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The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth CenturyThe Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of "family plots" in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents...
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Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of LettersGeorge Herbert (1593-1633), the celebrated devotional poet, and his brother Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648), often described as the father of English deism, are rarely considered together. This collection explores connections between the full range of the brothers' writings and activities, despite the apparent...
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The Pastor in Print: Genre, Audience, and Religious Change in Early Modern EnglandThe pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print. It identifies strategies through which pastor-authors...
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Exiting War: The British Empire and the 1918-20 MomentExiting war explores a particular 1918-20 'moment' in the British Empire's history, between the First World War's armistices of 1918 and the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920. That moment, the book argues, was a challenging and transformative time for the Empire. While British...
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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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Interpreting Chekhov's ProseChekhov's brief but highly meaningful life of forty-four years can be best defined as a brilliant merging of the professions of writer and physician, and this work treats this extensively in all its unique ramifications.Author: Leonard A. PolakiewiczPublisher: Academic Studies PressPublished: 07/09/2024Pages: 432Binding Type:...
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The True Story of the Holocaust Rescuers: Zofia Sterner and Her FamilyPublisher: Cherry Orchard BooksPublished: 09/26/2023Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9798887191973
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Gogol's Crime and Punishment: An Essay in the Interpretation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead SoulsThis monograph is nothing less than a bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol's novel Dead Souls that even inspired a staging of Dead Souls at Schauspiel Stuttgart. Heftrich gives a comprehensive, coherent answer to the question of the novel's meaning by meticulously...
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David 'Chim' Seymour: Searching for the Light. 1911-1956"He used his camera like a doctor would use a stethoscope in order to diagnose the state of the heart. His own was vulnerable.", Cartier-Bresson wrote about David Seymour, who liked to be called Chim. Chim is best known as one of the cofounders...
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The Second World War in East Africa, 1940-1941As a first of its kind, this edited collection brings together a variety of chapters dealing with different topics that address, where possible, most of the participants involved in or affected by the conflict as well as different, often neglected aspects of the East...
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Die Deutschen Volksgruppen Im Unabhaengigen Staat Kroatien Und Im Serbischen Banat: Ihr Verhaeltnis Zum Dritten Reich 1941-1944Das Buch wurde auf einer breiten Basis von bislang kaum einschl gig ausgewertetem offiziellem Quellenmaterial, zeitgeschichtlichen Dokumentationen und Einzeldarstellungen, von Tageszeitungen, Zeitschriften und Kalendern, von Privatarchiven und Zeitzeugenaussagen erstellt. Es informiert ber die politische, kulturelle und wirtschaftliche Lage der Deutschen im Unabh ngigen Staat...
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Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics in Japanese Fiction: Case Studies in Novel ReflexivityCan novels contribute to the ethical lives of readers? What responsibilities might they bear in representing others? Are we ethically accountable for how we read fiction? This study takes up modern Japanese fiction and metafiction, subjects overwhelmingly ignored by Anglophone scholarship on novel ethics,...
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Victorian Nightshades: How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern WorldA darkly alluring plant family and the arrival of modernity Victorian Nightshades tells the story of how one plant family--notorious for centuries in England because of its frequently psychoactive and poisonous properties--rose to social and economic prevalence during the nineteenth century. Beginning with bittersweet...
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Milan Kundera Known and Unknown: Multidimensional Analysis of Selected WorksThis collection of essays offers crucial and luminous insights into one of the best-known Czech authors, Milan Kundera, including his lesser known works. With essays that focus on Kundera's poetry and plays, his last four novels written in French, and his nonfiction writings on...
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Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and HistoryAn imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework.Toyin Falola analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Africa in Achebe's literary works to offer a critical representation of Africa's present and future. In particular, he focuses...
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Alice Munro's Late Style: 'Writing Is the Final Thing'Focusing on Alice Munro's last three collections, this book examines the differences between these volumes and the rest of her work to analyse the emergence and the difference of her 'late style'.Alice Munro has effectively reshaped the short story as a form. This book...
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Poesis in Extremis: Literature Witnessing the HolocaustHow can genocide be witnessed through imaginative literature? How can the Holocaust affect readers who were not there? Reading the work of major figures such as Elie Wiesel, Paul Celan, Avrom Sutzkever, Ida Fink, Wladyslaw Szlengel, Itzhak Katzenelson, and Czeslaw Milosz, Poesis in Extremis...
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Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US postmodernity. Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 responds to existing studies of literary minimalism by pursuing three original and interrelated objectives. It provides a more inclusive...
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Milieus of Minutiae: Contextualizing the Small in Literature, Philosophy, and ScienceThe long history of tiny matter(s) in the sciences, thought, and culture From catastrophic weather and steady warming caused by the accumulation of carbon particles in the Earth's atmosphere to societies brought to a standstill by microscopic viruses, the new millennium has reminded us...
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Reading Character After Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century NovelHow Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the origins of modern secularism The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century novel has been well documented. They are two-dimensional yet complex; they suggest unstable correspondences between...
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