Heroines of the Qing: Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories
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Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth...
Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities: Hard Cases, Hard Choices
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William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing...
Indians Illustrated: The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press
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After 1850, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers. Engravings...
Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw and Nicholas Grene
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"There are two things necessary to salvation ...money and gunpowder" Major Barbara, Bernard Shaw's...
Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War Through the Classics
Victor Caston and Silke-Maria Weineck
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Many famous texts from classical antiquity-by historians like Thucydides, tragedians like Sophocles...
Perpetual Carnival: Essays on Film and Literature
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Upholding literature and film together as academically interwoven, Perpetual Carnival underscores...
Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred Scripture: Rewriting the Divine?
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Francophone writers from North Africa and the Middle East often choose to write within a sacred...
Shakespeare and Cultural Materialist Theory
Christopher Marlow and Evelyn Gajowski
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Cultural materialism is one of the most important and one of the most provocative theories to have...
Shakespeare: The Riddle of Genius
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Shakespeare is the true British icon - he is still the most performed, the most translated, the most...
The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
John McLeod, Nick Hubble and Philip Tew
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How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British...