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Contacts and Comparisons in History and Culture

‘If the past is indeed a foreign country, then how can we make sense of its richness and difference, without approaching it on our terms alone? ”Pre-histories” and ”afterlives”, methods that have …

Written during the Italian winter of 1930, The Blue Spill is an unfinished detective novel written by Ezra Pound – the leading figure of modernist poetry in the 20th century – and his long-time compa …

While Dickens”s religion and religious thought is recognized as a significant component of his work, no study of Dickens”s religion has carefully considered his often ignored, yet crucially relevan …

The <EM>Critical Heritage</EM> gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer”s work, enabling …

This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers — including Emerson, Warner, and Melville — to render the stark rupture of loss in innovati …

Welcome to Harry Potter Places Book Four–NEWTs: Northeastern England Wizarding Treks, the fourth of five guidebooks designed to help Potterites visit all 68 UK Potterverse places: real-life places m …

In 1971, a war which took place in Pakistan that resulted in the establishment of two separate countries; East Pakistan became Bangladesh, leaving the remaining four western provinces to comprise a t …

The Continuum Contemporaries series gives readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years. This guide to Atone …

This book advocates, and develops, a critical account of the relationship between law and the largely neglected issue of ‘enjoyment’. Taking popular culture seriously – as a lived and meaningful basi …

Although often hailed as a ”quintessentially American” writer, the modernist poet, novelist and playwright Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) spent most of her life in France. With chapters written by lead …