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Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in Frankenstein
Eileen M. HuntCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50From her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educational and political theories of John Locke a...
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Turmoil: Instability and insecurity in the eighteenth-century Francophone text
Liverpool University PressCurrent price €71.09Original price €78.99What is turmoil? How may it be captured? What were its manifestations in the eighteenth century? Why does it feel so familiar, even urgent, nowaday...
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Out of the Margins: Identity Formation in Contemporary Chicana Writings
Ewa AntoszekCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99The question of identity has been present in Chicana literature since its beginnings and the second part of the 20th century witnessed proliferatio...
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Rebel by Vocation: SeáN OFaoláin and the Generation of the Bell
Niall CarsonCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50This is a comprehensive study of one of the most influential literary groups in post-independence Ireland: the writers and editors of the literary ...
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Staging the Old Faith: Queen Henrietta Maria and the Theatre of Caroline England, 16251642
Rebecca BaileyCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Staging the Old Faith is the first book length study to examine Caroline theatre as a space where the concerns of the English Roman Catholic commun...
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Balaam''s Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation: Volume 1: Frameworks, Arguments, English to 1250
Nicholas WatsonCurrent price €79.19Original price €87.99For over seven hundred years, bodies of writing in vernacular languages served an indispensable role in the religious and intellectual culture of m...
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Essentials of Early English: An Introduction to Old, Middle, and Early Modern English
Jeremy J. SmithCurrent price €125.09Original price €138.99The third edition of this successful textbook has been fully revised and updated.Essentials of Early English is a practical and highly accessible i...
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The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable
Kevin KilleenCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theologi...
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The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable
Kevin KilleenCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theologi...
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The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630
Katrin EttenhuberCurrent price €82.79Original price €91.99The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 is the first substantial account of early modern English literature's deep ...
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Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women''s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
Pamela L. CheekCurrent price €80.99Original price €89.99Over the course of the long eighteenth century, a network of some fifty women writers, working in French, English, Dutch, and German, staked out a ...
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Julius Caesar: The Gallic War Books V-VI
Jennifer GerrishCurrent price €106.19Original price €117.99Books V-VI of Julius Caesars The Gallic War narrate Caesars campaigns in Britain, Gaul, and Germany in 55 and 54 BCE. His political rival Pompey wa...
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Neither the Time nor the Place: The New Nineteenth-Century American Studies
University of Pennsylvania PressCurrent price €72.89Original price €80.99The usefulness of time and place as defining categories would seem to be baked into the very notion of nineteenth-century American literary studies...
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Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in Frankenstein
Eileen M. HuntCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99From her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educational and political theories of John Locke a...
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Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland: Allegories of Authority
Antony J. HaslerCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England an...
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Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare''s Theater
Matteo A. PangalloCurrent price €69.29Original price €76.99Among the dramatists who wrote for the professional playhouses of early modern London was a small group of writers who were neither members of the ...
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Shakespearean Intersections: Language, Contexts, Critical Keywords
Patricia ParkerCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50What does the keyword continence in Love's Labor's Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contem...
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The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States
Sari AltschulerCurrent price €64.79Original price €71.99In 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, Science does not know its debt to imagination, words that still ring true in the worlds of health and health ca...
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Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England
Rebecca LemonCurrent price €69.29Original price €76.99Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that h...
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The Marvels of the World: An Anthology of Nature Writing Before 1700
University of Pennsylvania PressCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently ant...
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Shakespearean Intersections: Language, Contexts, Critical Keywords
Patricia ParkerCurrent price €69.29Original price €76.99What does the keyword continence in Love's Labor's Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contem...
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Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman
Alastair BennettCurrent price €82.79Original price €91.99William Langland's Piers Plowman was written and read during a golden age of English preaching. The poem describes a world where sermons took many ...
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The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 2: C Passs 5-9; B Passs 5-7; A Passs 5-8
Ralph HannaCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plow...
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Imagination on Fire: The Literary Career of Alice Muriel Williamson
Alejandro Zaera-PoloCurrent price €147.59Original price €163.99Alejandro Zaera-Polo's book is a first-person account by the former dean of Princeton University's School of Architecture, an international archite...
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