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Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States
Melody Yunzi LiCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at...
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Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States
Melody Yunzi LiCurrent price €133.19Original price €147.99Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at...
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Writing Philosophy: A Student''s Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy Essays
Lewis VaughnCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Writing Philosophy Essays is a concise, self-guided manual that covers the basics of argumentative essay w...
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Shapes of Time: History and Eschatology in the Modernist Imagination
Michael McGillenCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Shapes of Time explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth-century German thought. Michael McGillen locates effor...
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Founders of the Future: The Science and Industry of Spanish Modernization
Óscar Iván UsecheCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shape...
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Sleep Fictions: Rest and Its Deprivations in Progressive-Era Literature
Hannah L. HuberCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99The literary response to the dawning cult of wakefulness A turn-of-the-century influx of new technologies and the enormous impact of the electric l...
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Women and Music in the Age of Austen
Bucknell University PressU.S.Current price €143.99Original price €159.99Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, a...
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Making Love in the Twelfth Century: Letters of Two Lovers in Context
University of Pennsylvania PressCurrent price €100.79Original price €111.99New, sparkling translations of the Letters of Two Lovers, the Tegernesee Letters, and selections from the Regensburg Songs Nine hundred years ago i...
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Indecent Exposure: Gender, Politics, and Obscene Comedy in Middle English Literature
Nicole Nolan SidhuCurrent price €80.99Original price €89.99Men and women struggling for control of marriage and sexuality; narratives that focus on trickery, theft, and adultery; descriptions of sexual acti...
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Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America
Patricia CrainCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99What does it mean for a child to be a reader and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers...
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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €147.59Original price €163.99The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music showcases the latest international research into the captivating and vast subject of the many uses of ...
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Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: On the Verge of Nihilism
Paolo StellinoCurrent price €72.89Original price €80.99The first time that Nietzsche crossed the path of Dostoevsky was in the winter of 188687. While in Nice, Nietzsche discovered in a bookshop the vol...
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Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain
University of Pennsylvania PressCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But...
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The Racial Horizon of Utopia: Unthinking the Future of Race in Late Twentieth-Century American Utopian Novels
Edward K. ChanCurrent price €58.49Original price €64.99Race and utopia have been fundamental features of US American culture since the origins of the country. However, racial ideology has often contradi...
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Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel
Helen ThompsonCurrent price €72.89Original price €80.99In a groundbreaking study of the relationship between chemistry and literary history, Helen Thompson explores the ways in which chemical conception...
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Bound to Read: Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature
Jeffrey Todd KnightCurrent price €69.29Original price €76.99Concealed in rows of carefully restored volumes in rare book libraries is a history of the patterns of book collecting and compilation that shaped ...
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International Bohemia: Scenes of Nineteenth-Century Life
Daniel CottomCurrent price €72.89Original price €80.99How did this vagabond word, bohemia, migrate across national borderlines over the course of the nineteenth century, and what happened to it as it t...
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Virgil''s Eclogues
VirgilCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empirea friend to the emperor Au...
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What Was African American Literature?
Kenneth W. WarrenCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literatureand to...
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Home And Exile
Chinua AchebeCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99A moving account of an exceptional life and a piercing critique of imperialism, Home and Exile is above all a book that articulates persuasively wh...
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The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute: Songs of the Imperial Visit to Datong
Ika JohannessonCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...
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Zitate der Aeneis in den Briefen des Hieronymus: Eine digitale Intertextualitätsanalyse zur Untersuchung kultureller Transformationsprozesse
Marie RevellioCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99In his extremely rhetorically adept letters, the Doctor of the Church Jerome addresses a deep inner conflict between Virgil and the Gospels, betwee...
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Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity
Carmen NocentelliCurrent price €64.79Original price €71.99Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuriesepic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas...
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