A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
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'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke...
Blood on the Stage, 1800 to 1900: Milestone Plays of Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem
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The history of theater is rife with tales of crime, suspense, and murder. The nineteenth century was...
Dashiell Hammett and the Movies
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As the father of the hardboiled detective genre, Dashiell Hammett had a huge influence on Hollywood....
Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations: Studies in Cognitive Poetics
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Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations: Studies in Cognitive Poetics presents multidisciplinary and...
Freuds Russia: National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis
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Freud's lifelong involvement with the Russian national character and culture is examined in James...
Immersion: A Writer's Guide to Going Deep
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Over three and a half decades, Ted Conover has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with...
On Anger: Race, Cognition, Narrative
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Anger is an emotion that affects everyone regardless of culture, class, race, or gender-but at the...
Representing War and Violence, 1250-1600
Joanna Bellis and Laura Slater
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War and violence took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe, from political and territorial...
Shakespeare's Common Prayers: The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age
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Shakespeare's Common Prayers revolves around Shakespeare's great overlooked source: the Book of...
The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master
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A strange and delightful memento of one of the most lasting literary voices of all time, The Daily...