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Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long [...]
What if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words,...
Persian Prose
Volume V of A History of Persian Literature presents a broad survey of Persian prose: from biographical, historiographical, and didactic prose, to scientific manuals and works of popular prose fiction....
The Lady as Saint: Collection of French Hagiographic Romances of the Thirteenth Century
Author: Brigitte Cazelles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The 13th century was the golden age of French verse hagiography, and more than half of the 200 extant French saint's...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
Language, History and Style: Leo Spitzer and the Critical Tradition
Author: James V. Catano Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 In 1925, Spitzer called for a science of style that described literary texts in terms of philology and comparative linguistics....
A Book of Verse
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - And Wilderness were...
Paolo Beni
Author: P.B. Diffley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 290 This is the first detailed life of the Italian humanist Paolo Beni (1553-c.1625), who in his lifetime was famous as a...
The Beneventan Script: A History of the South Italian Minuscule
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Author: E.A. Loew
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Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
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Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work
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Author: Michael Blanding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous...
Jane Eyre
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The Life of John Milton
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Truman Capote
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Telling Tales
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A Mirror for Magistrates in Context: Literature, History and Politics in Early Modern England
This is the first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the age of Shakespeare. The Mirror is here analysed by major...
William Bradford's Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word
Widely regarded as the most important narrative of 17th-century New England, William Bradford's "Of Plimmoth Plantation" is one of the founding documents of American literature and history. In this study,...
At the Limits of Art: A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi
The Hieroi Logoi (or "Sacred Tales") of Aelius Aristides presents a unique first-person narrative from the ancient world-one that seems at once public and private, artful and naive. A prominent...
Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama
Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath...
The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England
Author: Heather Dubrow (John D Boyd,SJ Chair in Poetic Imagination, Fordham University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 As a literary mode "lyric" is difficult to define precisely. While the...
At the Limits of Art: A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi
The Hieroi Logoi (or "Sacred Tales") of Aelius Aristides presents a unique first-person narrative from the ancient world-one that seems at once public and private, artful and naive. A prominent...
Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life
A ForeWord magazine Book of the Year for 2007 Charismatic, highly intelligent, and splendidly talented, Fanny Kemble (1809-93) was a Victorian celebrity, known on both sides of the Atlantic as...
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is one of...
The Epigram in England, 1590-1640
While among the most common of Renaissance genres, the epigram has been largely neglected by scholars and critics: James Doelman's book is the first major study on the Renaissance English...
Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain
This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings in late medieval Britain. Rather...
The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes by Christine de Pizan: Volume 457
Christine de Pizan attracted an international audience of admirers her during her lifetime, including many readers in England. The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes (1521) is the earliest English...
Pindar's Poetics of Immortality
Modern scholarship tends to focus on the social, political and economic information that can be gleaned from Pindar's treatment of the subject of his victory odes - the athlete who...
Ben Jonson: A Life
Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His...
New Slaveries in Contemporary British Literature and Visual Arts: The Ghost and the Camp
The book is a study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the early 1990s.Starting from...
A Book To Love: Favourite Guests of ABC TV's First Tuesday Book Club Share Their Most Loved Books
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A Writer's House in Wales
Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys,...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston ... her words make it impossible for readers to...
Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary
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Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution
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Poisoned Pens
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Representing War: Form and Ideology in First World War Narratives
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Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 138-16
Author: Nancy Bradley WarrenFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 272 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2005The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were...
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: Working-Class Dress and Rural Life
Author: Rachel WorthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the...
Victorian Interpretation
Author: Suzy AngerFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 454g, 222 pagesPublished: Cornell University Press, United States, 2006Suzy Anger investigates the relationship of Victorian interpretation to the ways in which literary criticism...
Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 138-16
Author: Nancy Bradley WarrenFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 272 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2005The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were...
Boeve de Haumtone and GUI de Warewic: Two Anglo-Norman Romances: Volume 332
Author: Judith WeissFormat: Hardback, 280 pagesPublished: State University of New York at Binghamton,Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, United States, 2008
Women and War in Antiquity
Author: Jacqueline Fabre-SerrisFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 612g, 360 pagesPublished: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States, 2016The martial virtues-courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength-were central to male identity in the ancient...
The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins University, USA)Format: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 570g, 336 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet,...
Somewhere Towards The End
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Precious Lives
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Behind The Bestsellers
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Martin Boyd
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When Memory Speaks
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Lonesome George: C'Est Moi! a South American Odyssey
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