Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea. Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday, Paperback - Ksenia Chizhova

The lineage novel flourished in Korea from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Ksenia Chizhova foregrounds lineage novels and the ...

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This book explores the relationship between Shakespeare's most famous tragedies and the genre of 'domestic tragedy': plays about murder and adulter...

This book nuances the picture of domestic servants constructed by both early modern moralists and modern scholarship. It argues that domestic trage...

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts...

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The English Exorcist presents an intellectual history of John Darrell, a controversial Puritan exorcist in the early modern period. It illustrates ...

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Bringing together an international line up of contributors, this book examines South Korea's foreign policy strategies designed to cope with the ch...

This is the first broad study of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Its case studies range from the e...

Through fifteen essays that draw on a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like m...

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Never-before-seen North Korea - a rare glimpse into the country behind the politics and the creativity behind the propaganda

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Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as acade...

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Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political is...

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Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-gen...

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