Cultural studies breaks down traditional boundaries between disciplines, between high and low culture, and between public and private culture in order to study the nature of cultural constructions. The body, gender, and sexuality are seen as discursive constructions related in complex ways to their social context. The New Cultural Studies series is committed to providing a forum for new works that explore these issues. The series is closed to new submissions.
Edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté and Jean-Michel Rabaté
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812215960
Pub Date: July 1997
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once an elegy to his dead mother and a treatise on photography....
Between 1500 and 1700, London grew from a minor national capital to the largest city in Europe. The defining period of growth was the period from 1550 to 1650, the midpoint of which coincided with the...
It was not unusual during the Renaissance for cooks to torture animals before slaughtering them in order to render the meat more tender, for women to use needlepoint to cover up their misconduct and...
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rather with the flesh, that disruptive aspect of body...
Was Shakespeare gay? Is The Merchant of Venice anti-Semitic? How does mainstream reading differ from that of subcultural groups? In this lively and readable book, Alan Sinfield challenges the assumptions...
Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 172-185
Rajani Sudan
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812236569
Pub Date: July 2002
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
Arguing that the major hallmarks of Romantic literature—inwardness, emphasis on subjectivity, the individual authorship of selves and texts—were forged during the Enlightenment, Rajani Sudan traces...
Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value
Paul Yachnin
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812233957
Pub Date: May 1997
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
To many of their contemporaries, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton were little more than artisanal craftsmen, "stage-wrights" who wrote plays for money, to be performed in common...
In eighteenth-century Germany, the aesthetician Friedrich Wilhelm Basileus Ramdohr could write of the phenomenon of men who evoke sexual desire in other men; Johann Joachim Winckelmann could place admiration...
Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer
Roger Chartier
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812215465
Pub Date: September 1995
Format: Paperback
144 Pages
In this provocative work, Roger Chartier continues his extraordinarily influential consideration of the forms of production, dissemination, and interpretation of discourse in Early Modern Europe. Chartier...
Adultery, it is often assumed, was not a major concern of English culture during the Victorian age, and the apparent absence of adultery—indeed, of all explicit representations of sexuality—in turn...
