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Amy Burge, Jodi McAlister
The Bonkbuster

What were women reading in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s? This book presents a major study of the "bonkbuster," an incredibly popular genre of women's fiction in the late 20th century.The bonkbuste…

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Myka Tucker-Abramson
Cartographies of Empire

The road novel is often dismissed as a mundane, nostalgic genre: Jack, Sal, and other tedious white men on the road trying to recapture an authentic youth and American past that never existed. Yet, new ro…

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Ciara Gorman,
Criminal Women in Contemporary French Crime Fiction

An exploration of representations of female criminality in contemporary French crime fiction, this book offers a literary, sociological and feminist analysis of the stereotypes surrounding women and crime…

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Myka Tucker-Abramson
Cartographies of Empire

The road novel is often dismissed as a mundane, nostalgic genre: Jack, Sal, and other tedious white men on the road trying to recapture an authentic youth and American past that never existed. Yet, new ro…

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Lorenzo Casini
Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists . Beginning with the writings of Muh…

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Christos C Tsagalis
The Homeric Doloneia

The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad , its authenticity being doubted since antiquity. But by applying sophisticated interpretive tools, this book maintains that Iliad 10 was not compo…

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Kevin Ohi
Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction

Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction explores how narrative language renders subjective states of interiority and desire. Its detailed readings consider seminal modernists-Ford, Woolf, Faulk…

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Emily Gowers
Rome's Patron

The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and cultureAn unelected statesman with exceptional powers, a patron of the arts and a luxury-loving friend…

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Walter Benjamin,
On Goethe

On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The writings in this volume-newly translated, fully annotated, and framed by an extensive…

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of C. P. Cavafy

A gay poet-historian writing from and about the edges of empiresKnown as a preeminent poet of queer male desire, C. P. Cavafy lived most of his life as part of the Greek minority community in Alexandria, …

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Carolyn Larrington, Carolyne Larrington
The Little Book of Trolls

Trolls have escaped from the black lava wastes of Iceland and the dense pine forests of Scandinavia to take on a new life in the collective global imagination. They may not steal goats and eat people quit…

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Amit Chaudhuri
Incompleteness

Essays on everything from the music of Joni Mitchell to the declining quality of Bengali food from one of India's preeminent writers."I'm an Indian, so of course I write about India. But then, again,…

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Steven J Green
Ilias Latina

The Ilias Latina ('the Latin Iliad') is a condensed Latin version of Homer's epic on the Trojan war, and was likely composed under Nero. Long neglected as a poem worthy of study, there is a growing awaren…

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The Uncollected Louis Zukofsky

A goldmine of treasures grant access into this twentieth century modernist poet's extraordinary work. Includes unpublished essays, drama, and poetry that enhances Zukofsky's stature within the revolutiona…

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Amanda Anderson, Simon During
Humanities Theory

Humanities Theory argues that there exists a global humanities world which not only transcends disciplinary divisions but joins the professional academic humanities to a thriving amateur public humanities…

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Marco Santagata,
Boccaccio

"Along with Dante and Petrarch, Boccaccio (1313-1375) is one of the "Three Crowns" of Italian literature, a trio of writers who shaped the history of humanism, literature, and poetry in Ita…

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James Kearney
Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity

What does it feel like to be enjoined to avenge your father's murder? What is it like to banish your daughter or disavow your community? To murder? Focusing on Shakespeare's most ethically charged plays, …

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Shakespeare's First Folio 1623-2023

"This wide-ranging collection reflects on the various motivations that caused the Folio to come into being in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, and on how the now iconic book has been cont…

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Michael DC Drout
The Tower and the Ruin

No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his world of Middle-earth. In The Tower and the Ruin , Michael D.C. Drout explores Tolkien's genius, allowing us …

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Peter Conrad
Dickens the Enchanter

A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens's superhuman imagination.

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