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A collection of essays that discuss the assumptions, ideas, and practices that constituted the intimate lives of men and women in the ancient Mediterranean world. It also demonstrates the importance of the "History of Sexuality" for fields as diverse as Greco-Roman antiquity, women's history, cultural studies, philosophy, and modern sexuality.

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This text studies the role of marriage in the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and William and Ellen Craft. It establishes the influence of those narratives on the fiction of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown and Martin Delany, and re-examines assumptions about slave narratives.

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A study that introduces, conceptualises, and examines the American Adam and American Psycho paradigms while focussing on the inter-relations between the two figures. Using the American Adam as a paradigm of masculine identity formation, it examines the American Psycho as Adam's 'real' condition of existence.

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John Grisham is one of the most prolific and beloved mystery writers today, still reaching the top of the bestseller lists with books like The Testament (1999) and King of Torts (2003).

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An ambitious and wide-ranging study of the Irish gay novel, not merely in relation to a broader Irish political and historical narrative, but also a global one of increasing neoliberal domination legitimated by liberal social politics.

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An ambitious and wide-ranging study of the Irish gay novel, not merely in relation to a broader Irish political and historical narrative, but also a global one of increasing neoliberal domination legitimated by liberal social politics.

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Adopting the concept of diaspora--literally dispersal, or the scattering of a people--to the historical and contemporary presence of people of Indian subcontinental origin in other areas of the world, Emmanuel Nelson uses this paradigm to analyze Indian expatriate writing.

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Offers a systematic study of the controversial Austrian feminist writer, Elfriede Jelinek. The book provides a survey and analysis of Jelinek's major texts and a discussion of the literary techniques which characterize the author's writing.

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A study of the Austrian feminist writer, Elfriede Jelinek. It offers a survey and analysis of Jelinek's major texts, and a discussion of the literary techniques, which characterise her writing. Background contextual information on historical and literary developments is provided to help the reader gain an understanding of Jelinek's writing.

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This study of feminist biblical revision argues that women writers' contentious dialogues with the Bible ultimately reconstruct the writers' own basis of authority.

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This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical lenses. An exemplary figure of the New Grub Street, Marsh was an important presence within fin-de-sicle literary culture, whose middlebrow genre fiction simultaneously reinforces and challenges the dominant discourses of the period.

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The first collection devoted solely to early medieval riddles, Riddles at work showcases recent research in this popular, new field. It brings together studies of Old English and Latin riddles, authors at various stages of their careers and a range of approaches, aiming to map out both the state of the field now and its future directions.

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The first collection devoted solely to early medieval riddles, Riddles at work showcases recent research in this popular, new field. It brings together studies of Old English and Latin riddles, authors at various stages of their careers and a range of approaches, aiming to map out both the state of the field now and its future directions.