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Minsoo Kang
The Melancholy of Untold History

"A history professor mourning his wife. His young protâegâe's search for a path forward. Four witty mountain gods with much to say and not enough time to listen. A gifted storyteller bringing a world…

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Sabrina Gilchrist Hadyk
The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature

The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature traces the evolution of the waltz from subversive to traditional across the 19th century, focusing on the Victorian authors who wrote about the waltz, exploring i…

lieferbar ab 8.8.2025.

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R B Stratton
Captivity of the Oatman Girls

A sensational bestseller when first published in 1857, Captivity of the Oatman Girls is the story of the nine members of the Oatman family who set out for California on the old Santa Fe Trail in 1851 and …

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Anke Walter
Festivals in Latin Literature

Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti. This book explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic p…

lieferbar ab 29.8.2025.

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Robert St Clair
Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature explores a counterview of modernity in late nineteenth-century French literature (1848-1891).

lieferbar ab 30.10.2025.

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Sam Leith
The Haunted Wood

A panoramic and poignant history of children's literature

lieferbar ab 4.9.2025.

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The Cambridge History of French Thought

French thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics, and society. Delivering a comprehensive history of thought in France from the Middle Ages to the present, this boo…

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H A Drake
The Wisdom of the Ancients

This book is a novel look at developments in Mediterranean antiquity that became essential components of the modern world. Instead of the usual fare, such as Greek democracy, Roman law, and barbarian inva…

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The Cambridge History of the British Essay

"This book provides multiple perspectives on a key form of public discourse, addressing the essay's postcolonial (Irish, Indian, African, American) and gendered contexts, its material manifestations …

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Jeff Ryan
Father and Son Issues

An incredibly fun-and necessary!-deep dive into one of American comics' most important, influential, and underappreciated artistic dynasties" --Fred Van Lente, six-time New York Times bestselling aut…

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The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry

The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry offers an authoritative and comprehensive engagement with poetries that range from some of the world's oldest to significant innovations of the twenty-first cent…

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Philip Meadows Taylor,
Confessions of a Thug

Confessions of a Thug was the first dramatic account to expose a European readership to the fantastic world of the murderous Thugs, or highway robbers, who strangled their victims and who have ever since …

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Matthew Ward
Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling

Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer a compelling new reading of British Romanticism. Matthew Ward reveals the decisive role laughter and the laughab…

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David Rudrum
Trolling Before the Internet

"An accessible and engaging history of trolling before the internet, tracing the ancestry of its textual and rhetorical strategies from ancient Greece to the 20th century. Taking in the contrarianism…

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Ruth Perry
The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland

This is a scholarly biography of Anna Gordon Brown, posthumously known as Mrs Brown of Falkland, an eighteenth-century Scottish ballad collector. This pioneering new study takes us to the overlapping worl…

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Ceri Sullivan
George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety employs contemporary nudge theory to illuminate the religious writing of George Herbert (1593-1633). Ceri Sullivan shows how Herbert's The Temple provide…

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Kimberly J Stern
The Forms and Fictions of Victorian Art Instruction

The Victorian period gave rise to revelatory new approaches to art instruction. A growing investment in standardized education, the rise of exhibition culture, and an expanding body of literature devoted …

lieferbar ab 25.12.2025.

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Lara Dodds, Michelle M Dowd
Early Modern Women's Writing and the Future of Literary History

Previous studies of English literary history often excluded women's writing or relegated it to a secondary, isolated tradition. This book argues that a full accounting of early modern women's literary act…

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Ryan Ruby
Context Collapse

"Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet--from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafâes of Gr…

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Eva Chen
The New Woman and Technologies of Speed in Fin-De- Siècle Literature

Explores the ways in which the nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminist ideal of the New Woman engaged and interacted with fin de siècle technologies of speed in order to fashion a new, dynamic identity…

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