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Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is the f
The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteen
In Smollett's Britain (St. Augustine's Press, 2022), acclaimed British historian Jeremy Black examin
Robert T. Tally, Jr.'s book For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capi
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most gripping and challenging plays. Labeled as a com
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Credited with popularizing the label "ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about div
From his debut as a novelist, Mordecai Richler challenged, provoked, enraged, entertained, and surpr
The Darwinian Revolution--the change in thinking sparked by Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Specie
What does a map of Southeast Asia as a pegasus have to do with translation and Southeast Asia? How c
Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In Praise of Good B
In Part 3, Professor Palfrey offers close-readings of some of the play’s most significant scenes. Yo
Imagine the astonishment felt by neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga when he found a fantastically
Several scholarly fields investigate the reuse of source texts, most relevantly adaptation studies a
n this episode (originally aired by our partner Novel Dialogue) John and his Brandeis colleague Euge
A fascinating exploration of George Orwell--and his body of work--by an award-winning Orwellian biog
Analyzing Social Narratives (Routledge, 2015) is one of the concise and informative volumes in the R
Part 2 explores the way that Shakespeare revised the original Lear story and the way he revised his
When Charles Darwin returned to Britain from the Beagle voyage in 1836, the most talked-about scient
Writing Latinos, from Public Books, features interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their
