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Kung Arthur och riddarna av runda bordet
På torget utanför den stora kyrkan fanns en stor sten. På stenen stod ett tungt städ av järn. Och i städet satt ett svärd. Den som drar svärdet ur stenen är Englands rättmätige …
Beauty and the Male Body in Byzantium
A neglected aspect of Byzantium, physical beauty appears as a quality with an unmistakable dark side, relating ambiguously to notions of power, goodness, evil, masculinity, …
Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900
Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapesThe perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have their own layered histories. So …
The Story of an African Famine
This account of the 1949 famine in colonial Malawi employs a wide variety of historical sources, ranging from Colonial Office documentation to the songs of women who lived through …
Emily Dickinson's Open Folios
Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing is a fine facsimile edition and aesthetic exploration of a group of forty late drafts and fragments hitherto …
Bürger, Gott und Götterschützling
Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts richtete sich das Interesse der Altertumswissenschaft erstmals auf die auffallend häufigen Kinderdarstellungen in der hellenistischen Kunst und …
What Was Lost
The first book in a decade from a poet whose blank verse speaks "with the precise qualifications of Henry James, and conveys the muted but implicit drama of Edward Hopper"--Anthony …
Coming Back Home
If you have never been inside of a prison, there are things you will not know about the community there. You may guess at them, but that is not the same. What it feels like. What …
Seventeenth-Century British Poetry, 1603-1660
A time of political and social unrest in England, this period produced some of the greatest poetry in English. This volume includes the major poets—John Donne, Ben Jonson, …
Sincerity's Shadow
In a work of surprising range and authority, Deborah Forbes refocuses critical discussion of both Romantic and modern poetry. Sincerity's Shadow is a versatile conceptual toolkit …
Lucretius: De Rerum Natura III
Lucretius' poem, for which Epicurean philosophy provided the inspiration, attempts to explain the nature of the universe and its processes with the object of freeing mankind from …
Lost Tracks
While contemporaries and historians alike hailed the establishment of Buffalo National Park in Wainwright, Alberta as a wildlife saving effort, the political climate of the early …