History & War

Report copyright infringementby Roger Luckhurst (Author)A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and film The word...

Report copyright infringementby Terence McSweeney (Author)Beyond the Frame: The Films and Film Theory of Andrei Tarkovsky is a vibrant and critically informed exploration of one...

Report copyright infringementby Richard Wolinsky (Editor)In these highly-candid radio interviews, more than fifty legendary, larger-than-life personalities trade anecdotes about the Golden Age of science fiction....

Report copyright infringementby Arielle Saiber (Author)Measured Words explores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. In this captivating...

Report copyright infringementby Christopher Pye (Author)The Antic Root explores the relations among art, sense-experience, and the conception of the world in the early modern era....

Report copyright infringementby Christopher Pye (Author)The Antic Root explores the relations among art, sense-experience, and the conception of the world in the early modern era....

Report copyright infringementby Susan L. Smith (Author)Eve tempting Adam with the apple, Delilah shearing Samson's hair, Phyllis riding the philosopher Aristotle like a horse--from the...

Report copyright infringementby Sarah Stanbury (Author)Offers the full-length study of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl,...

Report copyright infringementby Ilka Kressner (Editor), Ana María Mutis (Editor), Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli (Editor)Reframing traditional conceptions of ecologyEcologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies...

Report copyright infringementby Andrew Hui (Author)The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired...

Report copyright infringementby Fredric Jameson (Author)Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "postmodernism". Jameson's inquiry looks at the...

Report copyright infringementby Catherine Brown (Author)WINNER, KATHERINE SINGER KOVACS PRIZERemember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from the Christian monasteries of northern...

Report copyright infringementby Maria Alessia Rossi (Editor), Alice Isabella Sullivan (Editor)This volume builds upon the new worldwide interest in the global Middle Ages. It investigates...

Report copyright infringementby Richard Strier (Author)Dedicated to discussing writings of the European Renaissance that dissented from the dominant values of the period. Who during the...

Report copyright infringementby Marissa Nicosia (Author)Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare's poems and plays record the pleasures and perils of the table....

Report copyright infringementby David B. Goldstein (Editor), Amy L. Tigner (Editor)Eating and drinking--vital to all human beings--were of central importance to Shakespeare and his contemporaries....

Report copyright infringementby Madeline Miller (Author)This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the...

Report copyright infringementby Su Tong (Author)The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial China...