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Wisdom, Authority and Grammar in the Seventh Century
The works of the seventh-century writer Virgilius Maro Grammaticus are among the most puzzling medieval texts to survive. Ostensibly a pair of...
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The Void of Ethics
In a pluralistic society without absolute standards of judgment, how can an individual live a moral life? This is the question Robert Musil...
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Novel Relations
Ruth Perry describes the transformation of the English family as a function of several major social changes taking place in the eighteenth century...
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Literature and Human Equality
When Achilles dons his armor, gods and readers alike know the outcome, as does the hero himself. But when the commoner becomes the hero, when, as Dr....
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Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus
This book examines Tacitus’ Annals as an ironic portrayal of Julio-Claudian Rome, through close analysis of passages in which characters engage in...
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Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry
The poems of Theocritus are our best witness to a brilliant poetic culture that flourished in the first half of the third century BC. This book...
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Visible Song
For many years there has been lively debate about the orality or literacy of Old English verse: about whether the Old English verse which has come...
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Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama
The provocative notion of a contemporary cross-cultural exchange within the medium of theatre is here imposed upon a dozen contemporary...
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Milton and the Drama of History
How did Milton’s understanding of history relate to his literary expression of it? This book explores the role of history in Milton’s literary...
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Defending Literature in Early Modern England
Why was literature so often defended and defined in early modern England in terms of its ability to provide the Horatian ideal of both profit and...
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Images of Community in Old English Poetry
This book explores ideas of community and the relationship of individuals to communities widely evident in Old English poetry. It pays particular...
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Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic
Jonathan Gil Harris examines the origins of modern discourses of social pathology in Elizabethan and Jacobean medical and political writing. Plays,...
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Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature
How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualize the interim between death and Doomsday? In this book, Ananya Jahanara Kabir presents an investigation into the...
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Romantic Identities
One of the defining features of Romantic writing, critics have long agreed, is its characterization of the self in terms of psychological depth. Many...
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Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840–1940
This original and provocative study discusses the work of a number of authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in order to argue that...
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Shakespeare’s Victorian Stage
This book explores the revivals of Shakespeare’s history plays during the Victorian period, as staged by the famous actor-manager Charles Kean....
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Jane Austen and the Theatre
Jane Austen was fascinated by theatre from her childhood. As an adult she went to the theatre whenever opportunity arose. Scenes in her novels often...
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Not Shakespeare
Burlesque has been a powerful and enduring weapon in the critique of legitimate Shakespearean culture by a seemingly illegitimate popular culture....
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Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare’s Time
Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare’s Time examines the nature of commercial relations among the theatre companies in London during the...
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Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment
Can an abstract theory of Empfindsamkeit aesthetics have any value to a musician wishing to study composition in the classical style? The...
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Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven
A. B. Marx was one of the most important German music theorists of his time. Drawing on idealist aesthetics and the ideology of Bildung, he developed...
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Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust
This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. It is...
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Edited by April Elizabeth Lamm
Preface by Rem Koolhaas, afterword by Daniel Birnbaum, title by Douglas Gordon
“If art takes place in a...
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Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century
This collection of essays aims to redefine the limits of Old English scholarship by studying some of the recent reworkings of texts composed earlier...
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