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Kate Cook
Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy

Exploring the use of praise and blame in Greek tragedy in relation to heroic identity, Kate Cook demonstrates that the distribution of praise and blame, a significant social function of archaic and classi…

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Samuel Richardson
Correspondence Primarily on Pamela and Clarissa (1732-1749)

"Samuel Richardson was unquestionably a leading innovator in literary form prior to 1800. His correspondence, not least with the major literary figures of his day, is key to his career in literature …

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J. M. Coetzee,
The Interpreters

Across three decades of democracy, South Africa has seen an outpouring of longform, narrative journalism and creative nonfiction - genres in which some of the country's finest writers have tried to make s…

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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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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning

First published in 1864, Dramatis Personæ is the second of the two great collections of Robert Browning's middle years, following Men and Women nine years previously. An extraordinary imaginative and tech…

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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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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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Michael Wood
Marcel Proust

A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust.What would the world be like without this work? Where would we be if it hadn't happened? This is how Michael Wood found himself…

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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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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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Elizabeth Kraft
The Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld: Volume 3

The Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld presents, for the first time, all the known surviving works of this major English writer, who lived from 1743 to 1825. Poet, essayist, editor, innovative write…

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Kandice Chuh
The Disinterested Teacher

In the vital traditions of women of color feminisms, queer of color critique, and aligned projects disidentified from majoritarian worlds, this Element focuses attention on how we continue to work in and …

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Kandice Chuh
The Disinterested Teacher

In the vital traditions of women of color feminisms, queer of color critique, and aligned projects disidentified from majoritarian worlds, this Element focuses attention on how we continue to work in and …

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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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Michèle Roberts
Colette

The power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling. Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her w…

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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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Akhmet Baitursynov,
Mosquito

Published in 1911, and then expanded and republished in 1922, Mosquito consists of 36 poems ranging in lengths from six lines to over one hundred and fifty. It contains Akhmet Baitursynov's most overtly p…

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Thomas Mann
Death in Venice

An atmospheric story of obsession and inner conflict set in the oppressive heat of a Venetian summer, Death in Venice is considered to be one of Thomas Mann's greatest works.Seized by the urge to travel, …

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