This volume posits that clothing in the early modern period was conceived of as the prime interface between the human body and its multiple environments. Both a second skin and a human-made artefact, dress can indeed be considered as the most immedia...Loe edasi...
Short, sharp and original commentary inspired by Peter Brooks’s diverse critical work. For many decades Peter Brooks’s critical writing has been a force of illumination and inspiration for readers of many kinds, with memorable books that c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Hebrew Union College Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9780878208050)
Hedva Harechavi is acclaimed to be one of the great Hebrew poets of our time. Aged 83 in 2025, fierce, with her black cowboy boots, somewhat bent over as if intent to catch up and listen to what she has just missed, Harechavi is widely loved for her...Loe edasi...
Introduced in 1964, Cicely Saunders’ term ‘total pain’ has come to epitomise the holistic ethos of hospice and palliative care. It communicates how a dying person’s pain can be a whole overwhelming experience, not only physical but also psychological...Loe edasi...
Animates the conversional potential of language by exploring the catalytic force of words across diverse cultures and linguistic systems....Loe edasi...
The first comprehensive overview of Werner Sollors’ ground-breaking work on culture and ethnicity. Born in Silesia, raised in the Frankfurt area and educated in Berlin, Werner Sollors has spent most of his career at Harvard University in t...Loe edasi...
Sari: Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399523752)
A radical reinstatement of the public in the history of the formation of the ‘modern’ museum. This book is a timely intervention in the history of museums in Britain. BP’s ongoing sponsorship of the British Museum, the appointment of George O...Loe edasi...
Argues that Shakespeares plays are dramaturgically misogynist and that surface-level interventions cannot remediate them or make them feminist....Loe edasi...
The Holy Land is more than a sanctified geographical space that roughly corresponds to the Roman province that has been known as Palaestina since the end of the Bar Kochba War. Instead, it is primarily an idea and imaginative space created by a compl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009200981)
For students and scholars of British literature, the fourteen essays contained in this volume open fresh perspectives on a key transitional decade. Each models a new approach to the literary culture of this era, challenging old understandings of the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009650021)
From its recurring appearances in Gothic poetry and prose to the menacing images of Fuseli and Blake, Orianne Smith provides an interdisciplinary reimagining of the Romantic witch, shedding new light on the history of witchcraft and its influence on...Loe edasi...
This Element reconsiders the historical, theoretical, racial, disability, and editorial problem of genealogy by analysing genealogies in the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio: the Salic Law speech in Henry V and the seven sons scene in Henry VI, Part...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009360326)
This is the only stand-alone edition of Drydens prose available; it presents texts central to Drydens career, to the whole of Restoration culture, and to the development of modern English prose: writing of the greatest clarity, nuance, and argumen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108492508)
Gary Burges study explores the Roman context for Colossians and demonstrates how Pauls gospel would overturn the religious beliefs that affected their lives. He also interrogates Pauls overlooked letter to Philemon, which accompanied Colossians....Loe edasi...
Gary Burges study explores the Roman context for Colossians and demonstrates how Pauls gospel would overturn the religious beliefs that affected their lives. He also interrogates Pauls overlooked letter to Philemon, which accompanied Colossians....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009554831)
This book is for scholars and students of Latin American and Caribbean literature, and for a general audience familiar with the major novels of Alejo Carpentier. It contributes new perspectives on the marvelous real, magic realism, the Baroque, the...Loe edasi...
Virginia Woolf, Linden Peach, Derek Ryan, Jane Goldman
Sari: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521878944)
The book is the first scholarly edition of Flush. It provides readers with an authoritative text based on the collation of the different published versions of Flush, and contains comprehensive annotations that provide fresh insights into Woolfs boo...Loe edasi...
The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic royal house. It investigates key themes that emerge from the data, including childhood trauma and displacement, sibli...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009487788)
The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic royal house. It investigates key themes that emerge from the data, including childhood trauma and displacement, sibli...Loe edasi...
Studies of early modern drama in print and performance have often prioritized or even fetishized first editions and first performances. Challenging ingrained assumptions about chronology, this collection urges us to refocus critical attention towa...Loe edasi...
