Hagiography in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron: Saints and Debates in Renaissance France

Marguerite de Navarre was one of the most educated and powerful women of Renaissance Europe. Along with her active engagement in politics and religion, she was a patron of the arts and a prolific writer. The Heptaméron, her celebrated collection of tales and debates, offers readers invaluable insights into diverse aspects of sixteenth-century French society. […]

Author
Leanna Bridge Rezvani
Hardback ISBN:
978-1-64453-401-4
Hardback Release:
November 2025
Paperback ISBN:
978-1-64453-400-7
Paperback Release:
November 2025
Series:
The Early Modern Exchange
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Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from The Korshak Collection

Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from The Korshak Collection features artwork by pioneering artists from over a century of published works of science fiction and fantasy. Erle Korshak, publisher of a groundbreaking science fiction book company, Shasta Publishers, ushered in the transition of important science fiction literature from magazines printed on cheap […]

Editor(s)
Amanda Zehnder
Editor(s)
David Brinley
Hardback ISBN:
978-1-64453-405-2
Hardback Release:
September 2025
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Inglorious Artists: Art World Satire and the Emergence of a Capitalist Art Market in Paris, 1750-1850

Inglorious Artists traces the origins of the image of the starving artist to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, where practicing and aspiring visual artists mobilized the emerging genre of graphic satire to publish hundreds of satirical images that satirized Paris’ art world — 532 images that have never been studied or published. While it has […]

Author
Kathryn Desplanque
Hardback ISBN:
9781644533642
Hardback Release:
July 2025
Paperback ISBN:
9781644533635
Paperback Release:
July 2025
Series:
Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture
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Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance

Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance investigates the evolving role of the widow from allegorical subject to author in medieval and early modern Italian literature, from canonical authors such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, who constructed a rich poetic vocabulary around widowhood, to the numerous widowed writers who rose to prominence in the sixteenth […]

Author
Anna Wainwright
Hardback ISBN:
9781644533604
Hardback Release:
May 2025
Paperback ISBN:
9781644533598
Paperback Release:
May 2025
Series:
The Early Modern Exchange
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