Name: The Christian Revolutionary: John Milton
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Hugh M. Richmond

The Christian Revolutionary: John Milton

$39.95

The Christian Revolutionary offers a profound and reflective exploration of the shifting perception of classical art, its cultural resonance, and its philosophical underpinnings. Through evocative descriptions of the Parthenon and its surrounding landscape, the text delves into the intricate interplay between historical reverence and contemporary disillusionment. The author examines how classical art, once heralded as the pinnacle of intellectual and artistic achievement, is increasingly seen as remote and academic by modern audiences. Against the backdrop of changing cultural values and a growing skepticism of idealism, the book invites readers to ponder the enduring relevance of Greek art and its unique commentary on life, intellect, and harmony.

This work is more than a critique of cultural shifts; it is a meditation on the contrasts between ancient and modern worldviews. It juxtaposes the Greek aspiration for intellectual and aesthetic purity with the modern embrace of complexity, imperfection, and personal expression. Through the lens of the Parthenon—both as a physical structure and a symbol of philosophical ideals—the book challenges readers to consider how art reflects the spirit of its age and how the ideals of the past might illuminate the uncertainties of the present. The Christian Revolutionary is an intellectually rich and deeply poetic exploration that will captivate readers interested in philosophy, art history, and the timeless dialogue between antiquity and modernity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

The Christian Revolutionary: John Milton

Ronald G. Walker

Infernal Paradise

$95.00

The allure of Mexico in modern English fiction is a compelling and underexplored subject, particularly in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Malcolm Lowry. These authors, drawn to Mexico's mystique, crafted major novels that explore the country’s unique cultural, social, and political landscape. Infernal Paradise examines how Mexico influenced their artistic visions and how their experiences in the country shaped significant literary works, such as The Plumed Serpent, Eyeless in Gaza, The Power and the Glory, and Under the Volcano. By delving into both the travel writings and novels of these authors, the analysis seeks to understand the dual processes of encountering Mexico firsthand and transforming those encounters into fiction.

The book is structured to first contextualize the writers’ fascination with Mexico, focusing on the country’s dramatic landscapes, revolutionary ideals, and the enigmatic presence of its indigenous culture. The travel writings of Lawrence, Huxley, Greene, Waugh, and Lowry offer a bridge between their immediate experiences and the novels that followed, reflecting the initial reactions that evolved into deeper insights. The writers' personal motives for visiting Mexico—ranging from Lawrence's utopian dreams to Greene and Waugh's concern for the Catholic Church's plight under socialist policies—shaped their perceptions and creative responses. Through a detailed exploration of these travel accounts and the major novels, this book illuminates how Mexico became both an infernal and paradisiacal setting in the English literary imagination, a paradox that continues to resonate in these works. An appendix further enriches the discussion by examining Ralph Bates's The Fields of Paradise, adding another dimension to the "infernal paradise" theme in English fiction about Mexico.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Edited by Maximillian E. Novak

English Literature in the Age of Disguise

$49.95

English Literature in the Age of Disguise explores the pervasive theme of disguise, deception, and masked identities in the works of writers from the Restoration through the eighteenth century. The concept of disguise was central to the social and literary fabric of the period, with figures like Fielding and Defoe lamenting the deception inherent in society. Fielding, for example, described the world as a vast masquerade, echoing a sentiment common among writers of the time, including Defoe, who critiqued the age as one of Plot and Deceit. Disguise and masks were more than just thematic elements; they were metaphors for the societal and personal facades that individuals maintained. In the literature of this period, comedies, such as Congreve's The Double Dealer, frequently centered around characters using masks and deceit for social or romantic advantage. Similarly, works like Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Richardson’s Clarissa employ different forms of disguise and role-playing, reflecting both the moral complexities and the personal struggles of characters.

This book also delves into the role of irony and wit in literature during this time, with many authors using these tools to both entertain and critique society. Writers such as Pope and Swift masterfully employed irony to conceal their true messages, offering a layered critique of contemporary politics, religion, and morality. Irony, according to Lionel Gossman, was a form of disguise in itself, where the external narrative concealed deeper, often more subversive, meanings. Through an exploration of key works like Swift's satirical poetry and Pope's mock-epic verse, the book examines how the era’s emphasis on disguise influenced literary style and the construction of meaning. Additionally, the essays in the collection provide new interpretations of well-known texts, suggesting that the use of disguise and role-playing was not just a narrative device but also a form of social commentary, revealing the moral and political undercurrents of the time. Through these analyses, the book offers a fresh perspective on the literary techniques of the Restoration and eighteenth century, showing how disguise, in both its social and literary manifestations, shaped the era’s cultural and artistic landscape.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

John Henry Raleigh

Matthew Arnold and American Culture

$95.00

Matthew Arnold and American Culture examines the profound impact of Arnold's writings—spanning literary, social, religious, and cultural topics—on American intellectual life from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. Arnold's influence is unmatched among foreign critics in the United States, shaping discourse in a way few domestic figures have. His critique of English culture, his promotion of culture as an antidote to social unrest, and his insistence on the value of morality and intellectual rigor found eager audiences, especially in a post-Civil War America seeking cultural maturity and intellectual direction. His ideas resonated with a nation grappling with its identity amidst rapid industrialization, westward expansion, and a growing literary consciousness.

Despite initial resistance to English intellectualism in the wake of the Civil War and a strong sense of American self-sufficiency in the arts, Arnold's ideas found fertile ground, particularly among New England literati, cultural reformers, and critics like Henry James and Lionel Trilling. Arnold's emphasis on "sweetness and light," his call for critical detachment, and his vision of culture as a vehicle for moral and societal improvement complemented and challenged the intellectual frameworks of American figures like Emerson and Lowell. While Emerson espoused self-reliance and transcendental ideals, Arnold offered a tempered, cosmopolitan perspective that advocated for measured engagement with European traditions and the cultivation of a cultural "center." This interplay of ideas highlights the enduring relevance of Arnold’s critique in shaping American cultural and critical thought during a transformative era.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957.

Anne Kostelanetz Mellor

Blake's Human Form Divine

$95.00

In Blake’s Human Form Divine, the profound interplay between philosophy and stylistic principles in William Blake’s work comes to life. This study delves into Blake’s evolving perception of "form," focusing on its dual role as a philosophical concept and a defining feature of his visual-verbal art. Through detailed analysis, the book explores a central paradox in Blake’s creative journey: his simultaneous rejection of form as a constraining "Urizenic tyranny" and his reliance on bounded, outlined forms in his artwork. By 1795, Blake grappled with the dilemma of expressing divinity and imaginative freedom within the constraints of mortal, finite forms, a conflict central to both his artistic and philosophical pursuits. The study illuminates Blake’s struggle to reconcile these opposing forces, charting his journey through the interplay of visual style and poetic vision.

Blake’s stylistic roots in the late eighteenth-century neoclassical idiom of romantic classicism provide the backdrop for this exploration. Characterized by clear outlines, linear rhythms, and idealized human forms, this style shaped Blake’s early illuminated works, such as Songs of Innocence, which reflect a harmonious, self-contained vision of human divinity. However, as his philosophical outlook shifted toward a critique of reason’s dominance in society, Blake began to question the aesthetic and philosophical implications of bounded form. This internal conflict between his artistic reliance on romantic classicism and his philosophical denunciation of reason’s constraints culminated in iconic works like The Ancient of Days. Through a nuanced analysis of Blake’s poetry and visual art, this book examines how he sought to transcend these tensions, offering fresh insights into the evolution of his radical imagination.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Joshua Whatmough

Poetic, Scientific and Other Forms of Discourse

$95.00

Poetic, Scientific, and Other Forms of Discourse: A New Approach to Greek and Latin Literature is the twenty-ninth volume in the esteemed Sather Classical Lectures series. This work delves into the interplay of language, literary criticism, and the foundational texts of Greek and Latin literature. The author advocates for a dual focus: a deep understanding of classical texts through their original languages and the pure enjoyment of literature, free from overburdened textual criticism. With a critical lens on the methodologies of textual editors, the book argues that rigid adherence to analogy and rule—whether in grammar, meter, or textual annotation—often obscures the essence of these works rather than illuminating them.

This volume positions literature as a sophisticated form of communication, emphasizing its purpose-driven nature while integrating insights from modern linguistic theories. The lectures explore how principles from diverse fields, including mathematical linguistics and systems theory, can enhance our understanding of classical texts. By synthesizing evidence across disciplines, the book not only revisits traditional interpretations but also proposes innovative approaches to appreciating Greek and Latin literature. Engaging with the broader educational implications of this approach, it blends technical exploration with personal reflection, making a compelling case for a reinvigorated, language-centered engagement with the classics.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1956.

Donald R. Howard

The Idea of the Canterbury Tales

$49.95

In The Idea of the Canterbury Tales, Donald R. Howard reimagines Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales not as an unfinished fragment of medieval literature but as a deliberately conceived whole, “unfinished yet complete.” Howard argues that Chaucer’s masterwork is best understood as an anatomy of human experience—an imaginative architecture that interweaves irony, morality, memory, and form. Drawing on intellectual history, medieval aesthetics, and close readings of the tales and their framing devices, Howard situates the Tales within Chaucer’s cultural milieu while insisting on its originality and lasting vitality. By treating the poem’s idea as something shared across time rather than locked in the author’s intentions, Howard offers a compelling account of its artistry and coherence.

Balancing historical scholarship with a humanist critical method, Howard traces how Chaucer’s comedy of pilgrims on the road to Canterbury became a book about the world itself. He explores how its digressions, multiple voices, and unfinished design participate in the very texture of life, and why readers across centuries continue to find in it both laughter and profound moral inquiry. The Idea of the Canterbury Tales is both a bold reinterpretation of Chaucer’s achievement and a meditation on what it means to read medieval literature in the modern age, reminding us that Chaucer wrote for his contemporaries and for us, crafting a vision of literature as a shared act of memory and imagination.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Cornelia Nixon

Lawrence's Leadership Politics and the Turn Against Women

$95.00

Lawrence's Leadership: Politics and the Turn Against Women delves into the dramatic ideological shift of D. H. Lawrence during the early 20th century, particularly his move toward authoritarian politics and his critical stance on women. The book explores how personal crises, including Lawrence’s internal struggles with sexuality, his disillusionment with the war, and societal upheavals, shaped his evolving views. Through detailed analyses of his letters, essays, and novels, including The Rainbow and Women in Love, the study reveals Lawrence’s turn from advocating creative freedom and sensuality to promoting hierarchical leadership and male dominance. It examines how these changes were influenced by broader cultural trends, such as the rise of authoritarian thought in Europe, and Lawrence's alignment with certain reactionary ideas about gender and society.

This volume situates Lawrence’s shifting beliefs within the broader historical and cultural contexts of World War I and its aftermath, offering insight into how personal despair and social anxieties fueled his ideological transformation. By tracing these changes in his works and writings, Lawrence's Leadership provides a nuanced understanding of Lawrence's complex relationship with modernity, masculinity, and power. The book offers a compelling analysis of how individual struggles intersect with broader political ideologies, highlighting Lawrence’s unique yet troubling role in the cultural and intellectual currents of his time.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

Donald R. Howard

The Idea of the Canterbury Tales

$95.00

In The Idea of the Canterbury Tales, Donald R. Howard reimagines Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales not as an unfinished fragment of medieval literature but as a deliberately conceived whole, “unfinished yet complete.” Howard argues that Chaucer’s masterwork is best understood as an anatomy of human experience—an imaginative architecture that interweaves irony, morality, memory, and form. Drawing on intellectual history, medieval aesthetics, and close readings of the tales and their framing devices, Howard situates the Tales within Chaucer’s cultural milieu while insisting on its originality and lasting vitality. By treating the poem’s idea as something shared across time rather than locked in the author’s intentions, Howard offers a compelling account of its artistry and coherence.

Balancing historical scholarship with a humanist critical method, Howard traces how Chaucer’s comedy of pilgrims on the road to Canterbury became a book about the world itself. He explores how its digressions, multiple voices, and unfinished design participate in the very texture of life, and why readers across centuries continue to find in it both laughter and profound moral inquiry. The Idea of the Canterbury Tales is both a bold reinterpretation of Chaucer’s achievement and a meditation on what it means to read medieval literature in the modern age, reminding us that Chaucer wrote for his contemporaries and for us, crafting a vision of literature as a shared act of memory and imagination.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

U.C. Knoepflmacher

George Eliot's Early Novels

$95.00

This study shows how George Eliot, a leader in the nineteenth-century intellectual world of Darwin and the Industrial Revolution, wrestled in her early novels with the esthetic problems of reconciling her art and her philosophy. Attempting in her fiction to reproduce the real, temporal world she lived in, George Eliot also tried to reassure herself and her readers that their godless modern world still operated according to higher moral laws of justice and perfectibility.

U. C. Knoepflmacher examines here for the first time in sequence George Eliot's development of increasingly sophisticated forms of fiction in her efforts to reconcile the two conflicting orientations in her thought. We see this popular novelist as she progressed artistically from the flawed "Amos Barton" in 1857 up to the balance she achieved in Silas Marner in 1861. And we discover her in the context of her literary antecedents and surrounding in a way that brings many new affiliations to light, particularly the connection of her novels to the writings of Milton, the Romantic poets, and her contemporaries Arnold and Carlyle.

Professor Knoepflmacher thoroughly discusses each work in George Eliot's first stage, brining new attention to minor works like "The Lifted Veil" and Scenes of Clerical Life and fresh insights to such well known works as Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Helen Caldwell

Machado De Assis

$95.00

Machado de Assis is among the most original creative minds in Brazil's rich, four-century-long literary tradition. Caldwell's critical and biographical study explores Machado's purpose, meaning, and artistic method in each of his nine novels, published between 1872 and 1908. She traces the ideas and recurrent themes, and identifies his affinities with other authors.

In tracing Machado's experimentation with narrative techniques, Caldwell reveals the increasingly subtle use he made of point of view, sometimes indirect or reflected, sometimes multiple and "nested" like Chinese boxes.

Caldwell shows the increasing sureness with which he individualized his characters, and how, in advance of his time, he developed action, not by realistic detail, but by the boldest use of allusion and symbol. Each novel is shown to be an artistic venture, and not in any sense a regurgitation from a sick soul as some critics have argued.

IN searching out the unity of his novels, Caldwell explores the other aspects of Machado's intellectual life--as poet,journalist, playwright, conversationalist, and academician. Of particular interest is her attention to his shift away from the social criticism of his early novels into the labyrinth of individual psychology in the last five--all of which rank among the world literature. But this perceptive account never loses sight of the one element present in every piece of Machado's fiction, in eery one of his personages; that is, superlative comedy, in its whole range: wit, irony, satire, parody, burlesque, humor.

Altogether, Caldwell reveals to us a writer, in essence a poet, who is still the altus prosator of Brazilian letters.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

Adrian Frazier

Behind the Scenes

$39.95

Behind the Scenes presents the story of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre and its major creative personalities: W. B. Yeats, Annie Horniman, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory. Part history, part sociology, part biography, Frazier's work recreates the forces that shaped the Abbey stage, forces that involved the spirited participation of actors, audiences, press, and financiers as well as of the famous poet-playwright who was its co-director. His book unfolds an entertaining and suspenseful tale, centered on the undeniably autocratic personality of W.B. Yeats and with the political struggles of Ireland as a backdrop.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

W. B. Carnochan

Lemuel Gulliver's Mirror for Man

$95.00

Satire, long the most neglected of literary genres, has begun to claim its share of critical attention. And no book in the satiric tradition has generated more controversy that Gulliver's Travels; since it was first published it has been the subject of an often passionate debate about its moral and esthetic value--a debate inseparable from the question of what Swift was really saying about us all, especially in Book IV.

Despite the running controversy, this is the first extended study of the Travels to appear in over forty years. It places Swift's masterpiece in the perspective of its own age, but also in relation to ours. First it reviews the philosophical doubts of the Augustans about the nature of man--doubts now recognized as a major force behind Swift's satire. It examines Augustan satiric theory and its Continental background; and, coming to the Travels, treats them as one instance of a conventional form, the "satire on man." On the vexed problem of Book IV it argues that alternative views of Swift as a savage misanthrope and as a benign humanist are both inadequate, and that as in Swift's irony generally, what seem to be contradictory truths are simultaneously in force.

The study is concerned throughout with the way values operate in a satiric context. What, for example are we to make of Gulliver's pious attachment to "truth"-telling? In this connection, a speculative theory is proposed which relates Swift's satiric intentions to the epistemology of John Locke. Finally, an epilogue looks ahead to some modern writers--Lewis Carroll, Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov--whose habits throw a retrospective light on Swift's. The study, broadly speaking, is not only about Gulliver's Travels but also about the psychology of the satirist and about the mind's response, whether the Augustans' or our own, at moments of intellectual crisis.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Jean-Pierre Mileur

Literary Revisionism and the Burden of Modernity

$95.00

Literary Revisionism places Bloom, his ally Geoffrey Hartman, and their contemporary literary situation in a borad historical and theoretical context by exploring the provenance of the revisionist stance in the origins of the New Testament canon, in the works of the Sensibility Poets and the great Romantics, and in the emergence of our own secular modernity. The results is an uncanny sense of the wholeness of the tradition, ironically coupled with an awareness that we are cut off from the past by the very insistence with which we employ criticism to maintain the fiction of an isolate modernity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.

Literary Revisionism and the Burden of Modernity

Charles Speroni

Wit and Wisdom of the Italian Renaissance

$95.00

This is the first ample collection of facetiae, or witty tales, from the Italian Renaissance to be published in English. Witty and wise anecdotes had been known to the ancient Greeks and Romans in the form of apothegms, but not until the Renaissance did the true facetia acquire an independent life and popularity, and begin to spread rapidly throughout Italy and beyond the Alps. The publication of Poggio Bracciolini's Liberfacetiarum was largely responsible for this vogue: his collection met with tremendous success and resulted in the assembly of numerous other collection of facetiae.

The facetia, which has some affinities with the longer, more carefully elaborated novella, is a brief narrative, varying in length from a few lines to two or three pages, whose main purpose it to entertain an excite laughter, and often concludes with a piece of pungent repartee. Both the facetia and the novella have often been censured for licentiousness, but most of them have a healthy moral, or at least a shrewd bit of psychology to impart.

Above all, the facetia, like the novella, adds a new dimension to the overall, complex picture of the Renaissance.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

Wit and Wisdom of the Italian Renaissance

Judith W. Page

Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women

$39.95

Focusing on the poems of Wordsworth's "Great Decade," feminist critics have tended to see Wordsworth as an exploiter of women and "feminine" perspectives. In this original and provocative book, Judith Page examines works from throughout Wordsworth's long career to offer a more nuanced feminist account of the poet's values. She asks questions about Wordsworth and women from the point of view of the women themselves and of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture. Making extensive use of family letters, journals, and other documents, as well as unpublished material by the poet's daughter Dora Wordsworth, Page presents Wordsworth as a poet not defined primarily by egotistical sublimity but by his complicated and conflicted endorsement of domesticity and familial life.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Stephen Spender

The Struggle of the Modern

$39.95

Shelley said, in his Defence of Poetry, that poetry should be both centre and circumference of knowledge. In his new book, Spender takes Shelley's claim and relates it to modern literature. He points out that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, writers have been conscious of there being a problem of creating literature in the industrial era. All the discussions of tradition, symbolism, myth and the rest are part of a conscious strategy of writers to come to terms with a modern world which they feel presents quite special problems for them.

Spender shows how Matthew Arnold's idea that criticism might be more important than poetry in our time, was taken over by poets who wrote criticism, and how in tern they have become superseded by critics who write poetry. The critical intelligence tens to absorb creative energy.

He discusses the difference between the creative and critical functions and things that the present tendency of criticism to supersede creativity, and for poetry to become an academic exercise conducted by poets who are dons, is having a stifling effect on poetry.

He thinks that there is an increasing tendency for the most creative activity of literature to become shut off from life and fermented, and that literature should be related much more to contemporary history, and less to dogmatic principles of academic criticism.

This is a book in which the writer tried to reassert the relationship of literature to modern life. He believes that this relationship was the pre-occupation of writers in the 1920s and 1930, but that since then literature has become increasingly split into the writing of the new academics and that of aggressive anti-intellectuals. He things that contemporary criticism should be on a much wider basis, and take into account the history and the society in which we live, as well as the abstract principles which recent critics have evolved.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

Vladimir Zlobin Edited and Annotated by Simon Karlinsky

A Difficult Soul

$39.95

guide the Symbolist movement which dominated Russian literature for the first third of the twentieth century. A major poet, important playwright, and influential literary critic, she was also a sexual rebel who rejected traditional male/female roles as early as the 1890s.

Vladimir Zlobin, her secretary and factotum from the time of her emigration to Paris after the revolution until her death in 1945, exposes the consequential inner workings of the literary circle around Gippius. His account of her three most important personal involvements--with her husband, the novelist and critic Dmitry Merezhkovsky; with the unattainable love of her life, the critic Dmitry Filosofov; and with the Devil, with whom she believed herself in personal contact--facilitates the task of understanding this truly "difficult soul." Himself a poet, Zlobin also offeres a detailed commentary on her poetry, and persuasively connects it to her personal and mystical experiences.

In Karlinsky's perceptive introduction, Gippius emerges not only as one of the principals in the Modernist renascence of Russian poetry between 1890 and 1930, but as a figure of considerable historical interest, whose views, life, and work stand in significant relation to the major social, sexual, religious, and political currents of her time.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

Edited by Carol T. Christ and John O. Jordan

Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination

$49.95

Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination. They range broadly over topics that include the relationship of optical devices to the visual imagination, the role of photography in changing the conception of evidence and truth, the changing partnership between illustrator and novelist, and the ways in which literary texts represent the visual. Together they begin to construct a history of seeing in the Victorian period.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.

Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination

Ralph Wilson Rader

Tennyson's Maud

$39.95

"This book was born out of the curiosity aroused in me by Tennyson's Maud and "Locksley Hall," ostensibly dramatic poems which were strangely flawed, I always felt, by some hidden emotional connection with the poet's own life. What was it? . . . The final result of my inquiry is this book." --From the Preface by the Author

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

Joanna Frueh

Erotic Faculties

$95.00

The erotic and the intellectual come together to create a new kind of criticism in the lushly written work of Joanna Frueh. Addressing sexuality in ways that are usually hidden or left unsaid, Frueh—a noted performance artist and art historian—explores subjects such as aging, beauty, love, sex, pleasure, contemporary art, and the body as a site and vehicle of knowledge. Frueh's language is explicit, graphic, fragmented. She assumes multiple voices: those of lover, prophet, daughter, mythmaker, art critic, activist, and bleeding heart. What results is an utterly original narrative that frees us from the false objectivity of traditional critical discourse and affirms the erotic as a way to ease human suffering.

Through personal reflection, parody, autobiography, and poetry, Frueh shows us what it means to perform criticism, to personalize critical thinking. Rejecting postmodern, deconstructed prose, she recuperates the sentimental, proudly asserts a romantic viewpoint, and disrupts academic and feminist conventions. Erotic Faculties seeks to free the power of our unutilized erotic faculties and to expand the possibilities of criticism; it is a wild ride and a consummate pleasure.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

U.C. Knoepflmacher

George Eliot's Early Novels

$39.95

This study shows how George Eliot, a leader in the nineteenth-century intellectual world of Darwin and the Industrial Revolution, wrestled in her early novels with the esthetic problems of reconciling her art and her philosophy. Attempting in her fiction to reproduce the real, temporal world she lived in, George Eliot also tried to reassure herself and her readers that their godless modern world still operated according to higher moral laws of justice and perfectibility.

U. C. Knoepflmacher examines here for the first time in sequence George Eliot's development of increasingly sophisticated forms of fiction in her efforts to reconcile the two conflicting orientations in her thought. We see this popular novelist as she progressed artistically from the flawed "Amos Barton" in 1857 up to the balance she achieved in Silas Marner in 1861. And we discover her in the context of her literary antecedents and surrounding in a way that brings many new affiliations to light, particularly the connection of her novels to the writings of Milton, the Romantic poets, and her contemporaries Arnold and Carlyle.

Professor Knoepflmacher thoroughly discusses each work in George Eliot's first stage, brining new attention to minor works like "The Lifted Veil" and Scenes of Clerical Life and fresh insights to such well known works as Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Carol T. Christ

Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination

$95.00

Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination. They range broadly over topics that include the relationship of optical devices to the visual imagination, the role of photography in changing the conception of evidence and truth, the changing partnership between illustrator and novelist, and the ways in which literary texts represent the visual. Together they begin to construct a history of seeing in the Victorian period.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.

Judith W. Page

Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women

$95.00

Focusing on the poems of Wordsworth's "Great Decade," feminist critics have tended to see Wordsworth as an exploiter of women and "feminine" perspectives. In this original and provocative book, Judith Page examines works from throughout Wordsworth's long career to offer a more nuanced feminist account of the poet's values. She asks questions about Wordsworth and women from the point of view of the women themselves and of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture. Making extensive use of family letters, journals, and other documents, as well as unpublished material by the poet's daughter Dora Wordsworth, Page presents Wordsworth as a poet not defined primarily by egotistical sublimity but by his complicated and conflicted endorsement of domesticity and familial life.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

D. S. Carne-Ross

Instaurations

$39.95

This book presents a sequence of six related studies of poets from classical antiquity to the present (Pindar and Sophocles at one end, Pound at the other, with Dante somewhere in the middle). This group of literary essays is framed by two more general papers showing how the texts can reach out into our society and into the lives we lead there--and can question the lives we lead. the opening paper argues for a way of reading (as rigorous as those honored in the academy but directed to different ends) that would restore to literature its old didactic function, and the final paper searches for a place where such a reading might be possible--a way of reading that would also be a way of living.

Literature matters, more than it ever has before, because it is the strongest remaining witness to much that mankind has always known but is now in danger of losing. It can tell us things about human being and about nature and about "the gods" that we have forgotten. But it can do so only if we read very hard, hence the body of this book consists of close textual studies of poets old and new that will be of value even to those who are disturbed by the author's views on the role of literature today.

The word "instauration" means renewal and is also intended to point to a conception of poetry as celebration. Beyond that, it means a founding, the sense Bacon had in mind when he called his program for the advancement of natural science Instauratio magna. Three and half centuries later, we may be coming to the end of the great movement at whose beginnings Bacon stood. If so, the question that faces us all is, What comes next, what new founding is possible? This books looks forward to another instauration: One to which poetic thinking will have more contribute.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Edited by Robert S. Kinsman

The Darker Vision of the Renaissance

$95.00

The Darker Vision of the Renaissance explores political, literary, social, religious, medical, and artistic events between 1300 and 1670 that led beyond the bounds of reason into the nonrational, irrational, and suprarational phenomena of the European Renaissance. Robert S. Kinsman’s introduction examines Renaissance uses of ratio, “fancy” and “folly,” melancholy, anxietas, and alienation. Lynn White Jr. presents the essential thesis of the collection in his view that the years 1300–1650 constituted one of the most psychically disturbed eras ever in European history. The “world-alienation” of the period is analyzed by Donald R. Howard, illustrated by two poems of the late fourteenth century: Gawain and the Green Knight and Toilus and Criseyde. The flourishing of hermetic, magical, cabalistic, and astrological practices in the Renaissance is described by John G. Burke.

The gentleman and courtier’s physical and psychological tensions resulting from literal exile or from psychic alienation from his lesser fellows are investigated by Lauro Martines. An analysis of the “structures” of Renaissance mysticism is provided by Kees W. Bolle. Gilbert Reaney’s essay examines ratio as the basis for the “measured” music of the fourteenth century, against which the newer duple and triple rhythms that came into prominence in the later half of the century were assessed. An essay by Marc Bensimon concerns itself with Renaissance modes of perception—as illustrated in works of art, of literature, and of philosophic speculation—that seem shaped by primordial anxieties caused by the passing of time and the fear of death. The reflections of theological notions about the “dreadful hidden will of God” in such pieces as Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus are given full background and perceptive treatment by Paul R. Sellin. Robert Kinsman concludes with his study “Folly, Melancholy, and Madness: Shifting Styles of Medical Analysis and Treatment, 1450–1675.”

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Stephen Spender

The Struggle of the Modern

$95.00

Shelley said, in his Defence of Poetry, that poetry should be both centre and circumference of knowledge. In his new book, Spender takes Shelley's claim and relates it to modern literature. He points out that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, writers have been conscious of there being a problem of creating literature in the industrial era. All the discussions of tradition, symbolism, myth and the rest are part of a conscious strategy of writers to come to terms with a modern world which they feel presents quite special problems for them.

Spender shows how Matthew Arnold's idea that criticism might be more important than poetry in our time, was taken over by poets who wrote criticism, and how in tern they have become superseded by critics who write poetry. The critical intelligence tens to absorb creative energy.

He discusses the difference between the creative and critical functions and things that the present tendency of criticism to supersede creativity, and for poetry to become an academic exercise conducted by poets who are dons, is having a stifling effect on poetry.

He thinks that there is an increasing tendency for the most creative activity of literature to become shut off from life and fermented, and that literature should be related much more to contemporary history, and less to dogmatic principles of academic criticism.

This is a book in which the writer tried to reassert the relationship of literature to modern life. He believes that this relationship was the pre-occupation of writers in the 1920s and 1930, but that since then literature has become increasingly split into the writing of the new academics and that of aggressive anti-intellectuals. He things that contemporary criticism should be on a much wider basis, and take into account the history and the society in which we live, as well as the abstract principles which recent critics have evolved.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

Aleksander Fiut Translated by Theodosia S. Robertson

The Eternal Moment

$95.00

Aleksander Fiut's study of the poetry of Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz is the first comprehensive examination of the artistic and philosophical dimensions of this remarkable oeuvre. The author refutes such easy categorizations of Milosz as "the poet of Poland," "the poet of history," "the poet of the Holocaust." He examines instead such crucial problems as Milosz's search for the essence of human nature, irreducible to historical, social, and biological categories; Milosz's reflection on the erosion of the Christian imagination, which has resulted in a fundamental gap between the individual's inner life and the image of humanity formed by scientific theories; his efforts to rebuild the anthropocentric vision of the world, while acknowledging the elements that have undermined it; and finally, his attempt to recreate in his poetry a language that is both poetic and philosophical.

The Eternal Moment originally appeared in Polish in 1987. This version, which quotes extensively from Milosz's Collected Poems, is the first thorough introduction for English-speaking readers to this major poet.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

D. S. Carne-Ross

Instaurations

$95.00

This book presents a sequence of six related studies of poets from classical antiquity to the present (Pindar and Sophocles at one end, Pound at the other, with Dante somewhere in the middle). This group of literary essays is framed by two more general papers showing how the texts can reach out into our society and into the lives we lead there--and can question the lives we lead. the opening paper argues for a way of reading (as rigorous as those honored in the academy but directed to different ends) that would restore to literature its old didactic function, and the final paper searches for a place where such a reading might be possible--a way of reading that would also be a way of living.

Literature matters, more than it ever has before, because it is the strongest remaining witness to much that mankind has always known but is now in danger of losing. It can tell us things about human being and about nature and about "the gods" that we have forgotten. But it can do so only if we read very hard, hence the body of this book consists of close textual studies of poets old and new that will be of value even to those who are disturbed by the author's views on the role of literature today.

The word "instauration" means renewal and is also intended to point to a conception of poetry as celebration. Beyond that, it means a founding, the sense Bacon had in mind when he called his program for the advancement of natural science Instauratio magna. Three and half centuries later, we may be coming to the end of the great movement at whose beginnings Bacon stood. If so, the question that faces us all is, What comes next, what new founding is possible? This books looks forward to another instauration: One to which poetic thinking will have more contribute.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Ralph Wilson Rader

Tennyson's Maud

$95.00

"This book was born out of the curiosity aroused in me by Tennyson's Maud and "Locksley Hall," ostensibly dramatic poems which were strangely flawed, I always felt, by some hidden emotional connection with the poet's own life. What was it? . . . The final result of my inquiry is this book." --From the Preface by the Author

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

Helen Caldwell

Machado De Assis

$39.95

Machado de Assis is among the most original creative minds in Brazil's rich, four-century-long literary tradition. Caldwell's critical and biographical study explores Machado's purpose, meaning, and artistic method in each of his nine novels, published between 1872 and 1908. She traces the ideas and recurrent themes, and identifies his affinities with other authors.

In tracing Machado's experimentation with narrative techniques, Caldwell reveals the increasingly subtle use he made of point of view, sometimes indirect or reflected, sometimes multiple and "nested" like Chinese boxes.

Caldwell shows the increasing sureness with which he individualized his characters, and how, in advance of his time, he developed action, not by realistic detail, but by the boldest use of allusion and symbol. Each novel is shown to be an artistic venture, and not in any sense a regurgitation from a sick soul as some critics have argued.

IN searching out the unity of his novels, Caldwell explores the other aspects of Machado's intellectual life--as poet,journalist, playwright, conversationalist, and academician. Of particular interest is her attention to his shift away from the social criticism of his early novels into the labyrinth of individual psychology in the last five--all of which rank among the world literature. But this perceptive account never loses sight of the one element present in every piece of Machado's fiction, in eery one of his personages; that is, superlative comedy, in its whole range: wit, irony, satire, parody, burlesque, humor.

Altogether, Caldwell reveals to us a writer, in essence a poet, who is still the altus prosator of Brazilian letters.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

Leslie Heywood

Dedication to Hunger

$95.00

Writing as a competitive athlete, an academic, and a woman, Leslie Heywood merges personal history and scholarship to expose the "anorexic logic" that underlies Western high culture. She maneuvers deftly across the terrain of modern literature, illustrating how this logic—the privileging of mind over body, of hard over soft, of masculine over feminine—is at the heart of the modernist style. Her argument ranges from Plato to women's bodybuilding, from Franz Kafka to Nike ads.

In penetrating examinations of Kafka, Pound, Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and Conrad, Heywood demonstrates how the anorexic aesthetic is embodied in high modernism. In a compelling chapter on Jean Rhys, Heywood portrays an author who struggles to develop a clean, spare, "anorexic" style in the midst of a shatteringly messy emotional life. As Heywood points out, students are trained in the aesthetic of high modernism, and academics are pressured into its straitjacket. The resulting complications are reflected in structures as diverse as gender identity formation, sexual harassment, and eating disorders.

Direct, engaging, and intensely informed by the author's personal involvement with her subject, Dedication to Hunger offers a powerful challenge to cultural assumptions about language, gender, subjectivity, and identity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

Aleksander Fiut Translated by Theodosia S. Robertson

The Eternal Moment

$39.95

Aleksander Fiut's study of the poetry of Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz is the first comprehensive examination of the artistic and philosophical dimensions of this remarkable oeuvre. The author refutes such easy categorizations of Milosz as "the poet of Poland," "the poet of history," "the poet of the Holocaust." He examines instead such crucial problems as Milosz's search for the essence of human nature, irreducible to historical, social, and biological categories; Milosz's reflection on the erosion of the Christian imagination, which has resulted in a fundamental gap between the individual's inner life and the image of humanity formed by scientific theories; his efforts to rebuild the anthropocentric vision of the world, while acknowledging the elements that have undermined it; and finally, his attempt to recreate in his poetry a language that is both poetic and philosophical.

The Eternal Moment originally appeared in Polish in 1987. This version, which quotes extensively from Milosz's Collected Poems, is the first thorough introduction for English-speaking readers to this major poet.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Samuel Kinser

Rabelais's Carnival

$95.00

How is it possible, after four centuries, that a major episode in Rabelais's novels remains systematically misread? The episode, which playfully and grotesquely treats the relation of Carnival to Lent, occurs in Rabelais's Fourth Book, his last and most artfully crafted novel. Samuel Kinser argues that the text has been distorted because critics have not attended to the episode's performative as well as literary contexts, overlooking the innovative use Rabelais made in his work of his immediate world. In this original interpretation of the Fourth Book, Kinser evokes the gestures, games, and visual, oral, bodily semantics of Carnival and Lent as they were performed in Rabelais's day. He also underscores the importance to Rabelais of the invention of printing, an innovation which revolutionized the relationships of author and reader. Understanding this and fearing it, Rabelais adopted an extraordinary set of disguises as an author, disguises which in their bewildering interplay constitute the truest sense of his carnival.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Adrian Frazier

Behind the Scenes

$95.00

Behind the Scenes presents the story of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre and its major creative personalities: W. B. Yeats, Annie Horniman, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory. Part history, part sociology, part biography, Frazier's work recreates the forces that shaped the Abbey stage, forces that involved the spirited participation of actors, audiences, press, and financiers as well as of the famous poet-playwright who was its co-director. His book unfolds an entertaining and suspenseful tale, centered on the undeniably autocratic personality of W.B. Yeats and with the political struggles of Ireland as a backdrop.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Edited by Robert S. Kinsman

The Darker Vision of the Renaissance

$49.95

The Darker Vision of the Renaissance explores political, literary, social, religious, medical, and artistic events between 1300 and 1670 that led beyond the bounds of reason into the nonrational, irrational, and suprarational phenomena of the European Renaissance. Robert S. Kinsman’s introduction examines Renaissance uses of ratio, “fancy” and “folly,” melancholy, anxietas, and alienation. Lynn White Jr. presents the essential thesis of the collection in his view that the years 1300–1650 constituted one of the most psychically disturbed eras ever in European history. The “world-alienation” of the period is analyzed by Donald R. Howard, illustrated by two poems of the late fourteenth century: Gawain and the Green Knight and Toilus and Criseyde. The flourishing of hermetic, magical, cabalistic, and astrological practices in the Renaissance is described by John G. Burke.

The gentleman and courtier’s physical and psychological tensions resulting from literal exile or from psychic alienation from his lesser fellows are investigated by Lauro Martines. An analysis of the “structures” of Renaissance mysticism is provided by Kees W. Bolle. Gilbert Reaney’s essay examines ratio as the basis for the “measured” music of the fourteenth century, against which the newer duple and triple rhythms that came into prominence in the later half of the century were assessed. An essay by Marc Bensimon concerns itself with Renaissance modes of perception—as illustrated in works of art, of literature, and of philosophic speculation—that seem shaped by primordial anxieties caused by the passing of time and the fear of death. The reflections of theological notions about the “dreadful hidden will of God” in such pieces as Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus are given full background and perceptive treatment by Paul R. Sellin. Robert Kinsman concludes with his study “Folly, Melancholy, and Madness: Shifting Styles of Medical Analysis and Treatment, 1450–1675.”

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Joanna Frueh

Erotic Faculties

$39.95

The erotic and the intellectual come together to create a new kind of criticism in the lushly written work of Joanna Frueh. Addressing sexuality in ways that are usually hidden or left unsaid, Frueh—a noted performance artist and art historian—explores subjects such as aging, beauty, love, sex, pleasure, contemporary art, and the body as a site and vehicle of knowledge. Frueh's language is explicit, graphic, fragmented. She assumes multiple voices: those of lover, prophet, daughter, mythmaker, art critic, activist, and bleeding heart. What results is an utterly original narrative that frees us from the false objectivity of traditional critical discourse and affirms the erotic as a way to ease human suffering.

Through personal reflection, parody, autobiography, and poetry, Frueh shows us what it means to perform criticism, to personalize critical thinking. Rejecting postmodern, deconstructed prose, she recuperates the sentimental, proudly asserts a romantic viewpoint, and disrupts academic and feminist conventions. Erotic Faculties seeks to free the power of our unutilized erotic faculties and to expand the possibilities of criticism; it is a wild ride and a consummate pleasure.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

Jean-Pierre Mileur

Literary Revisionism and the Burden of Modernity

$39.95

Literary Revisionism places Bloom, his ally Geoffrey Hartman, and their contemporary literary situation in a borad historical and theoretical context by exploring the provenance of the revisionist stance in the origins of the New Testament canon, in the works of the Sensibility Poets and the great Romantics, and in the emergence of our own secular modernity. The results is an uncanny sense of the wholeness of the tradition, ironically coupled with an awareness that we are cut off from the past by the very insistence with which we employ criticism to maintain the fiction of an isolate modernity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.

Irving A. Leonard

Books of the Brave

$95.00

Since its original appearance in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to the Spanish New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas and argues that popular texts influenced these men and shaped the way they thought and wrote about their experiences.

UC Press's 1992 edition combines Leonard's text with a selection of the documents that were his most valuable sources—nine lists of books destined for the Indies. Containing a wealth of information, these lists provide the documentary evidence for what is perhaps Leonard's greatest contribution: his demonstration that royal and inquisitorial prohibitions failed to control the circulation of books and ideas in colonial Spanish America.

Rolena Adorno's introduction reaffirms the lasting value of Books of the Brave and chronicles developments in cultural-historical studies that have shed light on the role of books in Spanish American colonial culture. Adorno situates Leonard's work at the threshold between older, triumphalist views of Spanish conquest history and more recent perspectives engendered by studies of native American peoples.

With its rich descriptions of the book trade in both Spain and America, Books of the Brave has much to offer historians as well as literary critics. Indeed, it is a highly readable and engaging book for anyone interested in the cultural life of the New World.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

W. B. Carnochan

Lemuel Gulliver's Mirror for Man

$39.95

Satire, long the most neglected of literary genres, has begun to claim its share of critical attention. And no book in the satiric tradition has generated more controversy that Gulliver's Travels; since it was first published it has been the subject of an often passionate debate about its moral and esthetic value--a debate inseparable from the question of what Swift was really saying about us all, especially in Book IV.

Despite the running controversy, this is the first extended study of the Travels to appear in over forty years. It places Swift's masterpiece in the perspective of its own age, but also in relation to ours. First it reviews the philosophical doubts of the Augustans about the nature of man--doubts now recognized as a major force behind Swift's satire. It examines Augustan satiric theory and its Continental background; and, coming to the Travels, treats them as one instance of a conventional form, the "satire on man." On the vexed problem of Book IV it argues that alternative views of Swift as a savage misanthrope and as a benign humanist are both inadequate, and that as in Swift's irony generally, what seem to be contradictory truths are simultaneously in force.

The study is concerned throughout with the way values operate in a satiric context. What, for example are we to make of Gulliver's pious attachment to "truth"-telling? In this connection, a speculative theory is proposed which relates Swift's satiric intentions to the epistemology of John Locke. Finally, an epilogue looks ahead to some modern writers--Lewis Carroll, Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov--whose habits throw a retrospective light on Swift's. The study, broadly speaking, is not only about Gulliver's Travels but also about the psychology of the satirist and about the mind's response, whether the Augustans' or our own, at moments of intellectual crisis.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Charles Speroni

Wit and Wisdom of the Italian Renaissance

$49.95

This is the first ample collection of facetiae, or witty tales, from the Italian Renaissance to be published in English. Witty and wise anecdotes had been known to the ancient Greeks and Romans in the form of apothegms, but not until the Renaissance did the true facetia acquire an independent life and popularity, and begin to spread rapidly throughout Italy and beyond the Alps. The publication of Poggio Bracciolini's Liberfacetiarum was largely responsible for this vogue: his collection met with tremendous success and resulted in the assembly of numerous other collection of facetiae.

The facetia, which has some affinities with the longer, more carefully elaborated novella, is a brief narrative, varying in length from a few lines to two or three pages, whose main purpose it to entertain an excite laughter, and often concludes with a piece of pungent repartee. Both the facetia and the novella have often been censured for licentiousness, but most of them have a healthy moral, or at least a shrewd bit of psychology to impart.

Above all, the facetia, like the novella, adds a new dimension to the overall, complex picture of the Renaissance.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

Leslie Heywood

Dedication to Hunger

$39.95

Writing as a competitive athlete, an academic, and a woman, Leslie Heywood merges personal history and scholarship to expose the "anorexic logic" that underlies Western high culture. She maneuvers deftly across the terrain of modern literature, illustrating how this logic—the privileging of mind over body, of hard over soft, of masculine over feminine—is at the heart of the modernist style. Her argument ranges from Plato to women's bodybuilding, from Franz Kafka to Nike ads.

In penetrating examinations of Kafka, Pound, Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and Conrad, Heywood demonstrates how the anorexic aesthetic is embodied in high modernism. In a compelling chapter on Jean Rhys, Heywood portrays an author who struggles to develop a clean, spare, "anorexic" style in the midst of a shatteringly messy emotional life. As Heywood points out, students are trained in the aesthetic of high modernism, and academics are pressured into its straitjacket. The resulting complications are reflected in structures as diverse as gender identity formation, sexual harassment, and eating disorders.

Direct, engaging, and intensely informed by the author's personal involvement with her subject, Dedication to Hunger offers a powerful challenge to cultural assumptions about language, gender, subjectivity, and identity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

Richard Harter Fogle

The Idea of Coleridge's Criticism

$39.95

The Idea of Coleridge's Criticism explores the profound, often polarizing legacy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge as a literary critic, whose influence continues to resonate in modern thought. This study examines the richness and complexity of Coleridge's critical theories, particularly his groundbreaking ideas on imagination, organic unity, and the interplay between form and content in poetry. It navigates the spectrum of scholarly opinions, from skepticism over his philosophical debts to the Germans to admiration for his psychological insights and practical criticism. By analyzing his contributions within the broader context of Romanticism and Western criticism, this book emphasizes Coleridge's role as a thinker who unified poetic theory, philosophy, and literary practice in ways that shaped generations of critical discourse.

With a focus on the inherent unity of Coleridge's critical vision, the book contends that his theories extend beyond the fragmentary and eclectic criticisms often attributed to him. It delves into his synthesis of Romantic idealism and systematic analysis, showcasing his ability to reconcile opposites—subject and object, imagination and reason—within an organic framework. Highlighting his enduring relevance, the book underscores how Coleridge's belief in the logic and value of imaginative language provided a compelling defense against the encroachment of scientific positivism in literature. Ultimately, this study positions Coleridge not only as a Romantic theorist or pioneer of depth psychology but as a towering figure whose critical insights retain permanent significance for literary interpretation and appreciation.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.

John P. McWilliams, Jr.

Political Justice in a Republic

$95.00

Political Justice in a Republic: James Fenimore Cooper’s America by John P. McWilliams, Jr. offers the first sustained exploration of Cooper’s fiction as a vehicle for political philosophy. Rather than treating Cooper as either an apolitical romancer or a failed imitator of Scott, McWilliams demonstrates how his novels repeatedly stage contests over law, loyalty, and justice in the “neutral ground” of a changing America. From the Revolutionary War to the unsettled frontier, Cooper dramatized questions of national identity and the foundations of republican order, seeing literature as an instrument of civic instruction and a defense of constitutional ideals.

Drawing on Cooper’s entire career, McWilliams situates the Leatherstocking Tales and later social fictions within debates about divine, natural, moral, and civil law, as well as shifting notions of patriotism, property, and political authority. He argues that Cooper remained a consistent republican thinker, committed to conserving the liberties of the original republic even as American society and its politics changed around him. The book thus reclaims Cooper as a serious political and cultural critic whose fiction grappled with enduring dilemmas of democracy, law, and social order—issues as relevant to modern readers as to his nineteenth-century audience.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

Phillip Damon

Modes of Analogy in Ancient and Medieval Verse

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Modes of Analogy in Ancient and Medieval Verse delves into the evolution of poetic conventions, focusing on how established tropes in ancient and medieval literature were reimagined to meet shifting intellectual and rhetorical demands. Drawing on R. P. Blackmur's idea of "translation" in literary history, the book examines the transformation of three key devices: the Homeric long simile, the personified landscapes of Roman pastoral, and the nature parallelism in medieval love lyrics. By exploring classic examples of these tropes and contrasting them with later iterations, the author illuminates how changes in cultural and conceptual frameworks reshaped the analogical functions of natural imagery in poetry.

Rather than providing a broad historical survey, the book adopts a focused approach, analyzing a select number of pivotal texts to uncover the nuanced stylistic shifts within these conventions. Inspired by Erich Auerbach’s method in Mimesis, the author treats these texts as "test cases" to trace the dynamic interplay between tradition and innovation in poetic expression. Through its critical exploration of these transformations, Modes of Analogy in Ancient and Medieval Verse offers a compelling study of how poets navigated the tension between inherited forms and evolving imaginative needs, enriching our understanding of literary continuity and change.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1961.

Gary B. Miles

Virgil's Georgics

$49.95

Virgil’s Georgics: A New Interpretation by Gary B. Miles challenges conventional readings of Virgil’s agricultural poem by shifting attention away from rustic idealization toward the poem’s political and philosophical concerns. Rather than treating the Georgics as a unified pastoral vision, Miles argues that Virgil deliberately explores multiple, often conflicting myths of rural life shaped by Hellenistic influence, civil war, and shifting Roman values. For some, the countryside symbolized the austere virtues of Rome’s founding elite; for others, it offered either luxurious retreat or a return to simplicity in contrast to the chaos of urban politics. In this light, Virgil’s choice of farming as subject was not eccentric but an apt medium for reflection on the nature of civilization and the challenges facing Augustus.

Miles interprets each book of the Georgics as elaborating a distinct perspective on rustic life, with recurrent motifs providing continuity and underscoring the realities to which all visions of civilization must respond. The poem’s culmination in the myth of Aristaeus, he contends, develops Virgil’s deepest statement about the human condition—one not reducible to any single description of farm life. Avoiding heavy engagement with scholarly debates, Miles presents his argument in a straightforward and accessible style, translating all Latin and Greek and minimizing footnotes, while situating his work within modern criticism in an introductory essay and bibliographic note. Balancing close reading with broad cultural context, Virgil’s Georgics: A New Interpretation offers both specialists and general readers a fresh perspective on one of Rome’s most intellectually complex poems.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

Warner Berthoff

A Literature Without Qualities

$95.00

A Literature Without Qualities: American Writing Since 1945 delves into the evolution of American literature from the post-World War II period to the mid-1970s, examining its transformation as both a product and reflection of a volatile and imaginative epoch. The book situates this era within the broader context of public consciousness, arguing that the period’s literary works are characterized by a provisional nature—tentative in their conclusions yet deeply entwined with the sociopolitical and cultural shifts of the time. The author refrains from defining definitive masterworks or crafting an exhaustive list of acclaimed titles, instead focusing on how this era reshaped the very enterprise of literary creation and critique. This period, marked by a shift in critical self-awareness and creative ambition, reveals American literature grappling with questions of identity, innovation, and its role within an unsettled cultural order.

By blending historical critique, personal reflection, and diagnostic projection, the book examines how the collective consciousness of post-war America influenced its literary production. It explores the interplay between individual creativity and broader cultural forces, emphasizing the importance of shared experiences and societal relationships in shaping literary innovation. From the idealistic aspirations of Emerson and Whitman to the more skeptical, politically charged voices of Mailer and Berryman, the book traces a lineage of American writers who viewed literature as a vehicle for societal introspection and transformation. Ultimately, it frames the vitality of literature as inseparable from the vitality of its cultural and social context, offering a nuanced understanding of how American writing navigated the complex realities of its time while laying the groundwork for future creative endeavors.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Maria Tymoczko

The Irish Ulysses

$49.95

The Irish Ulysses is an in-depth critical study that bridges the works of James Joyce with the rich tradition of early Irish literature. By drawing parallels between the mythological and narrative structures of Joyce’s Ulysses and the symbolic motifs found in Irish literary heritage, the book reclaims Joyce as not only a cosmopolitan writer but also as a deeply Irish one. The text posits that Joyce’s Irish background profoundly shaped his creative vision, embedding his works with themes, archetypes, and styles derived from Irish myth and oral traditions. While much scholarship has focused on the Homeric, Dantean, and Shakespearean influences in Ulysses, this study illuminates the overlooked Irish mythic underpinnings that provide a second axis of symbolic resonance, thereby offering a fuller understanding of Joyce’s layered narrative.

The book addresses how Irish literary traditions—particularly the Sovereignty myths, the Book of Invasions, and medieval voyage tales—inform the structural and thematic elements of Ulysses. Joyce’s deployment of Irish poetics and storytelling tropes serves as a cultural counterpoint to the Homeric parallels, reasserting his roots in Irish nationalism and his engagement with postcolonial identity. This duality of influences highlights how Joyce used his narratives to both critique and celebrate Irish culture, creating a work that is as much a reflection of Ireland’s divided heritage as it is a universal modernist masterpiece. For scholars, students, and readers of Joyce, The Irish Ulysses provides a revelatory framework that repositions Ulysses within its rightful Irish literary and cultural contexts, deepening our appreciation for Joyce’s ingenuity and the enduring legacy of Irish storytelling.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

H. J. Rose

The Eclogues of Vergil

$95.00

H. J. Rose’s The Eclogues of Vergil, originally delivered as part of the Sather Classical Lectures, offers a lucid and engaging study of Vergil’s earliest poetry. Rather than providing a line-by-line commentary, Rose situates the Eclogues within the pastoral tradition stretching from Sophron and Theokritos to Roman adaptations, tracing how Vergil transformed Greek models into a new Latin genre. Across chapters on allegory, imitation, friendship, and setting, Rose highlights Vergil’s poetic craft, his balance of literary convention with lived experience, and the ways his pastorals reflect the political and emotional currents of the late Republic.

Written in an accessible style for both specialists and general readers, the book emphasizes the literary and cultural resonance of the Eclogues rather than technical minutiae of style and meter. Rose’s interpretive frame underscores Vergil’s pastoral vision as at once escapist and deeply rooted in the anxieties of his era, ending with reflections on the poet’s anticipation of a renewed world of peace and justice. This volume remains a touchstone for readers interested in the origins of Latin pastoral, Vergil’s artistry, and the enduring human concerns embedded in seemingly bucolic verse.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1942.

R. W. Lid

Ford Madox Ford

$39.95

Ford Madox Ford: The Essence of His Art offers an insightful examination of the literary life and achievements of Ford Madox Ford, one of the most intriguing and complex figures in early 20th-century English literature. Known for his innovative narrative techniques, Ford is best remembered for his masterpieces, The Good Soldier and Parade's End. This study highlights Ford's distinctive style, focusing particularly on his use of the time-shift technique, which rearranges events in the narrator’s memory, and his ability to evoke psychological tension and social commentary through fragmented narrative structures. Ford's writing navigates the transition from Victorian to modern sensibilities, exploring themes of passion, duty, and the social upheavals of his time. By delving into his works, the study offers a deeper understanding of Ford's pivotal role in the development of the modern novel, blending the emotional complexity of his characters with a keen critique of society.

The book also provides a rich biographical context, detailing Ford's early life within the artistic circles of the Pre-Raphaelites and his literary struggles. It examines his relationships with literary giants like Joseph Conrad and Henry James, whose influence can be traced in Ford's own works. The author’s introspective approach to writing, his search for identity, and his exploration of personal and societal conflicts through fiction are key themes in this study. The narrative of Ford’s life is punctuated by moments of literary innovation and personal turmoil, capturing the essence of his journey as an artist, editor, and mentor. Through a combination of personal reminiscences and literary analysis, this book presents Ford as both a product of his time and a visionary who pushed the boundaries of narrative form to reflect the complexities of the human condition.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

Elisabeth W. Schneider

T. S. Eliot

$39.95

T. S. Eliot: The Pattern in the Carpet by Elisabeth Schneider offers a searching exploration of Eliot’s poetry and criticism through what she calls “double vision”: the simultaneous awareness of each poem as an autonomous work and as part of the larger, developing pattern of a poet’s lifetime achievement. Schneider situates Eliot’s oft-cited doctrine of the “extinction of personality” within the arc of his changing critical statements, showing how his early insistence on impersonality gradually gave way to recognition of the poet’s voice, private experience, and unifying “developing personality” across his oeuvre. In her account, Eliot’s prose criticism becomes less a rigid dogma than a continuous gloss on his poetic practice, itself a record of tensions between detachment and intimate expression.

This study places Eliot’s critical pronouncements—his emphasis on impersonality, his Shakespearean analogies, his revisions of stance—into dialogue with his poetry, tracing how each informs the other. Schneider’s analysis provides readers and scholars with a framework to approach Eliot’s work as a unified whole without neglecting the individuality of its parts, and to read his poems with the tact and caution that Eliot himself demanded. At once historical and interpretive, The Pattern in the Carpet invites renewed consideration of the interplay between art and life, theory and practice, in the career of one of modernism’s most enigmatic and commanding figures.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

Leo Bersani

Baudelaire and Freud

$95.00

This title delves into the interplay between Charles Baudelaire's poetic vision and Freudian psychoanalytic theory, offering a nuanced exploration of fragmented identity and the dynamic tension between traditional ideals and modern psychological complexity. Baudelaire's work is framed as a pivotal cultural drama, encapsulating the struggle between spiritual aspirations and self-degradation—a dualism rooted in his concept of "two postulations" of human nature, toward God and Satan. This framework aligns with a broader structure of oppositions—high and low, spirit and matter, reality and appearance—that has traditionally defined idealistic visions in literature.

However, the book challenges reductive readings of Baudelaire's dualism, arguing instead for a recognition of his deeper engagement with psychic mobility and the destabilization of identity. Baudelaire's poetry, like Freud's theories, emerges at a cultural crossroads where traditional views of the self are simultaneously upheld and dismantled. This study emphasizes Baudelaire's resistance to the indeterminacy of self, contrasting it with more radical contemporary experiments in fragmented subjectivity. Using Freudian theory, particularly the notions of fantasy and psychic deconstruction, the book highlights Baudelaire's complex interplay between rigid dichotomies and the liberating yet disruptive forces of self-scattering desire, offering a profound examination of the tensions that define both his work and the evolution of modern thought.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

Willard Spiegelman

Wordsworth's Heroes

$95.00

Wordsworth’s Heroes reframes the poet of “egotistical sublime” fame as a maker of ordinary heroism—someone who finds grandeur not at Thermopylae but in cottages, churchyards, and the habits of speech that shape moral character. Willard Spiegelman assembles a gallery of Wordsworth’s “representative men and women”—readers, children, and old men—while staging a decisive rethink of the poet’s alleged self-absorption. Anchored by a fresh account of “Character of the Happy Warrior,” the book shows how Wordsworth abstracts heroism from biography (Nelson) into a type available to “every man in arms”—and, crucially, to noncombatants in the “mild concerns of ordinary life.” Through close readings that braid rhetoric, prosody, and ethics, Spiegelman connects the Happy Warrior to the leech-gatherer of “Resolution and Independence,” to the sculptural presences of “Yew-Trees,” and to Wordsworth’s lifelong negotiation between action and contemplation (agere et pati). The result is a Wordsworth placed not at the margins as eccentric prophet but at the center of the “commonal” (to borrow Wallace Stevens), where the heroic becomes a shared vocation learned by imitation, memory, and speech.

Organized with the classroom and the scholar equally in mind, Wordsworth’s Heroes pairs thematic chapters on readers, children, and elders with sustained interpretations of The Prelude, The White Doe of Rylstone, and The Excursion. Spiegelman tracks how the “divisionary” imagination of the late poems turns characters into instructive exempla, while earlier lyrics test how far happiness, suffering, and endurance can be made heroic without losing their ordinariness. Along the way, the study situates Wordsworth among ancient and modern theorists of greatness—from Theophrastus and Cicero to Emerson, Carlyle, and Stevens—showing how his poetry both absorbs and resists heroic paradigms. This is scholarly criticism with the cadence of literary advocacy: lucid, historically alert, and attentive to how diction, syntax, and stanza shape ethical vision. For readers of Romanticism, narrative, and moral philosophy, Spiegelman offers a compelling case that Wordsworth’s truest heroes are “ourselves”—not exceptions to, but exponents of, the human commonwealth.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.

Robert Rogers

Metaphor

$95.00

Metaphor: A Psychoanalytic View offers a profound exploration of the interplay between language, psychology, and artistic expression, using metaphor as a central lens. Rooted in psychoanalytic theory, the book delves into the psychological underpinnings of metaphoric communication, emphasizing its dynamic ability to transfer emotion, meaning, and unconscious material between creator and audience. Drawing from Hawthorne's use of the "Tongue of Flame" as a metaphor for the transformative power of language in The Scarlet Letter, the author expands on how metaphor can transcend direct communication, forging a deeper communion between individuals by tapping into shared emotional and experiential frameworks. The book positions metaphor not as mere ornamentation but as an active, imaginative process central to human thought and creativity.

In addition to unpacking the psychological resonance of metaphor, the text examines its structural and dynamic qualities, such as ambiguity, tension, and interplay between conscious and unconscious elements. Drawing on thinkers like Aristotle, Shelley, and Bachelard, it argues for metaphor's centrality in artistic and poetic endeavors, presenting it as a "meta-metaphor"—both a tool for expression and a phenomenon to be studied. By integrating insights from psychoanalysis with a focus on the emotional and relational dimensions of metaphor, the book provides a compelling framework for understanding how figurative language shapes and is shaped by the human psyche, ultimately linking linguistic creativity to the broader currents of imagination, identity, and shared cultural experience.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Elisabeth W. Schneider

T. S. Eliot

$95.00

T. S. Eliot: The Pattern in the Carpet by Elisabeth Schneider offers a searching exploration of Eliot’s poetry and criticism through what she calls “double vision”: the simultaneous awareness of each poem as an autonomous work and as part of the larger, developing pattern of a poet’s lifetime achievement. Schneider situates Eliot’s oft-cited doctrine of the “extinction of personality” within the arc of his changing critical statements, showing how his early insistence on impersonality gradually gave way to recognition of the poet’s voice, private experience, and unifying “developing personality” across his oeuvre. In her account, Eliot’s prose criticism becomes less a rigid dogma than a continuous gloss on his poetic practice, itself a record of tensions between detachment and intimate expression.

This study places Eliot’s critical pronouncements—his emphasis on impersonality, his Shakespearean analogies, his revisions of stance—into dialogue with his poetry, tracing how each informs the other. Schneider’s analysis provides readers and scholars with a framework to approach Eliot’s work as a unified whole without neglecting the individuality of its parts, and to read his poems with the tact and caution that Eliot himself demanded. At once historical and interpretive, The Pattern in the Carpet invites renewed consideration of the interplay between art and life, theory and practice, in the career of one of modernism’s most enigmatic and commanding figures.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

Elaine Tuttle Hansen

Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender

$95.00

In Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender, the poet’s exploration of masculinity and femininity takes center stage, offering a complex interplay between societal constructs of gender and personal identity. Focusing on the Legend of Good Women, the analysis delves into the feminization of male characters, unraveling how their relationships with women reveal vulnerabilities and insecurities. From Antony’s loss of public honor to Pyramus’s emotional fragility, Chaucer presents men as navigating perilous intersections of love, identity, and societal expectations. Their struggles are contrasted with the archetypes of virtuous women, yet these figures also challenge normative gender roles, blending power with traditional notions of sacrifice. Through these layered narratives, Chaucer critiques the rigidity of patriarchal ideals, illustrating the tensions between personal desires and societal demands.

This work positions Chaucer as an artist deeply engaged with the “woman question,” while acknowledging the limitations of interpreting his poetry solely through a proto-feminist lens. By examining the poet’s characters—both male and female—the analysis highlights how Chaucer negotiates the instability of gender roles, revealing an intricate tapestry of social critique and literary innovation. The book invites readers to consider how Chaucer’s works resonate with modern conversations about gender fluidity and the cultural pressures shaping identity. This nuanced exploration redefines the Legend of Good Women as a central piece in Chaucer’s oeuvre, one that pushes the boundaries of medieval literary traditions.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Amelia E. Van Vleck

Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric

$95.00

Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric delves into the intricate and dynamic world of medieval troubadour poetry, examining its artistic evolution and cultural context. This groundbreaking work challenges traditional romanticized interpretations of troubadour songs, which often viewed them as personal outpourings of emotion or autobiographical reflections. Instead, the book situates troubadour lyric within a framework of formalism and performance, emphasizing its reliance on conventions, originality, and interaction with audiences. By analyzing the dynamic process of "mouvance"—the fluidity of medieval texts during oral and written transmission—this study highlights how troubadours balanced the creation of distinctive poetic voices with the inevitability of adaptation and transformation over time.

The book explores how troubadours actively engaged in literary innovation while addressing the inherent challenges of oral tradition and textual mobility. Through in-depth analyses of poets like Jaufre Rudel, Raimbaut d'Aurenga, and Arnaut Daniel, it reveals the complex interplay between individuality and tradition, as well as the deliberate use of metaphor, rhyme, and structure to shape audience reception. With its rich examination of twelfth-century poetics, performance practices, and manuscript evidence, Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric offers a nuanced understanding of how these medieval poets navigated the tension between ephemeral oral performances and the enduring legacy of written text. This work is an invaluable resource for those seeking to uncover the layered artistry of troubadour poetry and its enduring cultural significance.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Edward Duffy

Rousseau in England

$39.95

Rousseau in England: The Context for Shelley’s Critique of the Enlightenment by Edward Duffy examines how Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s reputation was forged, mythologized, and transformed in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, culminating in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s radical reinterpretation of Rousseau in *The Triumph of Life*. Whereas Napoleon dominated European political mythology for most of Shelley’s contemporaries, Duffy shows how Rousseau emerged in England as a cultural symbol—cast by Edmund Burke and others as the epitome of Enlightenment folly and blamed for the Revolution’s disasters. Against this background, Shelley recast Rousseau as a complex, ambivalent figure who embodied both the failures and the unrealized promise of Europe’s revolutionary upheavals.

The book’s first chapters reconstruct the English critical and political traditions that shaped Rousseau’s image, tracing the way reviewers, polemicists, and public intellectuals translated his works and life into a set of cultural givens. These representations provided the “grammar” within which Romantic poets engaged Rousseau. Duffy then turns to Coleridge, Hazlitt, and others before focusing on Shelley’s *The Triumph of Life* as a climactic act of myth-making that revises inherited assumptions. By situating Shelley’s poem within the dense ideological and historical discourse surrounding Rousseau, Duffy reveals how Shelley sought not simply to echo Romantic subjectivity but to rearticulate the meaning of revolution itself. Both a study of cultural reception and a close reading of Romantic poetics, Rousseau in England illuminates how myths of the Enlightenment were constructed, contested, and redeployed in the making of English Romanticism.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

R. A. Yoder

Emerson and the Orphic Poet in America

$95.00

In Emerson and the Orphic Poet in America, the author explores Ralph Waldo Emerson’s conception of poetry and the poet within the context of a larger Romantic tradition. Emerson’s work represents a critical shift in American thought, merging European Romantic ideals with an American voice. At the heart of his vision is the idea of the poet as both a visionary and a liberator of truth, a concept that Emerson inherited from a variety of traditions, including Blake’s notion of the “universal man” and the Logos of Platonism. Emerson’s invocation of the Orphic poet in his 1836 work Nature marks a departure from traditional American thought, positioning the poet as the one who speaks eternal truths, a voice that transcends the limitations of time and geography. His work incorporates a syncretic method, drawing from both European influences and American independence, while advocating for a return to the primal source of truth. This conception places the poet at the center of life’s order, a figure capable of transcending ordinary experience to reveal deeper, universal truths.

The study further delves into the development of Emerson’s own poetic practice, noting the evolution from the grand Orphic figure in Nature to a more modest poet in his later works. Emerson initially saw poetry as a prophetic and divine gift, but over time his work became more focused on the human and accessible aspects of poetry. His later writings reflect a poet who, though aware of the grandeur of Orphic ideals, recognizes the limitations of his own work, describing his voice as husky and imperfect. Despite this, Emerson still aligns himself with the greater tradition of poetic bards, finding satisfaction in their immortal melodies. The book concludes with an analysis of how Emerson’s modifications of the Orphic tradition have shaped American poetry, preserving its core inquiries while adapting it to a distinctly American context. Through his evolving poetic practice, Emerson’s work continues to resonate, influencing generations of American poets.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Charles L. Batten, Jr.

Pleasurable Instruction

$95.00

Pleasurable Instruction: Form and Convention in Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature explores the unique popularity and literary value of travel writing during the 1700s, a period when this genre captivated a diverse audience and became a significant cultural phenomenon. In this richly detailed study, the author investigates how the travel account evolved from a rudimentary form of reportage into a respected literary genre. Unlike earlier travelogues that often blended fact with fanciful fiction, eighteenth-century travel literature emphasized factual accuracy, artistic prose, and moral reflection, catering to an audience hungry for both knowledge and entertainment. Prominent figures such as Addison, Defoe, and Johnson contributed to this literary tradition, elevating it into an esteemed mode of storytelling that blended scientific inquiry with vivid narrative.

The book highlights the dynamic interplay between travel as a physical act and its literary representation. It situates travel accounts within the broader socio-cultural context of the eighteenth century, emphasizing how advancements in transportation and increased accessibility to international destinations shaped the genre. Yet the study goes beyond mere historical analysis, delving into the literary conventions and aesthetic principles that defined travel writing. It challenges modern misconceptions about the genre's artistic merit, asserting its significance as a vehicle for intellectual exploration and imaginative engagement. Through this lens, Pleasurable Instruction affirms the travel account's dual role as both a mirror of its time and a timeless source of literary pleasure and instruction.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Leonard Michael Koff

Chaucer and the Art of Storytelling

$49.95

Uncover the intricate artistry behind Geoffrey Chaucer's storytelling in this compelling study that redefines our understanding of his narratives and their profound social and moral dimensions. This book offers a fresh perspective on Chaucer's role as a storyteller, emphasizing his dedication to the collective wisdom of "olde bokes" and the communal experience of reading. Through a blend of historical and theoretical exploration, alongside close readings of The Canterbury Tales, it reveals how Chaucer's narratives create a shared space for reflection, blending medieval traditions with universal themes. By exploring concepts like "parabolic listening" and the moral implications of storytelling, the book connects Chaucer's tales to their historical roots while showcasing their enduring relevance.

Challenging long-held assumptions, Chaucer and the Art of Storytelling argues that Chaucer's works are not cryptic puzzles but accessible narratives designed to inspire collective understanding and individual self-awareness. Through in-depth analyses of tales like the Merchant's Tale, the Wife of Bath's Tale, and the Parson’s Tale, the book illustrates Chaucer's ability to balance humor, morality, and social commentary. A must-read for anyone interested in medieval literature, this study illuminates Chaucer’s narratives as living texts that connect readers across time, offering both historical insight and a celebration of the timeless art of storytelling.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

R. A. Yoder

Emerson and the Orphic Poet in America

$39.95

In Emerson and the Orphic Poet in America, the author explores Ralph Waldo Emerson’s conception of poetry and the poet within the context of a larger Romantic tradition. Emerson’s work represents a critical shift in American thought, merging European Romantic ideals with an American voice. At the heart of his vision is the idea of the poet as both a visionary and a liberator of truth, a concept that Emerson inherited from a variety of traditions, including Blake’s notion of the “universal man” and the Logos of Platonism. Emerson’s invocation of the Orphic poet in his 1836 work Nature marks a departure from traditional American thought, positioning the poet as the one who speaks eternal truths, a voice that transcends the limitations of time and geography. His work incorporates a syncretic method, drawing from both European influences and American independence, while advocating for a return to the primal source of truth. This conception places the poet at the center of life’s order, a figure capable of transcending ordinary experience to reveal deeper, universal truths.

The study further delves into the development of Emerson’s own poetic practice, noting the evolution from the grand Orphic figure in Nature to a more modest poet in his later works. Emerson initially saw poetry as a prophetic and divine gift, but over time his work became more focused on the human and accessible aspects of poetry. His later writings reflect a poet who, though aware of the grandeur of Orphic ideals, recognizes the limitations of his own work, describing his voice as husky and imperfect. Despite this, Emerson still aligns himself with the greater tradition of poetic bards, finding satisfaction in their immortal melodies. The book concludes with an analysis of how Emerson’s modifications of the Orphic tradition have shaped American poetry, preserving its core inquiries while adapting it to a distinctly American context. Through his evolving poetic practice, Emerson’s work continues to resonate, influencing generations of American poets.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Gordon Williams

Change and Decline

$95.00

Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire offers a nuanced exploration of the transformation and challenges faced by Roman literary culture during the so-called "Silver Age" of Roman literature. Delivered as part of the Sather Classical Lectures, the work critically examines the causes and manifestations of literary decline in the early Roman Empire, while grappling with questions of cultural growth, decay, and the interplay between societal and artistic values. The author engages with six thematic approaches to illuminate how Roman writers navigated the pressures of their political and cultural milieu, offering insights into their stylistic shifts, intellectual tendencies, and the broader social functions of literature in this transformative period.

The book delves into the complex relationship between Roman and Greek cultural dominance, the pervasive influence of imperial politics on artistic expression, and the emotional and sensational tendencies that began to overshadow the rationality of the Augustan age. Through analyses of figures like Tacitus and Ovid, the work demonstrates how fear, escapism, and societal expectations reshaped literary priorities and led to adaptations both innovative and detrimental. Ultimately, Change and Decline argues that the adjustments imposed by external pressures often eroded the integrity of a once-vibrant tradition, marking a period of both literary transformation and decline.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Gordon Williams

Change and Decline

$49.95

Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire offers a nuanced exploration of the transformation and challenges faced by Roman literary culture during the so-called "Silver Age" of Roman literature. Delivered as part of the Sather Classical Lectures, the work critically examines the causes and manifestations of literary decline in the early Roman Empire, while grappling with questions of cultural growth, decay, and the interplay between societal and artistic values. The author engages with six thematic approaches to illuminate how Roman writers navigated the pressures of their political and cultural milieu, offering insights into their stylistic shifts, intellectual tendencies, and the broader social functions of literature in this transformative period.

The book delves into the complex relationship between Roman and Greek cultural dominance, the pervasive influence of imperial politics on artistic expression, and the emotional and sensational tendencies that began to overshadow the rationality of the Augustan age. Through analyses of figures like Tacitus and Ovid, the work demonstrates how fear, escapism, and societal expectations reshaped literary priorities and led to adaptations both innovative and detrimental. Ultimately, Change and Decline argues that the adjustments imposed by external pressures often eroded the integrity of a once-vibrant tradition, marking a period of both literary transformation and decline.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Edward Duffy

Rousseau in England

$95.00

Rousseau in England: The Context for Shelley’s Critique of the Enlightenment by Edward Duffy examines how Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s reputation was forged, mythologized, and transformed in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, culminating in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s radical reinterpretation of Rousseau in *The Triumph of Life*. Whereas Napoleon dominated European political mythology for most of Shelley’s contemporaries, Duffy shows how Rousseau emerged in England as a cultural symbol—cast by Edmund Burke and others as the epitome of Enlightenment folly and blamed for the Revolution’s disasters. Against this background, Shelley recast Rousseau as a complex, ambivalent figure who embodied both the failures and the unrealized promise of Europe’s revolutionary upheavals.

The book’s first chapters reconstruct the English critical and political traditions that shaped Rousseau’s image, tracing the way reviewers, polemicists, and public intellectuals translated his works and life into a set of cultural givens. These representations provided the “grammar” within which Romantic poets engaged Rousseau. Duffy then turns to Coleridge, Hazlitt, and others before focusing on Shelley’s *The Triumph of Life* as a climactic act of myth-making that revises inherited assumptions. By situating Shelley’s poem within the dense ideological and historical discourse surrounding Rousseau, Duffy reveals how Shelley sought not simply to echo Romantic subjectivity but to rearticulate the meaning of revolution itself. Both a study of cultural reception and a close reading of Romantic poetics, Rousseau in England illuminates how myths of the Enlightenment were constructed, contested, and redeployed in the making of English Romanticism.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Allan Rodway

English Comedy

$39.95

English Comedy: Its Role and Nature from Chaucer to the Present Day offers an in-depth literary critique of English comedy, highlighting its evolution from the medieval period to modern times. The book is not a mere historical account but a critical exploration of the genre, aiming to deepen the appreciation for comic works that transcend their time. Unlike many comedies that are tied to contemporary issues and fade with their era, this study focuses on the works that stand the test of time, like Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel. The book addresses common misconceptions by distinguishing comedy from farce and other forms of entertainment. Its central thesis is that comedy, while often dismissed as a trivial form, serves important societal functions by critiquing and satirizing societal norms, offering both a reflection and a critique of its era. The study examines how comedy is shaped by and responds to social tensions, exploring its potential for both progressive and conservative social commentary.

The structure of the book is divided into several parts, each serving a distinct purpose. Part I focuses on the theory of comedy, establishing a framework for the subsequent analysis. It distinguishes between the concepts of laughter and comedy, and defines key terms for understanding comic works. Part II applies these theoretical ideas to different literary periods, offering a comparative analysis of representative comic works. By doing so, it offers a critical evaluation that goes beyond historical context to explore the universal and enduring qualities of comedy. The book emphasizes the role of the comic writer, who, by depicting the absurdities of society, often reflects a larger societal critique. Through this, the author aims to provide readers with both a theoretical understanding and a personal appreciation of the masterpieces of English comedy, demonstrating how these works remain relevant despite their period-specific origins.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

Anthony Trollope

The Tireless Traveler

$95.00

The Tireless Traveler: Twenty Letters to the Liverpool Mercury by Anthony Trollope offers readers a vivid and revealing account of Anthony Trollope’s 1875 journey from Ceylon through Australia, Hawai‘i, San Francisco, and overland to New York. Edited and introduced by Bradford Allen Booth, this volume publishes for the first time twenty long-lost letters that fill a major gap in Trollope’s biography and illuminate his role as both novelist and indefatigable observer of British colonial life. Unlike his better-known travel books, these letters were written for the Liverpool Mercury and thus speak directly to a broad provincial audience eager for practical knowledge of colonial societies. Trollope reports not on art or landscape but on institutions, commerce, labor conditions, and the day-to-day realities of settlement. His concerns, he repeatedly emphasizes, are “political, social, and material,” and he measures colonies by their capacity to sustain working families rather than by their picturesque allure.

Booth’s introduction situates the letters within Trollope’s broader career and highlights their value for multiple fields of study. For biographers, they clarify an eight-month period of his life previously shrouded in uncertainty. For social and economic historians, they provide thick description of late nineteenth-century Australia and Ceylon in transition, down to wages, prices, and civic institutions. For literary scholars, they showcase Trollope’s pragmatic voice, skeptical of imperial expansion and missionary interference yet steeped in Victorian assumptions about class, comfort, and utility. Vivid episodes—including the attack at Santa Cruz that cost Commodore Goodenough his life—sit alongside candid missteps, such as Trollope’s erroneous claims about Hawai‘i’s distance from California or his dismissive view of San Francisco. As such, the letters capture both the strengths and limits of Trollope’s worldview, offering indispensable insights into Victorian travel writing, colonial history, and the global imagination of one of Britain’s most industrious novelists.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1941.

John P. McWilliams, Jr.

Political Justice in a Republic

$49.95

Political Justice in a Republic: James Fenimore Cooper’s America by John P. McWilliams, Jr. offers the first sustained exploration of Cooper’s fiction as a vehicle for political philosophy. Rather than treating Cooper as either an apolitical romancer or a failed imitator of Scott, McWilliams demonstrates how his novels repeatedly stage contests over law, loyalty, and justice in the “neutral ground” of a changing America. From the Revolutionary War to the unsettled frontier, Cooper dramatized questions of national identity and the foundations of republican order, seeing literature as an instrument of civic instruction and a defense of constitutional ideals.

Drawing on Cooper’s entire career, McWilliams situates the Leatherstocking Tales and later social fictions within debates about divine, natural, moral, and civil law, as well as shifting notions of patriotism, property, and political authority. He argues that Cooper remained a consistent republican thinker, committed to conserving the liberties of the original republic even as American society and its politics changed around him. The book thus reclaims Cooper as a serious political and cultural critic whose fiction grappled with enduring dilemmas of democracy, law, and social order—issues as relevant to modern readers as to his nineteenth-century audience.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

Anthony Trollope

The Tireless Traveler

$39.95

The Tireless Traveler: Twenty Letters to the Liverpool Mercury by Anthony Trollope offers readers a vivid and revealing account of Anthony Trollope’s 1875 journey from Ceylon through Australia, Hawai‘i, San Francisco, and overland to New York. Edited and introduced by Bradford Allen Booth, this volume publishes for the first time twenty long-lost letters that fill a major gap in Trollope’s biography and illuminate his role as both novelist and indefatigable observer of British colonial life. Unlike his better-known travel books, these letters were written for the Liverpool Mercury and thus speak directly to a broad provincial audience eager for practical knowledge of colonial societies. Trollope reports not on art or landscape but on institutions, commerce, labor conditions, and the day-to-day realities of settlement. His concerns, he repeatedly emphasizes, are “political, social, and material,” and he measures colonies by their capacity to sustain working families rather than by their picturesque allure.

Booth’s introduction situates the letters within Trollope’s broader career and highlights their value for multiple fields of study. For biographers, they clarify an eight-month period of his life previously shrouded in uncertainty. For social and economic historians, they provide thick description of late nineteenth-century Australia and Ceylon in transition, down to wages, prices, and civic institutions. For literary scholars, they showcase Trollope’s pragmatic voice, skeptical of imperial expansion and missionary interference yet steeped in Victorian assumptions about class, comfort, and utility. Vivid episodes—including the attack at Santa Cruz that cost Commodore Goodenough his life—sit alongside candid missteps, such as Trollope’s erroneous claims about Hawai‘i’s distance from California or his dismissive view of San Francisco. As such, the letters capture both the strengths and limits of Trollope’s worldview, offering indispensable insights into Victorian travel writing, colonial history, and the global imagination of one of Britain’s most industrious novelists.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1941.

Bertrand H. Bronson

Johnson Agonistes and Other Essays

$39.95

Johnson Agonistes and Other Essays brings together Bertrand H. Bronson’s most influential meditations on Samuel Johnson and his circle, offering a master class in literary criticism and intellectual history. Opening with the title essay, Bronson presents Johnson as a man of turbulent imagination and fierce conservatism, a poet-philosopher whose combativeness was as central to his thought as his piety. Subsequent essays probe Boswell’s complex self-fashioning as Johnson’s biographer, re-evaluate Johnson’s ill-fated tragedy Irene, and situate him within a “double tradition” of radical iconoclast and authoritarian moralist. Across these essays, Bronson illuminates the paradoxes that made Johnson at once an enemy of metaphysical abstraction and a defender of hierarchy, a critic of poverty who nonetheless distrusted reform.

Written with stylistic verve and intellectual sympathy, this collection showcases Bronson’s ability to weave close textual analysis with sweeping judgments about character, society, and ideas. For students of eighteenth-century literature, Johnson’s prose and poetry, or the art of biography, Johnson Agonistes remains a touchstone, modeling how to read a figure whose contradictions were integral to his genius. At once literary portrait, critical reappraisal, and meditation on authority and imagination, the book continues to shape how readers encounter both Johnson and the interpretive traditions surrounding him.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

Edited by Earl Miner

Stuart and Georgian Moments

$95.00

Bringing the celebrated Clark Library Saturday seminars to a wider audience, Stuart and Georgian Moments gathers twelve crisp, field-defining essays that map the literary, musical, and cultural horizons of the long seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Edited by Earl Miner, the volume showcases a who’s-who of scholarship—James Sutherland on Restoration prose, Don Cameron Allen on Milton’s Latin, Bertrand H. Bronson on music and literature, Herbert Davis and Maximillian E. Novak on Swift and Defoe’s ironies, H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., and Charles E. Ward on the perennial challenges of editing and narrating Dryden, along with studies of Puritan culture (Leon Howard) and women’s epistolary practices (Irvin Ehrenpreis; Robert Halsband). Framed by Robert Vosper’s portrait of Lawrence Clark Powell and the Clark’s distinctive scholarly ecosystem, the collection captures the intellectual verve of UCLA’s 17th & 18th Centuries Studies Group and its interdisciplinary mandate.

For scholars and advanced students of early modern and Enlightenment studies, this volume offers rare range with unusual coherence: it moves deftly between poetics and print culture, rhetoric and performance, textual criticism and intellectual history—always grounded in primary materials and editorial practice. Whether you’re teaching Dryden and Milton, tracing the traffic between poetry and music, or rethinking gendered authorship and the public sphere, Stuart and Georgian Moments delivers authoritative essays that remain eminently teachable, citable, and expandable—an indispensable companion to research, syllabus-building, and the ongoing work of re-reading the Stuart and Georgian eras across disciplines.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

J.B. Hainsworth

The Idea of Epic

$95.00

The Idea of Epic by J. B. Hainsworth is a sweeping exploration of one of literature’s most enduring and contested forms. Moving from Homer and Virgil to Lucan, Milton, and beyond, Hainsworth examines how the epic has been defined, reshaped, and reimagined across centuries. He demonstrates that epic is never merely long narrative verse but always a conscious engagement with cultural memory, heroism, and form. With clarity and breadth, he shows how ancient epics both shaped and were shaped by their societies, and how later poets—whether in antiquity or the Renaissance—revived and reconfigured the genre for new purposes.

This study situates the epic at the center of literary history, highlighting its ability to reflect collective ideals and probe the costs of heroism and empire. Hainsworth traces its transformations from oral heroic poetry through Hellenistic and Roman adaptations, into medieval and modern reworkings, emphasizing the epic’s simultaneous continuity and reinvention. By balancing close readings with wide cultural context, The Idea of Epic offers scholars and students alike a guide to how the genre has evolved, why it has mattered so profoundly, and what it continues to mean for literature’s most ambitious attempts to tell the story of humanity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Ruth A. Fox

The Tangled Chain

$95.00

The Tangled Chain: The Structure of Disorder in the Anatomy of Melancholy by Ruth A. Fox offers a formalist reading of Robert Burton’s monumental work, concentrating on the problems of structure and theme that shape the Anatomy of Melancholy. Rather than surveying its broader place among medical treatises, psychological writings, or Elizabethan anatomies, Fox focuses closely on the ways in which Burton organizes, fragments, and ultimately stabilizes his sprawling text. Her approach, attentive to partitions, subsections, and the author’s methods of citation and interpolation, reveals the deliberate yet paradoxical logic that governs Burton’s treatment of disorder. By restricting her scope, Fox is able to excavate the tensions in the *Anatomy* itself—between encyclopedic ambition and structural chaos, between scholarly compilation and creative design—that continue to puzzle readers.

Fox’s study situates itself as complementary to contextual works by Lawrence Babb and Bridget Gellert Lyons while carving out a distinctive analytical position. Drawing on her own close readings, aided by the Everyman edition of Holbrook Jackson, she emphasizes the textual mechanics of Burton’s book: the layering of Latin, the handling of translations, and the editorial traditions that mediate modern access. The project’s rigor is underscored by Fox’s careful citation practices and by her attention to Burton’s Latin, whether preserved, paraphrased, or omitted. The Tangled Chain thus provides scholars of Renaissance literature and intellectual history with a sustained inquiry into how Burton’s famously digressive text fashions coherence out of disorder, illuminating both the Anatomy’s literary artistry and its enduring interpretive challenges.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle

Loyola's Acts

$39.95

Loyola's Acts: The Rhetoric of the Self offers a nuanced exploration of Iñigo López de Loyola's pivotal spiritual transformation and its rhetorical framing within the Christian tradition. Far from being a straightforward autobiography, the text, titled Acta, is positioned as a work of epideictic rhetoric—a genre focused on praise and moral persuasion rather than strict factual recounting. Loyola's recounted experiences, from his formative wounding at Pamplona to his spiritual exercises and reflections, are interpreted not as direct self-narration but as filtered through the lens of his scribe, Gonçalves da Câmara. The book argues that Acta aligns more with Renaissance rhetorical traditions than modern autobiographical norms, emphasizing moral edification over empirical detail.

This study situates Loyola's Acts within the cultural and rhetorical milieu of the sixteenth century, drawing connections to classical and medieval traditions of memory, imitation, and spiritual meditation. It examines how Loyola's recitations, shaped by Gonçalves da Câmara's interpretive role, were less about chronicling personal events and more about exemplifying divine governance and moral lessons. By uncovering the layers of rhetorical strategy, intertextuality, and cultural context, the book reinterprets Acta as a profound moral and spiritual artifact, offering a fresh lens on Loyola's legacy and the broader tradition of Christian rhetorical literature.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

H. J. Rose

The Eclogues of Vergil

$39.95

H. J. Rose’s The Eclogues of Vergil, originally delivered as part of the Sather Classical Lectures, offers a lucid and engaging study of Vergil’s earliest poetry. Rather than providing a line-by-line commentary, Rose situates the Eclogues within the pastoral tradition stretching from Sophron and Theokritos to Roman adaptations, tracing how Vergil transformed Greek models into a new Latin genre. Across chapters on allegory, imitation, friendship, and setting, Rose highlights Vergil’s poetic craft, his balance of literary convention with lived experience, and the ways his pastorals reflect the political and emotional currents of the late Republic.

Written in an accessible style for both specialists and general readers, the book emphasizes the literary and cultural resonance of the Eclogues rather than technical minutiae of style and meter. Rose’s interpretive frame underscores Vergil’s pastoral vision as at once escapist and deeply rooted in the anxieties of his era, ending with reflections on the poet’s anticipation of a renewed world of peace and justice. This volume remains a touchstone for readers interested in the origins of Latin pastoral, Vergil’s artistry, and the enduring human concerns embedded in seemingly bucolic verse.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1942.

Charles L. Batten, Jr.

Pleasurable Instruction

$39.95

Pleasurable Instruction: Form and Convention in Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature explores the unique popularity and literary value of travel writing during the 1700s, a period when this genre captivated a diverse audience and became a significant cultural phenomenon. In this richly detailed study, the author investigates how the travel account evolved from a rudimentary form of reportage into a respected literary genre. Unlike earlier travelogues that often blended fact with fanciful fiction, eighteenth-century travel literature emphasized factual accuracy, artistic prose, and moral reflection, catering to an audience hungry for both knowledge and entertainment. Prominent figures such as Addison, Defoe, and Johnson contributed to this literary tradition, elevating it into an esteemed mode of storytelling that blended scientific inquiry with vivid narrative.

The book highlights the dynamic interplay between travel as a physical act and its literary representation. It situates travel accounts within the broader socio-cultural context of the eighteenth century, emphasizing how advancements in transportation and increased accessibility to international destinations shaped the genre. Yet the study goes beyond mere historical analysis, delving into the literary conventions and aesthetic principles that defined travel writing. It challenges modern misconceptions about the genre's artistic merit, asserting its significance as a vehicle for intellectual exploration and imaginative engagement. Through this lens, Pleasurable Instruction affirms the travel account's dual role as both a mirror of its time and a timeless source of literary pleasure and instruction.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Leonard Michael Koff

Chaucer and the Art of Storytelling

$95.00

Uncover the intricate artistry behind Geoffrey Chaucer's storytelling in this compelling study that redefines our understanding of his narratives and their profound social and moral dimensions. This book offers a fresh perspective on Chaucer's role as a storyteller, emphasizing his dedication to the collective wisdom of "olde bokes" and the communal experience of reading. Through a blend of historical and theoretical exploration, alongside close readings of The Canterbury Tales, it reveals how Chaucer's narratives create a shared space for reflection, blending medieval traditions with universal themes. By exploring concepts like "parabolic listening" and the moral implications of storytelling, the book connects Chaucer's tales to their historical roots while showcasing their enduring relevance.

Challenging long-held assumptions, Chaucer and the Art of Storytelling argues that Chaucer's works are not cryptic puzzles but accessible narratives designed to inspire collective understanding and individual self-awareness. Through in-depth analyses of tales like the Merchant's Tale, the Wife of Bath's Tale, and the Parson’s Tale, the book illustrates Chaucer's ability to balance humor, morality, and social commentary. A must-read for anyone interested in medieval literature, this study illuminates Chaucer’s narratives as living texts that connect readers across time, offering both historical insight and a celebration of the timeless art of storytelling.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

Helmut Bonheim

Joyce's Benefictions

$39.95

Helmut Bonheim’s Joyce’s Benefictions offers a lucid, tightly argued tour of Joyce’s major works, reading rebellion and anti-authoritarian play as the motor of both style and theme. Moving from Dubliners and A Portrait to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, Bonheim shows how Joyce’s “outlaw” procedures—parody, portmanteau, montage—are inseparable from his persistent fascination with the very institutions he resists. Chapters on Leopold Bloom’s humane but compromised paternity, the alphabetic and musical “os” motif in Ulysses, and the serial role-reversals that unsettle any fixed hierarchy frame Joyce’s art as a long experiment in fusing technique with a heterodox ethics. Part of the influential Perspectives in Criticism series, the book situates Joyce’s innovations within broader debates about authority, language, and the cyclical logics of history.

Equally attentive to close reading and big claims, Bonheim reconceives Finnegans Wake as a theater of competing sovereignties—fathers, kings, priests—perpetually toppled and reinstalled, with Earwicker’s fall and return emblematic of the work’s comic-epic design. A culminating chapter casts Joyce’s art as an “epic of anarchy,” balancing formal audacity with a surprisingly stable prose lucidity that keeps even the Wake’s densest passages tethered to intelligible rhythms and social comedy. For scholars and advanced students of modernism, Joyce’s Benefictions remains a compelling synthesis: a study that models how to read across oeuvre, medium, and myth to disclose the ethical pressure under Joyce’s verbal pyrotechnics.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

Richard C. McCoy

The Rites of Knighthood

$95.00

The Rites of Knighthood: The Literature and Politics of Elizabethan Chivalry by Richard C. McCoy examines how the ceremonial culture of Elizabethan chivalry both mediated and exposed tensions at the heart of Tudor politics. Focusing on the careers of the Earl of Leicester, Sir Philip Sidney, and the Earl of Essex, McCoy shows how tournaments, tilts, and other courtly performances were more than rituals of devotion to the crown: they became arenas in which aristocratic ambition, militarism, and claims of “customary rights” were dramatized against royal authority. From Bullingbrook’s challenge in *Richard II* to Essex’s abortive rebellion, McCoy traces the ways in which chivalric “rites” embodied unresolved conflicts between honor and obedience, producing ceremonies that could temporarily balance crown and nobility but also threaten to destabilize the Elizabethan polity.

Alongside historical events, McCoy analyzes the literature of Elizabethan chivalry, from masques and tournament devices by George Gascoigne, Francis Bacon, and others to the grander poetic projects of Samuel Daniel, Edmund Spenser, and Shakespeare. Drawing on Kenneth Burke’s concept of symbolic action, he situates these texts as cultural strategies that attempted to reconcile political contradictions—even when they failed or were overwhelmed by the realities of faction and rebellion. Daniel’s *Civil Wars* falters under the weight of contemporary conflict, while Spenser’s *Faerie Queene* more successfully transforms ideological contradictions into symbolic syntheses. Shakespeare’s histories, too, dramatize chivalry’s ambivalence, at once affirming royal power and highlighting aristocratic resistance. By reading Elizabethan chivalry as both ideology and symbolic practice, McCoy reveals how its ceremonies and literature prepared the ground for later constitutional struggles, making this study essential for scholars of early modern literature, political culture, and the intersections of ritual, power, and representation.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Charles Mauron

Introduction to the Psychoanalysis of Mallarme

$39.95

Perspectives in Criticism: Introduction to the Psychoanalysis of Mallarmé offers a groundbreaking examination of Stéphane Mallarmé’s life and work through the lens of psychocriticism. This book, translated for the first time into English, brings a pioneering methodology to the study of literature, marrying the precision of psychoanalytic theory with the subtle art of literary interpretation. Mallarmé’s evocative and often enigmatic poetry serves as the canvas upon which the author explores the depths of the poet's unconscious, uncovering the networks of metaphor and personal myth that underpin his creative imagination. From the early loss of his mother and sister to the enduring influence of these traumas on his symbolic language, the book sheds light on Mallarmé’s artistic process while tracing the evolution of psychocriticism as a discipline.

Rich with textual analysis and biographical context, this study situates Mallarmé’s work within a broader psychoanalytic framework, offering insights into his "complexes" and the latent meanings of his poetry. Whether discussing the symbolic veil of Hérodiade, the interplay of life and death in Las de l’amer repos, or the intricate associations of maternal and sibling imagery, the author reveals how Mallarmé’s art was shaped by profound psychological forces. Ideal for literary scholars, psychologists, and enthusiasts of Mallarmé’s oeuvre, Perspectives in Criticism opens a fascinating window into the intersections of poetry, psyche, and cultural analysis, presenting a compelling argument for the continued relevance of psychoanalytic approaches to literary studies.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

Introduction to the Psychoanalysis of Mallarme

Ruth Murray Underhill

Singing for Power

$95.00

Ruth Murray Underhill’s Singing for Power is a pioneering exploration of the song magic of the Papago (now Tohono O’odham) people of southern Arizona. Drawing on fourteen months of immersive fieldwork in the 1930s, Underhill presents translations of ritual songs and orations that animate Papago life—from rainmaking and planting to hunting, war, and healing. Through these songs, she demonstrates how speech and rhythm were not mere expressions but acts of power, vividly describing desired events to bring them into being. Her translations are accompanied by careful cultural context, offering insight into the ways the Papago understood rain, animals, crops, and communal bonds as interwoven with the supernatural.

At once ethnography, poetry, and historical record, Singing for Power preserves ceremonies and oral traditions that were already in transition at the time of Underhill’s visits. From the “Papago Bible” recited at winter solstice to the cactus wine rituals that called down the rains, the book captures a worldview where song was the most valuable possession a person could hold. Underhill’s sensitivity to both the artistry and the practical force of these performances situates the work as a classic in anthropology and Native American studies, one that continues to resonate with scholars of ritual, oral tradition, and the desert Southwest.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1938.

Ruth Murray Underhill

Singing for Power

$39.95

Ruth Murray Underhill’s Singing for Power is a pioneering exploration of the song magic of the Papago (now Tohono O’odham) people of southern Arizona. Drawing on fourteen months of immersive fieldwork in the 1930s, Underhill presents translations of ritual songs and orations that animate Papago life—from rainmaking and planting to hunting, war, and healing. Through these songs, she demonstrates how speech and rhythm were not mere expressions but acts of power, vividly describing desired events to bring them into being. Her translations are accompanied by careful cultural context, offering insight into the ways the Papago understood rain, animals, crops, and communal bonds as interwoven with the supernatural.

At once ethnography, poetry, and historical record, Singing for Power preserves ceremonies and oral traditions that were already in transition at the time of Underhill’s visits. From the “Papago Bible” recited at winter solstice to the cactus wine rituals that called down the rains, the book captures a worldview where song was the most valuable possession a person could hold. Underhill’s sensitivity to both the artistry and the practical force of these performances situates the work as a classic in anthropology and Native American studies, one that continues to resonate with scholars of ritual, oral tradition, and the desert Southwest.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1938.

Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle

Loyola's Acts

$95.00

Loyola's Acts: The Rhetoric of the Self offers a nuanced exploration of Iñigo López de Loyola's pivotal spiritual transformation and its rhetorical framing within the Christian tradition. Far from being a straightforward autobiography, the text, titled Acta, is positioned as a work of epideictic rhetoric—a genre focused on praise and moral persuasion rather than strict factual recounting. Loyola's recounted experiences, from his formative wounding at Pamplona to his spiritual exercises and reflections, are interpreted not as direct self-narration but as filtered through the lens of his scribe, Gonçalves da Câmara. The book argues that Acta aligns more with Renaissance rhetorical traditions than modern autobiographical norms, emphasizing moral edification over empirical detail.

This study situates Loyola's Acts within the cultural and rhetorical milieu of the sixteenth century, drawing connections to classical and medieval traditions of memory, imitation, and spiritual meditation. It examines how Loyola's recitations, shaped by Gonçalves da Câmara's interpretive role, were less about chronicling personal events and more about exemplifying divine governance and moral lessons. By uncovering the layers of rhetorical strategy, intertextuality, and cultural context, the book reinterprets Acta as a profound moral and spiritual artifact, offering a fresh lens on Loyola's legacy and the broader tradition of Christian rhetorical literature.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Ruth A. Fox

The Tangled Chain

$49.95

The Tangled Chain: The Structure of Disorder in the Anatomy of Melancholy by Ruth A. Fox offers a formalist reading of Robert Burton’s monumental work, concentrating on the problems of structure and theme that shape the Anatomy of Melancholy. Rather than surveying its broader place among medical treatises, psychological writings, or Elizabethan anatomies, Fox focuses closely on the ways in which Burton organizes, fragments, and ultimately stabilizes his sprawling text. Her approach, attentive to partitions, subsections, and the author’s methods of citation and interpolation, reveals the deliberate yet paradoxical logic that governs Burton’s treatment of disorder. By restricting her scope, Fox is able to excavate the tensions in the *Anatomy* itself—between encyclopedic ambition and structural chaos, between scholarly compilation and creative design—that continue to puzzle readers.

Fox’s study situates itself as complementary to contextual works by Lawrence Babb and Bridget Gellert Lyons while carving out a distinctive analytical position. Drawing on her own close readings, aided by the Everyman edition of Holbrook Jackson, she emphasizes the textual mechanics of Burton’s book: the layering of Latin, the handling of translations, and the editorial traditions that mediate modern access. The project’s rigor is underscored by Fox’s careful citation practices and by her attention to Burton’s Latin, whether preserved, paraphrased, or omitted. The Tangled Chain thus provides scholars of Renaissance literature and intellectual history with a sustained inquiry into how Burton’s famously digressive text fashions coherence out of disorder, illuminating both the Anatomy’s literary artistry and its enduring interpretive challenges.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Hermann Frankel

Ovid

$95.00

Ovid: A Poet Between Two Worlds is Hermann Fränkel’s masterful reappraisal of Rome’s most mercurial poet, presented as part of the Sather Classical Lectures. Long dismissed as a frivolous craftsman, Ovid here emerges as a writer whose artistry and contradictions mark the twilight of antiquity and the dawn of a new cultural world. Moving through the Amores, Heroides, Metamorphoses, and the exile poems, Fränkel demonstrates how Ovid combined rhetorical brilliance with startling innovations—probing identity, love, myth, and history in ways that resonate beyond the confines of Augustan Rome. By attending both to close readings and broader literary traditions, this book restores Ovid’s poetry to its full complexity, balancing entertainment with depth, charm with insight.

Fränkel situates Ovid’s career “between two worlds”—the last convulsions of the Roman Republic and the formative stirrings of a Christian sensibility. His analysis highlights the poet’s distinctive treatment of myth as a mirror of human experience, his frank explorations of erotic and emotional life, and his persistent negotiation between art and reality. Written with a clarity that invites students of literature and seasoned classicists alike, Ovid: A Poet Between Two Worlds not only rescues Ovid from centuries of critical complacency but also illuminates the enduring fascination of a poet whose playful verse concealed, and revealed, profound cultural transformations.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1945.

Leopold Damrosch, Jr.

The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope

$95.00

The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope examines the complex and multilayered world created by one of the most significant poets of the 18th century. The book focuses on how Alexander Pope, while rooted in the ideals of the Augustan age, bridges the transition to modern poetic sensibilities. Central to this exploration is Pope's effort to reconcile the traditional symbolic orders of the Renaissance with the emerging uncertainties of modernity. By "stooping to truth," as Pope himself phrased it, he sought to reflect the external world with a sharp moral lens while grappling with the limitations of subjective perception and societal fragmentation. His works, including Essay on Man and the biting satires of his later career, reveal his struggle to balance the idealized order he aspired to uphold with the chaotic and evolving realities of his time.

This thematic study presents Pope as both an inheritor of classical traditions and an innovator navigating the birth of the modern age. Drawing extensively from Pope's contemporaries, letters, and cultural context, the book highlights the poet's nuanced position as both a critic and participant in the socio-political currents of 18th-century England. It also challenges traditional and reductive interpretations of his work, proposing that Pope's fragmented sense of order and his deeply personal connections to his era provide the foundation for his enduring relevance. In doing so, it offers a fresh perspective on Pope as a pivotal figure whose imaginative world continues to resonate, embodying the tensions and contradictions of his age with remarkable vitality.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Beverly Allen

Andrea Zanzotto

$95.00

Andrea Zanzotto’s poetry is celebrated for its intellectual rigor and inventive style, establishing him as a distinctive voice in Italian and international literature. The Language of Beauty’s Apprentice introduces readers to Zanzotto’s works, particularly highlighting how his early poems lay the groundwork for his later, more complex pieces. Zanzotto’s early collections reveal a poetic journey rooted in self-exploration and the boundaries of language, a journey that later explodes with La Beltà in 1968. These early works serve not only as an entryway to Zanzotto’s literary evolution but also as a metaphorical tale on the possibilities of language and selfhood. Here, Zanzotto presents language as both a material and paradoxical force, a medium for self-expression that inherently limits yet also amplifies subjective experience. This duality, what might be termed “linguistic materialism,” becomes a central theme, marking Zanzotto’s critique of individual identity and communication as interwoven with communal and linguistic frameworks.

With La Beltà, Zanzotto propels this linguistic exploration forward, fusing political and social critiques with a richly layered poetic form. Drawing from Italian literary tradition and figures such as Leopardi, Zanzotto uses language to explore the intersections of personal and collective identities, symbolized through metaphors like snow, which represent both fleeting stasis and the potential for renewal. His 1969 poem “Gli sguardi i fatti e senhal,” inspired by the Apollo 2 moon landing, continues this trajectory, contrasting humanity's technological conquests with an ecological awareness embodied by the goddess Diana. Through these works, Zanzotto examines the tensions between beauty, language, and existential vulnerability in an era fraught with political turmoil and rapid technological advancement. His poetry ultimately stands as a profound meditation on the collective and individual implications of language, perception, and identity in the modern world.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

Allan Rodway

English Comedy

$95.00

English Comedy: Its Role and Nature from Chaucer to the Present Day offers an in-depth literary critique of English comedy, highlighting its evolution from the medieval period to modern times. The book is not a mere historical account but a critical exploration of the genre, aiming to deepen the appreciation for comic works that transcend their time. Unlike many comedies that are tied to contemporary issues and fade with their era, this study focuses on the works that stand the test of time, like Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel. The book addresses common misconceptions by distinguishing comedy from farce and other forms of entertainment. Its central thesis is that comedy, while often dismissed as a trivial form, serves important societal functions by critiquing and satirizing societal norms, offering both a reflection and a critique of its era. The study examines how comedy is shaped by and responds to social tensions, exploring its potential for both progressive and conservative social commentary.

The structure of the book is divided into several parts, each serving a distinct purpose. Part I focuses on the theory of comedy, establishing a framework for the subsequent analysis. It distinguishes between the concepts of laughter and comedy, and defines key terms for understanding comic works. Part II applies these theoretical ideas to different literary periods, offering a comparative analysis of representative comic works. By doing so, it offers a critical evaluation that goes beyond historical context to explore the universal and enduring qualities of comedy. The book emphasizes the role of the comic writer, who, by depicting the absurdities of society, often reflects a larger societal critique. Through this, the author aims to provide readers with both a theoretical understanding and a personal appreciation of the masterpieces of English comedy, demonstrating how these works remain relevant despite their period-specific origins.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

Richard C. McCoy

The Rites of Knighthood

$39.95

The Rites of Knighthood: The Literature and Politics of Elizabethan Chivalry by Richard C. McCoy examines how the ceremonial culture of Elizabethan chivalry both mediated and exposed tensions at the heart of Tudor politics. Focusing on the careers of the Earl of Leicester, Sir Philip Sidney, and the Earl of Essex, McCoy shows how tournaments, tilts, and other courtly performances were more than rituals of devotion to the crown: they became arenas in which aristocratic ambition, militarism, and claims of “customary rights” were dramatized against royal authority. From Bullingbrook’s challenge in *Richard II* to Essex’s abortive rebellion, McCoy traces the ways in which chivalric “rites” embodied unresolved conflicts between honor and obedience, producing ceremonies that could temporarily balance crown and nobility but also threaten to destabilize the Elizabethan polity.

Alongside historical events, McCoy analyzes the literature of Elizabethan chivalry, from masques and tournament devices by George Gascoigne, Francis Bacon, and others to the grander poetic projects of Samuel Daniel, Edmund Spenser, and Shakespeare. Drawing on Kenneth Burke’s concept of symbolic action, he situates these texts as cultural strategies that attempted to reconcile political contradictions—even when they failed or were overwhelmed by the realities of faction and rebellion. Daniel’s *Civil Wars* falters under the weight of contemporary conflict, while Spenser’s *Faerie Queene* more successfully transforms ideological contradictions into symbolic syntheses. Shakespeare’s histories, too, dramatize chivalry’s ambivalence, at once affirming royal power and highlighting aristocratic resistance. By reading Elizabethan chivalry as both ideology and symbolic practice, McCoy reveals how its ceremonies and literature prepared the ground for later constitutional struggles, making this study essential for scholars of early modern literature, political culture, and the intersections of ritual, power, and representation.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

George Kane

Chaucer and Langland

$49.95

Delve into the rich interplay of history, language, and literary artistry with this compelling collection of essays by George Kane. Focusing on two of the Middle Ages' greatest poets, Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, Kane offers a nuanced exploration of their works, examining their historical contexts and textual intricacies. Each essay reflects decades of scholarly dedication, bringing forward the contrasts and connections between Chaucer's sophisticated humor and Langland's earnest spiritual vision. With a focus on intellectual rigor and historical accuracy, this collection sheds light on the enduring significance of these poets in the canon of English literature.

Kane's insightful prose is steeped in the tradition of careful criticism, making Chaucer and Langland both a tribute to the authors and an inspiring guide for readers and scholars alike. Rejecting fleeting critical trends, Kane upholds the timeless values of intellectual honesty and fine sensibility, ensuring that his analyses resonate beyond the classroom. This work is essential for those passionate about medieval studies, offering an elite perspective on the texts that shaped English literary heritage.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Joel Fineman

Shakespeare's Perjured Eye

$49.95

Fineman argues that in the sonnets Shakespeare developed an unprecedented poetic persona, one that subsequently became the governing model of all literary subjectivity.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

Maria Tymoczko

The Irish Ulysses

$95.00

The Irish Ulysses is an in-depth critical study that bridges the works of James Joyce with the rich tradition of early Irish literature. By drawing parallels between the mythological and narrative structures of Joyce’s Ulysses and the symbolic motifs found in Irish literary heritage, the book reclaims Joyce as not only a cosmopolitan writer but also as a deeply Irish one. The text posits that Joyce’s Irish background profoundly shaped his creative vision, embedding his works with themes, archetypes, and styles derived from Irish myth and oral traditions. While much scholarship has focused on the Homeric, Dantean, and Shakespearean influences in Ulysses, this study illuminates the overlooked Irish mythic underpinnings that provide a second axis of symbolic resonance, thereby offering a fuller understanding of Joyce’s layered narrative.

The book addresses how Irish literary traditions—particularly the Sovereignty myths, the Book of Invasions, and medieval voyage tales—inform the structural and thematic elements of Ulysses. Joyce’s deployment of Irish poetics and storytelling tropes serves as a cultural counterpoint to the Homeric parallels, reasserting his roots in Irish nationalism and his engagement with postcolonial identity. This duality of influences highlights how Joyce used his narratives to both critique and celebrate Irish culture, creating a work that is as much a reflection of Ireland’s divided heritage as it is a universal modernist masterpiece. For scholars, students, and readers of Joyce, The Irish Ulysses provides a revelatory framework that repositions Ulysses within its rightful Irish literary and cultural contexts, deepening our appreciation for Joyce’s ingenuity and the enduring legacy of Irish storytelling.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Edited by William Matthews

Medieval Secular Literature

$39.95

In Medieval Secular Literature: Four Essays, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA captures the vibrant intellectual and social spirit of its inaugural colloquium held in April 1964. This event brought together a diverse group of scholars from across disciplines—spanning literature, history, art, and music—to explore the richness of medieval secular traditions. Rather than adhering to a single thematic thread, the conference embraced a variety of topics and perspectives, akin to the eclectic approach of a Welsh sermon meant to spark individual reflection. The resulting essays reflect this interdisciplinary and dynamic exchange, capturing the essence of the lively discussions and camaraderie that defined the gathering. This collection stands as both a testament to the colloquium’s success and a source of inspiration for scholars and enthusiasts of medieval studies.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

Edited by Earl Miner

Stuart and Georgian Moments

$49.95

Bringing the celebrated Clark Library Saturday seminars to a wider audience, Stuart and Georgian Moments gathers twelve crisp, field-defining essays that map the literary, musical, and cultural horizons of the long seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Edited by Earl Miner, the volume showcases a who’s-who of scholarship—James Sutherland on Restoration prose, Don Cameron Allen on Milton’s Latin, Bertrand H. Bronson on music and literature, Herbert Davis and Maximillian E. Novak on Swift and Defoe’s ironies, H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., and Charles E. Ward on the perennial challenges of editing and narrating Dryden, along with studies of Puritan culture (Leon Howard) and women’s epistolary practices (Irvin Ehrenpreis; Robert Halsband). Framed by Robert Vosper’s portrait of Lawrence Clark Powell and the Clark’s distinctive scholarly ecosystem, the collection captures the intellectual verve of UCLA’s 17th & 18th Centuries Studies Group and its interdisciplinary mandate.

For scholars and advanced students of early modern and Enlightenment studies, this volume offers rare range with unusual coherence: it moves deftly between poetics and print culture, rhetoric and performance, textual criticism and intellectual history—always grounded in primary materials and editorial practice. Whether you’re teaching Dryden and Milton, tracing the traffic between poetry and music, or rethinking gendered authorship and the public sphere, Stuart and Georgian Moments delivers authoritative essays that remain eminently teachable, citable, and expandable—an indispensable companion to research, syllabus-building, and the ongoing work of re-reading the Stuart and Georgian eras across disciplines.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

Ronald Levao

Renaissance Minds and Their Fictions

$49.95

Renaissance Minds and Their Fictions: Cusanus, Sidney, Shakespeare, by Ronald Levao, explores how three pivotal figures of the Renaissance—Nicholas of Cusa, Sir Philip Sidney, and William Shakespeare—grappled with the power and limits of human invention. Levao situates their works in a cultural moment when traditional frameworks of meaning were under strain from religious upheaval, scientific speculation, and expanding horizons of time and space. What emerges is a portrait of the Renaissance imagination as both audacious and unsettled, alive to the creative energies of fiction-making yet haunted by doubts about its legitimacy and consequences.

Moving from Cusanus’s speculative theology, with its bold emphasis on conjecture, to Sidney’s poetics of fiction in the Apology for Poetry, Astrophil and Stella, and the Arcadias, and finally to Shakespeare’s history plays and Hamlet, Levao traces a progression in the ways Renaissance writers confronted the instability of their world. Each case study highlights how invention could illuminate, console, and delight, but also mislead, deceive, and unsettle. Through detailed readings that interweave philosophy, criticism, and drama, Levao shows how Renaissance texts not only reflected their culture’s fissures but also enacted them, creating works that reinforce tradition even as they subvert it. Rich in literary and intellectual history, Renaissance Minds and Their Fictions demonstrates how three distinct voices converge in their exploration of human feigning—whether as fiction, conjecture, or theatrical artifice—and reveals the tensions that animate some of the era’s most brilliant achievements.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.

Stephen Booth

Precious Nonsense

$95.00

Precious Nonsense is a fascinating exploration of the unique ways in which language, pattern, and meaning intersect in some of literature's most revered works. Examining Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson’s epitaphs on his children, and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the book argues that what makes these texts so compelling is not just their depth of insight, but their underlying structure of “nonsense”—patterns and phrases that seem logical yet defy straightforward interpretation. The author suggests that the appeal of these works comes from their ability to make sense while, upon closer examination, appearing to be built on contradictions, ambiguities, and linguistic tricks that often go unnoticed by the reader.

Rather than traditional literary interpretation, this book takes a unique approach, focusing on the pleasure we derive from literature’s formal and linguistic playfulness rather than from its supposed deeper meanings. By analyzing nursery rhymes, proverbs, and other seemingly simple forms of expression, the author builds a case for how the joy of literature often lies in the paradoxes and linguistic coincidences that our minds process intuitively. Precious Nonsense challenges conventional academic approaches to literary criticism, advocating for an appreciation of texts not just for their ideas, but for the way they work on a cognitive level. An essential read for scholars, students, and anyone who delights in the quirks of language, this book offers a fresh perspective on why we love the literary works we do.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998.

Julia Bader

Crystal Land

$39.95

Crystal Land: Artifice in Nabokov's English Novels is an in-depth exploration of Vladimir Nabokov's use of artistry and the theme of art across his English-language novels. The book investigates how Nabokov crafts intricate worlds where fiction mirrors the creative process itself. From playful word games and literary allusions to themes of obsession, identity, and mortality, Nabokov's works challenge readers to embrace the artificiality of art as a profound avenue for understanding consciousness and the human condition. This study emphasizes how his narratives blur the boundaries between reality and illusion, underscoring the transformative power of imagination.

Through detailed analyses of works like Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, the book uncovers the recurring motifs and complex structures that define Nabokov's literary style. Each novel is presented as a unique network of symbols, reflective of the artist's craft and consciousness. By examining the intersections of humor, self-reflection, and narrative manipulation, Crystal Land offers readers a deeper appreciation of Nabokov’s artful storytelling and its capacity to reshape perceptions of reality and creativity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

Robert Rogers

Metaphor

$39.95

Metaphor: A Psychoanalytic View offers a profound exploration of the interplay between language, psychology, and artistic expression, using metaphor as a central lens. Rooted in psychoanalytic theory, the book delves into the psychological underpinnings of metaphoric communication, emphasizing its dynamic ability to transfer emotion, meaning, and unconscious material between creator and audience. Drawing from Hawthorne's use of the "Tongue of Flame" as a metaphor for the transformative power of language in The Scarlet Letter, the author expands on how metaphor can transcend direct communication, forging a deeper communion between individuals by tapping into shared emotional and experiential frameworks. The book positions metaphor not as mere ornamentation but as an active, imaginative process central to human thought and creativity.

In addition to unpacking the psychological resonance of metaphor, the text examines its structural and dynamic qualities, such as ambiguity, tension, and interplay between conscious and unconscious elements. Drawing on thinkers like Aristotle, Shelley, and Bachelard, it argues for metaphor's centrality in artistic and poetic endeavors, presenting it as a "meta-metaphor"—both a tool for expression and a phenomenon to be studied. By integrating insights from psychoanalysis with a focus on the emotional and relational dimensions of metaphor, the book provides a compelling framework for understanding how figurative language shapes and is shaped by the human psyche, ultimately linking linguistic creativity to the broader currents of imagination, identity, and shared cultural experience.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

J. P. Sullivan

Epigrams of Martial Englished by Divers Hands

$65.00

Epigrams of Martial Englished by Divers Hands offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the most influential Roman poets, providing a selection of his sharp, satirical, and often provocative works. Martial, known for his witty and biting commentary on the social, political, and sexual norms of ancient Rome, is celebrated for his ability to encapsulate the essence of Roman life in short, concise epigrams. The book includes both original Latin texts and various English translations that showcase Martial's literary genius, offering readers a glimpse into the complexities of Roman society through humor, satire, and occasional obscenity. These epigrams reveal Martial's views on everything from the decadent lifestyles of the elite to the struggles of slaves, making his work a fascinating snapshot of the ancient world.

This edition of Epigrams of Martial Englished by Divers Hands also highlights the lasting influence of his work on English literature, particularly in the 16th and 17th centuries, when poets like Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick drew inspiration from his sharp wit and concise form. Featuring a rich collection of translations from various time periods, the book provides a unique insight into Martial's impact on poetic tradition, demonstrating how his themes of social criticism, flattery, and humor continue to resonate across generations. The thoughtful selection of epigrams and their accompanying translations offer both scholars and casual readers a deeper appreciation of Martial's wit and his significant place in the canon of classical literature.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Edited by William Matthews

Medieval Secular Literature

$95.00

In Medieval Secular Literature: Four Essays, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA captures the vibrant intellectual and social spirit of its inaugural colloquium held in April 1964. This event brought together a diverse group of scholars from across disciplines—spanning literature, history, art, and music—to explore the richness of medieval secular traditions. Rather than adhering to a single thematic thread, the conference embraced a variety of topics and perspectives, akin to the eclectic approach of a Welsh sermon meant to spark individual reflection. The resulting essays reflect this interdisciplinary and dynamic exchange, capturing the essence of the lively discussions and camaraderie that defined the gathering. This collection stands as both a testament to the colloquium’s success and a source of inspiration for scholars and enthusiasts of medieval studies.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.