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'This solitude, the romance and wild loveliness of everything here . . . all make beloved Scotland the proudest, finest country in the world.'
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) wrote a diary nearly every day of her life. Originally intended for private circulation, later...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-06
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This book is the first full-length study of apes and monkeys on the early modern stage. It broadens the scope of existing scholarship by situating the apes glimpsed in Shakespeare’s plays in the wider context of the many uncelebrated uses by other playwrights, c....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-06
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This book presents the concept of Fenggu, one of the most important aesthetic categories of ancient China. As an inspiring aesthetic principle, it once encapsulated the particularities of various types of artistic creation and played an important role in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-05
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Victorian Ethical Optics asks how artists and authors in theVictorian period answer the ethical question of how one should live with others by turning to a more specific one: how should one look at others? Looking would seem to necessarily lead to interpretation and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-04
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Das Handbuch umfasst Biografisches, künstlerische Kontexte, das feministische und politische Engagement der Autorin, ihre ästhetischen Strategien und Schreibverfahren. In den Besprechungen ihrer Werke geht es um inhaltliche und formale Aspekte ebenso wie um Entstehung,...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-06-29
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This biography represents a nuanced account of Edith Rickert’s life—and inner life. It follows Rickert’s own writing and draws attention to her life as a writer. Rickert has been long remembered as a medievalist, but she also contributed to American scholarship,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-27
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'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts'
Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most influential...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-26
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Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places, and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed works. It examines the Lives of Saints as a unified collection whose...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-26
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The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most expansive collection of critical essays on Emerson to date, a survey that approaches Emerson from the vantages of climate change, racial justice, print culture, the digital humanities, the new religious studies,...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-25
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In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent in Florence) and provided a crucial means for the vernacularization and secularization of learning, and for the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-25
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The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid explores systematically and for the first time the darker aspects of Statius' Achilleid, bringing to light the poem's tragic and epic dimensions. By seeking to position at centre-stage these darker elements, the book offers several...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-25
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devoting one chapter to each one. Contributors summarize the plot of a book and then explore its themes and poetics, providing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-06-24
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Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism.
Literature is a mode of thinking, stories being one of the oldest thinking 'devices' known to humankind. The ways in which literature...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-24
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How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Every work that has survived from the theater of past ages has gone through some editorial process to make it available to readers. The book of the play is not the play on the stage; returning it to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-24
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Women in Martial is the first monograph to treat the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams in a systematic way. In this volume, Marchesi proposes a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age, presenting an interplay between...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-24
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This book investigates the ways in which the family unit is now perceived in South and Southeast Asia and the Asian diaspora: its numerous conceptions and the changes it has undergone over the last century and into the new one. The prevailing threads that run through a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-24
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Das vorliegende Buch ist ein neuer, komparatistisch angelegter Versuch über Friedrich Schlegels Konzept der ‚Universalpoesie‘. Dieser Kernbegriff der Früh-Romantik wird mittels der von Schlegel der Bibel entliehenen Paulinischen Dichotomie von ‚Geist‘ und ‚Buchstaben‘...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-06-22
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Traditional cultures have a long and vital association with wetlands as sacred places imbued with spiritual and ceremonial significance that provide physical sustenance and sources of materials in paludiculture. Ancient Greek and Roman cultures denigrated wetlands as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-21
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This book offers a key analysis of the changing perceptions of family in East Asian societies and the dynamic metamorphosis of “traditional” family units through the twentieth century and into the new millennium. The book focuses on investigations of the Asian family as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-19
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This book argues that E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf engaged sustainedly with real and imagined places as sites of counter-cultural politics. These writers used architectural images in diaries, essays, novels, poems, and plays to express...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-18
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