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Rebecca Bratten Weiss
The Books That Made Us: Deconstructing the Modern Christian Classics

What do you do when you realize that the books you were taught to revere imbued you with false perspectives on humanity, society, and morals?This is the question editor and journalist Rebecca Bratten Weis…

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François-Réne Chateaubriand,
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815-1830

The third part of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, the aristocratic Frenchman who lived through the beginning of the French Revolution and who would become the founder of the Romantic movement in …

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Anthony Sharwood
Kosciuszko

Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Je…

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Michael Allan
Cinema Before the World

Cinema before the World investigates the transnational origins of filmmaking by focusing on a case study in world cinema -- the 1896-1897 voyage of one of the Lumière Brothers camera operators, Alexandre …

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James Reichert
Literature for the Masses

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as period fiction or mass literature. It highlights the important cultural and ideological work…

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James Marcus
Glad to the Brink of Fear

An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readersMore than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American c…

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Megan O'Grady
How It Feels to Be Alive

A vital testament to how art makes us who we are-and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives. Barbara Kruger once defined art as "the ability to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent sh…

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Alex Trustrum-Thomas
Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism

Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism traces the development of fringe theatre in Russia over the course of the second decade of the twenty-first century.

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Michael North
Making Common Sense

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been dif…

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Melissa Alexander
Conversation Pieces

Conversation Pieces sketches an object-oriented lineage for modernism, showing that Virginia Woolf's passion for objects was fuelled by her participation in a widespread conversation about philosophical e…

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Megan O'Grady
How It Feels to Be Alive

A vital testament to how art makes us who we are-and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives. Barbara Kruger once defined art as "the ability to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent sh…

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Hana Videen
The Deorhord

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild c…

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David Krolikoski
Lyrical Translation

Lyrical Translation is a literary history of modern Korean poetry's origins and its development through translation. As the use of Korean became increasingly restricted during the Japanese occupation, tra…

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Ping Wang
The Poetic Way of XIE Lingyun

The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and placeDuring the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties (618…

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Sophie Heywood,
Children's Publishing in Cold War France

Exploring the history of Cold War censorship legislation and its impact on the French publishing industry for children, this open access book focuses on the publisher Hachette to detail how it dominated t…

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The History of Sub-Saharan African Literatures on Film

This comprehensive history of cinematic adaptations of sub-Saharan African literatures analyzes social, economic and political factors that influenced the film versions of texts across a wide range of gen…

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William Jardine
The Naturalist's Library. The Natural History of Humming-Birds

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Shakespeare and Seriality

Encompassing a wide variety of genres, media and art forms across a broad historical scope, this open access book identifies central strategies of serialization in Shakespeare's plays and their adaptation…

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Natania Meeker
Illusive Materialisms

Illusive Materialisms brings a close attention to gender to bear on the philosophical and political argument that sensual pleasure, framed as a mode of feminine responsiveness, is the primary business of …

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Early Modern Receptions of Tacitus

This volume explores the uses of the enduringly popular Roman historian Tacitus in and since the early modern period. In particular, it focuses on the road to and ongoing legacy of 'high Tacitism' (c. 157…

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