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Andrei Sinyavsky wrote In Gogol’s Shadow while serving time in a Soviet labor camp. Opening with Gogol’s funeral, this u......more
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This volume publishes for the first time Lorenzo Frizolio’s Sacellum Gregorianum (Rome, 1582), Ascanio Valentino’s Sacel......more
A common ethical dynamic between Jane Austen and George Eliot and the realist novel, Rose Pimentel argues, both emerged ......more
This volume argues that, given a Western propensity to identify Shakespeare’s work with "the human", his drama plays a c......more
As Joss Marsh observes in her stirring book on Dickens and cinema, Dickens was the first mass-mediated photographic cele......more
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This book illuminates the relationship between autobiography, fan fiction, and education via philosophical, pedagogical,......more
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Offering teachers and students alike a foundational understanding of the versatile medium of comics, this book guides re......more
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A dozen essays on various subjects by an outstanding Shakespearean scholar....more
Typically we think of power as economic, political, or military, but fictional narratives attached to kings, empires, re......more
The book defines and discusses Fen Gothic, an example of regional Gothic inflected by geography, relationships of centre......more
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This book offers a path-breaking survey of the various efforts to rethink, methodologically delimit, enact, and represen......more
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A new edition of the celebrated Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre (2002), The Methuen Drama Encyclopedia ......more
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The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies......more
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My Cue to Fight is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth examination of how the greatest playwright in the E......more
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Focusing on prominent accounts by 10 distinguished women writers, who travelled to the Ottoman Empire (in particular, to......more
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Focusing on four contemporary francophone writers with roots in West and Central Africa--Fatou Diome, Alain Mabanckou, B......more
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Corruption is a process of degeneration activated or revealed by activities defined as illegal, immoral or deviant. Poli......more
There has been a cohesive cultural response from Japan to the atomic bomb and its radiological consequences: cultural ic......more
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