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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Stain on front of dust jacket. Foxing on back of dust jacket, with small tear and creasing near spine. Top of spine is bent and creased. Foxing on sides of book, endpages, and half title-page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. DJ front has a small tear to the upper edge and a small patch of slight soil. DJ is slightly rubbed. ; 8.3 X 5.7 X 0.8 inches; 162 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 402 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "This interdisciplinary collection differs from other collections of essays on literature and the visual arts in its emphasis on the image as situated in cultural, as opposed to perceptual, contexts. Broadly speaking, the writers of these sixteen essays join those who, in a variety of fields, have been taking note of the ways in which communication relies on a matrix of social or cultural norms. From this point of view, cultural setting becomes not merely interesting background but intrinsic to comprehension." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Sibling rivalry in the arts family: the case of poetry vs. painting in the Italian Renaissance, by James V. Mirollo; More foolery from More?: John Donne's Lothian portrait as clue to his politics, by Ann Hurley; Alexander Pope and the disappearance of the beautiful, by Timothy Erwin; The "incomparable" Siddons as Reynolds's muse: art and ideology on the British stage, by Michael S. Wilson; Painting against poetry: Reynolds's Discourses and the discourse of Turner's art, by James A. W. Heffernan; The fragmentation of visionary iconography in Chaucer's House of fame and the Cloisters Apocalypse, by Robert Boenig The Medieval iconographic venacular, by Kate Greenspan; Looking and learning: gender, image, and text and the genealogy of the textbook, by Ruth Larson; Almayer's face: on "impressionism" in Conrad, Crane, and Norris, by Michael Fried; Reading maps, by Eileen Reeves; Themes of love and death in a reading of the carved ornament of a Puritan headboard, by James K. Kettlewell; Henry James circumvents Lessing and Derrida, by John W. Erwin; Milton and the mac: "inwrought with figures dim", by Ernest Gilman; Wrapping presence and bridging the cultural gap: the case of the Pont-Neuf, by Constance Sherak; The violence of public art: do the right thing, by W.J.T. Mitchell. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. DJ has three small edge tears and some very slight rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 200 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index. Contents; Introduction : Reclaiming the word -- Florence Nightingale's revisionist theology : "that woman will be the saviour of her race" -- Radical protestantism versus privileged hermeneutics : the religion and romance of Brontë's spirituality -- To "stand with Christ against the world" : Gaskell's sentimental social agenda -- The "hidden heroism" of "social sympathy" : George Eliot's ethic of humanity -- Afterword : Women writers and the Victorian spiritual crisis. Subjects; Nightingale, Florence 1820-1910. Brontë, Charlotte 1816-1855. Eliot, George 1819-1880. Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn 1810-1865. 3 Kg.

Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 257 pages ; 25 cm. Subjects: Fiction 20th century History and criticism. Dying and rising gods in literature. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Includes: 1) Fernan Caballero: "Juan Holgado and Death" 2) Antonio de Trueba: "Tragaldabas" 3) Pedro Antonio de Alarcon: "Death's Friend. " Text in English and Spanish.

Condition: Fine. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. As new.

Condition: FINE. First printing. An interdisciplinary collection of sixteen essays, with contributions from literary critics, art historians, and artists. Includes essays on such topics as Reynold's muse, Mrs Siddons; impressionism in Conrad, Crane and Norris; painting vs poetry; medieval iconography and more. Illustrated throughout. Notes and bibliographies following each essay. Notes on the contributors, index. 402 pp. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 181 pages ; 24 cm. Subject; Tasso, Torquato 1544-1595. Gerusalemme liberata. Godfrey of Bouillon approximately 1060-1100 In literature. Milton, John 1608-1674. Paradise lost. Christianity in literature Comparative literature English and Italian. Comparative literature Italian and English. Crusades. Epic poetry. Jerusalem History Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244 Historiography. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 200 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index. Contents; Introduction : Reclaiming the word -- Florence Nightingale's revisionist theology : "that woman will be the saviour of her race" -- Radical protestantism versus privileged hermeneutics : the religion and romance of Brontë's spirituality -- To "stand with Christ against the world" : Gaskell's sentimental social agenda -- The "hidden heroism" of "social sympathy" : George Eliot's ethic of humanity -- Afterword : Women writers and the Victorian spiritual crisis. Subjects; Nightingale, Florence 1820-1910. Brontë, Charlotte 1816-1855. Eliot, George 1819-1880. Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn 1810-1865. 1 Kg.

Black Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 107pp. Tiny name at head of first page. No dust jacket.

168p., dj.

244p., colored and b/w illus., dj.

178p., dj.

266p., dj.

319p., b/w illus., lightly chipped dj on the edges.

288p., slightly chipped dj.

Condition: Very good. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press / London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, (1988)., (1988). Very good. - Large octavo, 9-3/4 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in black cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in a pictorial black & white dust wrapper. The extremities of the soiled covers are slightly faded. There are a few small tears & creases to the edges of the dust jacket. 137 pages, with several textual illustrations. Very good. Second and enlarged edition.

Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 257 pages ; 25 cm. Subjects: Fiction 20th century History and criticism. Dying and rising gods in literature. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 298 pages ; 24 cm. Subjects: Sarraute, Nathalie Criticism and interpretation; Feminism and literature France History 20th century; Authors and readers France History 20th century; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Sex role in literature. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 228 pages ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-225) and index. Contents; The affinities of kind: the literary formula -- The affinities of kind: the Renaissance context -- Finders keepers: preservation and the legendary foundling -- Finding and losing "beaulté and noblesse": adoption in Malory's Works -- Transformation in Sidney's Old Arcadia -- Spenserian hesitation: Two irreconcilable foundlings: the love story and the saint story in book 1 of The faerie queene -- Two creations: succession and generation in books 3 through 5 of The faerie queene -- Two recreations: Pastorella's return and the poet's emergence in book 6 of The faerie queene -- Shakespearean explorations: Richard III and Genesis 4 -- Romeo, Juliet, and the art of naming love -- A womanly discovery: Earned reprieve in The comedy of errors and Pericles -- The dream of a better life in As you like it and Antony and Cleopatra -- A manly loss: Hamlet's story; or, The child's refusal to man the father -- A world within: found enclosure and final exposure in King Lear -- Becoming the story in The winter's tale -- Telling the story in The tempest -- The findings of loss. Subjects; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Characters. Spenser, Edmund 1552?-1599 Characters. 1500-1700. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. Domestic drama, English History and criticism. Abandoned children in literature. Missing children in literature.Parent and child in literature. Foundlings in literature. Children in literature. Orphans in literature. Renaissance England. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Light bumping to upper outer corner of DJ and book. Small tear to rear upper edge of DJ near the spine. ; 9.75 X 6.5 X 0.75 inches.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 181 pages ; 24 cm. Subject; Tasso, Torquato 1544-1595. Gerusalemme liberata. Godfrey of Bouillon approximately 1060-1100 In literature. Milton, John 1608-1674. Paradise lost. Christianity in literature Comparative literature English and Italian. Comparative literature Italian and English. Crusades. Epic poetry. Jerusalem History Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244 Historiography. 1 Kg.

255p., b/w front., original blue cloth.

Revised Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Dried glue to front end papers. Creased corners to a few pages. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 273 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Essays in honor of H.L. Boudreau. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The death and life of intertextuality / Jeanne P. Brownlow and John W. Kronik -- Autobiographical selves as "Transpersonal beings" : Gibbon, Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Luis Goytisolo among others / Randolph D. Pope -- Intertextual lives : Blanco White and Juan Goytisolo / Angel G. Loureiro -- Intertextualizing genre : ambiguity as narrative strategy in Emilia Pardo Bazán / Maryellen Bieder -- The novelist at the opera : genre and intertextuality in Su único hijo / Hazel Gold -- Mercedes Salisachs, Ideal womanhood, and the Middlebrow novel / Debra A. Castillo -- Splitting the reference : postmodern fiction and the idea of history in Francoist Spain / David K. Herzberger -- Intertextuality and the reappropriation of history in contemporary Spanish fiction and film / Gonzalo Navajas -- The discursive field of Tiempo de silencio / Robert C. Spires -- Nested intertexts in Galdós's Gerona / Diane F. Urey -- The female body under surveillance : Galdós's La desheredada / Akiko Tsuchiya -- The domestication of Don Juan in women novelists of modernist Spain / Roberta Johnson -- Memes : intertextuality's minimal replicators / H.L. Boudreau. Subjects; Boudreau, H. L. (Hal L.). Boudreau, H. L. 1900-1999. Geschichte 1890-1990. Spanish fiction 20th century History and criticism. Spanish fiction 20th century Themes, motives. Intertextuality. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). 1 Kg.

Revised Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Dried glue to front end papers. Creased corners to a few pages. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 273 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Essays in honor of H.L. Boudreau. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The death and life of intertextuality / Jeanne P. Brownlow and John W. Kronik -- Autobiographical selves as "Transpersonal beings" : Gibbon, Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Luis Goytisolo among others / Randolph D. Pope -- Intertextual lives : Blanco White and Juan Goytisolo / Angel G. Loureiro -- Intertextualizing genre : ambiguity as narrative strategy in Emilia Pardo Bazán / Maryellen Bieder -- The novelist at the opera : genre and intertextuality in Su único hijo / Hazel Gold -- Mercedes Salisachs, Ideal womanhood, and the Middlebrow novel / Debra A. Castillo -- Splitting the reference : postmodern fiction and the idea of history in Francoist Spain / David K. Herzberger -- Intertextuality and the reappropriation of history in contemporary Spanish fiction and film / Gonzalo Navajas -- The discursive field of Tiempo de silencio / Robert C. Spires -- Nested intertexts in Galdós's Gerona / Diane F. Urey -- The female body under surveillance : Galdós's La desheredada / Akiko Tsuchiya -- The domestication of Don Juan in women novelists of modernist Spain / Roberta Johnson -- Memes : intertextuality's minimal replicators / H.L. Boudreau. Subjects; Boudreau, H. L. (Hal L.). Boudreau, H. L. 1900-1999. Geschichte 1890-1990. Spanish fiction 20th century History and criticism. Spanish fiction 20th century Themes, motives. Intertextuality. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). 1 Kg.