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The revision of englishness
An exciting and provocative collection of essays which registers the changes to 'Englishness' since the 1950s, 'The revisions of Englishness' explores how conventional ideas of 'Englishness' have been re-imagined in post-war fiction, poetry and film.
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Horwitz publications, pulp fiction and the rise of the australian paperback
This book explores the history of Horwitz Publications, one of Australia’s largest post-war pulp publishers. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been re...
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Ignorance
This study argues that ignorance is a part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about. It sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic period involves an often unacknowledged en...
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Victorian demons
'Victorian demons' explores how a crisis in masculinity was represented in literary, medical, legal and sociological contexts at the fin-de-siècle. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the Gothic.
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The humorous magistrate (arbury)
One of two volumes of an early seventeenth century play, showing two distinct versions which both have much to commend them. The only editions of the play in print, it was very popular in the early years of the rule of Charles I. Edited and with introductions by three experienced early modern the...
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Memory, metaphor and mysticism in kalidasa’s abhijñānaśākuntalam
‘Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasa’s ‘AbhijñānaŚākuntalam’’ aims to read Kālidāsa’s masterpiece through poetic and philosophical resonances as evidenced in the metre, rhythm and symbolism carefully embedded in the narrative and dramatic text.
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Coolitude
A deconstruction of the stereotypical depictions of the coolie in the British Empire.
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Confabulations: cologne life and humanism in hermann schotten’s confabulationes tironum litterariorum (cologne, 1525)
This full-length study of Hermann Schotten’s life and work is a companion to Peter Macardle’s edition of the Confabulationes.
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Colette and the incest taboo
This book makes an argument critical to literary theory and sexuality in 2025. It argues that Colette’s fiction portrays a woman struggling to live in the throes of the incest taboo, understood in its psychological implications for power relations both private and public, then and now.
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Frank norris and american naturalism
‘Frank Norris and American Naturalism’ brings together in one volume Donald Pizer’s essays on the writings of Frank Norris. The essays as a whole seek to demonstrate both the coherence of Norris’s thought and his contribution toward the establishment of a distinctive form of naturalism in America.
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Spanish contemporary poetry
A selection of Spanish peninsular poetry from the 1970s to the present day, with an introductory study of the most relevant poetic trends and poetic groups of the period followed by guided and close readings of each poem.
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Dirty books
This fascinating book tells the story of the fearless and innovative publishers who combined pornography and avant-garde literature to make a lasting mark on twentieth-century culture.
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Language and imagination in the gawain poems
This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of a famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.
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Travellers to the middle east from burckhardt to thesiger
An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.
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Hidden heroes
Hidden Heroes is a collection of short stories from the 1980s to present that unveil the lives of ordinary North Koreans. Through themes of identity, community, and power, it reveals a complex society, offering readers a nuanced understanding beyond prevailing stereotypes.
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The cædmon manuscript
The Cædmon Manuscript is one of three extant anthologies of English Christian poetry produced in England before 1000 CE.
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Science fiction in colonial india, 1835–1905
The five stories in ‘Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905’ speculate about utopian and dystopian futures. They represent the earliest Indian science fiction, imagining futures ranging from an end-of-the-world deluge to violent revolution to feminist utopia.
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Ramon j. sender's 'cronica del alba'
Crónica del alba, is the first in an autobiographical series of nine novels by one of the most famous twentieth- century Spanish novelists, Ramón Sender.
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The beethoven song companion
This is the first full-length, published study of Beethoven’s songs. All the composer’s songs with piano are included, with full German texts and translations, together with comprehensive notes on the poetry and the music. The inclusion of unfinished songs gives a fascinating insight into Beethov...
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Modern french short fiction
The 15 writers featured in this new anthology of French short stories represent the best of the genre, from Merimee to the present day. The selection includes writers as diverse as Balzac, Colette, Duras and Boulanger and is designed to introduce students to both the modern French short story and...
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Anthology of new woman poetry
Women poets of the late Victorian period created much fascinating verse from the standpoint of the independent and advanced New Woman, a profoundly important figure. This anthology features a broad range of crucial subjects addressed by these poets, including marriage, motherhood, female desire, ...
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The anthem anthology of victorian sonnets
‘The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets’ is a comprehensive collection consisting of over three thousand Victorian sonnets written by Victorian poets between 1836 and the early years of twentieth century.
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Sab
This new annotated critical edition is the first to provide the original Spanish text along with a substantial and authoritative introduction in English, as well as maps and tables relating to nineteenth-century Cuba, a vocabulary list, and suggestions for further reading.
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The duchess of malfi
An authoritative edition of one of the most popular plays in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
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Literature of the stuart successions
By gathering together some of the very best Stuart succession writing, Literature of the Stuart Successions offers fresh perspectives upon the history and culture of the period. It includes fifty texts (or extracts), selected to demonstrate the breadth and significance of succession writing, as w...
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The politics of writing: julia kavanagh, 1824–77
Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women’s writing.
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An anthology of women's travel writings
Editors present a range of writing and possible ways of being a woman traveller
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Nineteenth-century southern gothic short fiction
Twelve uncanny tales of the race-haunted nineteenth-century South, by authors both celebrated and obscure, are presented along with background readings, themselves often chilling, placing the tales in a historical context.
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Lusophone african short stories and poetry after independence
This book offers a translation and critical introduction to Lusophone African postcolonial poetry and short stories
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Locating australian literary memory
‘Locating Australian Literary Memory’ explores sites which are explicitly connected with eleven Australian authors through material forms of commemoration such as houses, graves, statues and assorted artefacts. While acknowledging the value of literary memorials and the voluntary labour that enab...
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Women, men and the great war
This is an anthology of short stories of World War I from 25 classic writers.Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield are among the women writers whose works account for half the volume. The stories are by turn poignant, violent, harsh, tender and desolating.
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Dearest jean
These lively and candid letters from Rose Macaulay to her first cousin Jean Smith are previously unknown. Macaulay was one of the most versatile, successful, and significant writers in the first half of the twentieth century, Smith a talented but diffident and depressive poet who was briefly an A...
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The humorous magistrate (osborne)
One of two volumes of an early seventeenth century play, showing two distinct versions which both have much to commend them. The only editions of the play in print, it was very popular in the early years of the rule of Charles I. Edited and with an introduction.
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Anthony munday and civic culture
This in-depth study of the important but neglected writer Anthony Munday fills a long-standing gap in our knowledge and understanding of London and its culture in the early modern period. It will be of interest to historians, literary scholars and cultural geographers.
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Samuel richardson and the theory of tragedy
A bold new interpretation of one of the greatest European novels, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.
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Charles darwin's the origin of species
Several new readings, crossing the fields of history, literature, sociology, anthropology and history of science, demonstrate the complex position of the text within cultural debates past and present.
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Jonathan lethem
Students and lecturers in contemporary American literature
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Edmund burke's reflections on the revolution in france
In this volume, leading Burke scholars offer new and challenging essays which allow us to reconsider the historical context in which Reflections on the Revolution in France was written.
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Simone de beauvoir's the second sex
This collection of six new essays by scholars from the disciplines of French, English literature, history, cultural criticism, feminist theory and philosophy makes a valuable contribution to the task of re-reading and reassessing this enormously influential text.
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The great exhibition of 1851
This collection of essays exposes how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. Critics and historians of art, culture, design and literature have been brought together to examine the objects, the images, the documents and the fictions of 1851.
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Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
This is the first comprehensive critical edition of Pablo Neruda’s internationally renowned and widely studies collection of poems Viente poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada to appear in English.
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The parlement of foulys
This edition of the best of Chaucer' s shorter poems ranges widely over the major concerns necessary to a full understanding of the text, including its occasion, literary tradition, sources, rhetoric, language, metre, mythology and themes. It is an edition which will appeal both to students and t...
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Beginning postcolonialism
Beginning Postcolonialism is a vital resource for those taking undergraduate courses in postcolonial studies for the first time and has become an established international best-seller in the field. In this fully revised and updated second edition, John McLeod introduces the major areas of concern...
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Goddesses and queens
Goddesses and Queens: The Iconography of Elizabeth I is a collection of essays which explores the ways in which the rich and varied image of the queen was developed and negotiated by Elizabeth and her contemporaries, in portraits as well as a range of other printed texts.
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Sigmund freud's the interpretation of dreams
This volume is an ideal introduction to Freud's work, and gives a clear sense both of the context of Freud's text and of its influence throughout the twentieth century. It shows how his work shaped a vast amount of work in linguistics and semiotics, literary studies, film theory, psychology, phil...
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Huerto cerrado by alfredo bryce echenique
Alfredo Bryce Echenique is one of the most widely-read and most widely translated Latin American authors of recent decades, yet this is the first critical edition that makes his work available to students of Hispanic literatures in the English-speaking world.
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Sarah kane in context
First collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in their field on one of the most controversial and influential dramatists who emerged during the ‘In-Yer Face’ generation of British dramatists in the 1990s. Essential, wide-ranging, European guide to Kane for students and scholars of T...
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Decadence
An annotated anthology of the ever-fascinating tradition of Decadence in 19th-century writing, including key manifestos, critical declarations, poems, stories, critical responses, parodies, and ancient Roman antecedents. the book forms an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate stu...
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Richard brome
Offers a groudbreaking and authoritative account of the life and works of Richard Brome, the leading comic playwright of 1630s London - reconstructs the chronology of his career from manservant to successful professional dramatist and beyond, and discusses all his comedies, including the two best...
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Niccolo machiavelli's the prince
The Prince embodies a series of vital issues, including power and morality, history and human nature, language and meaning, gender and government. It is these issues which the essays in this volume debate and explore from a variety of perspectives, from the original responses through to feminist ...
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Victorian women's magazines
This anthology makes available to students and general readers the rich variety of Victorian magazines for women. The extracts range from fashion magazines to feminist journals, from serious works for Christian mothers to tales of romance and passion for ‘sweethearts’.
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<i>the knight and the barrel</i> (<i>le chevalier au barisel</i>)
This is the first English translation of the canonical Old French text Le Chevalier au barisel. It includes the original text and a facing-page translation, as well as an extensive introduction and notes.
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Margins of desire
Who said that the suburbs are boring? The suburban trick is to look ordinary and be extraordinary, as Lynne Hapgood's absorbing discussion of the suburbs in fiction from 1880-1925 reveals.
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Martha gellhorn: the war writer in the field and in the text
St. Louis-born Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was the doyenne of twentieth century war correspondence. In this first critical study of her Second World War fiction and journalism, Kate McLoughlin makes the connection between Gellhorn's intrepid progress through the war zone and her textual constructio...
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Spectacular death
A collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. Though it touches us all, we can perceive it only in life – with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clinical or social pr...
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The coach and the triumph of the lamb
These two important contrasting poems, one secular, the other religious, give some idea of the creative powers of one of the most outstanding women of the Renaissance in Europe. As sister of Francis I and later Queen of Navarre, she played an important role in politics and, through her patronage ...
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Walking, writing and performance
This collection charts three projects by performers who generate autobiographical writing by walking through inspirational landscapes. Included in the book are the full texts of The Crab Walks and Crab Steps Aside by Phil Smith, Mourning Walk by Carl Lavery, and Tree by Deirdre Heddon, each accom...
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Urban cinematics
How do filmmakers make use of urban spaces, and how do urban spaces make use of cinema? Merging the disciplines of architecture, landscape design and urban planning with film studies, this book explores the potential of cinema as a tool to investigate the communal narratives of cities. Includes a...
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Octave mirbeau: two plays
Octave Mirbeau was one of the most prolific literary figures of France's storied Belle Époque. This volume contains his two most celebrated plays for the first time in English-language translation: Business is Business and Charity. The book also includes an introduction contextualizing the works ...
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Marion richardson
In Marion Richardson: Her Life and Contribution to Handwriting, Rosemary Sassoon looks at Richardson's life and work through the artist and educator's own writings as well as letters and personal recollections from those who knew and worked with her. The driving force behind a momentous shift in ...
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