Valerie Hamilton & Martin Parker 
Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England [EPUB ebook] 
The Dark Arts of Projectors

Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing elec …

Originally published in 1986. William Faulkner’s major novels represent one of the earliest American explorations into the paradoxes inherent in both literary discourse and racial segregation in the …

Captain George Mortland turned into a courageous British officer, and "The Sapphire Cross" by means of George Manville Fenn is an interesting adventure story approximately his lifestyles. I …

First published in 1971. In writing this text the author’s intent has been as much to tell stories of life and people in Shakespeare”s day as to add to our knowledge of the Elizabethan stage and dra …

The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention – in history, political science and literat …

This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way. Robert Fraser proposes that we now look beyond the traditional …

This is the first collection of feminist critical essays by and about women in South Africa to appear outside of that country. Many of the pieces were written after February 1990, when President de K …

First published in 1972. Shakespeare”s writing abounds with legal terms and allusions and in many of the plays the concept and working of the law is a significant theme. Shakespeare and the Lawyers …

First published in 1970. This collection of essays covers the work of Milton, Dryden, Sir John Vanburgh, Defoe, Mandeville, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Byron, Hazlitt, Walter Savage Landor, Robe …

This essay collection develops new perspectives on constructions of old age in literary, legal, scientific and periodical cultures of the nineteenth century. Rigorously interdisciplinary, the book pl …