John Lyly and Early Modern Authorship
Andy Kesson, Paul Edmondson and Martin White
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During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in...
Kafka's Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic
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Kafka's Blues proves the startling thesis that many of Kafka's major works engage in a coherent,...
Milton in Context
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Few early modern poets engaged more fully with their historical circumstances than John Milton. A...
Nightmare Abbey
Thomas Love Peacock and Nicholas A. Joukovsky
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic...
Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics of Suffering
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The literature of Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie teaches a...
Ooooooh Doctor!: Pictorial History of Classic Nurse Paperback Cover
Daniel Herman and Mitch Itkowitz
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The 1960s and 1970s witnessed upheavals in American culture, an explosion of new ideas in cinema; a...
Post-War British Literature and the 'End of Empire': 2016
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This book examines literary texts by British colonial servant and settler writers, including Anthony...
Remake Television: Reboot, Re-Use, Recycle
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Remakes are pervasive in today's popular culture, whether they take the form of reboots,...
Slapstick Modernism: Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop
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Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls and...
Storied Bars of New York: Where Literary Luminaries Go to Drink
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If you want to know what it's like to pull up a stool with the likes of Hemingway, Updike or Capote,...