Chaucer's People
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In CHAUCER'S PEOPLE, Liza Picard guides us through the tumultuous world of the late fourteenth...
Dostoevsky and the Epileptic Mode of Being
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For Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), who lived with epileptic seizures for more than thirty years,...
Football and Literature in South America
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South America is a region that enjoys an unusually high profile as the origin of some of the world's...
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh
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Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to...
Modernism and Latin America: Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange
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This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European...
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer
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Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of...
Re-Orienting China: Travel Writing and Cross-Cultural Understanding
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Re-Orienting China challenges the notion of the travel writer as imperialistic, while exploring the...
The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
Philip Tew, Emily Horton and Leigh Wilson
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How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British...
The Image of the Black Prince in Georgian and VI - Negotiating the Late Medieval Past
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During the Georgian and Victorian periods, the fourteenth-century hero Edward the Black Prince...
The Secret Life of Plays
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Drawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes the reader through the...