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Avanti! [1968], first read through

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. (1968). Avanti! [1968], first read through. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0164a3b0-b3f9-0130-64cb-58d385a7b928

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Misrecognitions by Ben Parker
Call Number: (RH) PN56.R33 P37 2024
Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2024

Misrecognitions mounts a vigorous defense of the labyrinthine plotting of Victorian novels, notorious for their implausible concluding revelations and coincidences.
Writing Through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century by Chantel Lavoie
Call Number: (RH) PR448.B69 L38 2024
Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2024

Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century explores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected the lived experience of young boys through the long eighteenth century--not simply in children's literature but in novels, poetry, medical advice, criminal broadsides, and automaton exhibitions.
Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic by Cassander L. Smith
Call Number: (RH) PN841 .S65 2024
ISBN: 9780807179796
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2024]

Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic examines the means through which people of African descent embodied tenets of respectability as a coping strategy to navigate enslavement and racial oppression in the early Black Atlantic world.
The Irish Revival by Joseph Valente (Editor, Contribution by); Marjorie Howes (Editor, Contribution by); Brian Ó Conchubhair (Contribution by); Gregory Castle (Contribution by); Karen Steele (Contribution by); Mary Mullen (Contribution by); Paige Reynolds (Contribution by); Gregory Dobbins (Contribution by); Kelly Sullivan (Contribution by); Tina O'Toole (Contribution by); Anne Fogarty (Contribution by); Abby Bender (Contribution by)
Call Number: (RH) PR8750 .I78 2023
Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2023

The Irish Revival has inspired a richly diverse and illuminating body of scholarship that has enlarged our understanding of the movement and its influence.
Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing by Neil Ramsey
Call Number: (RH) PR468.W37 R36 2023
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Military literature was one of the most prevalent forms of writing to appear during the Romantic era, yet its genesis in this period is often overlooked.
Toy Stories by Vanessa Smith
Call Number: (RH) PR468.C5 S65 2023
New York : Fordham University Press, 2023

Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of children's violent, damaging, and tenuously restorative play with objects within a long nineteenth century of fictional and educational writing.
The Medieval Hospital by Nicole R. Rice
Call Number: (RH) RA986 .R53 2023
Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2023]

Nicole Rice's original study analyzes the role played by late medieval English hospitals as sites of literary production and cultural contestation.
Deep Time by Noah Heringman (Contribution by)
Call Number: (RH) PR448.G475 H47 2023
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]

How the concept of "deep time" began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth by Patrick Vincent
Call Number: (RH) PR149.S93 V56 2023
Publication Date: 2022-12-31
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

The first detailed treatment of Switzerland in British literature and culture from Joseph Addison to John Ruskin, this book analyzes the aesthetic and political uses of what is commonly called the 'Swiss myth' in the parallel development of Romanticism and liberalism.

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English and American Literature: Getting Started

Avanti! [1968], first read through

Study of English and American Literature at Fordham

Recent Books

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