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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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Macbeth in Modern European Culture

This is the first book to offer a pan-European analysis of Macbethadaptations across a range of media in the long 20th century.

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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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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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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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Péter Hajdu,
Modern Hungarian Culture and the Classics

Péter Hajdu examines the cultivation of the Classics as an intellectual framework and crucial ingredient of the western aspect of Hungarian national identity. This book approaches the relationship of mode…

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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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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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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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Vaishnavi Patel
Ten Incarnations of Rebellion

"Kalki Divekar grows up a daughter of Kingston--a city the British built on the ashes of Bombay. The older generation, including her father, have been lost to the brutal hunt for rebels. Young men ar…

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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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Performing Girls and Women

This book charts the broad cultural impact of the medieval and early modern female performer: how she engages with her historical origins in classical drama, works within contemporary cultural and profess…

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Frances Wood
Great Books of China: From Ancient Times to the Present

Great Books of China invites readers to discover-or rediscover-some of the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. The literature of China remains largely unknown in the West, yet it offer…

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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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Luisa Ostacchini
Translating Europe in ÆLfric's Lives of Saints

Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed wor…

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Kim Hunter Gordon,
Kunqu

From its origins in the poetic tradition and its refinement in the southern salons of the 16th century, to its 18th -century theatrical heyday and patriotic revival in modern times, this book introduces K…

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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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Eva Chen
The New Woman and Technologies of Speed in Fin-De- Siècle Literature

Explores the ways in which the nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminist ideal of the New Woman engaged and interacted with fin de siècle technologies of speed in order to fashion a new, dynamic identity…

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