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Anke Walter
Festivals in Latin Literature

Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti. This book explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic p…

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Arvi Särkelä
Vicious Circles

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique has flourished that utilize methods which disclose rather than judge the form of lif…

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Arvi Särkelä
Vicious Circles

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique has flourished that utilize methods which disclose rather than judge the form of lif…

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Victoria Moul
A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry

"Victoria Moul's groundbreaking study uncovers one of the most important features of early modern English poetry: its bilingualism. The first guide to a forgotten literary landscape, this book consid…

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Chen Mandel-Edrei
Hagiography in the Age of Mass Publishing

Taking an innovative approach to the study of religious literature and literary modernity, this book examines an overlooked body of texts - collections of Hasidic hagiographic stories about pious leaders,…

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Richard W. Etulain
Basques of the American West

Basques of the American West: New and Collected Essays on History and Ethnicity brings together new and previously published work by Richard W. Etulain, blending historical analysis and literary criticism…

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Sally Shuttleworth
In Quest of a Cure

People have always travelled for health, but as industrial pollution increased in nineteenth-century Britain, doctors started ordering their patients abroad in ever-growing numbers. Self-styled 'English C…

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Anna Snaith
Writing Noise in Interwar Britain

This book explores the preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound in interwar Britain. It contends that the extreme decibel levels brought about during WW1 created not only a concern with the effects of noise on…

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David Rudrum
Trolling Before the Internet

"An accessible and engaging history of trolling before the internet, tracing the ancestry of its textual and rhetorical strategies from ancient Greece to the 20th century. Taking in the contrarianism…

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Kimberly J Stern
The Forms and Fictions of Victorian Art Instruction

The Victorian period gave rise to revelatory new approaches to art instruction. A growing investment in standardized education, the rise of exhibition culture, and an expanding body of literature devoted …

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Ryan Ruby
Context Collapse

"Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet--from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafâes of Gr…

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Lara Dodds, Michelle M Dowd
Early Modern Women's Writing and the Future of Literary History

Previous studies of English literary history often excluded women's writing or relegated it to a secondary, isolated tradition. This book argues that a full accounting of early modern women's literary act…

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Kate Loveman
The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary

"Kate Loveman explores the creation of the most famous English diary, how it came to be published, and the many remarkable roles it has since played in British culture. In so doing, she shows how Pep…

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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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Edwin Frank
Stranger Than Fiction

"A notable editor's survey of the defining novels of the twentieth century"--

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Peter Boxall
The Prosthetic Imagination

This book develops a new theoretical account of the historical role of the novel in fashioning our bodies and environments.

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Charif Majdalani,
A History of the Big House

"This vibrant family saga chronicles the rise and fall of the Nassar clan, as they navigate the great events of the 20th century in Lebanon, from the Ottoman Empire to the French Mandate. At the end …

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Raphaële Garrod
François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention

François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais's Gargantua and, mostl…

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Amir Moosavi
Dust That Never Settles

"Lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, the Iran-Iraq War was the longest conventional war fought between two states in the twentieth century. It marked a period that began just after a revoluti…

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William Grady
Redrawing the Western

A history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.

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