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Dissolute Characters
Irish Literary History Through Balzac, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats and Bowen

Manchester University Press
Irish literature in English commands world-wide respect, but it is rarely discussed in a comparative light. This study of the making and unmaking of character...
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Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar
Contemporary World Writers

Manchester University Press
Slavery is a recurring subject in works by the contemporary British writers Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar, yet their return to this past...
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Dearest Jean
Rose Macaulay's Letters to a Cousin

Manchester University Press
These candid letters from Rose Macaulay to her first cousin Jean Smith are previously unknown. Macaulay was one of the most versatile, successful, and...
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The Lady's Trial
By John Ford
The Revels Plays

Manchester University Press
John Ford is best known as the author of the controversial Tis Pity She’s a Whore, but his other plays are also full of interest. The Lady’s Trial, his last...
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Robert Southwell
Snow in Arcadia: Redrawing the English Lyric Landscape, 1586-95

Manchester University Press
It has traditionally been held that Robert Southwell’s poetry offers a curious view of Elizabethan England, one that is from the restricted perspective of a...
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Medieval and Early Modern Devotional Objects in Global Perspective
Translations of the Sacred
The New Middle Ages

Palgrave Macmillan
These fourteen essays create an interdisciplinary conversation about the nature and function of sacred and devotional objects across the globe during the...
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Byron and the Rhetoric of Italian Nationalism
Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters

Palgrave Macmillan
Making extensive use of untranslated texts, Byron and the Rhetoric of Italian Nationalism analyzes the incorporation of Byron’s life and works into Italian...
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Victorian Medicine and Social Reform
Florence Nightingale among the Novelists
Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters

Palgrave Macmillan
Victorian Medicine and Social Reform traces Florence Nightingale’s career as a reformer and Crimean war heroine. Her fame as a social activist and her writings...
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The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia

Palgrave Macmillan
The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia is an important collection of essays that examine the complex significations of “Asia” in the...
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Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement
Beyond Borders

Palgrave Macmillan
In a clear and accesible style, this book theorizes female movement within narratives of enslavement and advocates for a changed black female consciousness...

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