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Esther Eidinow
Metamorphosis, Landscape, and Trauma in Greco-Roman Myth

This study explores the hidden histories offered by Greco-Roman myths of metamorphosis, and what they can reveal about the lived experience of ancient men and women. It investigates the role of the body, …

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Nicholas Jenkins
The Island

Nicholas Jenkins explores war, love, and politics in the early works of W. H. Auden, one of the twentieth century's most controversial and moving poets. Auden's poems embraced both haunted meditations on …

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Marius Hentea
Literary Treason

Can you commit treason by "mere words"? "Do civilized peoples shoot their poets?" Are there limits to free expression? Grappling with these questions, this open access book tells the f…

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J Mark Powell
Witness to War

From the first shots at Fort Sumter to the mourning of Lincoln's death---experience the Civil War as it happened, through the voices of those who were there.History comes to life in the words of those who…

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Caroline-Isabelle Caron
Québec's Broken Futures

Caroline-Isabelle Caron explores how Speculative Fiction from Québec from the 1970s to 2015 has eerily echoed alarmist thoughts concerning Québec independence and Québec's place in the space-time continuu…

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Song Woohye, Woohye Song,
Yun Dong-Ju

Chronicling the life of Korea's "National Poet," Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), Song WooHye explores the historical and political backgrounds that influenced Yun's development as a poet and a patriot.…

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Song Woohye, Woohye Song,
Yun Dong-Ju

Chronicling the life of Korea's "National Poet," Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), Song WooHye explores the historical and political backgrounds that influenced Yun's development as a poet and a patriot.…

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Molly Farrell
New World Calculation

Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of r…

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Ira Halpern
Imagining Health

A surprising look at how American writers envision a more equitable healthcare systemIn the United States, a deep suspicion of professional medical expertise is becoming increasingly prominent. Meanwhile,…

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Molly Farrell
New World Calculation

Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of r…

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Fumiko Joo
Peony Lantern Tales

""The Story of the Peony Lantern" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347-1433) travelled across lingual, cultural, and geopolitical borders in early modern East Asia. The original tale, set in …

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Alison Keith
Sulpicia

This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocr…

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Amy Motlagh
Colorblind

With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Despite cultural traditions depicting black people and the documented presence of b…

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Oleksandr Mykhed,
I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal

A sweeping narrative introduction to the Donbas, I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal: Snapshots from the East of Ukraineexplores the fraught histories and complicated present reality of the country's easternm…

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Emily Hauser
Penelope's Bones

"Three millennia ago, in an ancient Greece where men spoke and women were silenced, some of the world's first epics were born: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But these are not just tales about heroic men…

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William D Paden
Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours

Overturning the myth that medieval marriages were loveless, shown through a close analysis of troubadour poetry and historical recordsMedieval marriages are often understood to have been loveless, due par…

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Serk-Bae Suh
Against the Chains of Utility

"The 1970s and 1980s were pivotal decades in South Korea, marked by rapid industrialization and urbanization. The language of sacrifice was constantly employed by the developmental state to justify i…

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Amy Motlagh
Colorblind

With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Despite cultural traditions depicting black people and the documented presence of b…

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Nick Triplow
Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of British Noir

Nick Triplow's soulful biography of enigmatic British crime fiction pioneer, Ted Lewis (author of Get Carter ), is one of those rare works of literary investigation that relentlessly asserts its own statu…

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Essential Papers on Literature and Psychoanalysis

Collection of essays featuring contributions from Sigmund Freud, Steven Marcus, Patrick J. Mahony, Donald P. Spence, Otto Rank, Ernest Jones, Ernst Kris, Phyllis Greenacre, Florence Bonime and Marianne H.…

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