The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

(Almost all freebies this week.)

  • James D. Hartman, Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature (Johns Hopkins, 2002).  Critical study of seventeenth-century British "providence tales" (weird and mysterious happenings, divine intervention...) and their role in shaping the Indian captivity narrative.
  • Michael Bristol, Big-Time Shakespeare (Routledge, 1996).  Shakespeare as cultural commodity.
  • Ivo Kamps, Shakespeare Left and Right (Routledge, 1991).  Politics of Shakespeare studies.
  • John J. Loughin, Shakespeare and National Culture (Manchester, 1997).  Role of Shakespeare in shaping multiple national literatures.
  • Stanley Wells, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies (Cambridge, 1986).  Production, reception history, history of criticism, etc.
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