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Sarah Baechle
Father Chaucer and the Apologists

"Explores a controversial 1380 document accusing Geoffrey Chaucer of rape, examining historical discourses on sex, consent, and violation. Reveals how Chaucer studies and rape culture intersect, offe…

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Brady Lloyd
Australian One-Act Plays for Young Adults

Five compelling and theatrically dynamic plays that celebrate the strength of the human spirit, blending hope, humour and heart.Australian One-Act Plays for Young Adults is a collection of original plays …

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Lucian
Lucian, Volume I

Loeb Classical Library

Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly creative, virtuosic, and boldly original writers of antiquity. Although he more than once …

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Charles Ignatius Sancho,
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

'In short, I write just what I think.'After a successful career in the service of an aristocratic family, Charles Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729-1780) established a successful grocery business in Westminster, a…

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Herodotus,
Herodotus: Histories Book VII

Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus' Histories. It brings together many of the work's themes and contains the legendary story of the ultimately unsuccessful Greek resistance to the Persian army at the…

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Aubrey Gabel
The Politics of Play

Showing the political importance of play in postwar French literature In postwar France, authors approached writing ludically, placing rules and conditions on language and on the context of composition it…

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Peter Nicholls, Peter Boxall
Beckett and Leopardi

This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett to argue that the dialogue between them might offer new ways of thinking about the nature of both writers' pessimism. The aut…

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Peter Nicholls, Peter Boxall
Beckett and Leopardi

This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett to argue that the dialogue between them might offer new ways of thinking about the nature of both writers' pessimism. The aut…

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Noel Rubinton
Looking for a Story

"An annotated guide to the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, teacher, and pioneer of creative nonfictionJohn McPhee has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1965 and has written more…

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Andrew Hadfield, Matthew Dimmock
Mapping the World at the Dawn of the British Empire

A compact and informative guide to the ways in which the changing world of the early seventeenth century was understood and experienced by the British before the British Empire was established.

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Alan Hollinghurst
The Line of Beauty

I can't explain it. I can't explain any of it to you. The line of beauty which led me to him. to here.London. Summer, 1983.Nick Guest moves into the grand Notting Hill home of his university friend Toby -…

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Rebecca Romney
Jane Austen's Bookshelf

Who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen? Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelves? Rare books dealer Rebecca Romney sheds a light on Austen's inspirations and contemporaries in …

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Jessica Barr
Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about union with God and as the end of life on earth.For medieval Christians, only death could…

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Alan Jacobs
Paradise Lost

"This book focuses on the character and enduring influence of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, looking beyond the book's original text and into the various works and media it has inspired."--

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Wilt L. Idema
A Historical Taxonomy of Talking Birds in Chinese Literature

Parrots and mynahs have played a unique role in Chinese literature for two millennia. In this wide-ranging thematic study, Wilt L. Idema traces the development of the parrot and the mynah as characters in…

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Lowell Duckert
Arcticologies

Exploring the frozen past to rethink our warming futureDo we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell Duckert delves into early modern European texts to trace how representations of frigidity fr…

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Andrew Cutrofello
The One and the Others

An original account of Western metaphysics based on Plato's ParmenidesAt the end of Plato's Parmenides , Parmenides concludes that "whether 'the One' is or is not, it and 'the Others' both are and ar…

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Mirjam E. Kotwick
The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams

The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical GreeceLong before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams , Mirjam…

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The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place

In recent decades authors from across the world have adopted and adapted the bildungsroman literary genre to reflect on coming of age in postcolonial spaces and places. The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and …

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Plutarch,
Moralia, Volume I

Loeb Classical Library

Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six Parallel Lives , bio…

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