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Geoffrey A Baker
Belief in Evidence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

What makes us believe anything told to us by another person? How does this work in scenes of judgment where we operate almost exclusively with report from others, like a trial by jury? Thomas Reid declare…

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Holly Furneaux
Enemy Intimacies and Strange Meetings in Writings of Conflict 1800-1918

Explores literary accounts of intimate military encounters in the nineteenth century and the particular ways in which these encounters could facilitate feelings of familiarity and even friendship within t…

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Dwight Macdonald,
Atrocities of the Mind

An essential collection of Dwight Macdonald's prophetic essays on politics, art, and violence in twentieth-century America.What does extreme violence do to human values? Does the concept of collective gui…

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Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge
Composite Selves

Composite Selves tells a new story about the German novel in the eighteenth century, engaging with and challenging scholarly narratives that ignore the earlier decades of the 1700s and focus only on the &…

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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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Julie Olin-Ammentorp
Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War

Through a detailed examination of a wide range of texts, this book reclaims Edith Wharton's writings from World War I and places Wharton in the company of other "Great War" writers.

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Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Need/Emergency

Modern politics is preoccupied with states of emergency. Yet emergency politics obscures underlying socio-economic, infrastructural, and ecological conditions of need. Prompted by Hannah Arendt's claim th…

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Ravi Sharma
Plato's Hippias Minor

Ravi Sharma provides a close study of an important but neglected Socratic dialogue by Plato. A new interpretation of the dialogue thoroughly re-examines the ancient evidence bearing on its interpretation …

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Vered Lev Kenaan, Patricia A Rosenmeyer
Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters e…

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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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Rachel Skokowski
The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching

The first comprehensive study of the Goncourt brothers' etchings, including never-before published images of their work.

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Peter Jaros
The Corporate Forms of Antebellum Us Literature

Through close examination of legal and literary texts, The Corporate Forms of Antebellum US Literature tells the story of the corporation in antebellum US law, literature, and culture. It unfolds a rich a…

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Vaishnavi Patel
Ten Incarnations of Rebellion

From the New York Times bestselling author of Kaikeyi comes an epic and daring novel that imagines an alternate version of 1960s India that was never liberated from the British, and a young woman's strugg…

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Tamar Koplatadze
Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian Literature

A monograph on the rich and complex history of postcolonial literature from the Caucasus and Central Asia, examining how post-Soviet authors have responded to the post-Soviet transition, and arguing that …

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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We Rode the Rhythms as One

We Rode the Rhythms as One offers readers an immersive journey into the life and legacy of one of America's most unorthodox and inspiring poets. More than just a literary analysis, this book captures the …

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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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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Joel J Miller
The Idea Machine

Books are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones--- they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine , Joel J. Miller sho…

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Bernie Machen, Aaron Hoover
The Purposes of the University

This selection of speeches from UF's 11th president Bernie Machen offers insights on public higher education and its challenges and changes from the helm of one of the largest land-grant universities in t…

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