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The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 17)
This volume explores many fundamental questions regarding Anglo-Saxon history. Among those considered is the question of did the earliest English...
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Inconsistency in Roman Epic
How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all...
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The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 18)
This volume makes important contributions to our stock of primary manuscript evidence: it recovers parts of six previously unrecorded charters and...
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Inconsistency in Roman Epic
How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all...
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Shakespeare and the American Nation
Why do so many Americans celebrate Shakespeare, a long-dead English poet and playwright? By the nineteenth century newly independent America had...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 19)
The principal emphasis of this book is the relationship between England and its neighbours in the pre-Conquest period. It brings together fresh...
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The Majangir
The Majangir live on the thickly forested slopes of the south-western edge of the Ethiopian plateau, between the Anuak of the plains and the Galla of...
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Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction
The bucolic poetry of Theocritus is the first literature to invent a fully fictional world that is not an image of reality but an alternative to it....
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The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature
Mary Esteve provides a study of crowd representations in American literature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century. As a central...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 2)
Place-names, charters, coins and manuscripts are among the forms of evidence studied in this second volume. The topics range from the course of...
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Inequality Among Brothers
Using historical documents and evidence gathered in the field, Rubie Watson provides a social history of the 600-year-old Chinese lineage village of...
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The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond
The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond examines the evidence for the pre-history and origin of drama. The belief that drama developed...
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Henry James and Queer Modernity
In Henry James and Queer Modernity, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality as...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 20)
This book illustrates some of the exciting paths of enquiry being explored in many different fields of Anglo-Saxon studies – archaeology, legal...
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The Political Organization of Unyamwezi
A detailed study of the political organization in an important area of Tanzania shortly before Independence. Unyamwezi covers 35,000 square miles and...
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Reading Ovid
Presents a selection of stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the most famous and influential collection of Greek and Roman myths in the world. It...
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Consumerism and American Girls’ Literature, 1860–1940
Why did the figure of the girl come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? In Consumerism...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 21)
The vitality of Anglo-Saxon studies is reflected in the continuing acquisition of fresh knowledge and perspectives gained from the combination of...
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Bernard Williams
This volume provides a systematic overview and comprehensive assessment of Bernard Williams’ contribution to moral philosophy, a field in which...
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The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville
In his Etymologiae, St Isidore of Seville put together a systematic survey of the world in the form of a vast thesaurus of Latin vocabulary, which...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism
More than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Modernist art and literature remain...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 23)
One of the most important primary sources for our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England is the charters and manuscripts which survive from the period...
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