UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The trauma of gender: a feminist theory of the English novel Author: Moglen, Helene 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Literature \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| European Studies \| European History \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| English Literature Publisher's Description: Helene Moglen offers a revisionary feminist argument about the origins, cultural function, and formal structure of the English novel. While most critics and historians have associated the novel's emergence and development with the burgeoning of capitalism and the rise of the middle classes, Moglen c . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Licensing entertainment: the elevation of novel reading in Britain, 1684-1750 Author: Warner, William Beatty Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature \| European History \| Print Media \| English Literature Publisher's Description: Novels have been a respectable component of culture for so long that it is difficult for twentieth-century observers to grasp the unease produced by novel reading in the eighteenth century. William Warner shows how the earliest novels in Britain, published in small-format print media, provoked early . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Irish Ulysses Author: Tymoczko, Maria Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| English Literature Publisher's Description: In a radical new reading of Ulysses , Maria Tymoczko argues that previous scholarship has distorted our understanding of Joyce's epic novel by focusing on its English and continental literary sources alone. Challenging conventional views that Joyce rejected Irish literature, Tymoczko demonstrates ho . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: The private orations of Themistius Author: Themistius Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Classical History \| Classical Politics \| Classical Religions \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman emperors during the fourth century A.D. In this first translation of Themistius's private orations to be published in English, Robert J. Penella makes accessible texts that shed significant light on the cul . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The rest is silence: death as annihilation in the English Renaissance Author: Watson, Robert N Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: How did the fear of death coexist with the promise of Christian afterlife in the culture and literature of the English Renaissance? Robert Watson exposes a sharp edge of blasphemous protest against mortality that runs through revenge plays such as The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet , and through plays o . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Acting naturally: Mark Twain in the culture of performance Author: Knoper, Randall K 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| American Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Twain \| American Studies Publisher's Description: The phenomenon of performance is central to Mark Twain's writing and persona. But Twain's performative aspects have usually been dismissed as theatrical and discounted as lowbrow burlesque. Randall Knoper takes Twain's theatricality seriously and shows how Twain's work both echoes and engages the so . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Death before dying: the Sufi poems of Sultan Bahu Author: Sult̤ān Bāhū 1630-1691 Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature \| Religion \| Poetry \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Islam \| South Asia Publisher's Description: These 115 poems introduce readers in English to Sultan Bahu (d. 1691), a Sufi mystical poet who continues to be one of the most beloved writers in Punjabi. Bahu, whose name translates as "With God," remains highly popular in Pakistan and India today - even illiterate Punjabis can recite his poetry b . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The imaginary puritan: literature, intellectual labor, and the origins of personal life Author: Armstrong, Nancy Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature Publisher's Description: Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who litera . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Trials of authorship: anterior forms and poetic reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare Author: Crewe, Jonathan V Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| Renaissance Literature \| English Literature Publisher's Description: For more than a decade, the English Renaissance has been the scene of trial for the critical methodologies of deconstruction, feminism, new historicism, psychoanalytic poststructuralism, and cultural studies. Jonathan Crewe argues that the commitment in the prevailing criticism to innovation, transg . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hesiod's Works and days Author: Hesiod Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Classics \| Sociology \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: This new, annotated translation of Hesiod's Works and Days is a collaboration between David W. Tandy, a classicist, and Walter Neale, an economist and economic historian. Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose Works and Days discusses agricultural practices and society in general. Classicists and an . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nobody's story: the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace, 1670-1820 Author: Gallagher, Catherine Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy of credit and debt, and the rise of the novel. The "nobodies" of her title are not ignored, . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aunt Safiyya and the monastery: a novel Author: Ṭāhir, Bahāʾ 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Fiction Publisher's Description: This brief, beautifically crafted novel introduces one of the finest contemporary Arab novelists to English-speaking audiences. In it, Bahaa' Taher, one of a group of Egyptian writers - including the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz - noted for their revealing portraits of Egyptian life and society, te . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encounter: a novel of nineteenth-century Korea Author: Han, Mu-suk 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Asian Literature \| South Asia Publisher's Description: This historical novel, Encounter ( Mannam ), by Hahn Moo-Sook, one of Asia's most honored writers, is a story of the resilience in the Korean spirit. It is told through the experiences of Tasan, a high-ranking official and foremost Neo-Confucian scholar at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Be . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Steps under water: a novel Author: Kozameh, Alicia Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Latin American Studies \| Gender Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Fiction Publisher's Description: Steps Under Water is a novel drawn from Alicia Kozameh's experiences as a political prisoner in Argentina during the "Dirty War" of the 1970s. Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Acts of implication: suggestion and covert meaning in the works of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Austen Author: Ehrenpreis, Irvin 1920- Published: University of California Press, 1981 Subjects: Literature Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The custom of the castle: from Malory to Macbeth Author: Ross, Charles Stanley Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| European History \| English Literature \| Medieval Studies \| Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: The "custom of the castle" imposes strange ordeals on knights and ladies seeking hospitality - daunting, mostly evil challenges that travelers must obey or even defend. This seemingly fantastic motif, first conceived by Chrètien de Troyes in the twelfth century and widely imitated in medieval French . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Another kind of love: male homosexual desire in English discourse, 1850-1920 Author: Craft, Christopher 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Sociology \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Gender Studies \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history of sexuality, and the erotics of reading, Christopher Craft investigates questions fundamental to any history of present sexualities. How does the modern binary homosexual/heterosexual relate to earli . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: An empire nowhere: England, America, and literature from Utopia to The tempest Author: Knapp, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| United States History \| Renaissance Literature \| European History Publisher's Description: What caused England's literary renaissance? One answer has been such unprecedented developments as the European discovery of America. Yet England in the sixteenth century was far from an expanding nation. Not only did the Tudors lose England's sole remaining possessions on the Continent and, thanks . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: The enchantments of love: amorous and exemplary novels Author: Zayas y Sotomayor, María de 1590-1650 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature Publisher's Description: An instant best-seller in Spain in 1637, The Enchantments of Love is a collection of shrewd and timeless tales in the tradition of Bocaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . Although some of the tales have appeared in English through the centuries, this delightful translation by H. Patsy . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ambiguous angels: gender in the novels of Galdós Author: Jagoe, Catherine Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The contradictory nature of the work of Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain's greatest modern novelist, is brought to the fore in Catherine Jagoe's innovative and rigorous study. Revising commonly held views of his feminism, she explores the relation of Galdós's novels to the "woman question" in Spain, argui . . . [more] Similar Items