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Chronic Childhood Disease
The author draws extensively on the published research findings in child health psychology, and also on her own experience of working with paediatric...
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New Essays on Native Son
New Essays on Native Son provides original insights into this major American novel by Richard Wright. After an introductory essay by the editor on...
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A House Undivided
A whole range of major American writers have focused on images of the household, of domestic virtue, and the feminine or feminised hero. This...
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Relevance Relations in Discourse
This book uses Sperber and Wilson’s relevance theory to show that connectivity in discourse is a pragmatic rather than a semantic matter: it...
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The American Historical Romance
This book traces the tradition of American historical fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to the eve of World War II. It...
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The Acquisition of Two Languages from Birth
This book deals with the question of how children exposed to two languages simultaneously from birth learn to speak those two languages. After a...
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The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science
In this major new book John Limon examines the various ways American authors have approached the writing of fiction (and justified that writing) in...
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New Essays on The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady is arguably Henry James’s most appealing and accessible novel. The introduction to this volume of specially written essays...
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The American T. S. Eliot
In his old age T. S. Eliot said on a number of occasions that the American experience of his childhood and youth had had the deepest influence on his...
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Samuel F. B. Morse
This is the definitive study of one of America’s major artists and inventors, Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872). It covers his prodigious...
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Seneca: Phaedra
Seneca’s Phaedra occupies an important and influential position in the tradition of European drama. This new edition concentrates on the dramatic...
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Augustine on Evil
Augustine, perhaps the most important and most widely read Father of the Church, first became preoccupied with the problem of evil in his boyhood and...
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Tacitus: Annals Book IV
The fourth book of Tacitus’ Annals has been described as "the best that Tacitus ever wrote". It covers the years AD 23-28, beginning at...
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Tacitus: Annals Book IV
The fourth book of Tacitus’ Annals has been described as "the best that Tacitus ever wrote". It covers the years AD 23-28, beginning at...
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Lysias: Selected Speeches
The Greek prose writer Lysias is a fascinating source for the study of Athenian law, society and history in the late fifth century BC. Six of his...
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Prof. Schlüter approaches this early comedy as a parody of two types of Renaissance educational fiction: the love-quest story and the...
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Prof. Schlüter approaches this early comedy as a parody of two types of Renaissance educational fiction: the love-quest story and the...
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Filming Shakespeare’s Plays
Shakespeare’s plays provide wonderfully challenging material for the film maker. While acknowledging that dramatic experiences for theatre and...
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The Languages of Japan
This book is a detailed survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No genetic relationship has been established between...
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The First Part of King Henry VI
Shakespeare’s plays about the reign of Henry VI, written at the beginning of his career, were for a long time undervalued. This was because of...
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King Henry VIII
Henry VIII was one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays in the eighteenth and nineteeenth centuries when great actors took the roles of Queen...
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The First Part of King Henry VI
Shakespeare’s plays about the reign of Henry VI, written at the beginning of his career, were for a long time undervalued. This was because of...
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King Henry VIII
Henry VIII was one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays in the eighteenth and nineteeenth centuries when great actors took the roles of Queen...
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