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Granta 81: Best Of Young British Novelists 3

by Ian Jack

As with the first two Young British Novelists issues, Granta's 2003 list was compelling and prescient. The issue introduced readers to fiction by Zadie Smith, David Mitchell and Monica Ali. From Ben Rice's story...


Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal, 1600-1800

by Chris Mounsey

The book develops and brings up to date the arguments about the history of sexuality first visited in Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Sexuality, 1600-1800 (Bucknell University Press, 2007). It...


Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italy

by Federico Schneider

Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italy represents the first full length study to confront seriously the well rehearsed analogy of the pastoral poet as healer. Building on Derrida's work on the Platonic...


The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution

by Cecilia Feilla

Smoothly blending performance theory, literary analysis and historical insights, Cecilia Feilla explores the mutually dependent discourses of feeling and politics and their impact on the theatre and theatre...


Diaries of Exile

by Yannis Ritsos, Edmund Keeley & Karen Emmerich

Harrowing, sorrowful poems written in prison by one of Greece's most important twentieth-century poets.


The Eleven

by Pierre Michon, Elizabeth Deshays & Jody Gladding

A Grand Prix du Roman-winning meditation on the relationship between art and power set during Louis XIV's reign.


Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond

by Gareth Healey

Despite Messiaen's position as one of the greatest technical innovators of the twentieth century, his musical language has not been comprehensively defined and investigated. Given the reliance on idiosyncratic...


Medical Consulting by Letter in France, 1665-1789

by Robert Weston

Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile physicians and surgeons seeking expert medical advice....


Small States in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities

by Robert Steinmetz & Anders Wivel

The effects of recent institutional change within the European Union on small states have often been overlooked. Taking a number of small states as case studies, this innovative and sophisticated book offers...


Text, Image, and the Problem with Perfection in Nineteenth-Century France: Utopia and Its Afterlives

by Daniel Sipe

Daniel Sipe focuses on the persistent afterlife of utopias in works by artists and writers who include François-René de Chateaubriand, Etienne Cabet, J.J. Grandville, Charles Barbara, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam,...


French Crime Fiction, 1945-2005: Investigating World War II

by Margaret-Anne Hutton

In the first major study of representations of World War II in French crime fiction, Margaret-Anne Hutton draws on a corpus of over 150 texts spanning 60 years. Filling a gap in the fields of both crime fiction...


Machiavellian Encounters in Tudor and Stuart England: Literary and Political Influences from the Reformation to the Restoration

by Alessandro Arienzo & Alessandra Petrina

Taking into consideration the political and literary issues hanging upon the circulation of Machiavelli's works in England, this volume highlights how topics and ideas stemming from Machiavelli's books-including...


Realism and Space in the Novel, 1795-1869: Imagined Geographies

by Rosa Mucignat

Posing new questions about realism and the creative power of narratives, Mucignat offers fresh readings of novels by Goethe, Jane Austen, Alessandro Manzoni, Stendahl, Charles Dickens and Gustave Flaubert, to...


Performing Nordic Heritage: Everyday Practices and Institutional Culture

by Peter Aronsson & Lizette Gradén

The performance of heritage takes place in prestigious institutions such as museums and archives, in officially sanctioned spaces such as jubilees and public monuments, but also in more mundane, ephemeral and...


Die Schwarze Spinne: The Black Spider

by Jeremias Gotthelf & Jolyon Timothy Hughes

This book is an interlinear translation of a religious allegory about morals and religious living in the mid-nineteenth century, written in 1842 by Jeremias Gotthelf, a pastor. This translation includes introductions...


Continental Feminism Reader

by Ann J. Cahill & Jennifer Hansen

Ann J. Cahill and Jennifer Hansen collect the most groundbreaking recent work in Continental feminist theory, introducing and explaining pieces that are often mystifying to those outside the field and outside...


The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll

by Heinrich Boll & Leila Vennewitz

The definitive short story collection by the Nobel Laureate and master of the form

These diverse, psychologically rich, and morally profound stories explore the consequences of war on individuals and on an entire...


Sons of the Wind

by XAVIER PIVANO

When Arnaud got an odd letter from a stranger who claimed he was his father, he couldn’t imagine it would lead him so far away. Far away from home, of course, but from himself too, from his inherent human...


Germaine de Staël in Germany: Gender and Literary Authority (1800-1850)

by Judith E. Martin

This study of the impact of Staël and her novels in Germany from 1800-1850 focuses on debates over gender and authorship, first examining commentary and reviews by prominent literary men and women, and then...


Brahms and the Scherzo: Studies in Musical Narrative

by McClelland

Despite the incredible diversity in Brahms's scherzo-type movements, there has been no comprehensive consideration of this aspect of his oeuvre. Professor Ryan McClelland provides an in-depth study of these...