Literature and Literary Criticism

The Queen's Godson; Sir John Harington of Kelston, 1560 – 1612

Author: 

Southern, Antonia

Credentials: 

Historian and biographer, Principal, WestminsterTutors, author of Forlorn Hope: Soldier Radicals of the Seventeenth Century and Player, Playwright and Preacher's Kid: The Story of Nathan Field, 1587 - 1620

A full scale biography of Sir John Harington of Kelston, courtier, place-seeker, writer, inventor satirist and would-be Bishop of Dublin has long been needed and wished for by historians as various as Namier, Butterfield, Carr, MacFarlane and AJP Taylor. Antonia Southern's new monograph is an literary/historical biography of this multi-faceted and controversial character, living in times euphemistically described by contemporaries as 'tricky', and deserving to be better known and understood for his great gifts and achievements.

Market: 
Sir John Harington, Elizabethan literature and history, Anglican Church history, Recusants (Catholic) under Elizabeth and James, Elizabethan Ireland/Irish Studies, the Irish Church, the Stuart Succession. AVAILABLE IN THE UK/ IRISH REPUBLIC VIA EUROSPAN GROUP (LONDON)
Release Date: 
09/15/2011
Copyright: 
2011
ISBN: 
978-1-936320-03-5/ 1936320-03-7
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
240
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Puns and Their Kin

Author: 

Redfern, Walter

Credentials: 

Ph.D Cambridge University; Professor, Reading University and sometime Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois. Author of 20 research works including French Laughter (Oxford University Press,2008), Paul Nizan: Committed Literature (Princeton University Press). Professor Redfern is considered to be one of the greatest experts on the use of humor, puns, wordplay and cliche in English literature.

Stimulating, challenging, engaging, dauntingly well informed and wide-ranging, Professor Redfern's revised book on puns offers massive returns both to the specialist researcher and the interested general reader. Taking his examples back to ancient literatures, but drawing especially on English, American and French cultures (popular and high), he defies the way in which the pun has so often been denigrated as a poor relation within the family of humorous modes, and his sparkling and inventive prose fully justifies that approach.

Market: 
Reference, Puns and Literature, Puns in English and American Literature 18-20th c, French Literature and puns 18th-19th C, Flaubert, V Hugo, Joyce, Freud, commercial fiction/popular/pulp UK and US
Release Date: 
September 15, 2014
Copyright: 
2015
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-89-9
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
320
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Loose Connexions : The Poetry of Walter Redfern

Author: 

Redfern, Walter

Credentials: 

Ph.D Cambridge University; Professor, Reading University and sometime Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois. Author of 20 research works including French Laughter (Oxford University Press,2008), Paul Nizan: Committed Literature (Princeton University Press). Professor Redfern is considered to be one of the greatest experts on the use of humor, puns, wordplay and cliche in English literature.

Professor J.M. Parkin, Bristol University writes:

Market: 
Poetry [contemporary], Modern English Poetry, Stevie Smith, Liverpool /Mersey poets, Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis
Release Date: 
05/01/2012
Copyright: 
2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-47-9
Price: 
$24.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
110
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Trickle and Flow: Chapters in the History and Culture of Water

Author: 

Roth, Marty

Credentials: 

Ph.D, University of Chicago

For what is water, children, which seeks to make all things level, which has no taste or color of its own, but a liquid form of Nothing?
Graham Swift, Waterland

I am writing to you from a far-off country.
Here I should explain this
business of waves. It is insanely
complicated, and the sea . . .
I beg you, trust me. Would I want
to mislead you? She, the sea, is
not only a word. She is not only a
fear. She exists, I swear it to you
Henri Michaux

Market: 
Hydraulics, Aquaculture, Marine Life, Environmental History, Dams and irrigation, Water in Literature, Oceanography, Geo-politics, Riverine cultures, Cultural studies
Release Date: 
March 17th, 2015
Copyright: 
2015
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-99-8
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
324
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Shakespeare's Dramatic Maxims

Author: 

Risden, Edward

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Purdue University. Author of SHAKESPEARE and The PROBLEM PLAY (2012)

Book Cover"Professor Risden (Saint Norbert's College, author of SHAKESPEARE AND THE PROBLEM PLAY) introduces the idea of and history of maxims, identifies maxims in Shakespeare's plays treating the plays in chronological order, and comments on how the maxims influence the plays in which they appear.

Market: 
English Literature: Shakespeare,life and works, Shakespearean Studies: cultural and political content of maxims, statements of wisdom, existential essence, English Drama 16th-17th century, Shakespearean narration, plot and character development, Staging Shakespeare, Intellectual influences of the Renaissance on Shakespeare and politics , Philosophy in Shakespearean context, Roman Catholic and Anglican elements in dramatic morality and ethics.
Release Date: 
April 23, 2016
Copyright: 
2016
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-68053-012-4
Price: 
$69.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
268
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

New Perspectives on Sir Richard Burton: Orientalism, The Cannibal Club and Victorian Ideas of Sex, Race and Gender

Author: 

Wallen, John

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Royal Holloway; Assistant Professor D/English, University of Sharjah, UAE

With a commendatory preface by Professor Dane Kennedy, George Washington University, author of the highly regarded Burton study : THE HIGHLY CIVILIZED MAN, Harvard University Press

Market: 
Victorian studies, English Intellectual History 19th c, The Literature of Race and Gender in Victorian England, Historical Anthropology 19c,Political and Social Elites and Empire, Roots of European Racism, Sir Richard Burton, Algernon Swinburne, Lord Houghton, James Hunt, Racial and Cultural Superiority as a pseudo-scientific “fact”, Sex and pornography in mid and late Victorian England, Feminism, Post Colonial literary theory
Release Date: 
January 15th, 2016
Copyright: 
2016
ISBN: 
978-1936320875
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
286
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

Academica Press
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
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Player, Playwright and Preacher's Kid: The Story of Nathan Field, 1587 – 1620

Author: 

Southern, Antonia

Credentials: 

Historian and biographer, Principal, Westminster Tutors, author of Forlorn Hope: Soldier Radicals of the Seventeenth Century, Player, Playwright and Preacher's Kid: The Story of Nathan Field, 1587 – 1620 and The Queen's Godson: a Life of Sir John Harington (Academica Press,2011)

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