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Following Nature's Lead
In the spirit of E. F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful, a dazzling and revelatory exploration of what ancient ideas and ways of living can teach us about creating a more …
Cultures of Compunction in the Medieval World
Compunction was one of the most important emotions for medieval Christianity; in fact, through its confessional function, compunction became the primary means for an affective …
Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos
Winner of the AEDEAN "Enrique García Díez" Literature Research Award 2023Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2024Shakespeare’s Sublime Ethos: Matter, …
Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary
In this rigorous investigation of the staging of Shakespeare’s plays, Alan Dessen wrestles with three linked questions: (1) what did a playgoer at the original production actually …
Paul Revere's Ride
Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history--yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one …
Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, 16th-17th Centuries
This collection of Sonja Brentjes's articles deals with travels, encounters and the exchange of knowledge in the Mediterranean and Western Asia during the 16th and 17th centuries, …
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night like you've never seen it - or read it - before! Classics in Graphics: Twelfth Night has been adapted into a graphic novel by expert authors, Steve …
Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace
This book asks what reading means in India, Nigeria, the UK, and Cuba, through close readings of literary texts from postcolonial, spatial, architectural, cartographic, …
Beckett's Creatures
In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'. But what might …
Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy
Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare's Roman plays Coriolanus, Julius Caeser, and Antony and Cleopatra in his landmark Shakespeare's Rome (1976). With Shakespeare's Roman …
The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature
For generations, critics have noticed in nineteenth-century American women's sentimentality a streak of masochism, but their discussions of it have over-simplified its complex …
Whores and Other Feminists
Whores and Other Feminists fleshes out feminist politics from the perspective of sex workers--strippers, prostitutes, porn writers, producers and performers, dominatrices--and …