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Best New Poets 2023: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Entering its nineteenth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The... Læs mere
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Restoration Drama and the Idea of Literature (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Argues that Restoration playwrights recognized and exploited the tension between print and performance inherent to all drama. By repeatedly and... Læs mere
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Popa Singer (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The most recent book by renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, and poet Rene Depestre, Popa Singer is a semi-autobiographical chronicle of Haiti in the late 1950s, the very moment when the country first came under decades of despotic rule.
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Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Illuminates the philosophical innovations that Black intellectuals made to build on Thomas Jefferson’s thought, shaping both Jefferson’s historical image and the exalted legacy of his ideas in American culture.
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Does Privilege Prevail?: Litigation in High Courts Across the Globe (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Justice is supposed to be blind. Cynics will say they know better. But what do the facts say? This groundbreaking study provides... Læs mere
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All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary Influence (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race. With All the Devils... Læs mere
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Reading Character After Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century novel has been well documented. They are... Læs mere
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Balzac on the Barricades: The Literary Origins of an Economic Revolution (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
When Parisian workers took to the streets in February 1848, they adopted the rallying cry of droit au travail. In her examination... Læs mere
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The Witch of Pungo: Grace Sherwood in Virginia History and Legend (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The authoritative cultural history of Virginia’s most famous accused witch. This is the first book to explore Grace Sherwood’s life and... Læs mere
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Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture After World War II (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic and cultural... Læs mere
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Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Draws on years of ethnographic fieldwork and collaboration, as well as an archive of hundreds of songs by more than sixty hip hop artists. Charlie Hankin... Læs mere
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Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Catherine Allgor describes the various ways genteel elite women during the first decades of the 19th century used... Læs mere
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