Lear's Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear
Lear’s Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear offers a deep cultural analysis of the figure of Queen Lear, who shadows and eventually sometimes overshadows her royal husband across the nearly 1000-year life of this archetypal tale. What appears to be a deliberate strategy of suppression, even erasure in Shakespeare’s King Lear later inspired dozens […]
Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century
This book is also freely available online as an Open Access digital edition on the Mainfold platform, here. Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century challenges the traditional ways that scholarship has approached sexuality, gender nonconformity, and sex (as well as its absence) in the long eighteenth century. Drawing from recent and emerging […]
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 […]
