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Emily Wilson
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea

In this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson--whose renditions of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation's imagination--explores the complicated terrain of readi…

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Heather Jeanne Denyer
Gender and Sexuality in West African Theatre

This book illustrates how contemporary theatre makers, particularly women, in the West African countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, and Togo are changing public views on gender and sexuality in their theatre…

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Sarah Ehlers
Collecting Depression America

The Great Depression marked a crucial moment when the institutionalization of archival practices accelerated and consolidated. Returning to this era through the lens of writers affiliated with Depression …

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Ray Nayler
Palaces of the Crow

In Ray Nayler's speculative novel of the recent past, four young teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnifi…

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Tony Hsu
Chasing the Modern

At the height of his literary prowess, Xu Zhimo was the most famous living poet in all of China. With his round spectacles and aristocratic profile, Xu had a face that became as iconic as his poetry. Duri…

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Amal Eqeiq
Indigenous Affinities

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity…

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Kapka Kassabova
Borrowed Land

The epic, urgent story of a Scottish glen, its destruction and renewal, and those fighting to protect their home. This is the intimate story of a Scottish glen and its inhabitants, of whom I am one. Power…

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Amal Eqeiq
Indigenous Affinities

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity…

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Picturing Health and Illness in Northern Europe

This book focuses on the entanglement of the fine arts and visual culture with medical developments, homeopathy, and the Lebensreform movement in the Germanic and Nordic countries at the turn of the last …

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Anandarup Biswas
Inveterate Walkers, Literary Minds

Inveterate Walkers, Literary Minds: Bengal's Pilgrims and Their Himalayan Journeys brings under its critical focus the writings of Bengal's travellers (mostly pilgrims) who went, on foot, into Himalayan t…

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Antonios Pontoropoulos
Writing Herstory Through Ancient Greek Letters

Offering the first comprehensive feminist analysis of ancient Greek fictional letters, this book focuses on the centuries between the Roman Imperial period and late antiquity. Through an exploration of mo…

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Carman Romano
Theologies of Fear in Early Greek Epic

This book explores the theological significance of horror elements in the works of Hesiod and in the Homeric Hymns for the characters within these poems, the mortal audience consuming them, and the poet r…

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Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis Tusculanarum Disputationum)

This is a critical edition of Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes , which presents in dialogue form his views on the fear of death and endurance of pain, on distress and a range of other emotions, and on th…

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Michelle M Dowd
Shakespeare and Work

What did work mean to Shakespeare? And what does it mean to work in Shakespeare's plays? Work was a quintessential part of early modern society, as it is today. But the meanings attached to different form…

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Dorian Lynskey
Everything Must Go

A rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factors dr…

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Andrew Harrison
The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis: Paleface

The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis brings together for the first time all of the published writings of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), a major contributor to literary modernism and one of the most important …

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Augustine,
The Teacher. Teaching Christianity

Magisterial pedagogy.Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Chr…

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Wisdom Discourse in the Ancient World

This book moves beyond the debate on 'wisdom literature', ongoing in biblical studies, to demonstrate the productivity of 'wisdom' as a literary category. Featuring work by scholars of Egyptology, classic…

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Henry Bell, Sophie Bush,
The Theatre of Laura Wade

This is the first full-length exploration of the work of Laura Wade, providing critical and performance perspectives on one of the UK's most frequently staged female playwrights.Laura Wade is one of the m…

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Hilary Fraser
The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume I

Walter Pater's first book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), is a landmark in Victorian intellectual and cultural history. The first book-length study of the Renaissance by a British write…

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