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Ovid, Aratus and Augustus
The astronomical material in Ovid’s Fasti has been overlooked by the current trend of scholarly interest in the poem. It is this material which is...
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Homer’s People
This book examines the role and character of Homer’s people, laoi, in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned...
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Kenyan dramatist and novelist, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, is regarded as one of the most influential African writers today, not only for his creative work...
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The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing
This study examines the complex role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature. Focusing in particular on the...
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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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Imagination under Pressure, 1789–1832
This ambitious study offers a radical reassessment of one of the most important concepts of the Romantic period - the imagination. In contrast to...
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Romanticism and Slave Narratives
Helen Thomas’s study opens a new avenue for Romantic literary studies by exploring connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners,...
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Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology
The eighteenth-century model of the criminal trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the facts of a case could ‘speak for themselves’...
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Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming, classifying and describing the curiosities, antiques and objets d’art that proliferated in...
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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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Virgil on the Nature of Things
The Georgics has for many years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro-...
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The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative
From Homer to Hollywood, the western storytelling tradition has canonised a distinctive set of narrative values characterised by tight economy and...
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Albee: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
This is the first detailed study of one of the most important plays in contemporary theatre, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee. In...
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Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-Century France
This is the most complete critical survey to date of women’s literature in nineteenth-century France. Alison Finch’s wide-ranging analysis of...
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Women and Literature in Britain, 1700–1800
This collection of new essays brings together feminist critics, cultural historians and historians of publishing to provide a unique and up-to-date...
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Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century
This book discusses the attitudes towards Anglo-Saxons expressed by English poets, playwrights and novelists from the thirteenth century to the...
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Modern American Drama, 1945–2000
In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama, Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar and contemporary theatre and...
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Chicano Drama
This is the first book since Jorge Huerta’s earlier study Chicano Theater: Themes and Forms to explore the diversity and energy of Chicano theatre....
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Contemporary American Playwrights
Christopher Bigsby explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights: John Guare (House of Blue Leaves), Tina Howe (Museum...
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Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton
The figure of the puritan has long been conceived as dour and repressive in character, an image which has been central to ways of reading sixteenth-...
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The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare
This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and...
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Future Crossings
Future Crossings uses a broad spectrum of philosophers and writers--Acker, Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze, Derrida, Joyce, Levinas, Nancy, Wordsworth, and...
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Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English...
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