WRITING
RENAISSANCE QUEENS
Texts by and about Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots
By Lisa Hopkins
This book examines writing both by and about Renaissance women rulers.
It offers detailed analyses of poems, letters, and other writings by both
Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, and situates these firmly within
the context of other literary figurings of Renaissance queens and queenship
by both male and female writers including Shakespeare, Milton, the first
woman playwright Elizabeth Cary, and the anonymous author of Arden of
Faversham.
About the Author: Lisa Hopkins studied English at King’s College,
Cambridge, and then did an M.A. and Ph.D. in Renaissance drama at the
University of Warwick. Since 1990 she has taught at Sheffield Hallam
University, where she is now a Reader in English.
Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index,
216 pages
ISBN 0-87413-786-1, Price $43.50 (University of Delaware Press)
LOVE, TEARS, AND THE MALE SPECTATOR
By Kenneth MacKinnon
The most popular film studies accounts of male spectatorship suggest
that it is sadistic, “active,” phallic. This sort of spectatorship
was originally understood as a spectator position. Over time, though,
understanding of that position has changed. Now, the male spectator
has begun to be conceived of as an actual male in the audience. It
is difficult to continue to believe in the machismo of that male spectator
when consideration is given to the fact that the love story is a significant
element in such a variety of Hollywood genres.
About the Author: Kenneth MacKinnon is Professor of Film Studies at
the University of North London.
Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, notes, index, 224 pages
ISBN 0-8386-3955-0, Price $41.50 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
)
SHARPENING HER PEN
Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers
By Sidney L. Sondergard
Sharpening Her Pen demonstrates how six early modern women authors
exploit, or evade, a rhetorical disclosure founded upon images, tropes,
and dialectics of violence to secure authorization for their work as
writers and empowerment for the personal agendas unique to each of them.
About the Author: Sidney L. Sondergard is Professor of English at
St. Lawrence University.
Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, notes, index, 192 pages
ISBN 1-57591-059-4, Price $38.50 (Susquehanna University Press)
POLITICAL BODIES
Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean
Literature
By Alice A. Nelson
Political Bodies is one of the first studies to link recent developments
in Latin American literature to the rise of new social movements in
the last 1970s and 1980s. Focusing on literary works in the context
of the Chilean women’s movement and resistance to the Pinochet dictatorship,
Alice Nelson contends that the recent struggle for narrative power in
Chile has been a contest about gender ideologies.
About the Author: Alice A. Nelson has written extensively on recent
Chilean literature, and has published translations of short works by
several Chilean authors. Since 1992 she has lived in Olympia, Washington,
where she teaches Latin American cultural studies and Spanish language
at The Evergreen State College.
Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, notes, index, 312 pages
ISBN 0-8387-5503-8, Price $55.00 (Bucknell University Press)
CHANGING MINDS
The Shifting Perception of Culture in Eighteenth-Century France
By John C. O’Neal
In this study of the epistemological underpinnings of cultural changes
in the French Enlightenment O’Neal shows how many of the cultural changes
brought about by eighteenth-century French thinkers arise from the different
forms of knowledge and experiences they pursued. They derived these
different forms of knowledge and experience from a new view of sensibility
, which in turn depended on humans’ perceived proximity to or distance
from nature and the categories normally associated with this concept.
About the Author: John C. O’Neal is Professor of French at Hamilton
College in Clinton, New York.
Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index, 280
pages
ISBN 0-87413-788-8, Price $49.50 (University of Delaware Press)
FRENCH XX BIBLIOGRAPHY 53
Critical and Biographical References for the Study of French Literature
Since 1885
Edited by William J. Thompson
The annual French XX Bibliography provides the most complete listing
available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French
literature since 1885. Unique in it scope, thoroughness, and reliability
of information, it has become an essential reference source in the study
of modern French literature and culture. Number 53 in the series contains
more than 8000 entries.
Paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 336 pages
ISBN 1-57591-065-9, Price $110.00 (Susquehanna University Press)
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