Sappho, in the words of poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (18371909), was simply nothing less as she is certainly nothing more than the greatest poet who ever was at all. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho, the namesake lesbian, wrote amorously of men and women alike, exhibiting both masculine and feminine ......
Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American Literature
How to use and build digital projects and how to incorporate into already established curriculum
Jennifer Travis and Jessica DeSpain present a long-overdue collection of theoretical perspectives and case studies aimed at teaching nineteenth-century American literature using digital humanities tools and methods. ......
Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American Literature
How to use and build digital projects and how to incorporate into already established curriculum
Jennifer Travis and Jessica DeSpain present a long-overdue collection of theoretical perspectives and case studies aimed at teaching nineteenth-century American literature using digital humanities tools and methods. ......
Originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615 and often considered “the first modern novel,” Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is undoubtedly the most influential work in the Spanish literary canon. In this groundbreaking graphic adaptation, cultural commentator Ilan Stavans and illustrator Roberto Weil reimagine ......
Essays on Biblical and Near Eastern Literature in Honor of Adele Berlin
17 essays analyzing biblical and Near Eastern narratives from literary perspectives, including imagery in Job and Hosea, a woman's voice in the Psalter, canonization of Ecclesiastes, the ancient editing of the narratives, textual and literary criticism.
In Genius Envy, Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten history: the multiplicity and diversity of nineteenth-century French women’s poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time attributed the phenomenon of genius to masculinity and dismissed the work of female authors as “feminine literature.” Despite the ......
The 1987 publication of Iain M. Banks's Consider Phlebas helped trigger the British renaissance of radical hard science fiction and influenced a generation of New Space Opera masters. The thirteen SF novels that followed inspired an avid fandom and intense intellectual engagement while Banks's mainstream books vaulted him to the top of ......
Weldon Kees is one of those fascinating people you've likely never heard of. What is most captivating about Kees is that he disappeared without a trace on July 18, 1955. Police found his 1954 Plymouth Savoy abandoned on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge one day later. The keys were still in the ignition. Though Kees had alluded days ......
The first section of this volume consists of a panel, ""Transnational Quixotes and Quixotisms,"" introduced by Catherine Jaffe. It includes essays by Amelia Dale on how female quixotes differed from male quixotes in eighteenth-century England; by Elena Deanda on the Marquis de Sade as a quixotic figure; by Elizabeth Franklin Lewis on English ......
