Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century
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Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found...
Crime Fiction and the Law
Maria Aristodemou, Fiona Macmillan and Patricia Tuitt
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This book opens up a range of important perspectives on law and violence by considering the ways in...
Exhilarating Prose: Cognitions, Contemplations, Insights, Introspections, Lucubrations, Meditations, Musings, Prognostications, Reflections, Reveries & Ruminations on the Process of Writing
Barry Healey and Cordelia Strube
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This smartly illustrated literary miscellanea is intended to stimulate readers and writers of...
French 'Ecocritique': Reading French Theory and Fiction Ecologically
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French Ecocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in which...
Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field
Walter Scott and Ainsley McIntosh
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When Marmion was published in 1808 it was met with both critical and popular acclaim; four editions...
Metaphors We Live by
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
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People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for...
Mythology: Who's Who in Greek and Roman Mythology
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Explore classic stories of the great Greek and Roman heroes, gods, and monsters. Who's Who in...
Object Lessons: The Novel as a Theory of Reference
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Object Lessons explores a fundamental question about literary realism: How can language evoke that...
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952
Allen Ginsberg, Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan
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Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept a journal his entire life, beginning at the age of eleven. In these...
The Hurt(Ful) Body: Performing and Beholding Pain, 1600-1800
Tomas Macsotay and Karel Vanhaesebrouck
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This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period,...