This volume provides new insights into some of the best examples of this form of writing in the twentieth century and also includes a chapter which explores ways in which the genre is evolving as the century draws to a close.

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9780859895705 | Published: 1998

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9780859895699 | Published: 1998

Sick Heroes examines the cultural practices that created those remarkably offensive, though strangely appealing, romantic heroes that appeared in European and especially in French literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century.

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9780859895507 | Published: 1997

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9780859895491 | Published: 1997

Although the 17th Century playwright Enríquez Gomez was well known for his comedies, Los Siete Planetas is a surprisingly orthodox play.

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9780859892810 | Published: 1987

Silent Features is a collection of essays on seventeen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features, their diverse stylistic, generic and structural characteristics, and the national, historical and industrial contexts from which they emerged. Of the 17 films discussed, 15 are still currently available on DVD. 200 b&w illustrations.

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9780859892919 | Published: 2018

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9780859892896 | Published: 2018

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9781905816255 | Published: 2019

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9781905816262 | Published: 2019

A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16^th and mid-17^th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise. This performance edition presents for the first time nine examples of English dramatic jigs from the late sixteenth century through to the Restoration.

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9780859898782 | Published: 2014

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9780859899840 | Published: 2015

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9780859899628 | Published: 2015

La Soeur (1645) is one of the liveliest and most successful comedies by Jean Rotrou. The introduction to this new edition assesses the originality of Rotrou’s adaptation. The notes are devoted above all to linguistic questions and to the many exotic allusions found in the text.

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9780859893985 | Published: 2006

This edition of Antonio Machado’s work offers a complete revision of the interpretations advanced by critics on the first version of Soledades (1903). Based on Machado’s original edition it will be the only reliable text on the market of this work, the very embodiment of Spanish modernism.

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9780859897648 | Published: 2006

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9780859899444 | Published: 2015

The book provides an overview of key areas and will serve as a useful introductory text for those following university courses in this field.

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9780859894845 | Published: 1996

This volume traces the roots and growth of school worship and spiritual development from Victorian times and earlier through the 1960s and beyond in order to see how we have reached the present situation.

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9780859896016 | Published: 2000

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9780859896009 | Published: 2000

This text traces the social and political development of Syria and Lebanon from the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire to the present day. Written by a number of specialists and scholars, it offers a comparative study by means of concentration on major turning-points in the modern history of both countries.

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9780859894104 | Published: 1994