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Vaishnavi Patel
Ten Incarnations of Rebellion

From the New York Times bestselling author of Kaikeyi comes an epic and daring novel that imagines an alternate version of 1960s India that was never liberated from the British, and a young woman's strugg…

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Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Need/Emergency

Modern politics is preoccupied with states of emergency. Yet emergency politics obscures underlying socio-economic, infrastructural, and ecological conditions of need. Prompted by Hannah Arendt's claim th…

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Alison Keith
Sulpicia

This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocr…

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Kim Hunter Gordon,
Kunqu

From its origins in the poetic tradition and its refinement in the southern salons of the 16th century, to its 18th -century theatrical heyday and patriotic revival in modern times, this book introduces K…

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Rachel Skokowski
The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching

The first comprehensive study of the Goncourt brothers' etchings, including never-before published images of their work.

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Nick Triplow
Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of British Noir

Nick Triplow's soulful biography of enigmatic British crime fiction pioneer, Ted Lewis (author of Get Carter ), is one of those rare works of literary investigation that relentlessly asserts its own statu…

lieferbar ab 2.6.2026.

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William D Paden
Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours

Overturning the myth that medieval marriages were loveless, shown through a close analysis of troubadour poetry and historical recordsMedieval marriages are often understood to have been loveless, due par…

lieferbar ab 24.3.2026.

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Serk-Bae Suh
Against the Chains of Utility

"The 1970s and 1980s were pivotal decades in South Korea, marked by rapid industrialization and urbanization. The language of sacrifice was constantly employed by the developmental state to justify i…

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Gary Saul Morson
Wonder Confronts Certainty

Gary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues of great writers with philosophical wanderers and blood-soaked radicals reveal a contes…

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Holly Furneaux
Enemy Intimacies and Strange Meetings in Writings of Conflict 1800-1918

Explores literary accounts of intimate military encounters in the nineteenth century and the particular ways in which these encounters could facilitate feelings of familiarity and even friendship within t…

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Geoffrey A Baker
Belief in Evidence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

What makes us believe anything told to us by another person? How does this work in scenes of judgment where we operate almost exclusively with report from others, like a trial by jury? Thomas Reid declare…

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Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge
Composite Selves

Composite Selves tells a new story about the German novel in the eighteenth century, engaging with and challenging scholarly narratives that ignore the earlier decades of the 1700s and focus only on the &…

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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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John Selden, Jason P Rosenblatt, Joshua Eckhardt
The Discourse of John Selden, Esq. (Table Talk)

The Discourse of John Selden Esq. presents an annotated edition of the Table Talk of lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar John Selden (1584-1654). It draws on 21 manuscripts of the work with both …

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Dwight Macdonald,
Atrocities of the Mind

An essential collection of Dwight Macdonald's prophetic essays on politics, art, and violence in twentieth-century America.What does extreme violence do to human values? Does the concept of collective gui…

lieferbar ab 27.5.2026.

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Molly Farrell
New World Calculation

Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of r…

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Julie Olin-Ammentorp
Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War

Through a detailed examination of a wide range of texts, this book reclaims Edith Wharton's writings from World War I and places Wharton in the company of other "Great War" writers.

lieferbar ab 14.4.2026.

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Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Need/Emergency

Modern politics is preoccupied with states of emergency. Yet emergency politics obscures underlying socio-economic, infrastructural, and ecological conditions of need. Prompted by Hannah Arendt's claim th…

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Michael K Kellogg
The Wisdom of Romanticism

Explore the transformative power of Romanticism---where emotion, imagination, and contradiction collide---through the eyes of its greatest thinkers and artists.The post-Enlightenment movement known as Ro…

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Milan Kundera,
89 Words Followed by Prague, a Disappearing Poem

Two newly translated works from one of the greatest literary writers and thinkers of the modern age, available together in English for the first time.Translating a work from its original language can be c…

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