The Cooked Seed
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In 1994, Anchee Min published Red Azalea, a memoir of growing up during the violent trauma of the...
Body Language: Narrating Illness and Disability
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As much as we may like to evade them, illness and disability inescapably attend human embodiment -...
Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies: Images of a Past World
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The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous changes in the Ottoman Empire. It...
Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism
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Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early...
Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D.
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Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled...
Kicking the Bar: The Life and Legacy of Broadcaster Huw Wheldon
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Written by his son, Kicking the Bar is the comprehensive biography of Huw Wheldon, one of the most...
Lives in Writing
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This is a collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic....
Musical Prodigies: Interpretations from Psychology, Education, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology
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Child prodigies have been observed in a range of disciplines - particularly music, mathematics,...
Literary Journalism and the Aesthetics of Experience
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Proponents and practitioners of narrative literary journalism have sought to assert its...
Patterns in Circulation: Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa
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In this book, Nina Sylvanus tells a captivating story of global trade and cross-cultural aesthetics...