
James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives
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James Shirley was the last great dramatist of the English Renaissance, shining out among other...

Katherine Mansfield and Russia
Gerri Kimber, W. Todd martin and Galya Diment
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Katherine Mansfield's passion for Russian literature and culture is well documented in her letters...

Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy's the Road
Julian Murphet and Mark Steven
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The Politics and Aesthetics of Cormac McCarthy's The Road brings together several leading literary...

The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
Nick Hubble, Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson
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How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British...

The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love
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Modern life is being destroyed by experts and professionals. We have lost our amateur spirit and...

The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing
Celeste Mari Bernier, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman and Matthew Pethers
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This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field - the history of letters and...

Waste Matters: Urban Margins in Contemporary Literature
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How do those pushed to the margins survive in contemporary cities? What role do they play in today's...

Behind the Curtain
Andrzej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal
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During the 1970s, when many Eastern European citizens dreamed of going West, two young students...

Raiders of the Nile
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Gordianus is now twenty-two years old and living in Alexandria with Bethesda, scraping by in modest...

The Conquest of Plassans
Helen Constantine and Emile Zola
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'Abbe Faujas has arrived!' The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has...