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Literary Criticism

Emerson's Proteges Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future

Dowling David

ISBN: HB: 9780300197440, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assumin...

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Virtue of Sympathy Magic, Philosophy and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England

Lobis Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780300192032, Yale University Press, December 2014
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and building to a new reading of Milton's "Paradise Lost", author Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the seventeenth century. Having long referred t...

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Classicism of the Twenties Art, Music, and Literature

Ziolkowski Theodore

ISBN: HB: 9780226183985, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct – and influential – was a turn t...

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Gender Studies

Sexuality of History Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830

Lanser Susan S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226187730, ISBN: HB: 9780226187563, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch cou...

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Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities

Ridolfo Jim, Hart-Davidson William

ISBN: PB: 9780226176697, ISBN: HB: 9780226176550, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings

The digital humanities is a rapidly growing field that is transforming humanities research through digital tools and resources. Researchers can now quickly trace every one of Issac Newton's annotations, use social media to engage academic and public...

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General

Shrapnel Minima Writings from Humanities Underground

Chakravarty Prasanta

ISBN: PB: 9780857421876, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection of essays, fiction, poetry and discussions, derived from the cult Internet magazine "HumanitiesUnderground", provides entry into some of the most burning issues in the humanities in contemporary South Asia. The anthology brings toget...

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The French List

Kafka, Angry Poet

Casanova Pascale

ISBN: HB: 9780857421623, Seagull Books, December 2014
304 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Franz Kafka was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His writing contributed greatly to existentialism, and the term "Kafkaesque" is now synonymous with the literature of the surreal, the complex and the illogical. His works...

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International Novel

Patterson Annabel

ISBN: HB: 9780300198003, Yale University Press, November 2014
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 9 black&white maps

Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political history in early modern England into an engine for investigating our own era and a much wider terrain. The focus of this book is, broadly, nationalism and internationalism today, appr...

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C. H. Sisson Reader

McGuinness Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781847772657, Carcanet, November 2014
528 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

C. H. Sisson was born in Bristol in 1914. To celebrate his centenary, this Reader includes a generous selection of his poems, translations and essays. The poems are drawn from all periods of Sisson's writing life, from the darkly satirical work of th...

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Cartoon Art

Painting and Drawing Manuals

Make Comics Like the Pros The Inside Scoop on How to Write, Draw, and Sell Your Comic Books and Graphic Novels

Pak Greg, Van Lente Fred

ISBN: PB: 9780385344630, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, November 2014
160 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 200 illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! Every aspiring comic book creator wants to know: what separates the beloved comics of major publishers like Marvel, DC, Valiant and Image from all the rest? Fan-favourite comic book writers Greg Pak and Fred Van...

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