In a set of readings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts, this book aims to resituate women’s writing in the English Renaissance by studying the possibilities available to these writers by…

First published in 1986, this title examines a set of English Renaissance texts by Shakespeare, Spenser, Herbert, Marvell and Milton, within the theoretic framework of postmodern thought. Following an opening…

Saint Marks is a study based on the multiple representations of St. Mark, with a focus on Venetian Renaissance paintings and the gospel attributed to him, and theoretical work by…

With a focus on Willa Cather’s artistic principle of the thing not named, this book illuminates the contradictions and complexities inherent in notions of identity and shows how her fiction…

The contributors to Plastic Materialities explore the ways in which Catherine Malabou’s new materialism and concept of plasticity can provide new insights into issues of race, colonialism, subjectivity, science, social…

Previously published in the Oxford Authors series, this unique one-volume selection of Milton’s poetry and prose includes all the English and Italian verse and a generous selection of his major…

The relationship between politics and storytelling is one with a well-established lineage, but public policy analysis has only recently begun to develop its own appreciation of the power of narrative…