Bucknell University Press: 205 books
Reconsidering Biography
Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over...
Toni Morrison
Forty Years in The Clearing
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the ensuing forty plus years, Morrison’s work has become synonymous with the most significant literary art and intellectual engagements of our time. The publication of Home (May 2012), as...
James Arbuckle
Selected Works
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
James Arbuckle (c.1700–1742), poet and essayist, was born in Belfast to a Presbyterian merchant family of Scottish origin and educated at Glasgow University (1717–1723). In Glasgow, his poetry, influenced by Pope and the Latin classics, won praise from leading members of Scotland’s literary...
From Enlightenment to Rebellion
Essays in Honor of Christopher Fox
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book is a collection of essays and a short story written to honor Christopher Fox of Notre Dame, arguably the most influential figure in Irish Studies for the past quarter century. The essays address topics in which Professor Fox has made his own enduring scholarly contributions, and subjects...
Writing Teresa
The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Writing Teresa: The Saint from Ávila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesús “boom” of roughly 1880–1930, and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St. Teresa. This historical period’s...
Developments in the Histories of Sexualities
In Search of the Normal, 1600–1800
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal,1600-1800 explores the oppositionscreated by the official exclusion ofbanned sexual practices and theresistance to that exclusion throughwidespread acceptance of thoseoutlawed practices at an interpersonallevel. At different times...
Studies in Ephemera
Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print bringstogether established and emerging scholars of early modern print culture to explore the dynamic relationships between words and illustrations in awide variety of popular cheap print from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century....
Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience
Reading from the Mobile City
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first book to thoroughly apply the French urban philosopher's thought on cities to the culture and literature of Spain. Fraser shows how Lefebvre's complex view of city as a mobile phenomenon is relevant to understanding a variety of Spanish cultural...
Constructing Spain
The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, 1953–2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Does fiction do more than just represent space? Can our experiences with fictional storytelling be in themselves spatial? In Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, Nathan Richardson explores relations between cultural representation and spatial transformation...
In Her Words
Critical Studies on Gloria Fuertes
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
During her lifetime, Gloria Fuertes achieved the status of a controversial cultural icon, both through her poetry for adults and through her poetry, recorded readings, and television programs for juveniles. This collection of lively essays, by authors who specialize in contemporary Spanish poetry,...
Theatrical Topographies
Spatial Crises in Uruguayan Theater Post-2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
The economic crisis in Argentina in 2001-2002 that spilled over into Uruguay causing fiscal and political problems is the starting point for my research on space and theater, and it demonstrates why we must look at the River Plate in both global and local ways. Connections among monetary policies,...
Sub-versions of the Archive
Manuel Puig's and Severo Sarduy's Alternative Identities
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
Sub-Versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig's and Severo Sarduy's Alternative Identities analyzes recent theories of the archive to examine how Manuel Puig and Severo Sarduy reformulate the Latin American literary tradition. This study focuses on eclectic theories of the archive as both repository and...
by Rosario Ferré
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Memoir is Rosario Ferré’s account of her life both as a writer and as a member of a family at the center of the economic and political history of Puerto Rico during the American Century, one hundred years of territorial “non-incorporation” into the United States. The autobiography tells the...
Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715
Seditious Frivolity
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution...