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The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, combines historical analysis and readings of extraordinarily diverse texts to reconceive the foundations of the dominant genre of the modern era. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of its initial publication, The Origins of the English Novel stands as essential reading. The anniversary edition features ......
At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death on its way to finding a permanent home. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a peaceful life. ......
At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a peaceful life. Elements of the worship of Dionysus, such ......
There are seven surviving tragedies by Sophocles. Three of them form the Theban Plays, which recount the story of Thebes during and after the reign of Oedipus. Here, David Slavitt translates the remaining tragediesthe 'other four plays:' Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philocettes.Punchy and entertaining, Slavitt reads Athena's opening ......
There are seven surviving tragedies by Sophocles. Three of them form the Theban Plays, which recount the story of Thebes during and after the reign of Oedipus. Here, David Slavitt translates the remaining tragediesthe 'other four plays:' Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philocettes.Punchy and entertaining, Slavitt reads Athena's opening ......
In many developed countries, population decline poses economic and social strains and may even threaten national security. Through historical-political case studies of Sweden, France, Italy, Japan, and Singapore, The Other Population Crisis explores the motivations, politics, programming, and consequences of national efforts to promote ......
Like the better-known Smilodon, or saber-tooth cat, the scimitar-tooth cats of the New World were fierce predators that killed and consumed the largest of North America's species. This volume synthesizes all currently known information about the scimitar-tooths.Scimitar-tooth cats had serrated teeth that were shorter and stouter than those of ......
Love between Men and the Creation of the American Republic
When eighteenth-century American men described with a swelling of the heart' their friendships with other men, addressing them as lovely boy' and dearly beloved,' celebrating the ardent affection' that knit their hearts in indissoluble bonds of fraternal love,' their families, neighbours, and acquaintances would have been neither ......
Love between Men and the Creation of the American Republic
When eighteenth-century American men described 'with a swelling of the heart' their friendships with other men, addressing them as 'lovely boy' and 'dearly beloved,' celebrating the 'ardent affection' that knit their hearts in 'indissoluble bonds of fraternal love,' their families, neighbors, and acquaintances would have been neither surprised nor ......
