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Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV: Henry James, Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde by their Contemporaries

Sarah Annes Brown

Part of the Lives of Victorian Literary Figures series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton. Editorial apparatus includes a…

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The Metamorphosis of Ovid

Sarah Annes Brown

Ovid’s Metamorphoses is one of the cornerstones of Western culture and the principal source for all the most famous myths of Greece and Rome. This text gives an account of…

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Ovid: Myth and Metamorphosis

Sarah Annes Brown

The impact of Ovid’s Metamorphoses on our culture can hardly be overestimated. The poem is one of the most exciting and accessible classical texts, our key source for nearly all…

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A Familiar Compound Ghost: Allusion and the Uncanny

Sarah Annes Brown

A Familiar Compound Ghost explores the relationship between allusion and the uncanny in literature. An unexpected echo or quotation in a new text can be compared to the sudden appearance…

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Shakespeare and Science Fiction

Sarah Annes Brown

In Shakespeare and Science Fiction Sarah Annes Brown investigates why so many science fiction writers have turned to Shakespeare when imagining humanity’s future.

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Renaissance Tales of Desire: Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, Theseus and Ariadne, Ceyx and Alcione

This edition of three Ovidian tales translated and partly rewritten in the 1560s (Thomas Peend’s The Pleasant fable of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, Thomas Underdowne’s The Excellent Historye of Theseus and…

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Ovid in English, 1480-1625: Part I, Metamorphoses

This volume brings together a range of celebrated and less familiar translations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses produced in English between 1480 and 1625, beginning with the story of Narcissus from Caxton’s…

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‘Your Secret Language’: Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa

Barbara Goff

An investigation into the teaching of classics in the colonial education of West Africa in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Ovid in English, 1480-1625: Part I, Metamorphoses

This volume brings together a range of celebrated and less familiar translations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses produced in English between 1480 and 1625, beginning with the story of Narcissus from Caxton’s…

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Tragedy in Transition

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting volume that explores the theory and practice of tragedy from the Greek tragedians to the present day, tracing important developments, continuities and…

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