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The Cambridge Introduction to Edith Wharton
Born in New York into a world of wealth and privilege, and writing with unique insight into the lives of the rich and fashionable, Edith Wharton was...
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A History of Korean Literature
This is a comprehensive narrative history of Korean literature. It provides a wealth of information for scholars, students and lovers of literature....
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Voices of the Nation
Throughout the nineteenth century, American fiction displayed a fascination with women’s speech - describing how women’s voices sound, what...
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Philosophical Writings
George Berkeley (1685–1753) was a university teacher, a missionary, and later a Church of Ireland bishop. The over-riding objective of his long...
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Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity
This book is an exploration of philosophical questions about infinity. Graham Oppy examines how the infinite lurks everywhere, both in science and in...
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The Revolution in the Visual Arts and the Poetry of William Carlos Williams
The formation of Modernist literature took place in a cultural climate characterised by an unprecedented collaboration between painters, sculptors,...
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Plato's Lysis
The Lysis is one of Plato’s most engaging but also puzzling dialogues; it has often been regarded, in the modern period, as a philosophical...
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Plato's Meno
Given its brevity, Plato’s Meno covers an astonishingly wide array of topics: politics, education, virtue, definition, philosophical method,...
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T. S. Eliot: The Modernist in History
The centenary of Eliot’s birth in 1988 provided the salutary occasion for a fresh look at his life and work and a reassessment in light of issues...
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The Arte of English Poesie
A full reprint of the text of The Arte of English Poesie, a vivid record of the critical and creative methods of a prolific age, the late sixteenth...
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The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science
In this book John Limon examines the various ways American authors have approached the writing of fiction (and justified that writing) in an age...
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Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama
What does it matter what we read? The question of the materiality of the book has surprising consequences when applied to dramatic writing, where the...
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Wyndham Lewis and the Art of Modern War
This collection is a specialised study to deal with the important question of Lewis’s aggression. The eight contributors consider Lewis’s career,...
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Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light
Why was Leibniz so fascinated by Chinese philosophy and culture? What specific forms did his interest take? How did his interest compare with the...
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Multiaxial Classification of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders
Diagnosis within psychiatry involves the consideration of a number of different features of mental state. In making a diagnosis, individual...
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The Recognition and Management of Early Psychosis
The treatment of early psychosis has been bedevilled by an entrenched pessimism, stemming from the asylum era and the Kraepelinian model of...
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An Introduction to World Anglicanism
What is the nature of world Anglicanism in a postcolonial, global age? With talk of fragmentation constantly in the media, what does it mean to be...
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Nuclear Implosions
Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System follows a small public agency in Washington State that undertook...
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What is Truth? From the Academy to the Vatican
This book studies the nature, growth and prospects of Roman Catholic culture, viewed as capable of appropriating all that is noble both from internal...
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The Cambridge History of Turkey
Turkey's modern history has been shaped by its society and its institutions. In this fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Turkey a team of some...
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Augustine and the Limits of Virtue
Augustine’s moral psychology was one of the richest in late antiquity, and in this book James Wetzel evaluates its development, indicating that the...
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Silence and the Word
Negative theology or apophasis - the idea that God is best identified in terms of ‘absence’, ‘otherness’, ‘difference’ - has been...
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Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-Century Europe
This major new history of European women's professional activities and organizational roles during the ‘long’ nineteenth century examines what...
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Greek Laughter
The first book to offer an integrated reading of ancient Greek attitudes to laughter. Taking material from various genres and contexts, the book...
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