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Language and Conceptualization
To what extent is conceptualization based on linguistic representation? And to what extent is it variable across cultures, communities, or even...
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Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France
Plax engages in an interdisciplinary examination of several categories of Watteau’s paintings - theatrical, military, fêtes, and the art dealer....
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Santa Maria Della Salute
Santa Maria della Salute is one of Venice’s best known monuments and the masterpiece of its architect, Baldassare Longhena. Commissioned in 1631 by...
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The Arts of Collecting
This is an examination of the collection of art works through an anthropological study of modes of exchange and the social roles of material culture....
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The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel
In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, a series of specially-commissioned essays examine the work of Charles Dickens, the Brontës,...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel
In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, a series of specially-commissioned essays examine the work of Charles Dickens, the Brontës,...
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Molière: A Theatrical Life
In this biography, Virginia Scott locates Molière’s life and work in the social, literary and theatrical contexts of the period. She offers a...
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The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing
This study examines the complex role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature. Focusing in particular on the...
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The Victorians and the Visual Imagination
The Victorians and the Visual Imagination is an exciting and innovative exploration of the Victorians’ attitudes towards sight. Tantalised by...
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The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel
The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel brings together two traditionally antagonistic fields, book history and narrative theory, to challenge...
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Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-Century France
This is the most complete critical survey to date of women’s literature in nineteenth-century France. Alison Finch’s wide-ranging analysis of...
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Defending Literature in Early Modern England
Why was literature so often defended and defined in early modern England in terms of its ability to provide the Horatian ideal of both profit and...
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The Cultural Politics of Sugar
With the expansion of trade and empire in the early modern period, the status of sugar changed from expensive rarity to popular consumer commodity,...
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Imagination under Pressure, 1789–1832
This ambitious study offers a radical reassessment of one of the most important concepts of the Romantic period - the imagination. In contrast to...
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Constructing Cromwell
Constructing Cromwell traces the complex and shifting popular images of Oliver Cromwell from his first appearance as a public figure in the mid-1640s...
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Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton
The figure of the puritan has long been conceived as dour and repressive in character, an image which has been central to ways of reading sixteenth-...
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The American Puritan Elegy
Jeffrey Hammond’s study takes an anthropological approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England - the funeral elegy. Hammond...
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Poe and the Printed Word
Edgar Allan Poe continues to be a fascinating literary figure to students and scholars alike. Increasingly the focus of study pushes beyond the...
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Romanticism and Slave Narratives
Helen Thomas’s study opens a new avenue for Romantic literary studies by exploring connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners,...
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The Philosophy and Politics of Abstract Expressionism, 1940–1960
The Philosophy and Politics of Abstract Expressionism reexamines the relationship between a flourishing artistic movement of the 1940s and 50s and...
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Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology
The eighteenth-century model of the criminal trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the facts of a case could ‘speak for themselves’...
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After Nihilism
In After Nihilism, Wilfried Dickhoff examines the art work of Neo Avant-Garde European and American artists, including Joseph Beuys, Marcel...
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Reason, Grace, and Sentiment
This volume completes Isabel Rivers’ widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the...
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After Nihilism
In After Nihilism, Wilfried Dickhoff examines the art work of Neo Avant-Garde European and American artists, including Joseph Beuys, Marcel...
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