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Revolutionary Bodies: Homoeroticism and the Political Imagination in Irish WritingRevolutionary Bodies analyses how a revolutionary imagination is realised in several Irish literary works of homoerotic passion.Homoerotic depictions of male bodies in writing by Oscar Wilde, Brendan Behan and John Broderick merged with debates about aesthetics, religion, socialism, and Irish anti-colonialism. More recently, a...
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Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of PoetryThe first book-length study of Heaney's dialogue with Virgil, one of Seamus Heaney's major literary exemplars.Author: Rachel FalconerPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 02/08/2022Pages: 312Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75dISBN: 9781474454391
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Taking Travel Home: The Souvenir Culture of British Women Tourists, 1750-1830In the late eighteenth-century, elite British women had an unprecedented opportunity to travel. Taking travel home uncovers the souvenir culture these women developed around the texts and objects they brought back with them to realise their social, intellectual and political ambitions in the arenas...
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Recovering Scottish History: John Hill Burton and Scottish National Identity in the Nineteenth CenturyProviding a reassessment of John Hill Burton, a significant figure in 19th-century Scottish thought, this book presents a revision of the predominant historiographic interpretation of nineteenth-century Scotland. It traces Burton's remarkably diverse social and intellectual acquaintance, and equally varied literary endeavours, from his early...
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Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918-1946For the past two decades, insights gained from the burgeoning field of borderlands studies have enabled a new generation of scholars to challenge popular depictions of the emergence of the modern Middle East. For them, the region's borderlands were not just mere sites of...
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Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade Across Languages, Cultures, and MediaPublished in 1719, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. German author Johann Gottfried Schnabel--who in 1731 penned his own island narrative--coined the term "Robinsonade" to...
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Deirdre Madden: New critical perspectivesAuthor: Anne FogartyPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 06/28/2022Pages: 256Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 5.60h x 8.60w x 0.80dISBN: 9781526118929
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The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy and PrivilegeThis book narrates the rise and fall of Kurdish nobility in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth through to the nineteenth century. Focusing on one noble Kurdish family based in the emirate of Palu, a fortressed town in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman...
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Mozart and the Wolf Gang: By Anthony BurgessWritten in 1991 to commemorate the bicentennial of Mozart's death, Burgess's novella-length piece is a compendium of themes, genres and even art-forms revolving around the one central preoccupation of the entire Burgess oeuvre: the reconcilability of life and art. This is a kaleidoscope of...
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Spenser's Ethics: Empire, Mutability, and Moral Philosophy in Early ModernitySpenser's ethics offers a novel account of Edmund Spenser as a moral theorist, situating his ethics at the nexus of moral philosophy's profound transformation in the early modern era, and the English colonisation of Ireland in the turbulent 1580's and 90's. It revises a...
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Families of the Heart: Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British NovelIn this innovative analysis of canonical British novels, Campbell identifies a new literary device--the surrogate family--as a signal of cultural anxieties about young women's changing relationship to matrimony across the long eighteenth century. By assembling chosen families rather than families of origin, Campbell convincingly...
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The Puerto Rican Problem in Postwar New York City: Migrant Incorporation from the U.S. Colonial PeripheryThe "Puerto-Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City presents the first comprehensive examination of the emergence, evolution, and consequences of the "Puerto Rican problem" campaign and narrative in New York City from 1945 to 1960. This notion originated in an intense public campaign that...
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The Right to Memory: History, Media, Law, and EthicsThe field of memory studies has typically focused on everyday memory and commemoration practices through which we construct meaning and identities. The Right to Memory looks beyond these everyday practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order...
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Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and CommunityThe term "Heartland" in American cultural context conventionally tends to provoke imageries of corn-fields, flat landscape, hog farms, and rural communities, along with ideas of conservatism, homogeneity, and isolation. But as the Midwestern and Southern states experienced more rapid population growth than that in...
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British Literature and Archaeology, 1880-1930British literature and archaeology, 1880-1930 reveals how British writers and artists across the long turn of the twentieth century engaged with archaeological discourse--its artefacts, landscapes, bodies, and methods--uncovering the materials of the past to envision radical possibilities for the present and future. This project...
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The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic ReadersWhat did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron's new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers--sometimes accurate, sometimes not--were tantalizingly at the ready in the Romantic era, when confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, and gossip columns offered...
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General William Roy, 1726-1790: Father of the Ordnance SurveyWilliam Roy was a polymath and a visionary. His work established the path that would lead to the formation of the Ordnance Survey and to all of the paper-based and digital mapping products that we use today. His story - very much one of...
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The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, 7-Volume SetSince the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along possible river routes...
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Military Innovation in the Interwar PeriodThis study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s explores differences in innovating exploitation by the seven major military powers. This volume of comparative essays investigates how and why innovation occurred or did not occur, and explains much of the strategic and...
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How Dehumanization Leads to Murder and Genocide: Lessons from the Nazi EraThis book discusses psychological aspects of dehumanization and of the human tendency to dominate, control and potentially murder those considered "less than", or dangerous to the dominant group. It explores how increasingly severe dehumanization resulted in the genocide of six million Jews in the...
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