UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
This series represents landmark scholarship arising from public symposia co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, one of the world’s most comprehensive rare book and manuscript libraries, with particular strengths in fine printing, book cultures, Oscar Wilde, and English literature and history (1641–1800).
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Extraordinary Aesthetes
Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle Culture
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$95.00
ISBN: 9781487546083
Pub Date: April 2023
Extraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century.
Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas
Intercultural Transfers Intellectual Disputes, and Textualities
Price:
$59.95
ISBN: 9781487549770
Pub Date: October 2022
Linking Jesuit texts, the rhetorical tradition, and the newly emerging anthropology of the Enlightenment, this collection traverses the vast expanses of Old and New World France and Spain in fascinating new ways.
Making Worlds
Global Invention in the Early Modern Period
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$95.00
ISBN: 9781487544935
Pub Date: December 2022
Making Worlds explores how early globalization fostered new ways of knowing and shaping the world.
Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830
Price:
$84.00
ISBN: 9781487508906
Pub Date: September 2021
With a focus on the economic, social, and political impetus for producing monuments to knowledge, this volume recognizes the encyclopedic compilation as the quintessential tool of enlightenment knowledge transfer.
Culture and Authority in the Baroque
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$34.95
ISBN: 9781487544713
Pub Date: September 2021
Culture and Authority in the Baroque explores the baroque across a wide range of disciplines, from poetics to politics, to the rituals of musical, dramatic, and religious performance.
Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean
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$37.95
ISBN: 9781487529208
Pub Date: November 2020
Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires.
Entertaining the Idea
Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy
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$71.00
ISBN: 9781487507435
Pub Date: December 2020
This collection assembles essays on key words that link performance and philosophy in the works of Shakespeare.
Casanova in the Enlightenment
From the Margins to the Centre
Price:
$66.00
ISBN: 9781487506643
Pub Date: December 2020
This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the Enlightenment.
Acculturation and Its Discontents
The Italian Jewish Experience Between Exclusion and Inclusion
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$26.95
ISBN: 9781487526207
Pub Date: August 2020
Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontents assembles essays by leading historians, literary scholars, and musicologists to present a well-rounded history of Italian Jewry.
The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe
From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700
Price:
$83.00
ISBN: 9781487507060
Pub Date: March 2020
Reflecting on humanity’s shared desire for certainty, this book explores the discrepancies between religious adherence and inner belief specific to the early modern period, a time marred by forced conversions and inquisition.
Clandestine Philosophy
New Studies on Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe, 1620–1823
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$100.00
ISBN: 9781487504618
Pub Date: February 2020
Clandestine Philosophy is the first work in English entirely focused on the philosophical clandestine manuscripts that preceded and accompanied the birth of the Enlightenment.
Wilde Writings
Contextual Conditions
Price:
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487525453
Pub Date: December 2019
Featuring thirteen original essays that examine Wilde's achievements as an aesthete, critic, dramatist, novelist, and poet, this provocative and ground-breaking volume ushers the field of Oscar Wilde studies into the twenty-first century.
Curious Encounters
Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
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$85.00
ISBN: 9781487503673
Pub Date: February 2019
Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends.
Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution
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$81.00
ISBN: 9781442650695
Pub Date: November 2015
Drawing on examples from different local and regional contexts,Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution demonstrates the many remarkably local ways that revolution and empire were experienced in London, Pennsylvania, Pitcairn Island, and points in between.
Braudel Revisited
The Mediterranean World 1600-1800
Price:
$48.95
ISBN: 9781487520373
Pub Date: September 2015
The contributors to Braudel Revisited assess the impact of Braudel's work on today's academic world, in light of subsequent methodological shifts.
Cultures of Communication
Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond
Price:
$78.00
ISBN: 9781442630376
Pub Date: April 2017
Looking beyond the emergence of print, this collection of ground-breaking essays highlights the pivotal role of theology in the formation of the early modern cultures of communication.
Extraordinary Aesthetes
Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle Culture
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487546083
Pub Date: April 2023
Extraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century.
Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas
Intercultural Transfers Intellectual Disputes, and Textualities
$59.95
ISBN: 9781487549770
Pub Date: October 2022
Linking Jesuit texts, the rhetorical tradition, and the newly emerging anthropology of the Enlightenment, this collection traverses the vast expanses of Old and New World France and Spain in fascinating new ways.
Making Worlds
Global Invention in the Early Modern Period
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487544935
Pub Date: December 2022
Making Worlds explores how early globalization fostered new ways of knowing and shaping the world.
Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830
$84.00
ISBN: 9781487508906
Pub Date: September 2021
With a focus on the economic, social, and political impetus for producing monuments to knowledge, this volume recognizes the encyclopedic compilation as the quintessential tool of enlightenment knowledge transfer.
Culture and Authority in the Baroque
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487544713
Pub Date: September 2021
Culture and Authority in the Baroque explores the baroque across a wide range of disciplines, from poetics to politics, to the rituals of musical, dramatic, and religious performance.
Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean
$37.95
ISBN: 9781487529208
Pub Date: November 2020
Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires.
Entertaining the Idea
Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy
$71.00
ISBN: 9781487507435
Pub Date: December 2020
This collection assembles essays on key words that link performance and philosophy in the works of Shakespeare.
Casanova in the Enlightenment
From the Margins to the Centre
$66.00
ISBN: 9781487506643
Pub Date: December 2020
This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the Enlightenment.
Acculturation and Its Discontents
The Italian Jewish Experience Between Exclusion and Inclusion
$26.95
ISBN: 9781487526207
Pub Date: August 2020
Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontents assembles essays by leading historians, literary scholars, and musicologists to present a well-rounded history of Italian Jewry.
The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe
From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700
$83.00
ISBN: 9781487507060
Pub Date: March 2020
Reflecting on humanity’s shared desire for certainty, this book explores the discrepancies between religious adherence and inner belief specific to the early modern period, a time marred by forced conversions and inquisition.
Clandestine Philosophy
New Studies on Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe, 1620–1823
$100.00
ISBN: 9781487504618
Pub Date: February 2020
Clandestine Philosophy is the first work in English entirely focused on the philosophical clandestine manuscripts that preceded and accompanied the birth of the Enlightenment.
Wilde Writings
Contextual Conditions
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487525453
Pub Date: December 2019
Featuring thirteen original essays that examine Wilde's achievements as an aesthete, critic, dramatist, novelist, and poet, this provocative and ground-breaking volume ushers the field of Oscar Wilde studies into the twenty-first century.
Curious Encounters
Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
$85.00
ISBN: 9781487503673
Pub Date: February 2019
Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution
$81.00
ISBN: 9781442650695
Pub Date: November 2015
Drawing on examples from different local and regional contexts,Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution demonstrates the many remarkably local ways that revolution and empire were experienced in London, Pennsylvania, Pitcairn Island, and points in between.
Braudel Revisited
The Mediterranean World 1600-1800
$48.95
ISBN: 9781487520373
Pub Date: September 2015
The contributors to Braudel Revisited assess the impact of Braudel's work on today's academic world, in light of subsequent methodological shifts.
Cultures of Communication
Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond
$78.00
ISBN: 9781442630376
Pub Date: April 2017
Looking beyond the emergence of print, this collection of ground-breaking essays highlights the pivotal role of theology in the formation of the early modern cultures of communication.