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Roberta Barker - Early Modern Tragedy.jpg
This book examines the representation of gender in selected recent performances of early modern tragedy. In the process, it elaborates a model of critically engaged spectatorship that will allow for the complexity and potential of such cultural productions, and shows ...
David Allan - Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England (2010).jpg
This pioneering exploration of Georgian men and women's experiences as readers explores their use of commonplace books for recording favourite passages and reflecting upon what they had read, revealing forgotten aspects of their complicated relationship with the ...
Clifford Geertz - Negara; The Theatre State In Nineteenth-Century Bali (1981).jpg
Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting body of work with influence throughout the humanities and social sciences, and remains the foremost anthropologist ...
Thomas Clarkson - An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species Particularly the African (2007).jpg
As the subject of the following work has fortunately become of late a topick of conversation I cannot begin the preface in a manner more satisfactory to the feelings of the benevolent reader than by giving an account of those humane and worthy persons who have endeavoured to ...
Paul R. Deslandes - Oxbridge Men; British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience.jpg
The mythic status of the Oxbridge man at the height of the British Empire continues to persist in depictions of this small, elite world as an ideal of athleticism, intellectualism, tradition, and ritual. In his investigation of the origins of this myth, Paul R. Deslandes ...
K. Steven Vincent - Benjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism (2011).jpg
Traditional scholarship on French liberalism has frequently proceeded by defining the core issues and telling a story of their emergence and development. This book takes a different approach: rather than beginning with an a priori definition of liberalism, it focuses on ...
Julian Hoppit - A Land of Liberty; England 1689-1727 (2000).jpg
The Glorious Revolution of 1688-9 was a decisive moment in England's history; an invading Dutch army forced James II to flee France, and his son-in-law and daughter, William and Mary, were crowned as joint sovereigns. The wider consequences were no less startling: war in ...
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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature provides a comprehensive, critical survey of the literature of Greece and Rome from Homer till the Fall of Rome. This is the only modern work of this scope; it embodies the very considerable advances made by recent classical ...
William Manchester - A World Lit Only by Fire; The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age (1993).jpg
The noted historian and biographer chronicles the collapse of the Dark Ages and the achievements of thought and imagination that constituted the Renaissance, profiling the age's leading figures and noting key events and accomplishments.
Patrick J. Quinn - The Literature of the Great War Reconsidered; Beyond Modern Memory (2001).jpg
This definitive volume will alter our understanding of the literature of World War I. New critical approaches have, over the last two decades, redefined the term "war literature" and its cultural legacy. Consisting, in equal measure, of essays by male and female scholars ...
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The Oxford Companion to the Year is one of those splendid volumes that should have a permanent place in every personal reference library, next to a well-thumbed Brewer's. The main body of the book gives a huge amount of historical and folkloric information on every day of the ...
Rena Blumenfeld-Kosinski - The Vernacular Spirit; Essays on Medieval Religious Literature (2002).jpg
The late-medieval movement into “vernacular theology,” as it has come to be called, inspired many forms of literary expression in all the languages of Europe. Juxtaposing a rich variety of texts, the contributors to this volume consider hagiography, translations of ...
John Boardman - The Oxford History of the Classical World (1988).jpg
From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical world has established the foundations of our culture, as well as many of its enduring achievements. ...
Mary E. Hancock - The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai (2008).jpg
In this anthropological history, Mary E. Hancock examines the politics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Once a colonial port, Chennai is now poised to become a center for India's "new economy" of information technology, export processing, and ...
Asa Mittman - Maps and Monsters in Medieval England (2006).jpg
This study centers on issues of marginality and monstrosity in medieval England. It sits at the crossroads of two discourses -- geography and monstrosity -- treated separately in the established scholarship but inseparable in the minds of medieval authors and artists.
Paul Young - Globalization and the Great Exhibition; The Victorian New World Order (2009).jpg
This book examines the Great Exhibition as a decisive moment in the formation of a capitalist world picture. In so doing it foregrounds a vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society, within the Crystal Palace and beyond. It emphasizes too that this ...