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Maïssa Bey,
Blue White Green

Through the lives and love of Lilas and Ali, we see Algeria as it grows into its own independenceFor a young boy named Ali, the first few days of Algerian independence are tumultuous. The changes around h…

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Peter Macsovszky,
Making Skeletons Dance

An introduction to the work of acerbic Slovak writer Peter Macsovszky.Simon Blef, who comes from "a small, stifling country without a sea" in some corner of Europe, has gone to live in the Nethe…

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Arthur Hugh Clough

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), one of the most distinctive writers of the Victorian p…

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Beci Carver
Modernism's Whims

Thomas Hardy asks of the ghost stalking him: 'Whither, O whither will your whim now draw me?' Immediately tripping up on its own laid-out comma, then pausing to howl theatrically, and hedging its bets wit…

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Laurel Brake, Robyn Jakeman
The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume V

Studies and Reviews, 1864-1889 is volume five in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater . It brings together, for the first time, Pater's essays, reviews, and articles that were published in the p…

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Henrike Schmidt, Astrid Köhler
The Health Resort in Modern European Literature

This innovative open access book reappraises the health resort in literature from its rise in the late Enlightenment period to the wellness age of the 21st century . Most of the existing body of academic …

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Pablo Neruda in Context

Pablo Neruda in Context includes forty-two essays by some of the main experts on Pablo Neruda's oeuvre that focus on how his places of residence and travel (Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France, Asia), the la…

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Lucy Evans
Crime Fiction in the Caribbean

Covering novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, and Haiti, Lucy Evans explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to raise pressing questions…

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Jeff Jarvis
Hot Type

Hot Typeis the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg's movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media.The Linotype mechanized the 400-ye…

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Twelfth Night

"This volume offers critical opinions about Twelfth Night across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The volume features criticism…

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Henrike Schmidt, Astrid Köhler
The Health Resort in Modern European Literature

This innovative open access book reappraises the health resort in literature from its rise in the late Enlightenment period to the wellness age of the 21st century . Most of the existing body of academic …

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Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer
Cervantes the Poet

Cervantes the Poet travels from the court of Isabel de Valois to Rome, Naples, Palermo, Algiers, and Madrid's barrio de las letras. Recovering Cervantes' nearly forty-year literary career before the publi…

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Vargas Llosa Mario
The Call of the Tribe

Picador

The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it i…

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James Metcalf
Churchyard Poetics

The churchyard is a familiar but little-understood literary landscape in eighteenth-century scholarship. This book recovers work by women and labouring-class poets to argue that the churchyard was an impo…

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Máté Vince
Equivocation in Early Modern England

This book reconstructs the conflicting meanings of 'equivocation' to understand the gripping complexity of how writers, philosophers, theologians, and political figures made sense of ambiguity, and how th…

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Richard Fallon
Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935

Explores the ways in which nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers engaged with the scientific description of Earth's deep history that geologists of the period had presented.

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The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville

This comprehensive Handbook of Melville aims to reintroduce readers to a writer whom they think they know well by re-examining his entire corpus--the novels, short prose, and poetry--in light of the diver…

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Clare Egan
Performing Libel in the Provinces

A study of the dramatic traditions and literary features of private libel occurring in the provinces during the reign of James I. The book focuses on the libel cases between private individuals tried in t…

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Keru Cai
Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism

Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism shows how early twentieth-century Chinese writers drew upon Russian realist fiction to develop new types of literature in China. They used elements found in Russian ficti…

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Shannon Lambert,
Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature

Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science and ecology, this book considers how, in contemporary literature, affective experiences like desire, suffering, anxiety,…

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