Edited by Graham D. Caie, Denis Renevey

This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their manuscript context. Each contribution...

April 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36025-8 (Routledge)

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The Children Who Lived

Using Harry Potter and Other Fictional Characters to Help Grieving Children and Adolescents

By Kathryn A. Markell, Marc A. Markell

Harry Potter’s encounters with grief, as well as the grief experiences of other fictional characters, can be used by educators, counselors, and parents to help...

April 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95765-6 (Routledge)

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From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood

Children's Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity

By Elizabeth Galway

As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867, there was a call for a literary voice to...

April 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95848-6 (Routledge)

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Lysistrata, or Woman's Future and Future Woman Chronos, or the Future of the Family Aphrodite or the Future of Sexual Relationships

By Paul, de Pomerai, Ludovici

Volume 4

Lysistrata, or Woman’s Future and Future Woman

A M Ludovici

Originally published in 1927

" Pro-feminine but anti-feminist…" Scotsman

" A stimulating book" Sunday Times

This volume represents...

April 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46210-5 (Routledge)

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Isis, Or the Future of Oxford Alma Mater, or the Future of Oxford and Cambridge Chiron, or the Education of a Citizen of the World Eleutheros or the Future of Public Schools

By Hall, Pearce, Roxburgh, Diplock

Isis, or the Future of Oxford

W J K Diplock

Originally published in 1929

"A reactionary hit-back" Daily Mail

This volume defends Oxford intellectual life and examines the institution...

April 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46284-6 (Routledge)

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Eos or the Wider Aspects of Cosmogony Hermes, or the Future of Chemistry Sybilla, or the Revival of Prophecy Archimedes or the Future of Physics

By Jones, Mace, Whyte, Jeans

Eos or the Wider Aspects of Cosmogony

J H Jeans

Originally published in 1928

"A fascinating summary of his tremendous conclusions…" Times Literary Supplement

"No book in the series...

April 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46304-1 (Routledge)

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Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific

Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction

By Susan Y. Najita

In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which...

March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46885-5 (Routledge)

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Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative

“What’s aught but as ‘tis valued?”

By Peter F. Grav

Despite the volume of work Shakespeare produced, surprisingly few of his plays directly concern money and the economic mindset. Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative examines...

March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96316-9 (Routledge)

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Milton and the Spiritual Reader

Reading and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England

By David Ainsworth

Milton and the Spiritual Reader considers how John Milton’s later works demonstrate the intensive struggle of spiritual reading. Milton presents his own rigorous process of...

March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96251-3 (Routledge)

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Profiling Shakespeare

By Marjorie Garber

The title of this collection, Profiling Shakespeare, is meant strongly in its double sense. These essays show the outline of a Shakespeare rather different from...

March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96446-3 (Routledge)

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