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Retracing the steps of a surprising array of 20th-century writers who ventured into the fantastical, topsy-turvy world o......more

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The Small Worlds of Childhood argues that prose representations of bourgeois childhood contain surprising opportunities ......more

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The closing decades of the nineteenth century saw the birth of psychology as a discipline. The question of the relations......more

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Teach a conquistador’s writings about his journeys in the Americas In 1527 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca journeyed from Spa......more

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The untold story of Shakespeare’s profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group "A spirited ......more

The preoccupations of eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson--the inequities of gender and sexuality; race and wh......more

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