Author: Jonathan Hall
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: nation, state, comedy, shakespearean, pleasures, anxious
Number of Pages: 291
Published: 1995-06
List price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 0838635695
ISBN-13: 9780838635698

Author: Stephan Hurwitz
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: criminology
Number of Pages: 454
Published: 1982-10
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0838614779
ISBN-13: 9780838614778

Author: Stefania Lucamante
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: italian, studies, class, thinking, bourgeoisie, italy
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-04-30
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0838642020
ISBN-13: 9780838642023

The Italian bourgeoisie appear to be living through a period of self-evaluation. This collection examines what is ’essentially Italian’ in the development of the bourgeoisie, starting with the role of the individual in post-unification Italy. Members of the bourgeoisie were Italy’s ruling class while the country underwent drastic political, economic, and social transformations during major historical eras and events, such as the two World Wars, the Fascis ventennio, the colonial enterprises of the Mussolini regime, the Racial Laws and the Holocaust, and domestic terrorism. Th

Authors:Carlos Rojas, Diana Glad,
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: hesperides, garden
Number of Pages: 227
Published: 1999-01-31
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0838637949
ISBN-13: 9780838637944

The Garden of the Hesperides is a memoir in the form of a novel chronicling the lives and works of two of Spain’s most important painters, the baroque artist Diego de Silva Velazquez and Salvador Dali. As the title suggests, the novel is based around the mythical, Herculean quest to find the exclusive Garden of the Hesperides.

Author: Bruce Bashford
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: humanist, critic, wilde, oscar
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 1999-12-15
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0838637698
ISBN-13: 9780838637692

Through a discussion of critical works, including "The Decay of Lying and "De Profundis", Bashford demonstrates the theoretical goals Wilde set for himself in his criticism and how he achieved them.

Author: Earl R. Anderson
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: iconism, grammar
Number of Pages: 399
Published: 1998-12-31
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0838637647
ISBN-13: 9780838637647

Anderson systematically discusses onomatopoeia, synaesthesia and other forms of iconism as they appear in poetic texts. The author draws eclectically from anthropological and historical linguistics in his examination of the aesthetic and rhetorical functions of iconism in English poetry from Old English times to the present.

Author: J. B. Lethbridge
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: directions, renewed, new, spenser, edmund
Number of Pages: 385
Published: 2006-08-30
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0838640664
ISBN-13: 9780838640661

This is a collection of wide-ranging papers on Edmund Spenser, including criticism on the "Shepheardes Calender", Spenser’s rhymes, his impact on Louis MacNeice, the medieval organizations of the "Faerie Queene", on the "Mutabilite Cantos", Temperance in Book II, and Friendship in Book IV, Written by younger as well as by well-established scholars, the contributors move quietly away from theoretically dominated criticism, and emphasize the importance of historical criticism, both breaking new ground and recuperating neglected insights and approaches. The introduction describes and defend