Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James
It is a familiar story line in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded woman whom he loves. Elsie B. Michie explains what this common marriage plot reveals about ......
In this highly original study, Jeremy Braddock focuses on collective forms of modernist expressionthe art collection, the anthology, and the archiveand their importance in the development of institutional and artistic culture in the United States.Using extensive archival research, Braddock's study synthetically examines the overlooked practices of ......
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and philosophical reflection on literature and culture. This mini-guide consists of entries from the Guide and newly commissioned articles that focus on contemporary topics and figures. Contemporary Literary and ......
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory from Adorno to iek, providing an informative and reliable introduction to a vast, ......
In recent years, the recognition of Gilles Deleuze as one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century has heightened attention to his brilliant and complex writings on film. What is the place of Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 in the corpus of his philosophy? How and why does Deleuze consider cinema as a singular object of philosophical attention, a ......
Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Art of Survival
Published anonymously in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes upset all the strict hierarchies that governed art and society during the Renaissance. It traces the adventures not of a nobleman or ancient hero, but rather of an ordinary man who struggles for survival in a cruel, corrupt society after growing up under the care of a blind beggar. ......
In the past ten years, theorists from Elaine Scarry to Roger Scruton have devoted renewed attention to the aesthetic of beauty. Part of their discussions claim that beautybecause it arises from a sense of proportion, symmetry, or reciprocityprovides a model for justice. Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime makes a significant departure from this ......
Gilles Deleuze is considered one of the most important French philosophers of the twentieth century. Eleanor Kaufman situates Deleuze in relation to others of his generation, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Blanchot, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, and she engages the provocative readings of Deleuze by Alain Badiou and Slavoj ......
In The Style of Gestures Guillemette Bolens examines the ways in which artists, authors, and readers draw on skills, sensorimotor capacities, and embodied knowledge when creating and consuming artistic and literary works. In so doing, the book offers an entirely new literary perspective on gesture studies and the role of embodied cognition in ......
