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


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1.	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
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Caught in the act: theatricality in the nineteenth-century English novel Author: Litvak, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: Litvak demonstrates that private experience in the novels of Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Eliot, and James is a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities. He suggests that the theatricality which pervades these novels enforces social norms while introdu . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The feminine sublime: gender and excess in women's fiction Author: Freeman, Barbara Claire Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The Feminine Sublime provides a new and startling insight into the modes and devices employed in the creation of women's fiction since the eighteenth century. Barbara Claire Freeman argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend upon unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual di . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	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
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mother without child: contemporary fiction and the crisis of motherhood Author: Hansen, Elaine Tuttle 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Literature \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Women's Studies \| American Literature \| Ethnic Studies \| American Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Revealing the maternal as not a core identity but a site of profound psychic and social division, Hansen illuminates recent decades of feminist thought and explores novels by Jane Rule, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, and Fay Weldon. Unlike traditional . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	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
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Lioness in bloom: modern Thai fiction about women Author: Kepner, Susan Fulop 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Literature \| Fiction \| Southeast Asia \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Kepner's selection shows the many ways fiction has mirrored the lives of Thai women over the twentieth century. The spectrum is broad, encompassing the young and the old, the rural and the cosmopolitan, the privileged and the poor. Some writers address previously unacceptable themes: female sexualit . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	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
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Material girls: making sense of feminist cultural theory Author: Walters, Suzanna Danuta Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Sociology \| Women's Studies \| American Studies \| Politics \| Media Studies Publisher's Description: Madonna, Murphy Brown, Thelma and Louise: These much-discussed media icons are the starting points of Suzanna Walter's brilliant, much-needed introduction to feminist cultural theory. Accessible yet theoretically sophisticated, up-to-date and entertaining, Material Girls acquaints readers with the m . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	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
11.	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
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Late modernism: politics, fiction, and the arts between the world wars Author: Miller, Tyrus 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature \| Fiction \| Art Theory \| Cinema and Performance Arts \| Politics \| Political Theory \| History Publisher's Description: Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	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
14.	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
15.	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
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The rhetoric of confession: shishōsetsu in early twentieth-century Japanese fiction Author: Fowler, Edward Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature \| Japan \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Asian Literature Publisher's Description: The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical nature of shishosetsu , and discusses its linguisti . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Chaucer and the fictions of gender Author: Hansen, Elaine Tuttle 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Gender Studies \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Hansen challenges both the long-standing myth of Chaucer as the tolerant, wise Father of English poetry and the recent arguments that Chaucer was a protofeminist, subversive of the misogyny of his day. Hansen argues that these mistaken interpretations inhibit readings of Chaucer that respond to femi . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	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
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dwelling in the text: houses in American fiction Author: Chandler, Marilyn R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| American Literature Publisher's Description: What is a house? And what can architecture tell us about individual psychology, national character and aspiration? The house holds a central place in American mythology, as Marilyn Chandler demonstrates in a series of "house tours" through American novels, beginning with Thoreau's Walden and ending . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Men, women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab feminist poetics Author: Malti-Douglas, Fedwa Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Men, Women, and God(s) is a pioneering study of the Arab world's leading feminist and most controversial woman writer, Nawal El Saadawi. Author of plays, memoirs, and such novels as Woman at Point Zero and The Innocence of the Devil , El Saadawi has become well known in the West as well as in the Ar . . . [more] Similar Items