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The author of more than 2, 000 books and pamphlets, Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) was one of the most prolific writers of the eightee...

DescriptionHomer's Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redem...

This book provides new explications of Loy's most redolent poems from The Lost Lunar Baedeker. It offers a short biography, an explanation of Loy's...

Building on postcolonial and transatlantic paradigms as well as new theoretical developments like Actor-Network-Theory, Global Romanticism: Origins...

Suzanne Farrell Smith's father was killed by a drunk driver when she was six, and a devastating fire nearly destroyed her house when she was eight....

DescriptionJane Austen and Comedy takes for granted two related notions. First, Jane Austen's books are funny; they induce laughter, and that laugh...

This collection of essays attempts to describe, analyze, and interpret the literary events and practices that characterize the last two OOpostrevol...

DescriptionDuring the decades following the English civil wars, British poets seeking to make sense of lingering political instabilities turned to ...

This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world's greatest literary...

The female characterizations in Machado's novels are much more important to their author's narrative art and to his social vision than we have prev...

Publisher: Bucknell University PressAuthor(s): George E. HaggertyNumber of pages: 186Collection: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850...

The book offers new perspectives on works that were central to the visual and literary culture of the Anglo-American world-ephemeral print-but whic...

Collecting from the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American is the first anthology to provide a sustained discussion of the modern practice o...

DescriptionCrossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of European travellers from the time Bartholomew Dias opened up th...

Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century, a period of impr...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionNovel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century ...

DescriptionLenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mut...

DescriptionEthics, or the systematized set of inquiries and responses to the question "what should I do?" has infused the history of human narrativ...

DescriptionEthics, or the systematized set of inquiries and responses to the question "what should I do?" has infused the history of human narrativ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s dissents are influential because of their literary qualities of superfluity and energy he inherited from Emerson. The a...

DescriptionIntelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Samara A. Cahill explores two overlapping strands ...

DescriptionThis book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature's greatest writers, was also a major theo...