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First published in 2002. This work examines eight Virginia novels against the background of the political and social concerns of the Jacksonian years in which they were written, arguing that the auth …

This is Volume IV of Postcolonialism part of a series of critical concepts in literary and cultural studies. This edition includes Part nine and includes works on internal colonialism and subaltern s …

When it appeared in spring 1811, Mary Brunton’s first novel, Self-Control, was an overnight best-seller that surpassed both its author’s modest expectations and its origins as a lady’s genteel pastim …

Actors of Dionysus (aod), formed in 1993 to tour Classical drama in translation and have established themselves as the leading exponents of Greek tragedy in contemporary theatre and education. With m …

The Arthurian legend closes with a promise: On a distant day, when his country calls, the king will return. His lost realm will be regained, and his shattered dream of an ideal world will, at last, b …

Informed by theories of the visual, knowledge and desire, The Postcolonial Eye is about the ”eye” and the ”I” in contemporary Australian scenes of race. Specifically, it is about seeing, where vi …

Are Jane Austen and Charles Darwin the two great English empiricists of the nineteenth century? Peter W. Graham poses this question as he brings these two icons of nineteenth-century British culture …

Medical texts written in English during the late Middle Ages have in recent years attracted increasing attention among scholars. From approximately 1375 onwards, the use of English began to gain a fi …

This provocative analysis and critique of American representations of Oceania and Oceanians from the nineteenth century to the present, argues that imperial fantasies have glossed over a complex, vio …

This book considers what evidence the ‘new Simonides’ fragments offer for Simonides” elegiac compositions on the Persian Wars. The current orthodoxy is that they represent three separate elegies on …