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Philosophical Remarks
When in May 1930, the Council of Trinity College, Cambridge, had to decide whether to renew Wittgenstein's research grant, it turned to Bertrand Russell for an assessment of the …
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text explores the genesis, production and the critical appreciation of the illustrations to the fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson. …
Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked
Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked: Disease and Death in the Pot and Bottle is a groundbreaking expose by William North, first published in the mid-19th century, that …
Elsie Clews Parsons
Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, an eminent anthropologist, and an ardent social critic. In Elsie Clews Parsons, Desley Deacon reconstructs Parsons's efforts to …
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson provides a unique introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English …
Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 24
This volume finds Thomas Jefferson grappling with problems arising from the radicalization of the French Revolution in Europe and the polarization of domestic politics in the …
Jonson, the Poetomachia, and the Reformation of Renaissance Satire
Does satire have the ability to effect social reform? If so, what satiric style is most effective in bringing about reform? This book explores how Renaissance poet and playwright …
Zombie Season
Read the book. Play the Game. Fight the undead. You know the protocol. You've completed countless drills. Your go-bag is waiting by the door. Yet nothing can …
Reading Paradise Lost
Reading Paradise Lost “This lucid and entirely jargon-free guide to Paradise Lost will help any reader of the poem to find their feet, and to understand what makes it the best poem …
Treason By The Book
In 1728 a stranger handed a letter to Governor Yue calling on him to lead a rebellion against the Manchu rulers of China. Feigning agreement, he learnt the details of the plot and …
The Age of Jackson and the Art of American Power, 1815-1848
As William Nester asserts in The Age of Jackson, it takes quite a leader to personify an age. A political titan for thirty-three years (1815–1848), Andrew Jackson possessed …
Re-Imagining the Avant-Garde
The 1960s and 1970s avant-garde has been likened to an ‘architectural Big Bang’, such was the intensity of energy and ambition in which it exploded into the postwar world. Marked …