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The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew LiteratureThe Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature contends that the processes of enlightenment, modernization, and secularization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society were marked not by a reading revolution but rather by a writing revolution, that is, by a revolutionary...
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Frances Burney's "Evelina": The Book, Its History, and Its ParatextEvelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history through 174 editions, adaptations, and reprints, many of them newly discovered and identified, this book demonstrates how the novel's material embodiment in the...
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The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial NigeriaIn 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its...
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Emotions in Non-Fictional Representations of the Individual, 1600-1850: Between East and WestThis book addresses the distinct representations of emotions in non-fictional texts from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century (1600-1850). Focusing on memoirs, autobiographies, correspondences and conduct manuals, it argues that in those writings, passions and emotions are differently expressed than in fiction. It also...
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Carson McCullers in the Twenty-First CenturyThe contributors to this volume use diverse critical techniques to identify how Carson McCullers' writing engages with and critiques modern social structures and how her work resonates with a twenty-first century audience. The collection includes chapters about McCullers' fiction, autobiographical writing, and dramatic works,...
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Jane Austen and Reflective Selfhood: Rereading the SelfThis book makes connections between selfhood, reading practice and moral judgment which propose fresh insights into Austen's narrative style and offer new ways of reading her work. It grounds her writing in the Enlightenment philosophy of selfhood, exploring how Austen takes five major components...
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Charlotte Mary Yonge: Writing the Victorian AgeThis interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the life and work of Charlotte M. Yonge, a highly influential and popular nineteenth-century writer who is emerging from a long period of critical neglect. Its wide-ranging chapters capture the scope and quality of current work in Yonge...
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The Cambridge History of the First World War SetThe Cambridge History of the First World War is a comprehensive, three-volume work, which provides an authoritative account of the military, political, social, economic and cultural history of the Great War. Reflecting the very latest research in the field, the volumes provide a transnational...
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The Cambridge History of the First World War, Volume 1: Global WarThis first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. An international team of leading historians charts how a war made possible by globalization and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by...
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The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy: Volumes 1-3, the Great Crises [With CD]These volumes provide a unique glimpse into the real workings of the Kennedy White House, presenting perhaps the most reliable record of the Kennedy presidency ever published. In the summer of 1962, President John F. Kennedy installed a secret taping system in the White...
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Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Volume IIAOperation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation includes full analyses of the Axis and Soviet armed-forces organisation, weapons, equipment, personnel, transport, logistics, war-production, mobilisation and replacements during 1941. Uniquely, the work employs a sophisticated military simulation methodology extending from the...
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War and Peace in the Religious Conflicts of the Long Sixteenth CenturyThis collection of essays seeks to analyse historically these influences, connections, and impact from multiple points of view, such as - but not limited to - the links between war and rebellion, the issues of trust and religious violence, early modern university debates on...
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Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to BeckettExploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers - D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett - this book is the first substantial study of the interrelations...
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Juan Per?n's Anti-Imperialist Geopolitics: A New Order for the Cold War WorldUsing a blend of global, intellectual and cultural history, this book explores the geopolitics of Juan Per?n and its relationship to, and impact on, the international history of the mid-20th century.Beginning with Per?n's formative years, it analyses the concepts that helped form his anti-imperialist...
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Incarceration in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn: Serve Your Own SentencesThe first full-length study of the poet, artist and activist Anna Mendelssohn (1948-2009), this book consolidates Mendelssohn's reputation as one of the most important avant-garde British poets of her generation and explores her contribution to the powerful tradition of women writing enclosure and escape....
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Black Britain and Nelson Mandela: "Pulling the Branch of a Tree"In this open access book, Elizabeth Williams leads a cast of renowned scholars to explore the impact of Nelson Mandela's legacy on Black intellectual thought on race and social justice in Britain. This engaging book presents an original collection of chapters authored by leading...
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Churchill and Industrial Britain: Liberalism, Empire and Employment, 1900-1929This book offers a new understanding of the main economic and political trends of 20th-century Britain, through the lens of Churchill's early career and approach to industrialisation.Shedding fresh light on Churchill's political endeavours between 1900 and 1922, this study analyses his work within his...
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Joseph Conrad's Cultural Legacy: Centennial EssaysIn 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of collected essays takes the opportunity to reflect on Conrad's enduring influence on literature and culture in the 21st century. Offering reflections on Conrad's legacy by leading...
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Demos Rising: Democracy and the Popular Construction of Public Power in France, 1800-1850A political history exploring the concept of demos in the French government during the period of 1800 to 1850. In his previous book, Demos Assembled, historian Stephen W. Sawyer offered a transatlantic account of the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. In...
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Border Politics in Novels by European Women in TranslationIs conflict inherent to the politics of borders? Recent global events, erupting from national, religious, class, racial and gender boundaries would suggest it is. From the inhumanity of post-Brexit British immigration policy to the violent suppression of women's freedom in Iran, to Russia's territorial...
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