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Politics on the Periphery

George R Lamplugh

• Hardcover | Engels | Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1783-1806
• By considering in detail ideology, sectionalism, social tensions, personalities, and land hunger as factors in Georgia politics, this study sheds new ... Lees meer

Roman Invasions

John E Curran

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book describes how the Renaissance understanding of ancient Britain remained affected by medieval conceptions. The reason for this remaining medi... Lees meer

Action & Reaction

Paul Theerman, Dolors Altaba-Artal

• Hardcover | Engels
• This collection of essays reflects the depth of inquiry and diversity of research that have characterized the last generation of work on Sir Isaac New... Lees meer

Public Speaking in Reshaping of Great Britain

Robert Oliver

• Hardcover | Engels
• This volume and its predecessor work, The Influence of Rhetoric in the Shaping of Great Britain, constitute the first comprehensive history of public ... Lees meer

Baudelaire in China

Gloria Bien

• Hardcover | Engels
• Baudelaire's work entered China in the twentieth century amidst political and social upheavals accompanied by a "literary revolution" that called for ... Lees meer

Violet Oakley

Bailey Van Hook

• Hardcover | Engels
• Violet Oakley: An Artist's Life is the first full-length biography of Violet Oakley (1874-1961), the only major female artist of the beaux-arts mural ... Lees meer

Gender and Genre

Stephanie M Hilger

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling dynasties was as predicta... Lees meer

The World of Elizabeth Inchbald

• Paperback | Engels
• This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the late ... Lees meer

Prospero's 'True Preservers'

Arthur Horowitz

• Hardcover | Engels
• This work explores how three great modern, international directors have adapted and applied African story-telling techniques, textual deconstruction, ... Lees meer

Mandeville's Travails

Francis Tobienne

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book offers a critical methodology for analyzing travel literature. The subject of travel literature, as well as travel literatures, have not alw... Lees meer

The Idea of the Sciences in the French Enlightenment

G Matthew Adkins

• Paperback | Engels
• This book traces the development of the idea that the sciences were morally enlightening through an intellectual history of the secrétaires perpétuels... Lees meer

Neoclassical Tragedy in Elizabethan England

Howard B Norland

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book examines the development of neoclassical tragedy during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). The first chapter investigates the Elizabethan... Lees meer

Imagining Selves

Rivka Swenson

• Hardcover | Engels
• The thirteen essays in Imagining Selves survey diverse cultural artifacts that include memoirs, histories, plays, poems, courtesy manuals, children's ... Lees meer

Austen's Oughts

Karen Valihora

• Hardcover | Engels
• The word is all over Austen's novels: what ought to be done, what one ought to say, how one ought to feel (versus how one does feel). When Austen's ch... Lees meer

Defiant Diplomat

• Paperback | Engels
• Drafted while events were fresh in his mind in 1942-1943, Alabama-born American diplomat George Platt Waller's memoir chronicles his war-time experien... Lees meer

The Politics of Rape

Jennifer L Airey

• Paperback | Engels
• The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage is the first full-length study to examine representations of sexual ... Lees meer

Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment

Sarah Eron

• Hardcover | Engels
• Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of i... Lees meer

Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert

Kathryn Oliver Mills

• Paperback | Engels
• In Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert, Kathryn Oliver Mills argues that despite the enduring celebrity of Baudelaire and Flauber... Lees meer

Sustainability & Historic Preservation

Richard Longstreth

• Hardcover | Engels
• Sustainability and Historic Preservation: Towards a Holistic View broadens the horizons of the mushrooming drive to correlate the objectives of these ... Lees meer

Uneasy Possessions

Katharine A Jensen

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Uneasy Possessions: The Mother-Daughter Dilemma in French Women's Writings, 1671-1928 , Katharine Ann Jensen analyzes the work of five major women ... Lees meer

Idle Pursuits

Virginia Krause

• Hardcover | Engels
• Idle Pursuits examines transformations of leisure in the literature and culture of early modern France. It traces a trajectory beginning with the init... Lees meer

French Women Authors

• Hardcover
• Examines the importance afforded the spiritual in the lives and works of French women authors over the centuries, thereby highlighting both the signif... Lees meer

The Collected Works of Abraham Cowley;, Poems (1656); Part I: The Mistress

• Hardcover | Engels | The Collected Works of Abraham Cowley;, Poems (1656); Part I: The Mistress
• This new edition includes a full bibliographical and critical account of The Mistress. The authority of early printed editions is tested against many ... Lees meer

A Taste for the Foreign

Ellen R. Welch

• Hardcover
• Examines foreignness as a crucial aesthetic category for the development of prose fiction from Jacques Amyot's 1547 translation of The Ethiopian Story... Lees meer