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Kritish Rajbhandari
The Indian Ocean and the Historical Imagination in Afro-Asian Fiction

The Indian Ocean has long connected people, objects, and ideas across continents and cultures. This book asks how contemporary writers reimagine the Indian Ocean through literary figurations of the past. …

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Harriet I. Flower
Intellectual Property

The first in-depth account of the lives and careers of educated slaves and freedmen in ancient RomeSlaves and freedmen played an important yet understudied role in the literary culture of the Roman Republ…

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Marjorie Swann
Environment, Society, and The Compleat Angler

First published in 1653, The Compleat Angler is one of the most influential environmental texts ever written. Addressing a politically and religiously polarized nation devastated by warfare, disease, ecol…

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Alan Jacobs
Paradise Lost

"This book focuses on the character and enduring influence of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, looking beyond the book's original text and into the various works and media it has inspired."--

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Jessica Barr
Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about union with God and as the end of life on earth.For medieval Christians, only death could…

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Rebecca Romney
Jane Austen's Bookshelf

Who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen? Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelves? Rare books dealer Rebecca Romney sheds a light on Austen's inspirations and contemporaries in …

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Thomas Hallock
The Epic of Florida

The Epic of Florida brings to light a neglected tradition of colonial poetry from the sixteenth century. Written in response to dramatic encounters on the peninsula--Ponce de León's landfall in 1513, the …

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Plutarch,
Moralia, Volume I

Loeb Classical Library

Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six Parallel Lives , bio…

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Hippocrates
Hippocrates, Volume III

Loeb Classical Library

The definitive English edition of the "Father of Medicine."This is the third volume in the Loeb Classical Library's complete edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts, which provide essential inf…

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Lowell Duckert
Arcticologies

Exploring the frozen past to rethink our warming futureDo we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell Duckert delves into early modern European texts to trace how representations of frigidity fr…

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Muhsin J. Al-Musawi
Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging and innovative study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding literary authenticity across Arabic and Islamic culture over seven ce…

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Thomas Hallock
The Epic of Florida

The Epic of Florida brings to light a neglected tradition of colonial poetry from the sixteenth century. Written in response to dramatic encounters on the peninsula--Ponce de León's landfall in 1513, the …

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Myung-Wha Kim,
Sound of the Moon and Other Plays by Myung-Wha Kim

Myung-Wha Kim is an acclaimed playwright, critic, and director. In this book, the first English language play collection by a female Korean playwright, her individual style and powerful drama is captured …

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Jakub Lipski
Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790-1830

This Element demonstrates how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result of public interest in the partitions of Poland (1772-95) and their aftermath. It…

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Lynne Ann Greenberg
Masculine Births

Examining the legal lives of early modern women through Milton's literary worksIn his History of Britain , John Milton writes, "Laws are Masculin Births . . . nothing [is] more awry from the Law of G…

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Sarah Baechle
Father Chaucer and the Apologists

"Explores a controversial 1380 document accusing Geoffrey Chaucer of rape, examining historical discourses on sex, consent, and violation. Reveals how Chaucer studies and rape culture intersect, offe…

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Piero Boitani
Timaeus in Paradise

Tracing the influence and impact of Plato's Timaeus-and its major themes, creation and beauty-through the centuriesMore than two thousand years after it was written, Plato's Timaeus continues to fascinate…

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Charles Ignatius Sancho,
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

'In short, I write just what I think.'After a successful career in the service of an aristocratic family, Charles Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729-1780) established a successful grocery business in Westminster an…

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Brady Lloyd
Australian One-Act Plays for Young Adults

Five compelling and theatrically dynamic plays that celebrate the strength of the human spirit, blending hope, humour and heart.Australian One-Act Plays for Young Adults is a collection of original plays …

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Anna Lenz
"als wären wir geschichtslos"

Dieses Buch interpretiert die Themen Geschichte, Subjektivität und Verantwortung im Theater Elfriede Jelineks. Jelinek ergründet dramatische und historische Deutungskonventionen, greift sie aber gleichzei…

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