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One of the most influential works on Sir Walter Scott, The Hero of the Waverley Novels is a model for reconstructing ideas common at a given period in time. In this book Alexander Welsh draws upon the entire canon of Scott's fiction to demonstrate its bearing on property and the behavior prescribed for the propertied classes. Analyzing the "passive

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Our understanding of Greek and Roman civilization is in considerable measure a product of the literary skills of its historians. Writing at different times from different viewpoints, they illustrate developments and influences. This book surveys the work of these historians.

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Focusing particularly on literary texts, but including biographical and intellectual background, this study examines numinous feeling as it is recorded by a number of seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers: Browne, Drydcn, Pascal; Pope and Swift; Hume and Johnson; eight other poets, including Watts, Smart, Cowper, and Blake; and four novelists,

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Offers students of Greek and scholars interested in Greek literature an English-language commentary on the Battle of Frogs and Mice, a short animal epic ascribed to Homer in the ancient world. This book includes a contextualizing introduction covering issues of literary genre, literary history and the language of Homeric Greek.

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This book examines the major modernist tenets embodied in Leungs literary works. The author argues that Leung paid special attention to issues regarding tradition, daily life, and colonial culture in order to understand his past, his identity, and the unique features of Hong Kong modernism.

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Thucydides has long been celebrated for the unflinching realism of his presentation of political life. And yet, as some scholars have asserted, his work also displays a profound humanity. This title provides the complete treatment to date of Thucydides' handling of the problem of injustice.

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A first collection of rare sensitivity.

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This book surveys the hyperlocal in the works of authors such as Jane Austen, John Keats, and Charles Dickens. It shows that the hyperlocal space or object, though particular, reaches beyond itself, affording an elasticity that can allow those things that seem beneath notice to reveal broader cultural significance.

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Offers an introduction to Homer's poem which sees it as rooted in a particular culture with its own narrative and thematic conventions that are only partly explained by assumptions about the properties of oral poetry.

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This book explores the way in which British and American visitors experienced Algeria and about their imaginary responses to the country. It also attempts to trace the elaboration and evolution of the perception of Algeria in the West with particular focus on the impressions a...

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The chapters in this volume explore the various strategies used by early modern writers to represent masculinity.

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A monograph investigating the way in which detective fiction reflects wider issues in society.

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Examines detective fiction and its complex relationship to the modern and to modernity. This monograph focuses on two key themes: the moral relationship of detection to a particular social world and the attempt to restore and even improve the social world that has been threatened and fractured by a crime, usually that of murder.

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An analysis of a range of American literature reflecting the experience of European and non-western immigrant groups. This work draws broad conclusions about the changes in American attitudes toward immigration and adverse cultures that are reflected in the literature.

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