Katherine Turner

This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, although it has been used, implied and decried by composers, performers, listeners and critics for centuries. Irony in popular music is especially worthy of study because it is pervasive, even fundamental to the music, the busi...

A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

The quintessential novel of sentiment, A Sentimental Journey masquerades as the fragmentary travel journal of Parson Yorick, a whimsical and amorous Englishman abroad. Accompanied through Paris and the provinces by his loyal French valet, Yorick enjoys a variety of sentimental and often comic encou...

The Groovicus: Nova Black Episode 2

Agent Nova Black didn't want a vacation on a glorious world with unlimited drinks, beautiful people and perpetual sunsets. But she had little choice when her employer suspended her. Temporarily out of the spy game, she makes the best of a bad situation and spends her days lounging in the sun on Sale...

Pleasure Model: A Nova Black Adventure

Agent Nova Black is dying and needs a new body. This dusty town on a backwater planet doesn't have much of a selection, but she'll take whatever she can get. She'll use all her talents as the galaxy's premiere super spy to save her own life and catch up to the man who tried to kill her."Pleasure Mod...

How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century (California Studies in Food and Culture)

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neighborhoods, and the tools, utilities, and size of their kitchensalong with their cultural heritage. How the Other Half Ate is a deep exploration by histo...

Surviving Through the Days: Translations of Native California Stories and Songs

This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is draw...

Selected Poems of Thomas Gray, Charles Churchill and William Cowper (Penguin Classics)

Gray, Churchill and Cowper were the voice of "The Age of Sensibility", which deeply influenced the Romantic writers even as they reacted against them. This text represents a selection of their best work.

British Travel Writers in Europe 1750-1800: Authorship, Gender, and National Identity

The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition