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Migrants of the British diaspora since the 1960s
This is the first book to explore the multiple country movement of migrants of the ‘British diaspora’ since the 1960s. It is an engaging oral history of migrant experiences and attitudes, based largely on intimate life histories which connect migration to life experiences like love and marriage, ...
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John Ashbery and American Poetry
starting point. David Herd sets out to provide readers with a new critical language through which they can appreciate the beauty and complexity of Ashbery’s writing.Presenting the poet in all his forms –avant-garde, nostalgic, sublime and camp – the book argues that the perpetual inventiveness of...
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Staging the old faith
Staging the Old Faith is the first book length study to examine Caroline theatre as a space where the concerns of the English Roman Catholic community are staged.Rebecca Bailey juxtaposes a detailed analysis of Queen Henrietta Maria’s ground-breaking performances which showcased to an elite audie...
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An Humorous Day's Mirth
George Chapman's An Humorous Day's Mirth is one of the Elizabethan theatre's most successful comedies. In his new Revels edition, Charles Edelman presents a play that will delight today's readers and audiences as much as it did those of 1597.
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Northern Ireland and the crisis of anti-racism
Racism and sectarianism makes a sustained critique of official anti-racism, using the case of Northern Ireland to do so. Many of the prominent themes in the UK today have been central to discussions in Northern Ireland for decades. The book sketches out some elements of an emancipatory anti-racis...
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Brazil in the world
This book explains why Brazil is taking an increasingly prominent international role, how it conducts and plans its regional and global interactions, and what the South American giant intends to do with its rising international influence.
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Germaine Dulac
This book examines the career of Germaine Dulac, a pioneering French filmmaker and feminist whose perspective, innovations and ardent promotion of cinema are documented in her theoretical writings.
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Refractions of Bob Dylan
A multi-disciplinary set of essays revolving around the routes of Bob Dylan’s cultural appropriations.
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Pasts at play
Pasts at play showcases a range of approaches to children's literature and culture, from disciplines including Classics, English Literature, and History. The ten essays integrate visual and material culture into historical practice to analyse how nineteenth-century children interacted playfully w...
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Entertaining the empire
Comic songs and sketches created in London traversed the British empire in the half century before the First World War. The amateurs and professionals who performed them in colonial venues resemblingthose at Home transformed an inane popular culture into a bulwark of an increasingly racialised Br...
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Louis Malle
This book analyses one of France's most controversial directors. It discusses Louis Malle's treatment of topics such as fascism, incest, child prostitution and the Holocaust. It is the first work published on the director in the English Language.
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Directing scenes and senses
As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts.
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Vienna’s ‘respectable’ antisemites
This book presents a radical reconsideration of the role of key players in developing an organised, politically oriented antisemitism in Vienna in the decades leading to the 1938 Anschluss. It pays particular attention to the clergy and how their antisemitism fitted the worldview of an authorita...
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Toni Morrison
An illuminating study of one of the best-selling, most widely studied black authors today. Explains Morrison's relation to the American civil rights and Black Consciousness movements. Places Morrison in a political and historical context .
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The Surname Detective
From the author of The Family Tree Detective, this guide provides the amateur genealogist or family historian with the skills to research the distribution and history of a surname. Colin Rogers uses a sample of 100 names, many of them common, to follow the migration of people through the centurie...
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Queen and country
Detailed study of same-sex desire and military authority in the British Armed Forces between 1939 and 1945
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Angela Carter
This full scale study discusses Angela Carter’s fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are partly from Carter’s immersion in the chan...
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The architecture of social reform
Explores how housing design came to occupy the center of the modernist project in Germany.
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The extended self
Refuting popular concepts of the self as separate beings, the author proposes a new theory of the “extended self” as a product of the coevolution of humankind and technology, comprising both social and material elements
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Fragments of history
Fragments of history: Rethinking the Ruthwell and Bewcastle monuments is an innovative study of the two premier survivals of pre-Viking Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. Both monuments are rich in finely carved images and complex inscriptions. Though in some way related, in this book, they have very d...
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Theatres on film
This book focuses on the significance and effect of theatrical subject matter in key films in several genres, and ranges from Busby Berkeley to Ingmar Bergman, and from the haunted backstage world of The Phantom of the Opera to the sinister glamour of The Red Shoes and the theatrical politics of ...
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Beckett's afterlives
Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to posthumous adaptations of Beckett’s oeuvre. This collection analyses the remarkable diversity of creative engagements across different media and cultural contexts that have ensured the survival and continuing relevance of Beckett’s ...
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A minority and the state
This is the only general history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century and covers state and legal developments affecting Travellers as well as their experiences of missions, education, warand welfare.
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John McGahern
This volume brings together contributions from a variety of disciplines to address the writer’s legacy and literary achievements. Essays on previously unexplored topics and reflective pieces on McGahern as a writer illuminate his body of work in new and challenging ways, expanding the boundaries ...
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Performing care
Performing care explores the relation between socially-engaged performance and care and care ethics. It questions how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring and how care might be viewed as an embodied or aesthetic practice --arguing for more careful art and artful care.
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Popular science and public opinion in eighteenth-century France
This book analyses the forms of popular science, the social and economic status of those who practiced it and the audience, and the settings for scientific dissemination and appropriation.
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Growing up with Audrey Hepburn
The first full length academic study of Hepburn's star persona and films featuring reseach into the experience of British women who have admired her in the 1950s, 1960s and the 1990s. Examines the historical specificity of discourses of feminity circulating around Hepburn and her female fans, sug...
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Celtic Identity and the British Image
This work explores the idea of the Celt and the definition of the so-called "Celtic Fringe" over the last 300 years. It is an in-depth study of the literary and cultural representation of Ireland, Scotland and Wales over this period, and is based on a wide-ranging grasp of issues of national iden...
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Democratization in the South
Explores the political dynamics of the recent wave of democratization in developing societies. Within a broad comparative perspective, the text focuses on the particular experiences of four countries - South Korea, Ghana, Zambia and Chile. The contributors assess the likelihood of sustaining new ...
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Literature and Agency in English Fiction Reading
This book represents the first anthropological study of fiction reading and the first ethnography of British literary culture. It is the outcome of long-term engagement with a set of solitary readers who belong to a single literary society.
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Beginning theory
Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and tec...
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Serving the empire in the Great War
Explores the role of both mules and mule drivers to the British war effort and in particular the social and economic aspects of the Cypriot contribution to the Great War. It also questions why Cypriots forgot this extraordinary contribution.
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Bartered bridegrooms
This book explores the experiences of Muslim men born and raised in Pakistan and Kashmir who migrate after marrying British Pakistani nationals. The book particular focuses on the impact of migration and marriage on their masculinity.
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Public Private Partnerships in Ireland
Provides a ground breaking and unique analysis of the development of Public Private Partnerships internationally, with a detailed focus on the rationale behind their introduction and outcomes in Ireland.
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The pound and the fury
This book argues that misconceptions about the economy are rife in the general population and that this democractic deficit is caused by institutional bias and wilful misrepresentation at our most powerful institutions. This book exposes the structures of bias that distort public perceptions and ...
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Working for the clampdown
The diverse essays gathered in Working for the clampdown cast a critical light on both the cultural legacy and contemporary resonance of one of the most influential bands ever to have graced a stage.
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The flâneur and his city
The book provides a ‘flâneur’s eye view’ of Parisian life in the first half of the nineteenth century: dress, cafés and restaurants, but also shops and passages, the omnibus, bals publics and carnival. The author provides general conclusions about the private and public spheres in ‘le vieux Paris...
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Urban gardening and the struggle for social and spatial justice
In this book urban gardening is critically discussed as socio-political action which addresses spatial justice as well as social cohesion, inclusiveness, social innovations and equity in cities.
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Laughing matters
An incisive, witty and comprehensive textbook that looks at the many genres of comedy from silent film onwards. Covering film, televison and radio it is not only up-to-date but also provides full historical context. It focuses on all of the key issues studied on university courses.
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The debate on the American Civil War era
This study is the first to critically survey the changing and highly controversial historical literature surrounding the American Civil War era, from contemporary interpretations up to the present.. The book analyses both historians attitudes and assumptions and suggests that each writer's perspe...
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Global London on screen
Global London on screen presents a mélange of films by directors from the Global South and North, portraying everyday life to the more fantastical, odious or extraordinary circumstances that are captured cinematically in this superdiverse city.
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The Tempest
‘The Tempest’: Shakespeare in Performance situates the play’s 400-year performance history within ever-changing cultural contexts, and supplements historical analysis of particular productions with information about contemporary appropriations and adaptations.
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Intersections
A penetrating and illuminating series of essays that looks at some of the most distinctive directors in world cinema. Sam Rohdie is one of the most distinguished film scholars currently writing. He moves from the very well known – Hitchcock, Truffaut, Visconti, Welles – to those that he feels nee...
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Cities and crisis
An ambitious global study of the state of cities in the early twenty-first century, their role in society, and their contribution to the financial crisis
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The future of U.S.–India security cooperation
This book provides an analytical overview of the state of the US-India strategic partnership from the U.S. and Indian perspectives.
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Curatopia
Curatopia explores how curating globally is being (re)conceptualised through engagement with indigenous people in the Pacific and collections and exhibitions in Euro-American institutions.
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Postmodernism. What moment?
This collection assembles many of the major theorists of postmodernism, across the humanities and the social sciences, to reconsider the nature and significance of the postmodern moment, as historical phase and as theoretical field.
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Diane Kurys
This is the first book written on Diane Kurys. It is essential for study of women filmmakers in France/Europe. An original and concise reading of Kurys' work.
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Orphan texts
In one of the first studies of its kind, Orphan texts seeks to insert the orphan into the larger critical areas of the family and childhood in Victorian culture. Laura Peters considers canonical texts alongside lesser known works from popular culture in order to establish the context in which dis...
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Syria and the chemical weapons taboo
Focusing on the Syria crisis, this book challenges the arguments in favour of the chemical weapons taboo, demonstrating how it can exacerbate a conflict.
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Film theory
A highly readable account of film theory and is an indispensable resource for students
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Cromwell's legacy
Explores a new area of Cromwellian studies that has not been fully explored before and covers a wide range of both domestic and international research. Its wide chronological and geographical range make it attractive to those interested in the history of other periods and countries, as well as t...
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Ideas of poverty in the Age of Enlightenment
This collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious discourses of eighteenth-century Europe and North America.
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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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Tolerance, regulation and rescue
This book provides a wide-ranging analysis of 'unrespectable' women and children living on the margins of mainstream Italian society, considering the interrelated aspects of Italian social history, Catholic charity and social policy over a period of five centuries.
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International Relations in a multipolar Middle East
This edited volumes engages with the concept of multipolarity in the MENA region, and it does so by using a broad range of theories and approaches.
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Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820–1900
Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history.
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Masculinities, militarisation and the End Conscription campaign
Explores the gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa's militarisation, analysing the defiance of compulsory military service and the anti-apartheid activism of the white men and women in the End Conscription Campaign.
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Deep transformations
This book provides a comprehensive theory of degrowth. It conceptualises degrowth as a multi-faceted phenomenon on different scales (trans-national, national and local) and sites (civil society, the state and business) and discusses a range of ecosocial policies and initiatives capable of bringin...
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Mathematics for economists
An updated edition of the essential textbook for students of economics at every level, with comprehensive
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Mary and Philip
This book presents a new interpretation of the co-monarchy of Mary I and Philip II. It reclaims Mary as a great Catholic queen and fleshes out Philip’s contributions as king, exposing the sectarian historiography that has cast their reign in a negative light. An important corrective for the histo...
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Joining up in the Second World War
Joining up explores men’s encounters with representations of the First World War in interwar Britain, and illuminates how these informed their understandings of the First World War and how those understandings shaped their attitudes to Second World War enlistment and their conceptions of masculin...
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The sociology of sovereignty
The book examines the intellectual history of the concept of sovereignty and argues that its essential value lies in its historical role as a political instrument to handle paradoxes of power.
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The question of literature
Brings together essays by a number of distinguished theorists and academics on the changing cultural significance of literature.
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Anne Clifford's autobiographical writing, 1590–1676
Anne Clifford describes the dramatic and tragic events of her life in the seventeenth century. Of how she danced in the masques of Inigo Jones, experienced both joy and abuse in her two marriages, lost and gained an inheritance, and successfully defended her rights against kings and armies. All t...
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Myth and (mis)information
This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation on medical practices and personages were spread during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and some of the reasons for this, from authorial self-interest to scientific ignorance.
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Popular music on screen
Popular Music on Screen examines the relationship between popular music and the screen, from the origins of the Hollywood musical to contemporary developments in music television and video.
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Eternal light and earthly concerns
This book investigates how the practice of keeping a light burning in churches was established in the early Middle Ages. It asks what the material consequences of implementing the practice were and why it ceased at the end of the Middle Ages.
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Masculinities in politics and war
This book opens up new avenues in gender history by mapping masculinity’s part in making revolution, waging war, building nations, and constructing welfare states. Written in a highly accessible style, targeted at both students, professional historians and the interested general reader.
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Substance / style
This collection interrogates and overturns the typical hierarchies of substance over style, renegotiating their relationship through new perspectives and with reference to a range of television programming, including series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science-fiction, animation, horror, thrillers...
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Poison on the early modern English stage
This book explores some of the many instances of poisoning in early modern plays. It considers the practical, legal and epistemological aspects of poison plays and analyses the cultural work they perform, which includes questions related to race, religion, nationality, gender and humans’ relatio...
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Irish women and the creation of modern Catholicism, 1850–1950
This book analyses the roles that lay women and girls played in the evolution of Irish Catholicism and thus the creation of modern Irish identities.
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Life history and the Irish migrant experience in post-war England
This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England, it develops Popular Memory Theory to illuminate how migrants’ ‘recompose’ the sel...
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Semi-presidentialism in Central and Eastern Europe
Examines the extent to which semi-presidentialism has affected the process of democratization in Central and Eastern Europe since the early 1990s
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Experiencing war as the 'enemy other'
An original and engaging study which examines the impact of World War Two on the Italian community in Scotland.
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The age of Obama
As the world marvelled at a black family moving into the White House, arguments raged over whether America’s race relations had truly been transformed. This book looks at the hard facts of life for minorities on both side of the Atlantic, providing an illuminating comparative picture of diversity.
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The history of emotions
The first accessible text book on the theories, methods, achievements and problems in this burgeoning field of historical inquiry.
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The experience of suburban modernity
Looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years
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Gentry culture in late-medieval England
This book is a comprehensive introductory guide to late medieval gentry culture, including chapters on gentility, chivalry, politics, education and recreation, literacy, literature, cultural networks, religion, music and the visual arts. It surveys existing work in the fieldand presents new resea...
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The Korean War in Britain
The Korean War in Britain is the first social history of the Korean War (1950-1953) in Britain. Assessing the impact of the war from 1950 to the early twenty-first century, this original book examines how British people responded to the Korean War and it came to be known as the ‘Forgotten War’ of...
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Serfdom in medieval England
Re-evaluates the mechanics and decline of serfdom in medieval England, casting new light on the nature of its economy and society, and the impact of the Black Death.
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Bodies complexioned
Skin-tones mattered in early modern England. Indexing health, social status, religious affiliation and national allegiance, they helped explain (away) poverty, colonialism, war and slavery. Drawing physical distinctions as a means to power has a complex history – one belying racism’s assumption t...
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Female performance practice on the fin-de-siècle popular stages of London and Paris
This book focuses on seven celebrity performers working between the mid 1880s and 1910. Maud Allan, Jane Avril, Loïe Fuller, Sylvia Grey, Yvette Guilbert, Letty Lind and Cissie Loftus achieved international fame, whilst simultaneously creating new and innovative performances on the popular stage.
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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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