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Story Time Essays on the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature

Young Timothy, Campbell Jill, Marcus Leonard, Maguire Gregory, Martin Michelle, Trumpener Katie, Whyte Padraic, Lyon Clark Beverly, Wasowicz Laura E., Frengel Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300218459, Yale University Press, February 2017
248 pp., 20.3x19 cm, 35 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

The history of children's literature is a growing area of study; this group of essays brings together innovative, scholarly voices to explore the fascinating tales behind many beloved books. The publication mines the "Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collectio...

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Voynich Manuscript

Clemens Raymond, Harkness Deborah E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300217230, Yale University Press, February 2017
304 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 268 colour illus.

The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle. "The Voynich Manuscript" is produced from new photographs of the entire original and accompanied by expert essays that invite anyone to understan...

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Placing John Haines

Perrin Warren James

ISBN: PB: 9781602233096, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

John Haines arrived in Alaska, fresh out of the Navy, in 1947, and established a homestead seventy miles southeast of Fairbanks. He stayed there nearly twenty-five years, learning to live off the country: hunting, trapping, fishing, gathering berries...

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Philosophy

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Wittgenstein and Modernism

LeMahieu Michael, Zumhagen-Yekple Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226420400, ISBN: HB: 9780226420370, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy "ought really to be written only as a form of poetry", and he even described the Tractatus as "philosophical and, at the same time, literary". But few books have really followed up on these claims...

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Legal Epic "Paradise Lost" and the Early Modern Law

Chapman Alison A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226435138, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm

The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England's history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, "The Legal Epic" is the first book to s...

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Philosophy

Aftermath of War

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780857424471, ISBN: HB: 9781905422883, Seagull Books, February 2017
368 pp., 20.4x13.2 cm

"The Aftermath of War" brings together essays written in Sartre's most creative period, just after World War II. Sartre's extraordinary range of engagement is manifest, with writings on post-war America, the social impact of war in Europe, contempora...

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Philosophy

Critical Essays

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780857424495, Seagull Books, February 2017
554 pp., 25x15 cm

"Critical Essays" ("Situations I") contains essays on literature and philosophy from a highly formative period of French philosopher and leading existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's life, the years between 1938 and 1946. This period is particularly inte...

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Art of Survival France and the Great War Picaresque

Murphy Libby

ISBN: HB: 9780300217513, Yale University Press, November 2016
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

An astute literary and cultural history of World War I in France that offers a fresh perspective on the popular culture of the Great War The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless victim sacrificed by a ruthless society in the...

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Biography & Memoires

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Proust The Search

Taylor Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780300224283, Yale University Press, November 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...

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Gender Studies

Oscar Wilde Prefigured Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900

Janes Dominic

ISBN: HB: 9780226358642, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones

"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad", Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom – which erupted in laughter – accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a...

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