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Opera in seventeenth-century Venice: the creation of a genre 

Author: Rosand, Ellen
Publisher: University of California Press,  1990
Abstract: Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and e…

When God is a customer: Telugu courtesan songs 

Author: Kṣētrayya 17th cent
Publisher: University of California Press,  1994
Abstract: How is it that this woman's breastsglimmer so clearly through her saree?Can't you guess, my friend…

Chaucer and the fictions of gender 

Author: Hansen, Elaine Tuttle 1947-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1992
Abstract: Hansen challenges both the long-standing myth of Chaucer as the tolerant, wise Father of English p…

America becomes urban: the development of U.S. cities & towns, 1780-1980 

Author: Monkkonen, Eric H 1942-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1988
Abstract: America's cities: celebrated by poets, courted by politicians, castigated by social reformers. In …

The naked text: Chaucer's Legend of good women 

Author: Delany, Sheila
Publisher: University of California Press,  1994
Abstract: A sequel to her seminal book on Chaucer's House of Fame , Sheila Delany's elegant and innovative s…

The honeysuckle and the hazel tree: medieval stories of men and women 

Author: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1995
Abstract: Known for her fine translations of octosyllabic narrative verse, Patricia Terry presents translati…

Inscribing the time: Shakespeare and the end of Elizabethan England 

Author: Mallin, Eric Scott
Publisher: University of California Press,  1995
Abstract: Combining the resources of new historicism, feminism, and postmodern textual analysis, Eric Mallin…

Giambologna: narrator of the Catholic Reformation 

Author: Gibbons, Mary Weitzel 1929-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1995
Abstract: Arguably the pre-eminent European sculptor of his age, but historically considered little more tha…

Printed poison: pamphlet propaganda, faction politics, and the public sphere in early Seventeenth-century France 

Author: Sawyer, Jeffrey K
Publisher: University of California Press,  1991
Abstract: Combining a broad analysis of political culture with a particular focus on rhetoric and strategy, …

Dryden in revolutionary England 

Author: Bywaters, David A
Publisher: University of California Press,  1991
Abstract: In 1681, when he wrote Absalom and Achitophel , John Dryden was poet laureate and historiographer …
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