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Coming To Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England
ISBN: PB: 9780226725123, ISBN: HB: 9780226725093, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables
In Coming To, Timothy M. Harrison uncovers the forgotten role of poetry in the history of the idea of consciousness. Drawing our attention to a sea change in the English seventeenth century, when, over the course of a half century, "conscience" made...
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Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries
ISBN: PB: 9780226729299, ISBN: HB: 9780226729152, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows, Milton's many prose works are saturated in legal ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts betwee...
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Skull Cathedral A Vestigial Anatomy
ISBN: PB: 9781938769566, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Skull Cathedral, Melissa Wiley pulls stories from the vestigial remnants of the creatures we were or could have become. The appendix, pinky toes, tonsils, male nipples, wisdom teeth, and coccyx are starting points through which Wiley explores exal...
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Hooked Art and Attachment
ISBN: PB: 9780226729633, ISBN: HB: 9780226729466, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What characterizes the aesthetic experiences of feeli...
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Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780226709376, ISBN: HB: 9780226709239, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 tables
Amid the crowded streets of Chester, guild players portraying biblical characters performed on colorful mobile stages hoping to draw the attention of fellow townspeople. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, these Chester plays employed flamboyan...
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Calamity Form On Poetry and Social Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226701318, ISBN: HB: 9780226701288, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Romanticism coincided with two major historical developments: the Industrial Revolution, and with it, a turning point in our relationship to the earth, its inhabitants, and its climate. Drawing on Marxism and philosophy of science, "The Calamity Form...
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Daily Henry David Thoreau A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season
ISBN: PB: 9780226624969, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each". Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every passi...
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Subject of Crusade Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500
ISBN: PB: 9780226693354, ISBN: HB: 9780226693217, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones
In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives through lyric poetry, putting words to the experience...
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Ecological Poetics; or, Wallace Stevens's Birds
ISBN: PB: 9780226687971, ISBN: HB: 9780226687834, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens's evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us...
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Different Order of Difficulty Literature after Wittgenstein
ISBN: PB: 9780226677156, ISBN: HB: 9780226677019, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekple makes a critical contribution to the "resolute" program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his "T...
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