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Children’s Literature and Culture

Edited By: Harry Eiss

£34.99

This collection of scholarship offers an eclectic overview of youth culture. Essays explore unusual minds that question human existence, the evolution of board and video games, magic in fantasy fiction, and consumerism in popular teen book series.

Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects

Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Female Body

Edited By: Silvia Castro-Borrego, Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz

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This collection explores women's identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

This collection explores women’s identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

Carver Across the Curriculum

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver

Edited By: Katherine Ashley, Paul Benedict Grant

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Carver Across the Curriculum presents innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to teaching Raymond Carver’s work. Drawing on international scholars, this collection is a guide and inspiration for instructors, offering new insights into his fiction and poetry.

Evolutionary Aesthetics of Human Ethics in Hardy’s Tragic Narratives

By: Rıza Öztürk

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This analysis of Hardy’s tragedies finds his famed pessimism is a mask for evolutionary ethics. Women's suffering is an adapted parental investment in survival, a force of superiority granting greater fitness than the heroic deeds of men.

This analysis of Hardy’s tragedies finds his famed pessimism is a mask for evolutionary ethics. Women’s suffering is an adapted parental investment in survival, a force of superiority granting greater fitness than the heroic deeds of men.

The Spectacular In and Around Shakespeare

Edited By: Pascale Drouet

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This volume addresses the economy of the spectacular in Shakespeare’s plays, from early modern England to twenty-first-century adaptations. It asks what is behind the spectacular. Is there a manipulative purpose? How far-reaching are the political and ideological stakes?

John Bull’s Italian Snakes and Ladders

English Attitudes to Italy in the mid-nineteenth Century

By: Annemarie McAllister

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This book examines how mid-19th century England used representations of Italians—from despised organ grinders to glamorous opera stars—to construct its own sense of 'Englishness', class, and masculinity.

This book examines how mid-19th century England used representations of Italians—from despised organ grinders to glamorous opera stars—to construct its own sense of ‘Englishness’, class, and masculinity.

Latin Elegy and Hellenistic Epigram

A Tale of Two Genres at Rome

Edited By: Alison Keith

£34.99

This volume explores the impact of Hellenistic Greek epigram on Latin erotic elegy in light of new papyrus discoveries. Chapters examine the reception of epigrams in Propertius and Ovid and the appropriation of their thematic and structural motifs.

Charles Williams and his Contemporaries

Edited By: Richard Sturch

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After a period of neglect, interest in Charles Williams—Inkling, novelist, and theologian—is growing once more. This symposium contributes to the serious study of his work, exploring his novels, theology, and influence, which is being recognized more and more.

Neighbors and Neighborhoods

Living Together in the German-Speaking World

Edited By: Yael Almog, Erik Born

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This collection of essays addresses questions of community in the modern German-speaking world, a neighborhood no longer defined by territory. How is neighborliness possible in an age of mass migration, globalization, and fluid modern identity?

Postcolonial Slavery

An Overview of Colonialism’s Legacy

Edited By: Charlotte Baker, Jennifer Jahn

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Foregrounding the material realities of slavery, these essays explore its legacies and the defiant resistance of runaway slaves, challenging the marginalization of colonial history.

The Mystery of Hamlet

A Solution

By: Myron Stagman

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Hamlet kills Polonius thinking he is Claudius. Yet he cannot kill Claudius. Why? Shakespeare understood the Freudian slip centuries before Freud, using hints to reveal the secrets of a disillusioned idealist's tragically conscientious character.

We Won’t Make It Out Alive

Patrick McCabe and the Horrors of the Irish Mundane

By: Kate Walls

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A study of Patrick McCabe’s work. Beneath the grotesque and funny narratives of his characters lurk similar pasts of cruelty and abuse. This book discusses how these childhood traumas and Irish social upheaval drive McCabe's narrators crazy.

Presentations of the 2010 Upstate Steampunk Extravaganza and Meetup

Edited By: Gypsey Elaine Teague

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What is Steampunk? It is a juxtaposition of science fiction, fantasy, and Victorian alternate history, drawing on the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. This publication is the culmination of presentations from the first academic conference on the genre.

Writing the Land

John Burroughs and his Legacy; Essays from the John Burroughs Nature Writing Conference

Edited By: Daniel G. Payne

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John Burroughs, America’s most beloved nature writer, explored his home landscape to examine the universal theme of our relation with nature. This collection of essays explores his legacy and what writing the land means from urban, suburban, and rural perspectives.

Mark Twain’s Geographical Imagination

Edited By: Joseph A. Alvarez

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This collection of essays marks a different approach to Mark Twain. It explores how geography—from the Mississippi River to Europe and beyond—influenced his work. These essays use Twain’s concepts of space to help us understand his greatest masterpieces.

Masquerade and Femininity

Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers

Edited By: Urszula Chowaniec, Ursula Phillips, Marja Rytkönen

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These essays on Russian and Polish women writers explore femininity through the lens of masquerade. They scrutinize the gap between lived female experience and the culturally constructed masks women wear, combining East European literary and gender studies.

The Right Sort of Woman

Victorian Travel Writers and the Fitness of an Empire

By: Precious McKenzie Stearns

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Nineteenth-century British women’s travel writing reveals how they found freedom abroad. Far from strict Victorian codes, they participated in men’s sports, improving their health and confidence. This shaped feminism and the revolutionary image of the New Woman.

The Cycle of Troy in Geoffrey Chaucer

Tradition and “Moralitee”

By: José Maria Gutiérrez Arranz

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In the Middle Ages, Trojan myths were transformed into models of human behaviour. This book explores how Geoffrey Chaucer recreates those myths, manipulating his material and integrating them into the contexts of his own works.

Thea Astley’s Fictional Worlds

Edited By: Paul Genoni, Susan Sheridan

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This landmark collection is the first of critical responses to novelist Thea Astley. It includes essays from leading critics, three essays by Astley herself, a major interview with her, and the first Thea Astley lecture by Kate Grenville.

Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces

By: Catalina Florina Florescu

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This book explores liminal bodies and their delicate transactions: the body dying, opened in surgery, or living on through organ replacement. It also analyzes the contemporary body commissioned by mass-media, as seen through film, literature, and art.