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Epidemic Empire Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020
ISBN: PB: 9780226739359, ISBN: HB: 9780226739212, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies. In Epidemic Empire, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this tro...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Winter Stories
ISBN: HB: 9780857426109, Seagull Books, February 2020
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In "Winter Stories", Norwegian author Ingrid H. Rishoi gives us three contemporary tales about personal resilience in the face of adversity. We meet a teenager on the run from social services with her younger half-sister and half-brother in tow; a yo...
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£18,99
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Thinking with Shakespeare Essays on Politics and Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226710198, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
What is a person? What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? Such questions – bearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politics and life – animate Shakespearean drama, yet their urgency has often been obscured. Julia Reinhard...
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£28,00
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Worldmakers Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780226598871, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, excitin...
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£25,00
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On the Contrary
ISBN: PB: 9781784104368, Carcanet, April 2018
360 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Candid and sometimes scathing memoirs from the Oscar-award-winning screenwriter of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. On the Contrary is a Proustian parade of people and events (including Thatcher and the Falklands war), written with the vividness and...
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£19,99
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Shakespeare Dwelling Designs for the Theater of Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226540917, ISBN: HB: 9780226266015, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 halftones
Great halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside shelters – these are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds. Julia Reinhard...
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£20,50
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£62,00
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Writing and Life, Literature and History Yale French Studies, Number 129
ISBN: PB: 9780300217223, Yale University Press, July 2016
232 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In 1963, French-Spanish writer Jorge Semprun published "Le Grand Voyage" ("The Long Voyage"), a fictional account of his deportation to Buchenwald. Later, Semprun became an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and served as Spain's minister of cultur...
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£35,00
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Setting Plato Straight Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance
ISBN: HB: 9780226307008, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant. For this, we have fifteenth and sixteenth-century European humanists to thank. As these scholars – most of them Catholic – read, digested, a...
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£36,00
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Transnational Poetics
ISBN: PB: 9780226334974, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous – "stubbornly national", in T. S. Eliot's phrase, or "the most provincial of the arts", according to W. H. Auden. But in "A Transnational Poetics", Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies...
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£19,00
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Scholars, Poets and Radicals Discovering Forgotten Lives in the Blackwell Collections
ISBN: HB: 9781851244256, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 48 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a tailor's son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a hamm...
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£30,00
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