines strategies of transformation (becomings, image-making, and the phantasmagoric) that figure in four stories and a novel by Gothic fiction writer Pilar Pedraza (Spain, 1951). While critics have long associated the Bildungsroman with Gothic fiction, this study takes a close look at...
Scotland and the First World War
Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did the Scottish soldiers of the First...