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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498561624Author Kathy ComfortFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387434619Author Amy KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 290g

America's Imagined Revolution explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical questions about how slave emancipation has (and has not) been theorized as revolution. Reading historical...

Winner of the European Association for American Studies Prize 2016. In Writing for Justice, Elena Mortara presents a richly layered study of the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998531847Author Richard FalkFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

After the Fact: Authority and the Historical Document in Late Twentieth-Century Literature examines historiographic metafiction's epistemological concern with the historical document. The six texts herein recover official and neglected documents, viewing...

Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney's lives and careers have been intertwined since the 1960s, when they participated in the Belfast Group of creative writers and later edited the literary journal Northern Review. In Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley,...

The Spirit of Rome (1906) is a memoir by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and scholar of the Italian Renaissance, The Spirit of Rome is a captivating meditation on the author’s experiences in Rome...

Originally published in 1969, this study examines the religious and ethical community which had an immense influence on the spiritual development of the Anglo-American world – the family in Puritan England. The book makes extensive reference to the...

Originally published in 1915, the essays in this book deal with 9 English writers – as diverse in outlook and temperament as Bunyan and Boswell; poets and Puritans and men who were neither. The book examines each writer in his historical and social...

This book makes the case that the idea of a "world" in the cultural and philosophical sense is not an exclusively Western phenomenon. During the Cold War and in the wake of decolonization a plethora of historical attempts were made to reinvent the...

Originally published in 1972 and based on extensive research and use of source materials including manuscripts, this book examines Puritan spiritual autobiographies written before 1725 and sets them in the context of the literary tradition out of which...

Extending the limits of the award-winning Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers (2016) and its companion volume (and also award-winning) Researching the Nineteenth-Century Press: Case Studies (2017), Work and the...

Indian indentured emigration is among the most notable social phenomena of modern history, which sent over one million men and women to tropical sugar colonies in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. Indenture began in the 1830s and lasted till 1920;...

Originally published in 1969, this study examines the religious and ethical community which had an immense influence on the spiritual development of the Anglo-American world - the family in Puritan England. The book makes extensive reference to the...

Originally published in 1972 and based on extensive research and use of source materials including manuscripts, this book examines Puritan spiritual autobiographies written before 1725 and sets them in the context of the literary tradition out of which...

Jane Austen and Critical Theory is a collection of new essays that addresses the absence of critical theory in Austen studies-an absence that has limited the reach of Austen criticism. The collection brings together innovative scholars who ask new and...

Originally published in 1915, the essays in this book deal with 9 English writers - as diverse in outlook and temperament as Bunyan and Boswell; poets and Puritans and men who were neither. The book examines each writer in his historical and social...

Dissent and the Dynamics of Cultural Change: Lessons from the Underground Presses of the Late Sixties, examines alternative presses' critique of culture at a time of infamous transformation and revolution in the United States. In this new study, author...

While globalization is often associated with economic and social progress, it has also brought new forms of terrorism, permanent states of emergency, demographic displacement, climate change, and other "natural" disasters. Given these contemporary...

Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11 explores the representation of terrorism in plays, novels, and films across the centuries. Time and time again, writers and filmmakers including William Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad,...

William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. Hrafnkel tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a...

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Bringing together book historians, textual editors, and new media theorists, this is an engaging and wide-ranging examination of the interactions between the history of the book and digital humanities.

Bringing together book historians, textual editors, and new media theorists, this is an engaging and wide-ranging examination of the interactions between the history of the book and digital humanities.

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802163929Author Isabella HammadFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press