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Literary Studies

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The Arcadia of Jacopo Sannazaro

A New Translation with Commentary

By Nicholas R. Jones
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, Intellectual History, European History, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature

Translating the foundational text of pastoral fiction and poetry into English for the modern scholar and reader

A World of Fiction

Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History

By Katherine Bode
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Digital Projects, History, Intellectual History, 19th Century Literature
Series: Digital Humanities

Proposes a new basis for data-rich literary history

Learning Legacies

Archive to Action through Women's Cross-Cultural Teaching

By Sarah Ruffing Robbins
Subjects: History, American History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: The New Public Scholarship

Examines pedagogy as a toolkit for social change, and the urgent need for cross-cultural collaborative teaching methods

Strange Science

Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age

By Lara Pauline Karpenko & Shalyn Rae Claggett
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History

A fascinating look at scientific inquiry during the Victorian period and the shifting boundary between mainstream and unorthodox sciences of the time

The Immaterial Book

Reading and Romance in Early Modern England

By Sarah Wall-Randell
Subjects: History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies

An examination of representations of books and reading in 16th- and 17th-century English romance texts and the myths and metaphors these representations create, perpetuate, and reimagine

Are We There Yet?

Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism

By Alison Byerly
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Media Studies, New Media

An unusual approach to the Victorian phenomenon of virtual travel and realism through the lens of contemporary conceptualizations of media and its effects

New York-Paris

Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City

By Laure Katsaros
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History, European History, Intellectual History, European Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, European Literature, 19th Century Literature

A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization

Salome's Modernity

Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression

By Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Theater and Performance

A study of Oscar Wilde's Salomé in modernist and postmodernist literature and culture

Over the Rainbow

Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature

By Kenneth B. Kidd & Michelle Ann Abate
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Sexuality Studies, History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Significant essays on LGBTQ topics in children's literature

The Lives of Machines

The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture

By Tamara S. Ketabgian
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, European History, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Intellectual History

Expanded views of the connection between humans and machines in the Victorian era

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