This book challenges the cultural optimism of the Enlighten through an examination of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud. These authors pushed back against the optimism of the enlightenment through their writing and advanced the idea of cruelty as lying at the root of all human nature and culture.
Appearing in tandem with the publication of an authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost, these insightful essays by ten Miltonists establish the significant differences between the text, context, and effect of the poem's first edition (1667) and those of the now-standard second edition. In bringing together essays by ......
Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature traces the differences in representations of Mughal and American "Indians" in travel narratives of the long eighteenth century. It contributes to the exposure and eradication of colonial rhetoric and violence by accounting for the origins and (d)evolution of different "Indian" stereotypes.
Georg Forster (1754-1794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remembered today as the young man who sailed around the world with Captain Cook and as one of the leading figures in the revolutionary Republic of Mainz, Forster was also a prolific writer and translator who ......
This new book offers a critical introduction to the full scope of Edgeworth's writing, encompassing her whole career and a broad range of her extensive oeuvre. / Maria Edgeworth made a significant contribution to three different but interlinked areas: education, the representation of Ireland, and the representation of women's experiences and ......
Drawing on the methods of textual and reception studies, book history, print culture research, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary study of James Thomson's The Seasons (1730) understands the text as marketable commodity and symbolic capital which throughout its extended affective presence in the marketplace for printed literary editions ......
Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature traces the differences in representations of Mughal and American "Indians" in travel narratives of the long eighteenth century. It contributes to the exposure and eradication of colonial rhetoric and violence by accounting for the origins and (d)evolution of different "Indian" stereotypes.
Global Milton and Visual Art showcases the aesthetic appropriation and reinterpretation of the works and legend of the early modern English poet and politician John Milton in diverse eras, regions, and media: book illustrations, cinema, digital reworkings, monuments, painting, sculpture, shieldry, and stained glass. It innovates an inclusive ......
Religion, Feminism, Slavery, Politics, and Economics in the First Modern
Anatomy of Liberty in Don Quijote de la Mancha presents five major facets of liberty as they appear in the first modern novel. Analyzing the novelist's attitudes towards religion, feminism, slavery, politics, and economics, the author argues that Cervantes should be considered a major precursor to history's greatest liberal thinkers.
