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Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores
The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable, moral and immoral. In a …
Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters
A theme that obsessed Shakespeare in over 20 plays from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest was the relationship between a daughter and her father. This study traces chronologically …
Figures of Catastrophe
The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century, identifying a central new genre: the condition of culture novel. Reading across and …
Viking Empires
Viking Empires is a definitive new history of five hundred years of Viking civilisation and the first study of the global implications of the expansion, integration, and …
Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus
In Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus, Christopher Faraone discusses a number of short hexametrical genres such as oracles, incantations and laments that do not easily …
Unsicheres Wissen
Autoren verschiedener Disziplinen untersuchen in diesem Sammelband, wie mit den epistemologischen und methodologischen Dimensionen des Mangels oder Verlusts von Gewissheit für …
Shakespeare's Audiences
Shakespeare wrote for a theater in which the audience was understood to be, and at times invited to be, active and participatory. How have Shakespeare's audiences, from the …
Adventures of Germanus the Gaul
It is 429 AD and the Roman Empire is falling apart. When Germanus of Gaul is summoned to Rome to have an audience with the Pontifex Maximus, the Pope pleads with him to travel to …
The Adventures of Tintin Volume 5
One of the most iconic characters in children’s books Join the world’s most famous travelling reporter in his exciting adventures as he braves an …
Cuba between Empires, 1878-1902
Cuban independence arrived formally on May 20, 1902, with the raising of the Cuban flag in Havana - a properly orchestrated and orderly inauguration of the new republic. But …
Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval
A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet.The debt owed by Shakespeare to Ovid is a major and important topic in …
Our World in Pictures: Countries, Cultures, People & Places
Discover the countries of the world - explore their geography, wildlife, traditions, and arts in this picture-included children's ebook. Every country profile includes photos, and …