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By: Anne Lake Prescott

ISBN: 9781526195432
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Essays by Anne Lake Prescott on French and English early modern writers and cultures, from Du Bellay to Spenser, Ronsard to Donne.


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By: Helen Dell

ISBN: 9781526195838
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval musical performance, literature, cinema and their reception have worked together to produce and sustain the fantasy of a long-lost, long-mourned paradisal home.


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By: Victoria Flood

ISBN: 9781526195852
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent political uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance, revealing the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictionality.


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By: James Marcus

ISBN: 9780691254340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Carol Davison

ISBN: 9781526195388
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This interdisciplinary text combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of literary, artistic, and televisual works, both classic and lesser known. It investigates how the Gothic and the concepts of dreams and nightmares have intersected from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.


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By: Dr Eric Parisot

ISBN: 9781526195234
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video games. The chapters incorporate discussion of Gothic texts from around the world, offering a compelling new account of the graveyard's importance as a key location for Gothic art and culture.


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By: Douglas Field

ISBN: 9781526196088
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume.


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By: Hope Doherty-Harrison

ISBN: 9781526183170
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the theological questions posed by portrayals of love, sexual violence, and sacrifice in medieval romance. The book argues that these themes are by nature entangled with the discourse of anti-Judaism, which can be turned inwardly to expose irresolution within Christianity itself.


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By: Melissa Dinsman

ISBN: 9781526195517
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book re-examines British women's writing in the mid-century and its relationship to public and domestic spaces.


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By: Allan Ingram

ISBN: 9781526195425
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation on medical practices and personages were spread during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and some of the reasons for this, from authorial self-interest to scientific ignorance.


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By: Joshua Easterling

ISBN: 9781526181053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The eight studies presented here on late medieval religious objects provide new insight into miracle stories, spiritual writings, religious drama, and medieval English poetry.


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By: Manon Burz-Labrande

ISBN: 9781839996306
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Anthem Press
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This book is a study of the impact of nineteenth-century popular literature on its contemporary society as well as on later literary works and genres, through the case study of the penny dreadfuls and their circulation patterns.


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By: Martina Horkov

ISBN: 9781839990571
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2026
Publisher: Anthem Press
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This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals-writers, historians, academics, journalists-which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people, and articulate new perspectives on how to belong ethically in a settler colony of the 21st century.


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By: Peter Davidson

ISBN: 9781526195548
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the baroque period.


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By: Richard Moore Jr.

ISBN: 9781839986741
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2026
Publisher: Anthem Press
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This monograph examines the centrality of dreams and their significant transformations in British Gothic novels and in Caribbean novels. The Gothic counters the Enlightenment's internalization of dreams by reimagining dreams as social and political phenomena.


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By: Victor Skretkowicz

ISBN: 9781526195463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is an edition of Sir Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in modern spelling that makes the text accessible through an enhanced glossary and expanded commentary covering book history, reception history, and Sidney's contribution to the English language.


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By: Hiram Morgan

ISBN: 9781526156433
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A detailed exploration of key documentary sources relating to the end of Edmund Spenser's time as a planter in Ireland in the midst of a dangerous Irish revolt that reveals a lot about the colonial and religious mentalities involved in Elizabethan England's imperial venture in Ireland. It makes novel use of stylometric tests to delve deeper into the authorship of these controversial texts.


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By: Martin Bleisteiner

ISBN: 9781526175960
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores how medieval and early modern texts use material objects to negotiate temporal otherness. From marvellous artefacts to everyday items, it reveals objects as agents of change, bridging human and material, nature and culture, in ways that anticipate Latour's ideas.


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By: Michael Durrant

ISBN: 9781526129390
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This compelling book offers a fresh and insightful contribution to the interrelated fields of book history and literary studies, showing us new ways to read and write early modern lives in print.


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By: Jock Macleod

ISBN: 9781526185587
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book analyses the treatment of the emotions in liberal writing in Britain over the long nineteenth century, showing how liberals were deeply concerned with the nature, function, and effects of the emotions and how links between reason, disinterestedness and the positive role of the emotions became a hallmark of liberal writing.


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By: Jesse Zuba

ISBN: 9780691271118
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a unique


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By: John Whatley

ISBN: 9781526191724
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An exploration of new Gothic, old Gothic, and their intersection with the crises of our own times. This text shows Gothic as it encompasses each new reality, each new apocalypse, each new plague or crisis we are going through.


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By: Koenraad Claes

ISBN: 9781526172365
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This collection explores how a range of nineteenth-century authors, from their own historically contingent perspectives, were concerned with many of the same issues as scholars today looking back at the nineteenth century.


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By: Chloe Kathleen Preedy

ISBN: 9781526195524
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped by regional travel, 'non-literary', non-elite works, and oral culture. The essays in this collection address Nashe's use of the past, his engagement with the Elizabethan present, and his textual legacy.

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