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Repositioning Shakespeare

National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations

By Thomas Cartelli

Repositioning Shakespeare offers an original assessment of a broad range of texts and cultural events that appropriate Shakespeare. Examining these materials within the context of…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-19498-3 (Routledge)

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Englishness and National Culture

By Antony Easthorpe

In this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-19688-8 (Routledge)

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Courting Power

Persuasion and Politics in the Early Thirteenth Century

By Laurie Shepard

Courting Power chronicles a significant deviation in epistolary persuasion in the 1230's, crystallized at the imperial chancery of Frederick II, Emperor from 1220-1250. here, traditional…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3122-3 (Routledge)

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When Dreams Came True

Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition

By Jack Zipes

For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92151-0 (Routledge)

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Blake, Politics, and History

By George A. Jr. Rosso Jr., Christopher Z. Hobson

A groundbreaking, international collection
This anthology of original essays charts new territory in mapping the work of William Blake, combining traditional and current historicist methods…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-1679-4 (Routledge)

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The Legacy of Boadicea

Gender and Nation in Early Modern England

By Jodi Mikalachki

The Legacy of Boadicea explores the construction of personal and national identities in early modern England. It highlights the problems and anxieties of national identity…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-18264-5 (Routledge)

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Ten Most Wanted

The New Western Literature

By Blake Allmendinger

In this groundbreaking work, Blake Allmendinger leads the search for a new literature of the American West. He expands the field from within by discovering…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-91463-5 (Routledge)

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Retelling Stories, Framing Culture

Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature

By John Stephens, Robyn McCallum

What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another time and cultural context and for a different audience? This first-of-its-kind study discusses…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-1298-7 (Routledge)

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Sheba's Daughters

Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Epic

By Jacqueline de Weever

The Saracens were the "black devils" of medieval epics and romances, and medieval biblical exegesis and critical canons made it clear that the color black…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3018-9 (Routledge)

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Low and High Style in Italian Renaissance Art

By Patricia Emison

During the later 15th and in the 16th centuries pictures began to be made without action, without place for heroism, pictures more rueful than celebratory.…

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1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2530-7 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

The Historical Imagination of G.K. Chesterton: Locality, Patriotism, and Nationalism
By Joseph R. McCleary
To be published January 9th 2009

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
Edited by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, Sherryl Vint
To be published January 30th 2009

Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity
By Karen Leick
To be published March 15th 2009

The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee
By Hania A.M. Nashef
To be published March 25th 2009

Translation under State Control: Books for Young People in the German Democratic Republic
By Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth
To be published April 29th 2009

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