The Ambassador and the Courtesan: The Body and the Body Politic in Renaissance Italy
The Ambassador and the Courtesan: The Body and the Body Politic in Renaissance Italy examines the formation of cultural subjects at the intersection of political and literary discourse. Drawing on literary and legal texts as well as archival materials, Paola De Santo offers a comparative analysis of two emerging roles in the early modern period […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Quixotic Authority: The Female Quixote and the Woman Writer, Lennox to Austen
Quixotic Authority re-writes the story of what it has meant to be an impassioned womanreader by exploring the female quixote trope within novels and in the professional lives of mid-to late eighteenth-century British women novelists. The female quixote is often a self-centered, deluded, ill-educated homewrecker who must be reformed or punished; yet women writers such […]
