This book details the developmental history of narratives that affirm, condemn, modify, or ignore the controversial execution of Sambuka, a minor Ramaya?  Meer

Epic Ambitions in Modern Times examines how artists, in various forms and media, have reinvented the epic in the past three centuries.  Meer

Epic Ambitions in Modern Times examines how artists, in various forms and media, have reinvented the epic in the past three centuries.  Meer

This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo’s scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations.  Meer

By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave conquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative to the cruelty of Spanish conquest.  Meer