"In 1822, after having been discharged from the British navy, deserted by his wife, and as good as disowned by his father, the thirty-two year old Edward John Trelawny set off for Italy to make the acquaintance of his hero, Lord Byron. "I have met today the personification of my Corsair," Byron wrote in a letter. "He sleeps with the poem under his pillow, and all his past adventures and present manners aim at this personification." But t ..."
"As powerful, pointed imitation, cultural mimesis can effect inclusion in a polity, threaten state legitimacy, or undo the originality upon which such legitimacy is based. In Mimesis and Empire , first published in 2001, Barbara Fuchs explores the intricate dynamics of imitation and contradistinction among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, Engl ..."
"Daniel Paul Schreber began Memoirs of my Nervous Illness in February 1900 while confined in an asylum, as part of an appeal for release. Schreber, second son (the first committed suicide) of an abusive father, was at the peak of a brilliant career in Leipzig when he was appointed Presiding Judge of the Saxon High Court of Appeals. Alas, the stress of his new job proved too much for him, and before long he was hearing voices and feeling ..."
"Anne Barton, Greg Crossan, Alan Vardy, Ian Duhig, Simon Kovesi, P.M.S.
Dawson, David Powell, John Clare, David Simpson John Goodridge ... Or, we
look to the past for a magical connection with the dead, for an anecdotal
illumination of past history as if it were being lived ... his work to new attention for
a contemporary 'critical history' that is quite rightly worried about both local and
global catastrophe."
"This book analyzes the discourses and practices that defined Renaissance theater, as related to the development of encyclopedic texts and vice versa. Looking at what "theater" meant to medieval and Renaissance writers and critics, William West sets Renaissance drama within one of its cultural and intellectual contexts. Although the study focuses on the Renaissance, it also draws on and analyzes substantial classical and medieval materia ..."
Till Hell Freezes Over by AnneBarton Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2003 by Ltdbooks ISBN-13: 978-1-55316-583-5, ISBN: 1-55316-583-7
"Eugene Pettijohn has been shot to death in a snowbound cabin. There is only one set of tracks to from this cabin. Herb Schultz is the man who makes these tracks -- he found Eugene, milked the cow, then called police. It is known that Pettijohn was alive after the snow began to fall, so if Schultz didn't shoot him, who did? Dr. Erica Merrill becomes embroiled in the investigation when she makes a house call to treat Schultz's dog. Though ..."
"Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge conceptions of national identity. With a detailed account of household practices, this study interprets plays on the London stage in reference to the first printed cookbooks in England. Working from original historical sources, Wall reveals that domesticity was represented as "familiar" as well as "exotic". She analyzes a wide range of plays i ..."
"What is the history of authorship, of invention, of intellectual property? Joseph Loewenstein describes the fragmentary and eruptive emergence of a key phase of the bibliographical ego, a specifically Early Modern form of authorial identification with printed writing. In the work of many playwrights and non-dramatic writers - and especially that of Ben Jonson - that identification is tinged, remarkably, with possessiveness. This 2002 bo ..."
The Third Day A Robin Carruthers Mystery by AnneBarton 252 Pages, Published 2001 by Summerland, Bc : Valley Pub. ISBN-13: 978-1-896967-91-2, ISBN: 1-896967-91-4
The Death of the Wicked by AnneBarton 268 Pages, Published 2001 by Summerland, B.C. : Valley Pub. ISBN-13: 978-1-896967-93-6, ISBN: 1-896967-93-0
The Evil That We Do A Robin Carruthers Mystery by AnneBarton Paperback, 266 Pages, Published 2001 by Valley Publishing Co ISBN-13: 978-1-896967-89-9, ISBN: 1-896967-89-2
"This persuasive book describes the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline analyzes what happens when Renaissance authors revisit Ovid's stories of violence and desire, paying close attention to the ways in which his subversive representations of gender, sexuality and the body influence later conceptions ..."
"This original study examines how Shakespeare and his contemporaries made the difficult transition from writing plays for the theater to publishing them as literary works. Douglas Brooks analyzes how and why certain plays found their way into print while many others failed to do so and looks at the role played by the Renaissance book trade in shaping literary reputations. Incorporating many finely-observed typographical illustrations, th ..."
"Robert Weimann redefines the relationship between writing and performance, or "playing," in Shakespeare's theater. Through close reading and careful analysis Weimann offers a reconsideration and redefinition of Elizabethan performance and production practices. The study reviews the most recent methodologies of textual scholarship, the new history of the Elizabethan theater, performance theory, and film and video interpretation, and offe ..."
"In early modern England, boys and girls learned to be masculine or feminine as they learned to read and write. This book explores how gender differences, instilled through specific methods of instruction in literacy, were scrutinized in the English public theater. Close readings of plays from Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost to Thomas Dekker's Whore of Babylon, and of poems, didactic treatises and autobiographical writings from the s ..."
"The poet Petrarch imagined that the hopeless but pure love of a woman could lead a man to heaven. In sixteenth-century England Edmund Spenser wrote poetry in the petrarchan tradition while heightening its dilemmas--flirting with a very different kind of feminine image. Dorothy Stephens shows that this flirtation emerges only in conditional language and situations, and that the eroticism the reader feels often belies a narrator's insiste ..."
Daily Office Exploring Patterns for Daily Prayer and Bible Study (Worship S.) by AnneBarton Paperback, 24 Pages, Published 1999 by Grove Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85174-392-6, ISBN: 1-85174-392-8
Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage(1st Edition) Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits of the Visible (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Celia R. Daileader, AnneBarton, Stephen Orgel Hardcover, 210 Pages, Published 1998 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-62379-7, ISBN: 0-521-62379-0
"Celia Daileader explores the paradoxes of eroticism in early modern English drama, where women and their bodies (represented by boy actors) were materially absent and yet symbolically central. Accounting for the significance of the space offstage, where most sexual acts take place, Daileader looks to the suppression of religious drama in England and the resulting secularization of the stage. She draws together questions about sexuality ..."
The Romance of the New World Gender and the Literary Formations of English Colonialism (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 27) by Joan Pong Linton, Stephen Orgel, AnneBarton Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1998 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-59454-7, ISBN: 0-521-59454-5
"This book studies the lively interplay between popular romances and colonial narratives during a crucial period when the values of a redefined patriarchy ..."