After the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon
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Over forty-five years have elapsed since Derek Mahon announced his arrival at the forefront of Irish...
Bang in the Middle
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A book to put the Midlands back on the map. Everyone knows what they think of the North and South of...
The Day the King Defaulted: Financial Lessons from the Stop of the Exchequer in 1672
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This book studies King Charles II's decision to stop all payments from his royal exchequer, a sordid...
Feeling Pleasures: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England
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The sense of touch had a deeply uncertain status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It had...
Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-reformation England
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During the Reformation, the mystery of the Eucharist was the subject of contentious debate and a...
Preserving the Spell: Basile's the Tale of Tales and its Afterlife in the Fairy-Tale Tradition
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Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to...
Shakespearean Adaptations in East Asia: A Critical Anthology of Shakespearean Plays: China, Japan and Taiwan
Alexa Huang, Minami Ryuta and Yoshihara Yukari
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Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse. The last decade has witnessed a rapid increase in...
The Governess and Other Stories
Anthea Bell, Stefan Zweig and Heinrich Kuhn
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An eclectic collection of four brilliant stories, including a Renaissance tragedy and an English...
The Last Days of Mankind: The Complete Text
Karl Kraus, Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms
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Kraus's iconic WWI drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of war, now in English in its entirety...
The Photographer's Wife
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Jerusalem, 1920: in an already fractured city, eleven-year-old Prudence feels the tension rising as...