Mad Tuscans and Their Families: A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy
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Based on three hundred civil and criminal cases over four centuries, Elizabeth W. Mellyn...
Unearthing the Polynesian Past: Adventures and Explorations of an Island Archaeologist
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Perhaps no scholar has done more to reveal the ancient history of Polynesia than noted archaeologist...
Secularism in Question: Jews and Judaism in Modern Times
Ari Joskowicz and Ethan B. Katz
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For much of the twentieth century, most religious and secular Jewish thinkers believed that they...
World War I and American Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Anne Classen Knutson, David M. Lubin and Robert Cozzolino
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World War I had a profound impact on American art and culture. Nearly every major artist responded...
Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text
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In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet...
Front Lines: Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World
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In Front Lines, Miguel Martinez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common...
Life on the Mississippi
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The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an...
The Farce of the Fart and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English
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Was there more to medieval and Renaissance comedy than Chaucer and Shakespeare? Bien sur. For a real...
Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
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American historians have typically argued that a shared experience of time worked to bind the...
Beyond the Cloister: Catholic Englishwomen and Early Modern Literary Culture
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Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of...