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Imagining the Irish Child: Discourses of Childhood in Irish Anglican Writing of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesThis book examines the ways in which ideas about children, childhood and Ireland changed together in Irish Protestant writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It focuses on different varieties of the child found in the work of a range of Irish Protestant writers,...
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Difficult Pasts: Post-Reformation Memory and the Medieval RomanceDifficult Pastscombines book history, reception history and theories of cultural memory to explore how Reformation-era audiences used medieval literary texts to construct their own national and religious identities. In doing so, it challenges narratives that separate manuscript and print, Catholic and Protestant, or medieval...
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Palestinian and Arab-Jewish Cultures: Language, Literature, and IdentityPart of a two-volume set, this volume examines the issues of commitment and hybridization in Arabic literature concentrating on Palestinian literature and Arab-Jewish culture and the interactions between them. Reuvin Snir studies the contribution of Palestinian literature and theatre to Palestinian nation-building, especially since...
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Republican Passions: Family, Friendship and Politics in Nineteenth-Century FranceRepublican passions provides an innovative perspective on the founding of the French Third Republic. Based on the archives of Léon Laurent-Pichat, journalist, Deputy and Life Senator, it demonstrates the crucial role of family and friendship networks in the republican movement during the Second Empire...
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Reading David Foster Wallace Between Philosophy and LiteratureThis book breaks new ground by showing that the work of David Foster Wallace originates from and functions in the space between philosophy and literature. Philosophy is not a mere supplement to or decoration of his writing, nor does he use literature to illustrate...
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The British and the Turks: A History of Animosity, 1893-1923The British described themselves as "the oldest friend" of the Ottomans - but this was never true. At times it was valuable to Britain to support the Ottoman Empire against Russian encroachment, however by the end of the 19th century successive British Governments had...
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Out of His Mind: Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian BritainOut of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of nineteenth-century psychiatry, to be certified as a lunatic meant a loss of...
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Making Choices, Making Do: Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women During the Great DepressionMaking Choices, Making Do is a comparative study of Black and white working-class women's survival strategies during the Great Depression. Based on analysis of employment histories and Depression-era interviews of 1,340 women in Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and South Bend and letters from domestic workers,...
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Transnational Solidarity: Anticolonialism in the Global SixtiesTransnational solidarity excavates the forgotten histories of solidarity that were vital to radical political imaginaries during the 'long' 1960s. It decentres the conventional Western focus of this critical historical moment by foregrounding transnational solidarity with, and across, anticolonial and anti-imperialist liberation struggles. The book...
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Age of Rogues: Rebels, Revolutionaries and Racketeers at the Frontiers of EmpiresIn Age of Rogues, leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and the biographical trajectory of men and women who challenged the political status quo of their time. Rebels, revolutionaries and racketeers played central roles in...
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Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical ExplorationFeaturing original essays by leading scholars of surrealism, Surrealist women's writing offers the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. The volume aims to demonstrate the extensiveness and the historical, linguistic, and culturally contextual breadth of this writing, as...
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Nietzsche and Irish ModernismNietzsche and Irish modernism demonstrates how the ideas of the controversial German philosopher played a crucial role in the emergence and evolution of a distinctly Irish brand of modernist culture. Making an essential new contribution to the history of modernism, the book traces the...
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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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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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Feudalism, Venality, and Revolution: Provincial Assemblies in Late-Old Regime FranceFeudalism, venality and revolution sheds new light on the political and social order of the Old Regime by examining the French monarchy's most ambitious effort to reform its institutions: the introduction of participatory assemblies at all levels of the government. According to Alexis de...
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Marilynne RobinsonBest known for a trilogy of historical novels set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa, Marilynne Robinson is a prolific writer, teacher, and public speaker, who has won the Pulitzer Prize and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by Barack Obama. This collection...
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The Heat of BeowulfThe heat of Beowulf develops a new approach to the aesthetics of Beowulf by engaging with the work of twentieth-century poets Robin Blaser and Jack Spicer, whose avant-garde poetics were informed by a serious encounter with the poem in the seminar of medievalist Arthur...
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The French Revolutionary Tradition in Russian and Soviet Politics, Political Thought, and CultureBecause they were Marxists, the Bolsheviks in Russia, both before and after taking power in 1917, believed that the past was prologue: that embedded in history was a Holy Grail, a series of mysterious, but nonetheless accessible and comprehensible, universal laws that explained the...
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Eighteenth-Century Environmental HumanitiesThis groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue...
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