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Medieval Things

Agency, Materiality, and Narratives of Objects in Medieval German Literature and Beyond

Bettina Bildhauer

The Ohio State University Press, 2020

What does medieval literature look like from the point of view not of knights and ladies, but of treasure, and rings, nets and the grail? How does medieval literature imagine the agency of material things, and what exactly distinguishes human subjects from inanimate objects? Medieval Things: Agency, Materiality, and Narratives of Objects in Medieval German Literature and Beyond brings together a theoretically informed and politically engaged new materialist approach with a study of how everyday objects are understood in medieval literature. Bettina Bildhauer argues that medieval narratives can inspire current critical theory on agency and materiality. She focuses on famous and forgotten German narratives from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, including Wolfram of Eschenbach’s Parzival and the epic Song of the Nibelungs, and sets them in their global context. Many such tales can be reconceptualized as “thing biographies”—stories that follow the trajectory not of a human hero but of a coin, a gown, a treasure, or a ring. Many also use nets and networks to conceptualize dangerous structures of knowledge. Shine, glamour, and charisma emerge as particularly powerful ways in which material things exert a kind of agency that is neither pseudo-human nor fetishistic. In analyzing details like these from medieval literature, Bildhauer thus contributes in new ways to current theory on agency and materiality.
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Mediterranean in Dis/order

Space, Power, and Identity

Rosita Di Peri and Daniel Meier, Editors

University of Michigan Press, 2023

Mediterranean in Dis/order reveals the connection between space and politics by examining the role that space has played in insurgencies, conflicts, uprisings, and mobilities in the Mediterranean region. With this approach, the authors are able to challenge well-established beliefs about the power structure of the state across different disciplines (including political science, history, sociology, geography, and anthropology), and its impact on the conception, production, and imagination of space in the broader Mediterranean. Further, they contribute to particular areas of studies, such as migration, political Islam, mobilization, and transition to democracy, among others. The book, infusing critical theory, unveils original and revelatory case studies in Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Morocco, and the EU Mediterranean policy, through a various set of actors and practices—from refugees and migrations policies, to Islamist or students’ movements, architectural sites, or movies. This multidisciplinary perspective on space and power provides a valuable resource for practitioners interested in how space, context, and time interact to produce institutions, political subjectivities, and asymmetries of power, particularly since the turning point of the Arab uprisings. The book also helps readers understand the conditions under which the uprisings develop, giving a clearer picture about various national, regional, and international dynamics.

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Melodramatic Imperial Writing

From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes

Neil Hultgren

Ohio University Press, 2014

Melodrama is often seen as a blunt aesthetic tool tainted by its reliance on improbable situations, moral binaries, and overwhelming emotion, features that made it a likely ingredient of British imperial propaganda during the late nineteenth century. Yet, through its impact on many late-Victorian genres outside of the theater, melodrama developed a complicated relationship with British imperial discourse. Melodramatic Imperial Writing positions melodrama as a vital aspect of works that underscored the contradictions and injustices of British imperialism. Beyond proving useful for authors constructing imperialist fantasies or supporting unjust policies, the melodramatic mode enabled writers to upset narratives of British imperial destiny and racial superiority. Neil Hultgren explores a range of texts, from Dickens’s writing about the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion to W. E. Henley’s imperialist poetry and Olive Schreiner’s experimental fiction, in order to trace a new and complex history of British imperialism and the melodramatic mode in late-Victorian writing.
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Memoirs of the Count of Comminge and The Misfortunes of Love

Claudine-Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin

Iter Press, 2016

These translations from the French bring two of Claudine-Alexandrine de Tencin’s novels back to life: The Memoirs of the Count of Comminge (1735), presented as a much-needed new translation, and The Misfortunes of Love (1747), appearing here for the first time in English. Published more than half a century after Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette’s La Princesse de Clèves, they belonged less to Tencin’s time than to the tradition of the “feminine historical novel” inspired by Lafayette. Beautifully written in the spare but powerful prose characteristic of French classicism and widely read both in Tencin’s lifetime and beyond, the novels were forgotten in the mid-nineteenth century. Like the work of Abbé Prévost and Pierre de Marivaux, they were important contributions to the early sentimental novel. They also anticipated, surprisingly, the gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe which appeared later in the century.
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Memory's Library

Medieval Books in Early Modern England

Jennifer Summit

University of Chicago Press, 2008

In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England.

Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory’s Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.

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Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses

Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective

Donna King

Vanderbilt University Press, 2012

Stieg Larsson was an unabashed feminist in his personal and professional life and in the fictional world he created, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest are full of graphic depictions of violence against women, including stalking, sexual harassment, child abuse, rape, incest, serial murder, sexual slavery, and sex trafficking, committed by vile individual men and by corrupt, secretive institutions. How do readers and moviegoers react to these depictions, and what do they make of the women who fight back, the complex masculinities in the trilogy, and the ambiguous gender of the elusive Lisbeth Salander?

These lively and accessible essays expand the conversation in the blogosphere about the novels and films by connecting the controversies about gender roles to social trends in the real world.

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Men at the Center

Redemptive Governance under Louis IX

William Chester Jordan

Central European University Press, 2012

Taking Professor Natalie Zemon Davis’ fascinating biographical studies of three Women on the Margins in the seventeenth century as an inspiration, the author of this book offers three portraits of men who were at the very center of governance in thirteenth-century France, men who strove in the shadow of King Louis IX (Saint Louis) to impose a redemptive regime on the realm. Professor Jordan treats them as individuals, but in a sense they are also types: Robert of Sorbon, a churchman; Etienne Boileau, a bourgeois; and Simon de Nesle, an aristocrat. Robert was the founder of the Sorbonne; Boileau was the prévôt or royal administrator of Paris; and Simon was twice co-regent of the kingdom. Thinking about them and their relations with Louis IX opens up a new and altogether sobering vista for exploring the nature of the king’s rule and the impact of his rule on his subjects.

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Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams

Rachel Hadas

University of Michigan Press, 2000

Merrill, Cavafy, Poems and Dreams is a collection that--as the title indicates--looks both outward and inward. It begins with essays on Greek poets from Homer to Ritsos, in which Rachel Hadas's knowledge of classical literature and her years in Greece richly inform the writing. The collection also includes a loving exploration of the work of poet James Merrill, who was a close personal friend of the author's.
The second half of the book combines explorations of various corners and horizons of the poetry scene, including neglected American poets and Hadas's thoughts on her own poetics and career. "Two Letters from New York" and "Tangled Web Sites" take bemused looks at literary or cultural landscapes. Hadas also looks inward: to dreams and dreamwork, to her dead mother's address book, to the emblematic drilling of a well in a country house. The range of selections includes essays, interviews, memoir, criticism, and a few of Hadas's own poems.
Rachel Hadas is the author of eleven books of poetry, essays, and translations. Her most recent book is Halfway Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry and an American Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is Professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University.
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Meter Matters

Verse Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century

Jason David Hall

Ohio University Press, 2011

Across the nineteenth century, meter mattered—in more ways and to more people than we might well appreciate today. For the period’s poets, metrical matters were a source of inspiration and often vehement debate. And the many readers, teachers, and pupils encountered meter and related topics in both institutional and popular forms.

The ten essays in Meter Matters showcase the range of metrical practice of poets from Wordsworth and Byron to Hopkins, Swinburne, and Tennyson; at the same time, the contributors bring into focus some of the metrical theorizing that shaped poetic thinking and responses to it throughout the nineteenth century. Paying close attention to the historical contours of Romantic and Victorian meters, as well as to the minute workings of the verse line, Meter Matters presents a fresh perspective on a subject that figured significantly in the century’s literature, and in its culture.

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Michael Field

Decadent Moderns

Sarah Parker

Ohio University Press, 2019

In the last twenty years, Michael Field has emerged as one of the most fascinating poets of the Victorian era. Through their collaborative partnership as “Michael Field,” Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper engaged in the aesthetic and decadent movements of the fin de siècle, while their poetry and verse drama articulate ideas associated with the New Woman and boldly express queer and lesbian desire. Michael Field: Decadent Moderns extends the focus on these key literary and cultural contexts by emphasizing their continuing significance within twentieth-century literary modernism. Through a series of interdisciplinary essays, this book addresses Michael Field’s energetic engagements with a range of topics including ecology, perfume, tourism, art history, sculpture, formalism, classics, and book history. In doing so, Michael Field: Decadent Moderns highlights the modernity, radicalism, and relevance of their work, both within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as in our own cultural moment.

Contributors: Leire Barrera-Medrano, Joseph Bristow, Jill R. Ehnenn, Sarah E. Kersh, Kristin Mahoney, Catherine Maxwell, Alex Murray, Sarah Parker, Margaret D. Stetz, Kate Thomas, and Ana Parejo Vadillo.

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Middle English Dictionary

A.1

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1956

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

A.2

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1956

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

A.3

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1956

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

A.4

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1957

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

B.1

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1957

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

B.2

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1957

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

B.3

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1957

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

B.4

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1958

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

B.5

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1958

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

C.1

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1959

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

C.2

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1959

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

C.3

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1959

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

C.4

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1960

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

C.5

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1960

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

C.6

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1960

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

D.1

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1961

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

D.2

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1961

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

D.3

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1961

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

D.4

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1962

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

D.5

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1962

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

E.1

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1952

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

E.2

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1953

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

E.3

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1953

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

F.1

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1953

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

F.2

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1954

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

F.3

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1954

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

F.4

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1954

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

G.1

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1963

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

G.2

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1963

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

G.3

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1964

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

H.1

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1966

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

H.2

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1966

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

H.3

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1966

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

H.4

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1966

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

H.5

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1967

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

I.1

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1968

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

I.2

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1968

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

J.1

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1969

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

K.1

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1969

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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Middle English Dictionary

L.1

Robert E. Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

University of Michigan Press, 1970

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
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