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This provocative new work explores the Puritan and Protestant roots of American sexual identity and culture. Offering both historical and interdisciplinary breadth, it charts Protestant influence on the American character from Cotton Mather to Kenneth Starr. From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni Morrison's Paradise, these essays provide fascinating insights into American sexual and religious conventions and beliefs.
This provocative new work explores the Puritan and Protestant roots of American sexual identity and culture. Offering both historical and interdisciplinary breadth, it charts Protestant influence on the American character from Cotton Mather to Kenneth Starr. From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni Morrison's Paradise, these essays provide fascinating insights into American sexual and religious conventions and beliefs.
This revised edition of King Richard II: Critical Tradition
increases our the play was received and understood by critics,
editors and general readers. Updated with a new introduction
providing a survey of critical responses to Richard II since the
1990s to the present day, this volume offers, in separate sections,
both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an
evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the
reception of the play. The updated introduction offers an overview
of recent criticism on the play in relation to feminist theory,
queer theory, performance theory and ecocriticism. The
chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers
in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers
a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern
theories and methods. Featuring criticism by A.C. Swinburne, Walter
Pater, Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, this volume makes a major
contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions
of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed
from century to century.
Nicholas F. Radel's Understanding Edmund White, the first
book-length critical study of White's work, examines America's
best-known gay novelist within the changing social contexts of the
past half-century, when gay and lesbian people moved from being
seen as psychologically deviant to being increasingly accepted as
productive members of society. Radel explores the ways White
documents this cultural transition, in both his fiction and his
nonfiction, and contributes to it by making gay writing a source
for new knowledge of sexuality.
Taking into account recent scholarship on White, Radel provides
insightful analysis of the author's autobiographical novels and
short stories, from A Boy's Own Story through The Married Man and
Chaos. Understanding Edmund White makes White's early experimental
novels, Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, and
Caracole, as well as his later historical fiction, Fanny and Hotel
de Dream, accessible by showing how their emphasis on sexuality and
social change connects them to the autobiographical fictions. Radel
also shows how White's most recent novel, Jack Holmes and His
Friend, deftly combines historical and autobiographical narratives
to become one of the author's most nuanced explorations of American
sexuality. Understanding Edmund White additionally contains a new,
previously unpublished interview with White that provides revealing
information about the impact his work as a biographer has had on
his later fiction.
Grounded in ongoing critical debates in social and literary theory
central to understanding contemporary gay literature, Radel's
introduction to White's complex literary vision portrays the
writer's evolving perceptions of the issues confronting his gay
characters and narrators, boys and men who struggle in the early
autobiographical novels to achieve a sense of self-worth but assume
in the later novels and nonfiction confident voices that speak for
and about American culture and sexualities of all types.
An earlier comedy from the Bard, "The Taming of the Shrew" brings
us the feisty Katherina (the 'Shrew' of the title) and her peers.
Addressing issues of cruelty and gender relations, this 'modern'
play has enjoyed many adaptations on both the stage and the screen.
Part of the "Barnes & Noble Shakespeare" series, this title
features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from Great
Britain and America, in collaboration with one of the world's
foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia
University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as
possible to those that Shakespeare wrote.
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