Used hardcover with jacket. Text pages are clean and unmarked. Jacket is worn and torn in three spots. An old price sticker from 1985 is on the inside front cover. Previous owner's name. View More...
For centuries, the transmission of power in feudal European society depended on a code of fidelity, of political allegiance, and truth to one's word. The word as bond extended to include not only the pledge of allegiance between subject and king, but the troth-plight between lovers, the vow of friendship, and the judicial oath. Society was ultimately based upon a gentleman's or gentlewoman's word that was itself underwritten by the Word of God.J. Douglas Canfield argues that English literature of the feudal epoch placed this master trope of word as bond at the center of conflict. The trope doe... View More...
This volume positions music as a charged site of cultural struggle, promoted concurrently as a transcendent corrective to social ills and as a subversive cause of those ills. Alisa Clapp-Itnyre examines Victorian constructions of music to advance patriotism, Christianity, culture and domestic harmony, and suggests that often these goals were undermined by political tensions in song texts or immoral sensuality in the spectacle of live music-making. View More...
Used book. Hardcover with jacket. Interior pages are clean and unmarked, no notes, highlighting, or underlining. Shows shelfwear on exterior of book. View More...
Hardcover. No jacket. Light shelfwear, red-ink stamp from publisher on top edge. Never read, pages are clean and unmarked. No highlighting. View More...
Paperback. Corners curled just a bit, a small ding with ruffled edges along the fore-edge. Never read, pages are unmarked. No highlighting. View More...