Cognitive Literary Studies: Current Themes and New Directions
Isabel Jaen and Julien Jacques Simon
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Over the past decade, our understanding of the cognition of literature has been transformed by...
Emotion in Old Norse Literature: Translations, Voices, Contexts
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Authors throughout history have relied on the emotional make-up of their readers and audiences to...
Feeling Pleasures: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England
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The sense of touch had a deeply uncertain status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It had...
Granta 119: Britain
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In 2012, Britain is a nation in flux, managing difficult socioeconomic realities, contending with...
Granta 129: Fate
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Granta 129 brings you twenty-two meditations on fate in all its many forms. From Joseph Roth's...
Pleasures of the Garden: A Literary Anthology
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This collection of classic garden writing celebrates the garden as a place of solace in a busy...
Selected Writings
Alan Shelston and Thomas Carlyle
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The most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist. Carlyle was one of...
Signal Failure: London to Birmingham, HS2 on Foot
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One November morning, Tom Jeffreys set off from Euston Station with a gnarled old walking stick in...
The Unaccompanied
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"The most popular English poet since Larkin." (Sunday Times). After more than a decade and following...
How to Build a Girl
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What do you do in your teenage years when you realise what your parents taught you wasn't enough?...