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In King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare explores political survival at court. This book offers a new perspective on monarchy by distinguishing authority from power, arguing that persuasion is essential to reinforcing royal rule and establishing the monarch.
In King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare explores political survival at court. This book offers a new perspective on monarchy by distinguishing authority from power, arguing that persuasion is essential to reinforcing royal rule and establishing the monarch.
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Royalists, Radicals, and les Misérables
France in 1832
In 1832, a royalist uprising, a cholera epidemic, and the June Revolution immortalized in Les Misérables rocked France. This collection is the first to examine these pivotal events together, revealing an overlooked year in the transition to a republic.
In 1832, a royalist uprising, a cholera epidemic, and the June Revolution immortalized in Les Misérables rocked France. This collection is the first to examine these pivotal events together, revealing an overlooked year in the transition to a republic.
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Shakespeare Studies in Colonial Bengal
The Early Phase
This study explores Shakespeare in colonial Bengal, focusing on Hindu College. It highlights the pioneering teachers who accelerated the Bengal Renaissance and exposes distorted readings of Shakespeare, challenging reductive postcolonial theories.
This study explores Shakespeare in colonial Bengal, focusing on Hindu College. It highlights the pioneering teachers who accelerated the Bengal Renaissance and exposes distorted readings of Shakespeare, challenging reductive postcolonial theories.
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This panoramic view of the Shi‘ite presence in North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula examines the seminal role of Shi‘ite Imams, dynasties, revolts, and scholars. By re-examining the religious and political history of the region, this work makes a revolutionary contribution.
This panoramic view of the Shi‘ite presence in North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula examines the seminal role of Shi‘ite Imams, dynasties, revolts, and scholars. By re-examining the religious and political history of the region, this work makes a revolutionary contribution.
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Uncovering the hidden history of Shi'ism in North Africa and al-Andalus, this book offers the first English translations of Morisco traditions. It reveals their original works, study of diverse Shi'ite sources, and a vibrant faith that rewrites the region's history.
Uncovering the hidden history of Shi’ism in North Africa and al-Andalus, this book offers the first English translations of Morisco traditions. It reveals their original works, study of diverse Shi’ite sources, and a vibrant faith that rewrites the region’s history.
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Shifting the Compass
Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
The study of Dutch colonial literature has traditionally focused on the motherland, ignoring the global network. This collection of articles shifts the compass of analysis to present new perspectives on the pluricontinental contacts within this vast network.
The study of Dutch colonial literature has traditionally focused on the motherland, ignoring the global network. This collection of articles shifts the compass of analysis to present new perspectives on the pluricontinental contacts within this vast network.
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Elizabeth I’s controversial marriage proposal angered courtiers Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser, who used their writing to express their dissent. This book interweaves history and literature to analyze the workings of gender, desire, politics, and poetics in her reign.
Elizabeth I’s controversial marriage proposal angered courtiers Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser, who used their writing to express their dissent. This book interweaves history and literature to analyze the workings of gender, desire, politics, and poetics in her reign.
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Sisters of Fate
The Myths that Speak Themselves
Tracking the feminine principle in divination over three thousand years, this book explores the psychic vantage point of fate’s sisters. It examines the source of their visions within the Western concept of time, free will, and destiny.
Tracking the feminine principle in divination over three thousand years, this book explores the psychic vantage point of fate’s sisters. It examines the source of their visions within the Western concept of time, free will, and destiny.
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How did six pioneer families survive the 19th-century American wilderness? Through their own accounts, this book reveals their struggle, their grace under pressure, and the clashing cultural identities that would sow the seeds of a divided nation.
How did six pioneer families survive the 19th-century American wilderness? Through their own accounts, this book reveals their struggle, their grace under pressure, and the clashing cultural identities that would sow the seeds of a divided nation.
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Spatio-Temporal Narratives
Historical GIS and the Study of Global Trading Networks (1500-1800)
This book explores the merchant networks and maritime trade routes of the First Global Age (16th-18th centuries). Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), it visualizes the integration of economies, the organization of trade, and the evolution of networks.
This book explores the merchant networks and maritime trade routes of the First Global Age (16th-18th centuries). Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), it visualizes the integration of economies, the organization of trade, and the evolution of networks.
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This collection of essays questions the traditional supremacy of Chaucer while reaffirming his lasting impact. Scholars explore his influence on writers like Shakespeare, offer a modern assessment of the Wife of Bath, and discuss making Chaucer relevant today.
This collection of essays questions the traditional supremacy of Chaucer while reaffirming his lasting impact. Scholars explore his influence on writers like Shakespeare, offer a modern assessment of the Wife of Bath, and discuss making Chaucer relevant today.
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Strategies of Remembrance
From Pindar to Hölderlin
This collection explores memory in the Middle Ages through literature, history, cognitive science, and philosophy, offering a variety of approaches to its connection with identity, the past, and immortality.
This collection explores memory in the Middle Ages through literature, history, cognitive science, and philosophy, offering a variety of approaches to its connection with identity, the past, and immortality.
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Table Talk
Perspectives on Food in Medieval Italian Literature
These essays explore the multifaceted role of food within medieval Italian culture. Through the writings of authors from Dante and Boccaccio to Catherine of Siena, this volume examines the medical, religious, social, and political role of foodways.
These essays explore the multifaceted role of food within medieval Italian culture. Through the writings of authors from Dante and Boccaccio to Catherine of Siena, this volume examines the medical, religious, social, and political role of foodways.
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PIERIDES IV This volume examines Terence as both an interpreter of literary traditions and a subject of critical reception. It explores his experimental comedies, focusing on the meaning of his work in relation to his predecessors, contemporaries, and posterity.
PIERIDES IV
This volume examines Terence as both an interpreter of literary traditions and a subject of critical reception. It explores his experimental comedies, focusing on the meaning of his work in relation to his predecessors, contemporaries, and posterity.
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Texts and Territories
Historicized Fiction and Fictionalised History in Medieval England and Beyond
History turns into literary narrative, and narrative turns into history. This volume explores how medieval texts straddle this borderland, engaging with an array of texts from 11th-15th century England to uncover under-explored concepts of the past and historiography.
History turns into literary narrative, and narrative turns into history. This volume explores how medieval texts straddle this borderland, engaging with an array of texts from 11th-15th century England to uncover under-explored concepts of the past and historiography.
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A pioneering comparative study of Halide Edib Adıvar and Lady Augusta Gregory. It explores how these female activists and anti-imperialists challenged British imperialism, using literature to shape their national identities despite their different cultural backgrounds.
A pioneering comparative study of Halide Edib Adıvar and Lady Augusta Gregory. It explores how these female activists and anti-imperialists challenged British imperialism, using literature to shape their national identities despite their different cultural backgrounds.
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The Apparelling of Truth
Literature and Literary Culture in the Reign of James VI; A Festschrift for Roderick J. Lyall
This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the literature and culture of the reign of James VI. Its emphasis is on the continuities in literary culture throughout his rule, extending beyond the court to regional and international contexts.
This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the literature and culture of the reign of James VI. Its emphasis is on the continuities in literary culture throughout his rule, extending beyond the court to regional and international contexts.
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The Black Musketeer
Reevaluating Alexandre Dumas within the Francophone World
Alexandre Dumas, grandson of a slave, has become a symbol in France's debates on colonial history, race, and identity. This is the first major work to re-evaluate his life and legacy, providing new ways of interpreting his classics in a francophone context.
Alexandre Dumas, grandson of a slave, has become a symbol in France’s debates on colonial history, race, and identity. This is the first major work to re-evaluate his life and legacy, providing new ways of interpreting his classics in a francophone context.
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In The Canterbury Tales Revisited, diverse international scholars offer 21st-century interpretations. Articles cover new areas like Chaucer and Judaism, Queer studies, and feminism, with an insightful opening piece by eminent Medievalist David Matthews.
In The Canterbury Tales Revisited, diverse international scholars offer 21st-century interpretations. Articles cover new areas like Chaucer and Judaism, Queer studies, and feminism, with an insightful opening piece by eminent Medievalist David Matthews.
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The Common Touch
Popular Literature from the Elizabethans to the Restoration, Volume I
While figures like Shakespeare dominated the literary scene, what was the vast majority of society really reading and singing? This anthology answers that question with a selection of broadside ballads, witch trial reports, and political newsbooks.
While figures like Shakespeare dominated the literary scene, what was the vast majority of society really reading and singing? This anthology answers that question with a selection of broadside ballads, witch trial reports, and political newsbooks.
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