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Envisioning today’s readers as poised between an impossible attempt to read texts as their original readers experienced them and an awareness of our own temporal moment, Simon Dentith complicates tra …

In her analysis of the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee»s literary and intellectual career, Jane Poyner illuminates the author»s abiding preoccupation with what Poyner calls the ‘paradox of pos …

This volume contains the first volume of Anne Grant»s Letters from the Mountains (1806), one of the Romantic era»s most successful non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands. …

In The Ethics of Theory, Robert Doran offers the first broad assessment of the ethical challenges of Critical Theory across the humanities and social sciences, calling into question the sharp dichoto …

English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 is the first comprehensive historical survey of fiction from that period for many decades. It combines a clear awareness of the period»s social histo …

As the premier livery company, the Mercers Company in medieval England enjoyed a prominent role in London»s governance and exercised much influence over England»s overseas trade and political inter …

This title, first published in 1970, consists of essays on the individual tales and novels of George Eliot, with two general essays that discuss the novels as a whole and cuts across the individual w …

First published in 1996. There has been no more important relationship between folk artist and folklorist than that between Zsuzsanna Palkó and Linda Dégh. Dégh’s painstaking collection of Mrs. Palkó …

Since the first permanent English colony was established at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 and accounts of the new world started to arrive back on the English shores, English men and women have had a f …

This is the first essay collection to examine the relation between text and gender in Spain from a broad geographical, social and cultural perspective covering more than 300 years. The contributors e …