Configuring masculinity in theory and literary practice

Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most important concepts in Masculinity Studies with a historical overview of how masculinity has been const…

Shakespeare's history plays : rethinking historicism

Shakespeare's History Plays boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse …

The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s sisters gender, transgression, adolescence

The first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture. Jennifer Higginbotham makes a persuasive case for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early mo…

Literary culture in early modern England, 1630–1700 : angles of contingency

This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number of c…

Early printed narrative literature in Western Europe

The essays in this volume are concerned with early printed narrative texts in Western Europe. The aim of this book is to consider to what extent the shift from hand-written to printed books left it…

Translating Chinese tradition and teaching Tangut culture : manuscripts and p…

This book is about Tangut translations of Chinese literary texts. Although most of the extant Tangut material comprises Buddhist texts, there are also many non-religious texts, which are mostly tra…

Studies on Greek and Coptic majuscule scripts and books

The volume contains a critical review of data, results and open problems concerning the principal Greek and Coptic majuscule bookhands, based on previous research of the author, revised and updated…

Hope lies in the proles:George Orwell and the Left

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9781786801890

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Northampton, England

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828.91209 NEW h

The emergence of multiple-text manuscripts

The universal practice of selecting and excerpting, summarizing and canonizing, arranging and organizing texts and visual signs, either in carefully dedicated types of manuscripts or not, is common…

Tracing manuscripts in time and space through paratexts

As records of the link between a manuscript and the texts it contains, paratexts document many aspects of a manuscript’s life: production, transmission, usage, and reception. Comprehensive studie…