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Chunjie Zhang
The Quest for Liberation

"Groundbreaking on a grand philosophical scale, The Quest for Liberation shows how German and Chinese thinkers drew on each other in search of emancipation from the confines of their own traditions. …

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John Edgar Wideman
Languages of Home

In this first-ever collection of nonfiction by John Edgar Wideman, a " towering figure in American literature " (The Nation), five decades of cultural and literary criticism paint a vivid portra…

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Michael North
What Is the Present?

A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and cultureThe problem of the present-what it is and what it means-is one that…

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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature

Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action - and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Clau…

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Chunjie Zhang
The Quest for Liberation

Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese and German-speaking thinkers in the early twentieth century, however, used classical…

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Carolyne Larrington
The Little Book of Fairies

In our modern age fairies are diminutive, winged spirits associated with the innocence of childhood, or else the brooding heroes of popular romantasy books. But the fairies of the British Isles have taken…

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Celeste Headlee
Freedom's Daughters

From bestselling author Celeste Headlee, an urgent and eye-opening story of the women who risked everything to ensure a generation of Black Americans had the right to read.In the waning days of the antebe…

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Zaina Arafat
Our Arab

A poignant, moving essay collection on the longing and hope of living in diaspora and what it means to be Palestinian today, from the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of You Exist Too Much .Fewer and …

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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature

Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action - and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Clau…

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Meng Xia
Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China. Draw…

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Kristian Kanstrup Christensen
Local and Imperial Culture in the Roman Provinces

By adopting a theoretical approach rooted in the anthropological study of agrarian communities, this book investigates the reach and impact of Roman civilisation while considering the limitations of pre-i…

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Duncan Robinson
Pen and Pencil

Richly illustrated examination of the relationship between art and literature in English art from Hogarth to Constable.

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Amazons in the Digital Era

For more than 3,000 years, the Amazons have been a recognised symbol that transcends mythology and has influenced history itself. The image of the powerful warrior woman who defied the established patriar…

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Frances Clemente
Ecstasy in Post-Unification Italy (1861-1915)

The book investigates the notion of ecstasy in Italian culture and literature from the country's unification in 1861 to its entry into World War I in 1915. Combining historical and cultural investigation …

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Juliette Wood
The Little Book of Unicorns

This elusive creature was originally thought to inhabit the edge of the known world. Biblical and classical material, travellers' tales, clerical writings and theological speculation influenced the percei…

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Odile Cisneros, Ann E de León, Richard Young
Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater

Covering the literature of Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, …

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Paul Vandevelder
Kicking the Loose Stones Home

Beyond the flinty glitz of a Hollywood-imagined American West of two-dimensional characters are the town of Taos, New Mexico, at the intersection of the mystical and the rational; tide pools on the remote…

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Yolanda Martínez San Miguel
Caribbean Archipelagoes

Connecting the Caribbean with other island networks that have shared histories and legacies of empireWhile the Caribbean is often studied by focusing on individual islands and their pasts, Caribbean Archi…

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Reactionary Worldbuilding

The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and political practice.Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible worl…

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Susana M Morris
Positive Obsession

A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.As the first Black woman to consist…

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