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  • - Projects in British Culture, 1660-1730
    af David Alff
    722,95 kr.

    The Wreckage of Intentions offers a comprehensive account of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century projects-concrete yet incomplete efforts to advance British society during a period defined by revolutions in finance and agriculture, the rise of experimental science, and the establishment of constitutional monarchy.

  • - Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England
    af Julie Orlemanski
    754,95 kr.

    In the period just prior to medicine's modernity, England saw a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Julie Orlemanski's Symptomatic Subjects shows how late medieval English writers drew on the discourse of medicine to narrate anew the crossings-and the conflicts-between physiology and personhood.

  • - Four American Encounters
    af Timothy Sweet
    343,95 kr.

    In Extinction and the Human Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them, focusing especially on the force of human impact on megafauna-mammoths, whales, and the North American bison.