Form and Reform : Reading across the Fifteenth Century /

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Rewriting Buddhism : Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270 / by Gornall, Alastair

Table of Contents: “…Before 1165 and All That -- 3. The Reform Era and its Pali Literature -- Part II: Order -- 4. …”
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Faithful Translators : Authorship, Gender, and Religion in Early Modern England / by Goodrich, Jaime, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Royal propaganda : Mary Tudor, Elizabeth Tudor, and the Edwardian Reformation --…”
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Benjamin's Library : Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque / by Newman, Jane O.

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Persistence of Folly : On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature / by Lande, Joel B.

Table of Contents: “…The fool at play -- Fabricating comedy and fate of the fool in the age of reform -- Life, theater, and the restoration of the fool -- The vitality of folly in Goethe's Faust and Kleist's Jug.…”
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A History of Icelandic Literature / by Stefán Einarsson, 1897-1972

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Eddic Poetry -- Skaldic Poetry -- Sacred Poetry -- Secular Poetry of the Later Middle Ages -- Literature of the Clergy -- The Earliest Historiographers -- The Kings' Sagas -- The Sagas -- The Family Sagas -- Sturlunga Saga -- Fornalder Sogur -- Romances of Chivalry and Lygi Sogur -- The Reformation -- The Icelandic Renaissance -- Secular Poetry, 1550-1750 -- Enlightenment (Neo-Classicism), 1750-1830 -- National Romanticism, 1830-1874 -- Realism to Neo-Romanticism, 1874-1918 -- Tradition and Revolt Between the World Wars, 1918-1940 -- After World War II, 1940-1956 -- American-Icelandic Writers.…”
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Theater Figures : The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel / by Allen, Emily, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Theatrical reforms: Stage fright and the scene of reading -- Staging a comeback: The remasculinization of the novel -- Heimlich maneuvers: Domesticity, theatricality, and the abject -- Mesdames Bovary: Performative reading, cultural capital, and high art -- Performing distinction: Elevating the literary sphere.…”
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Queering Cold War Poetry : Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States / by Keenaghan, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Toward a queer ethic of vulnerability -- Intrinsic coupling: Wallace Stevens and the pleasures of correspondence -- A nation's secrets: resistance and reform in Jose Lezama Lima's poetic system -- Vulnerable households: containment and Robert Duncan's queered nation -- A baroque revolution : Severo Sarduy's queer cosmology.…”
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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture / by Anderson, Amanda, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Mid-Victorian conceptions of character, agency, and reform: social science and the "great social evil" -- "The taint the very tale conveyed": self-reading, suspicion, and falleness in Dickens -- Melodrama, morbidity, and unthinking sympathy: Gaskell's Mary Barton and Ruth -- Dramatic monologue in crisis: agency and exchange in G.G. …”
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The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns by Cleere, Eileen

Table of Contents: “…Foul matter: Edwin Chadwick; John Ruskin, and mid-Victorian Aesthesis -- Dirty pictures: John Ruskin, Modern Painters, and Victorian Sanitation of Fine Art -- The Sanitary narrative: Victorian reform fiction and the putresence of the picturesque -- Victorian dust traps -- The surgical arts: aesthesia and anaesthesia in late-Victorian medical fiction -- Aesthetic anachronisms: Mary Ward's The Mating of Lydia and the persistent plot of sanitary fiction -- Intensive culture: John Ruskin, Sarah Grand, and the aesthetics of eugenics -- On methods, materials, and meaning.…”
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Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered / by Briggs, John Channing, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The mind of the persuader -- Rhetorical contexts -- The Lyceum address : "On the perpetuation of our political institutions" -- The temperance address : moral reform and emancipation -- The speech on the War with Mexico and the eulogy for Zachary Taylor : " injustice and heroic virtue " -- The eulogy for Henry Clay : persuasion and/or principle -- The Kansas-Nebraska speech : popular sovereignty and self-government -- The "house divided" speech : the logic of hopeful resolve -- Lecture on discoveries and inventions : self-government and inventions : self-government and arts of literacy -- The Milwaukee address : thorough farming and self-government -- The Cooper Union address : the empirical wager -- Presidential eloquence and political religion : governing "in the providence of God" -- The farewell address : "Let us confidently hope" -- The first inaugural, the Gettysburg address, and the second inaugural : providence and persuasion -- Postscript. …”
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The Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods /

Table of Contents: “…Stephen Jaeger -- Von der Rede zur Schrift: Konstituierung von Autorität in Predigt und Predigtüberlieferung / Rüdiger Schnell -- The city as text: the entry of Charles V into Nuremberg (1541) / Arthur Groos -- The reformation of the Bible and an artist: sacred philology and Albrecht Dürer / David Price -- Invoking the powers that be: types of authority and the production of the Theatrum de veneficis (1586) / Gerhild Scholz Williams -- Citational science: textuality and the authority of the "Scientific Fact" in early modern central Europe (Lohenstein's Cleopatra, 1680) / Jane O. …”
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Imperial Emotions : Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Siècle Spain / by Krauel, Javier, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Cover ; Half-title ; Title page ; Coyright page ; Contents ; Dedication ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Redressing the Silencing of Empire; Imperialism and Nationalism; The Spanish Empire's Embattled Legacies; Imperial Legacies and National Reform; Imperial Emotions and the Essay on National Character; Chapter 1 ; Columbus in 1892; Nationalist Uses of the Imperial Past; Freethinkers and Empire; The Failure of the Federalist Critique; Chapter 2 ; Addressing the Post-Imperial Condition; Empire and casticismo; Mourning Imperial Values; Chapter 3 ; Theorizing Imperial Ambivalence.…”
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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

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The Ghosts of the Past : Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate / by Dufallo, Basil

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Fictions of Evidence : Witnessing, Literature, and Community in the Late Middle Ages / by Taylor, Jamie K., 1975-

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Privately Empowered : Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction / by Edwin, Shirin

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The Enemy Within : Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic / by Chaitin, Gilbert D.

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Traveling Economies : American Women's Travel Writing / by Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt, 1971-

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