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  • Backstage in the Novel

    Frances Burney and the Theater Arts

    Translated by Laura Kopp ...
    In Backstage in the Novel, Francesca Saggini traces the unique interplay between fiction and theater in the eighteenth century through an examination of the work of the English novelist, diarist, and playwright Frances Burney. Moving beyond the basic identification of affinities between the genres, Saggini establishes a literary-cultural context for Burney's work, considering the relation between ... Read more

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  • Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East, Part I Vol 1

    Continuing the series on Women's Travel Writings, this two-part collection presents some fascinating tales of North Africa and the Middle East. Part I includes three separate volumes that include the writings of Volume 1: Sarah Wilson, The Fruits of Enterprise Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia (1825); Volume 2 Barbara Hofland, The Young Pilgrim, or Alfred Campbell's Return to ... Read more

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  • Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East, Part I Vol 3

    Continuing the series on Women's Travel Writings, this two-part collection presents some fascinating tales of North Africa and the Middle East. Part I includes three separate volumes that include the writings of Volume 1: Sarah Wilson, The Fruits of Enterprise Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia (1825); Volume 2 Barbara Hofland, The Young Pilgrim, or Alfred Campbell's Return to ... Read more

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  • Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East, Part I Vol 2

    Continuing the series on Women's Travel Writings, this two-part collection presents some fascinating tales of North Africa and the Middle East. Part I includes three separate volumes that include the writings of Volume 1: Sarah Wilson, The Fruits of Enterprise Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia (1825); Volume 2 Barbara Hofland, The Young Pilgrim, or Alfred Campbell's Return to ... Read more

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  • Frances Burney and the Arts

    Edited by Francesca Saggini ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays by leading scholars in Burney studies provides an innovative, interdisciplinary critical consideration of the relationship of one of the major authors of the long English Romantic period with the arts. The encounter was not devoid of tensions and indeed often required a degree of wrangling on Burney’s part. This was a revealing and at times contentious dialogue, allowing ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Transmedia Creatures

    Frankenstein’s Afterlives

    On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities. These innovative contributions investigate the afterlives of a novel taught in a disparate array of courses - ... Read more

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  • Persia and the Persian Question. In Two Volumes. Volume 2.

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  • Travels into Bokhara

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    At the age of only twenty six, Alexander Burnes proved himself to be one of the most effective intelligence agents of his time. Making two dangerous journeys beyond the frontiers of the Indian Empire, he reported back via the East India Company to Downing Street on the geography and politics of the kingdoms that lay to the northwest as far as fabled Bokhara. He travelled simply, disguised as a ... Read more

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  • Travels in Egypt and Nubia: Belzoni (Expanded, Annotated)

    A GIANT AMONG ADVENTURERS AND EXPLORERSAmong the noted explorers and adventurers of the great age of discovery, few can compare with the Great Belzoni.No study of the modern exploration of ancient Egypt is complete without his extraordinary work. Once a circus strongman, trained as an engineer, he spent many years on the Nile in Egypt and Nubia studying the ancient ruins and shipping antiquities ... Read more

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  • Empires of the Plain

    Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon

    by Lesley Adkins ...
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  • Lost Pharaohs

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