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Few centuries have seen greater changes in social perspective and guiding ideas than the eighteenth century; literature in every Western country was a powerful instrument not only in recording these …

First published in 2006. Women and Romanticism’s first two volumes gather material from the vast body of work produced around the subjects of education and employment. VOLUME II covers Education and …

In her timely contribution to revisionist approaches in modernist studies, Lorraine Sim offers a reading of Virginia Woolf”s conception of ordinary experience as revealed in her fiction and nonficti …

First published in 2006. Women and Romanticism’s fourth volume covers The Only Child; or Portia Bellenden. Amelia Alderson Opie, the author of Portia Bellenden; or, the Only Child, the novel that com …

I will tell you a story that will make you believe in God.’ No story can guarantee being able to do this. Yet novelists can tell stories that make us think about what we believe about God and why. De …

The book is an anthology of creative and critical responses to the many partitions of India within and across borders. By widening and reframing the question of partition in the subcontinent from one …

Originally published in 1975, much of Western scholarly writing on Japan had in recent years concerned the study of modernisation. The papers in this volume, which were prepared by leading specialist …

The dream of humanism is to cleanly discard of humanity’s animal remains along with its ecological embeddings, evolutionary heritages and futures, ontogenies and phylogenies, sexualities and sensuali …

Given the increasing number of old people, the proliferation of books about old age is hardly surprising. Most of these come from cultural historians or social scientists and, when those with a liter …

"The Brownies and Other Tales" by Juliana Horatia Ewing is a captivating collection of children’s stories that showcases Ewing’s imaginative storytelling and her deep understanding of the w …