Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing
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In this innovative and important study, Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in...
Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity
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Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed. It...
Compelling God: Theories of Prayer in Anglo-Saxon England
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While prayer is generally understood as "communion with God" modern forms of spirituality prefer...
Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age
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The interwar period is often described as the 'Golden Age' of detective fiction, but many other...
Crossing Central Europe: Continuities and Transformations, 1900-2000
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Crossing Central Europe is a pioneering volume that focuses on the complex networks of transcultural...
Dante: Convivio: A Critical Edition in English
Dante Alighieri and Andrew Frisardi
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Dante's Convivio, composed in exile between 1304 and 1307, is a series of self-commentaries on three...
Dante's Journey to Polyphony
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In Dante's Journey to Polyphony, Francesco Ciabattoni's erudite analysis sheds light on Dante's use...
Eating Otherwise: The Philosophy of Food in Twentieth-Century Literature
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This book explores the philosophical implications of the popular adage that 'you are what you eat'...
Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris
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Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris is the tale of how two children of Agamemnon whose lives have been...
Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Martin Greenberg
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A classic of world literature, Goethe's Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire,...