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Joshua S Mostow
Hyakunin'shu

"Hyakunin'shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the "popular literary literacy" of the Japanese at the edge of modernity. By reproducing and translating a popular annota…

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Atrocity and Early Modern Drama

Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize the massacres, genocides, assassinations, enslavements, sacks, rapes, riots and regicide…

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Eleni Bozia
Politics of Language

Examining the identity and belonging of native and non-native speakers of Greek during the time of the High Roman Empire, Eleni Bozia closely studies grammarians, lexicographers and literary writers who u…

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Richard Schoch
Shakespeare's House

' [A] page-turning story' - Laurie Maguire, Times Literary Supplement'A terrific addition to the Shakespeare library ... eye-opening.' - Michael Billington, Country LifeNow available in paperback, Richard…

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Martha H Patterson, Henry Louis Gates
The New Negro

An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racismThis book brings together a wealth of…

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Michael J Warren
The Cuckoo's Lea

A BBC WILDLIFE BEST BOOK OF 2025'Magical ... No journey in Britain will be quite the same again.' The Guardian Birds have long inspired our emotional and imaginative connections to physical environments, …

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Ford Madox Ford,
Provence

Now considered a cult classic, this dreamy portrait of Provence before World War II brings the storied region in vivid color. From one of the great British authors of the twentieth century, this whimsical…

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The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis: Left Wings Over Europe

Part of the Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis critical edition, which brings together all of Wyndham Lewis's published writings for the first time, this is a scholarly edition of an inflammatory political …

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Amaranth Feuth
Metaliterary Katabasis in the Writings of Eavan Boland, Derek Walcott and Gloria Naylor

Focusing on the ancient motif of the descent into the underworld (katabasis), this book examines how three 20th-century writers - Eavan Boland, Gloria Naylor and Derek Walcott - articulate their poetics a…

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Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond

A conceptual and cultural history of 'horror' as effect, concept, experience and emotion in Graeco-Roman antiquity and beyond.

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Jan Carson
Few and Far Between

From a "deeply talented" (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning writer comes an alternate history of Northern Ireland's recent past where the last remaining residents of a haunted archi…

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Rachana Kamtekar
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is …

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Rachana Kamtekar
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is …

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Virginia Woolf,
A Room of One's Own

Penguin Publishing Group

Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, "probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century" (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by…

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Tony Hsu
Chasing the Modern

At the height of his literary prowess, Xu Zhimo was the most famous living poet in all of China. With his round spectacles and aristocratic profile, Xu had a face that became as iconic as his poetry. Duri…

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The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

This new volume in the prestigious Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne contains thirteen sermons preached by Donne as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral between November 1626 and November 1628. For each …

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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is …

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Daniel Schillinger
Luckless

What is luck? What is the significance of luck for our ethical and political lives? Could it be the case that luck is an intoxicating illusion, which threatens to obscure the true explanations of human ac…

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Tragedy as a Travelling Form

Covering a broad historical spectrum from Greek Antiquity to the 21st century, this open access book asks how tragedy's formal features have impacted its travels, and how these travels have shaped its for…

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Julian Richards,
Shakespeare in the Theatre Glen Byam Shaw and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre

Glen Byam Shaw was a pivotal but overlooked figure in the development of Shakespearean performance in 20th century Britain. This book serves as the first full analysis of Shaw's work as Director of the Sh…

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