Bucknell University Press: 205 books
Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales
Between Fact and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth century. Prison escape narratives are reflections of the tension between the individual’s potential happiness via freedom and the confines of the social...
by Borbála Faragó
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
This book offers a wide-ranging analysis of the entire corpus of Medbh McGuckian’s published work. Its objective is to provide both a readable synthesis of existing criticism, in a fashion which will be generally useful to academics and students, and also to offer an original contribution to the...
Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness
Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness reads the eighteenth-century novel in the context of emerging theories of happiness in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. This important and richly interdisciplinary book offers both a new understanding of the cultural work the eighteenth-century novel performed as well as an original interpretation of the Enlightenment’s ethical legacy.
Poetic Salvage
Reading Mina Loy
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Mina Loy—poet, artist, exile, and luminary—was a prominent and admired figure in the art and literary circles of Paris, Florence, and New York in the early years of the twentieth century. But over time, she gradually receded from public consciousness and her poetry went out of print. As part of...
Antonio López García’s Everyday Urban Worlds
A Philosophy of Painting
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Antonio López García’s Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting is the first book to give the famed Spanish artist the critical attention he deserves. Born in Tomelloso in 1936 and still living in the Spanish capital today, Antonio López has long cultivated a reputation for impressive...
Romanticism, Gender, and Violence
Blake to George Sodini
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Combining queer theory with theories of affect, psychoanalysis, and Foucauldian genealogy, Romanticism, Gender, and Violence: Blake to George Sodini theorizes performative melancholia, a condition where, regardless of sexual orientation, overinvestment in gender norms causes subjects who are unable...
Freedom of Speech
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The essays in this volume portrays the public debates concerning freedom of speech in the 18th century in France and Britain as well as Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories. The economic integration of Europe and its offshoots over the past three centuries into a distinctive...
Citizens of the World
Adapting in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Citizens of the World explores the eighteenth-century enthusiasm for the process of adaptation, whether the adaptation of literary works for new audiences, the adjustment of voyagers to life in different cultures, the application of ideas and technologies to new phenomena, or the assimilation of eccentric...
Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa
Essays and Interviews on Higher Education and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
How do we understand academic freedom today? Does it still have relevance in a global
reconfiguring of higher education in the interests of the economy, rather than the public
good? And locally, is academic freedom no more than an inconvenient ideal, paid lip service
to South Africa’s Constitution...
by Bryce Campbell, Natasha Duquette, Jan Fergus
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Jane Austen and Masculinity is an eclectic collection of contemporary scholarship addressing the representation of men and masculinity in the fiction and popular adaptations of Austen. This anthology includes work by a variety of esteemed and emergent Austen scholars from around the world who engage...
Autobiologies
Charles Darwin and the Natural History of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
What does heredity mean for identity? What role does the individual have in shaping a personal or a human history? What is the ethical status of seemingly biologically determined behaviours? What does individual death mean in the light of species extinction? Autobiologies explores the importance of...
Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown
Letters and Early Epistolary Writings
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) is a key writer of the revolutionary era and U.S. early republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of**Charles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown’s non-novelistic writings—letters, political pamphlets,...
Syncing the Americas
José Martí and the Shaping of National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The essays in this collection reflect two of Martí’s key observations during his time in the United States: first, how did he, an exile living in New York, view and read his North American neighbors from a sociocultural, political and literary perspective? Second, how did his perception of the...
Spanish Women Travelers at Home and Abroad, 1850–1920
From Tierra del Fuego to the Land of the Midnight Sun
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Between 1850 and 1920 women’s travel and travel writing underwent an explosion. It was an exciting period in the history of travel, a golden age. While transportation had improved, mass tourism had not yet robbed journeys of their aura of adventure. Although British women were at the forefront of...