British Nautical Melodramas, 1820-1850
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During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "reigned supreme" on London stages, entertaining the...
Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies
Dennis Austin Britton and Melissa Walter
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This book asks new questions about how and why Shakespeare engages with source material, and about...
Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures Amid the Debris of Legal Personhood
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Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law's construction of personhood in the...
An Excess Male: A Novel
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From debut author Maggie Shen King, An Excess Male is the chilling dystopian tale of politics,...
Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men
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A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight-her boyfriend may...
The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age
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In September 1868, the remains of Jacob and Nancy Jane Young were found lying near the banks of...
Women in Asian Politics: Descriptive, Diverse, Substantive, and Sustainable Representations
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Why has Asia fallen behind other world regions in women's parliamentary representation? What kinds...
Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy
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Sex is cheap. Coupled sexual activity has become more widely available than ever. Cheap sex has been...
Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction
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Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day...