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Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies
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Camb Companion Eng Renais Drama 2ed
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A Prince Of Bohemia
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Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Si
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Shakespeare in Print
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Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy
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Magical Worlds of Narnia
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With Love and Squalor: 13 Writers Respond to the Work of J.D. Salinger
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Hunting Causes and Using Them
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Anthony and Cleopatra
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Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism
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20C American Fiction on Screen
by R. Barton Palmer Publisher Comments The essays in this collection analyse major film adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon to Toni Morrison's Beloved. During the century, films based on American literature came to play a central role...
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Modernism and the Celtic Revival
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The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel
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Philosophy of Literature
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The Robert B. Parker Companion
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Marxist Shakespeares
by Jean E. Howard Publisher Comments "Marxist Shakespeares" uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh. The essays collected here reveal the continuing power of Marxist thought to address many issues including: * the relationship of...
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U in My Soul
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The American Puritan Elegy
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Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity
by Ian Baucom Publisher Comments In a 1981 debate on the British Nationality Act, Enoch Powell insisted that although a black man may be a British citizen, he can never be an Englishman. This book explains why such a claim was possible to advance and impossible to defend. Ian Baucom...
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