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How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information
Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums
Häftad, 2022
438 kr
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Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection "Fly-Catchers", while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a "Quarry," and Michael Faraday kept quotations in his "Philosophical Miscellany." …
Guilty But Insane
Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction
Häftad, 2015
625 kr
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Guilty But Insane takes an historical approach to golden age detective fiction by Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Gladys Mitchell. It examines how writers and readers of detective fiction during the 1920s to 1940s understood guilt, responsibility, and …
Locating Hercules
Mythology and the Dynamics of Allusion in Early Modern English Writing
Av Emily Mayne
Inbunden, 2026
1463 kr
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Locating Hercules is a study of the reception and significance of the hero-god Hercules in sixteenth-century England, and of the sources and poetics of classical mythology in English writing c. 1540–1600. Locating Hercules provides the first full account of the reception of Hercules in early modern …
Locating Hercules
Mythology and the Dynamics of Allusion in Early Modern English Writing
Av Emily Mayne
Häftad, 2026
308 kr
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Locating Hercules is a study of the reception and significance of the hero-god Hercules in sixteenth-century England, and of the sources and poetics of classical mythology in English writing c. 1540–1600. Locating Hercules provides the first full account of the reception of Hercules in early modern …
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales
Inbunden, 2024
1708 kr
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Challenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, this book considers how Welsh (and British) history became an enduringly potent instrument of political power in the late Middle Ages. Brought into the broader …
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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Challenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, this book considers how Welsh (and British) history became an enduringly potent instrument of political power in the late Middle Ages. Brought into the broader …
Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII
Inbunden, 2023
1259 kr
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Seldom has a royal court invited such intensive study as that of Henry VIII, or become so prominent in popular culture. Nonetheless, Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII is committed to offering a fresh perspective on Tudor court culture, by using continental sources to …
Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII
Häftad, 2023
324 kr
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Seldom has a royal court invited such intensive study as that of Henry VIII, or become so prominent in popular culture. Nonetheless, Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII is committed to offering a fresh perspective on Tudor court culture, by using continental sources to …
Translation and the Truth of History
Thucydides between Valla and Hobbes
Inbunden, 2026
1463 kr
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This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Thomas Hobbes' English version in 1629. As Valla's manuscript passed through the hands of several …
The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature
Inbunden, 2022
847 kr
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The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature explores the intersection of literary history and the history of the book. For several millennia, books have been the material embodiment of knowledge and culture, and an essential embodiment for any kind of knowledge involving texts. Texts, …
The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature
Häftad, 2022
403 kr
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The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature explores the intersection of literary history and the history of the book. For several millennia, books have been the material embodiment of knowledge and culture, and an essential embodiment for any kind of knowledge involving texts. Texts, …
How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information
Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums
Inbunden, 2022
1463 kr
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Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection "Fly-Catchers", while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a "Quarry," and Michael Faraday kept quotations in his "Philosophical Miscellany." …
Translation and the Truth of History
Thucydides between Valla and Hobbes
Av José MarÃa Pérez Fernández
Häftad, 2026
308 kr
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This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Thomas Hobbes' English version in 1629. As Valla's manuscript passed through the hands of several …
Guilty But Insane
Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction
Inbunden, 2015
2231 kr
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Guilty But Insane takes an historical approach to golden age detective fiction by Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Gladys Mitchell. It examines how writers and readers of detective fiction during the 1920s to 1940s understood guilt, responsibility, and …
The Reader in the Book
A Study of Spaces and Traces
Häftad, 2017
482 kr
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The Reader in the Book is concerned with a particular aspect of the history of the book, an archeology and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces. One of the most commonplace aspects of old books is the fact that people wrote in them, something that, until very recently, has …
The Reader in the Book
A Study of Spaces and Traces
Inbunden, 2015
879 kr
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The Reader in the Book is concerned with a particular aspect of the history of the book, an archeology and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces. One of the most commonplace aspects of old books is the fact that people wrote in them, something that, until very recently, has …
Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts
Häftad, 2022
395 kr
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The aim of this book is to restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals, and soil, among other things, that would have characterized it for the early medieval English themselves. In particular, each chapter demonstrates how a …
Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts
Inbunden, 2022
1241 kr
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The aim of this book is to restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals, and soil, among other things, that would have characterized it for the early medieval English themselves. In particular, each chapter demonstrates how a …
Imagining Spectatorship
From the Mysteries to the Shakespearean Stage
Av John J. McGavin, Greg Walker
Inbunden, 2016
909 kr
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Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental …
Imagining Spectatorship
From the Mysteries to the Shakespearean Stage
Av John J. McGavin, Greg Walker
Häftad, 2016
451 kr
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Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental …
Work in Hand
Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840
Inbunden, 2017
1305 kr
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Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental …
Work in Hand
Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840
Häftad, 2017
472 kr
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Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental …
Last Words
The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England
Inbunden, 2019
1418 kr
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No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author. By ascribing to these texts intentional anonymity, we romanticise them and misjudge the social character of their authors. Instead, most medieval poems and …
Last Words
The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England
Häftad, 2019
607 kr
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No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author. By ascribing to these texts intentional anonymity, we romanticise them and misjudge the social character of their authors. Instead, most medieval poems and …
Shakespeare and the Making of English Whoredom
Inbunden, 2026
1463 kr
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How does one know a whore is a whore? Upon what terms, standards, interpretive logics, and material practices does such knowledge depend? In Shakespeare and the Making of English Whoredom, Stephen Spiess pursues these questions and, in so doing, discovers the extraordinary cultural labor necessary …
Shakespeare and the Making of English Whoredom
Häftad, 2026
342 kr
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How does one know a whore is a whore? Upon what terms, standards, interpretive logics, and material practices does such knowledge depend? In Shakespeare and the Making of English Whoredom, Stephen Spiess pursues these questions and, in so doing, discovers the extraordinary cultural labor necessary …
Genetics and the Literary Imagination
Av Clare Hanson
Inbunden, 2020
1226 kr
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Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures, and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works …
Genetics and the Literary Imagination
Av Clare Hanson
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures, and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works …
World Medievalism
The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture
Inbunden, 2021
1241 kr
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World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms with the global present. Building its argument through four case studies--from the Middle …
World Medievalism
The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture
Häftad, 2021
403 kr
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World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms with the global present. Building its argument through four case studies--from the Middle …
