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OrIoff shows that Cortázar did not become a political writer as a result of the Cuban Revolution, as is often claimed, but rather that the representation of the political was present in Cortázar's very first writings.

A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson which addresses fundamental questions about the character of English society during a period of decisive change.

A fresh perspective on the Crusade shows its ideal and practice flourishing in the fourteenth century.

A groundbreaking treatment of the themes of colonialism and Africa in German literary fiction as presented in some fifty novels from the past three decades.

First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood.

The question of what medieval "courtliness" was, both as a literary influence and as a historical "reality", is debated in this volume.

Offers an entirely new way of interpreting and examining Anglo-Saxon texts, via theories derived from cognitive studies.

A detailed analysis of how government in India was financed during the period of direct British rule.

The first extended account of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

Investigates the function and meaning of sadness in German, Austrian, and Swiss literature and culture from the 18th century to the present.

Seven volume set of these classic works of reference, essential for students, scholars, archaeologists, re-enactors and historians of material culture, textiles and tools.

Parallel texts of key Dutch Arthurian romances in acclaimed translations with notes and introductions.

A fresh assessment of seaborne activity around England in the later middle ages, offering a fresh perspective on its rich maritime heritage.

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.

Brecht's activities in the GDR, the regime's marginalizing response and posthumous appropriation of his legacy, and creative responses in the GDR and after.

Essays examining the way in which the sea has shaped medieval and later ideas of what it is to be English.

This book examines one collection of saints' lives, or sanctorals, and the twenty-five female saints witnessed therein. Included in the study are transcriptions of twenty-two previously unedited lives.

Essays throwing fresh light on what it was like to be a medieval soldier, drawing on archival research.

A renowned Verdi authority offers here the often-astounding first history of how Verdi's early operas -- including one of his great masterpieces, Rigoletto -- made their way into America's musical life.

The process of Hawthorne's scholarly canonization, and the ongoing critical and cultural discourse on his works.

First full study of the use made by Renaissance writers of the past in their prose fiction.

New examination of how land politics were closely entwined with the idea of Englishness.

Explains the astonishing growth of Middlesbrough from a hamlet to a very substantial town in the space of a few decades in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Essays reflecting the most recent research on the thirteenth century, with a timely focus on the Treaty of Paris.

Offers a new interpretation of Butler's theology and suggests that exploration of his methods may contribute to modern thinking about ethics, language, the Church as well as religion and science.

The popular genre of medieval romance explored in its physical, geographical, and literary contexts.

First comprehensive study of four important medieval saints' lives, setting them in their political and ecclesiastical context.

A study of Lorca's poetic trajectory.