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How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Ara...

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasnt absent frombut rather was at the heart ofRoman religionB...

Romantic fiction has often involved stories of travel. In narratives of the journey towards love, romance often involves encounters with exotic pla...

An Open Access edition will be available on publication thanks to generous funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council; the University of...

At the end of Ode to a Nightingale, Keatss speaker famously asks of the foregoing reverie: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? This book is concern...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. In Traces of the Real: The Absent Presence of Photography in ...

A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford, which has not seen much previous critical attention due to bein...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. Khitan and Mongol Imperial Women in the Chinese Imagination i...

This book makes available in English for the first time the work of the pioneering French interdisciplinary research group, Groupe de Recherche Int...

This witty novel can be seen as a reworking of Tobias Smollett's Roderick Random, albeit one in which the Scottish protagonist is able to navigate ...

This book is a collection of sixteen British comedies dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The works are chosen in chronological or...

The tragic conscience of modern Chinas most revered critic-translator, Fou Lei, is portrayed in this biography. Discoveries made in Parisian archiv...

This book explores the enduring myth of Antigone, constantly rediscovered and relevant across centuries. It examines how myth influences collective...

Lanfranc of Milan is one of the most influential medieval surgeons and his Latin works informed surgical practice until the seventeenth century. Bo...

This volume offers a wide variety of theoretical and critical reflections on the ways that different aspects of time and memory are deployed in lit...

This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential of design to represent narrat...

Opening with an analysis of the concept of self-construal from Ren Descartes and Immanuel Kant to the beginning of the new millennium, this collect...

This book examines the representation and historical significance of the legendary Scandinavian past as it is depicted in two late medieval Iceland...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in England and Wales ...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales...

This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of inconsistency in the three major Latin epics of the Flavian Age (69-96 CE), Valerius Flaccus' ...

This book is a study of contemporary travel writing as a contested field of political and historical articulations. It poses the question of the re...