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Essaka Joshua
Disability and the Gothic

Disability is central to the Gothic imagination. This Element draws together disability and Gothic literature in ways that show the interplay between them. The first chapter offers a brief history of Crit…

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Essaka Joshua
Disability and the Gothic

Disability is central to the Gothic imagination. This Element draws together disability and Gothic literature in ways that show the interplay between them. The first chapter offers a brief history of Crit…

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David J Vázquez
Decolonial Environmentalisms

A critical examination of the environmental movement and the Latinx voices that are shifting how to think about a future shaped by climate change.In Decolonial Environmentalisms, David VÁzquez argues that…

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Jeremy Harte
Fairy Encounters in Medieval England

What is it like to meet a being from another world? This book collects testimony from eight hundred years of witnesses baffled by the supernatural breaking into their lives. Close reading of miracle colle…

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Mario Telò
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing

Considering Butler's "tragic trilogy"-a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides-this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and inte…

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Gary Wade
Seamus Heaney and Catholicism

Seamus Heaney and Catholicism makes extensive use of unpublished material to offer fresh insights into Heaney's complex engagement with Catholicism. Gary Wade explores how Catholicism operates in ways oth…

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Teaching with Science Writing in the Humanities Classroom

Options for teaching science writing in humanities coursesScience writing is an expansive genre that invites collaborations between the humanities and science---not as separate endeavors but as mutually c…

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Teaching with Science Writing in the Humanities Classroom

Options for teaching science writing in humanities coursesScience writing is an expansive genre that invites collaborations between the humanities and science---not as separate endeavors but as mutually c…

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Kai Horstmannshoff
The Loop

American Culture Studies - Band 21

The Loop: Chicago Architecture and the Social Imaginary discusses the social function of architecture. Through close readings of skyscrapers, opera houses and urban parks in Chicago, Kai Horstmannshoff de…

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Gero Bauer
Houses, Secrets, and the Closet

'Houses, Secrets, and the Closet' investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in 18th and 19th century fiction. It focusses on close readings of Got…

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After the Broken Spears

Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal …

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Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson
A Black Woman for President

Throughout US history, only three Black women---Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris---have given successfully recognized bids for the office of president of the United States. In A Bl…

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Victoria Wohl
The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy

"This hauntingly beautiful study recovers the boundlessness of Presocratic thought. In close readings of five early Greek cosmologists--Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus-…

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Rob Harris
After Impressionism

Impressionist painting was the dominant art form of its time, and one to which English-speaking poets were profoundly responsive. Yet the relationship between impressionism and poetry has largely been ove…

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Pamela Bickley, Jenny Stevens
Essential Shakespeare

Addressing the transition from pre-university to undergraduate Shakespeare studies, this introductory critical guide examines 16 key plays. Each chapter focuses on modern theoretical methods, close readin…

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Jennifer Ingleheart
A Grecian Lad

The first book to bring together A.E. Housman's poetry and classical scholarship, revealing the deep connections between the two. A Grecian Lad offers a study of classical allusion in A Shropshire Lad , a…

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Sarah Hayden
Voiceworks

An acute theorization of the human voice in contemporary artVoiceworks is a perceptive exploration of contemporary artworks in which the primary medium of activation is the human voice. Engaging in close …

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Andrew Bennett
Reading Keats's Letters

John Keats's personal letters are widely considered to be some of the finest in the English language - and in any language: the most inventive, most brilliant, most moving. While they have been frequently…

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Carol Armstrong
The Matter of Still Life

Franklin D. Murphy Lectures

How does still life "matter"? The two essays in this book, based on Carol Armstrong's lectures as part of the 2020 Franklin D. Murphy Lectureship at the University of Kansas, explore the concept…

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Franziska Röber,
Transgressing Later Life Sexualities in British Sitcoms

Based on close readings of three major sitcoms, this book unpacks how sitcoms understand later life sexualities and focusses on how they represent sexually active older adults.Focusing on three representa…

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