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James Kearney
Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity

What does it feel like to be enjoined to avenge your father's murder? What is it like to banish your daughter or disavow your community? To murder? Focusing on Shakespeare's most ethically charged plays, …

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Amanda Anderson, Simon During
Humanities Theory

Humanities Theory argues that there exists a global humanities world which not only transcends disciplinary divisions but joins the professional academic humanities to a thriving amateur public humanities…

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Ovid: Heroides

Ovid's Heroides ('Letters from Heroines') are one of the most remarkable works of classical literature. Written towards the end of the first century BCE, they take the form of verse letters written for th…

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Patti M Marxsen
Karen Blixen's Search for Self

In Karen Blixen's Search for Self , Patti M. Marxsen presents a twenty-first-century reconsideration of Blixen's iconic memoir Out of Africa, originally published in 1937 and now regarded as a classic of …

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James Diggle
Last Thoughts on Euripides

Last Thoughts on Euripides is a companion to the second edition of volume II of the Oxford Classical Text edition of Euripides. James Diggle explains choices made in that edition, assesses developments in…

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Mario Telò
Roman Comedy Against the Subject

Roman Comedy against the Subject provides an expansive interpretation of four Roman comedies named after objects--Plautus's Cistellaria ,Aulularia , and Rudens , and Terence's Eunuchus . In this book, the…

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Barry Sanders
The Manifesto of Herman Melville

In this iconoclastic and sure to be contentious re-casting by a renowned critic, the great American novel Moby Dick is presented as a work that has been widely misread, an error that continues to this day…

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Creolizing Frankenstein

Creolizing Frankenstein dissects and critically appreciates Mary Shelley's 200-year old novel. Contributors advance two claims: first, this story is the product of creolization--the intentional conglomera…

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Robert Frost,
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 4

A revelatory new volume of Robert Frost's correspondence, illuminating one of America's most renowned poets at the height of his literary fame and the depths of personal tragedy.By the late 1930s, Robert …

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Michael DC Drout
The Tower and the Ruin

No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his world of Middle-earth. In The Tower and the Ruin , Michael D.C. Drout explores Tolkien's genius, allowing us …

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Amanda Anderson, Simon During
Humanities Theory

Humanities Theory argues that there exists a global humanities world which not only transcends disciplinary divisions but joins the professional academic humanities to a thriving amateur public humanities…

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M Genevieve West
Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture

Taking a close look at Zora Neale Hurston's historical and literary contexts, this book investigates why Hurston's writing fell out of favor during her lifetime only to be reclaimed and appreciated years …

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Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction

Inspired by the career of Judie Newman, a genuinely ground-breaking scholar in the fields of U.S. and postcolonial literature, this book moves beyond strict national or genre boundaries in its approach to…

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Merlin Holland
After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal

Written by Oscar Wilde's only grandson, After Oscar recounts the gripping story of Wilde and his enduring legacy."Fascinating...A magnificent blend of scholarship and memoir and a vital contribution …

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John Curran
The Murder Game

From The Murder of Roger Ackroyd to Magpie Murders , and related diversions including cryptic crosswords and Cain's Jawbone , The Murder Gameexamines the games authors played with their readers and the im…

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Peter Conrad
Dickens the Enchanter

'Dickensian is a language, not an adjective. Conrad speaks it fluently.' -- Spectator World'Marvellous... the best book on Dickens since G.K. Chesterton's. -- A. N. Wilson, The OldieA kaleidoscopic invest…

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Peter Conrad
Dickens the Enchanter

A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens's superhuman imagination.

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Maggie Nelson
Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth

***Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*** Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a …

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Complexities of Anger

Anger is not simply an affect; it is a complicated and complex emotion that is culturally constructed and at the same time constructive of cultural, political, ecological and even psychological change and…

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Kimberly Chung
The Sensational Proletarian

"Starving ghosts, anguished farmers, and grieving mothers. Floating heads, gaunt bodies, and masses of bodily fluids. Such are the visceral sensations, exaggerated affects, and suffering subjects tha…

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