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  • Fighting Forces, Writing Women

    Identity and Ideology in the First World War

    de Sharon Ouditt ...
    In a period of high idealism, and 'titanic illimitable death' women ofter found themselves longing to play an active role alongside their male compatriots. In this fascinating work, Sharon Ouditt examines the traumatic nature of women's experiences during the Great War, and the complex ideological structures they constructed in order to legitimate their position in the public world of work and ... Leer más

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  • Displaced Persons: Conditions of Exile in European Culture

    Edición de Sharon Ouditt ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    This lively and intellectually vigorous conspectus of studies approaches the subject of exile from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The contributions to this volume give due attention to the twentieth century migratory phenomena, theorised by Edward Said, Julia Kristeva and Salman Rushdie. They also show that the discourse and experience of exile is not the stuff of modernity alone. The ... Leer más

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  • Impressions of Southern Italy

    British Travel Writing from Henry Swinburne to Norman Douglas

    de Sharon Ouditt ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Travel Writing
    Naples was conventionally the southernmost stop of the Grand Tour beyond which, it was assumed, lay violent disorder: earthquakes, malaria, bandits, inhospitable inns, few roads and appalling food. On the other hand, Southern Italy lay at the heart of Magna Graecia, whose legends were hard-wired into the cultural imaginations of the educated.This book studies the British travellers who visited ... Leer más

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  • Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography

    de Sharon Ouditt ...
    'They also serve who only stand and wait' The idea of there being a 'women's writing' during the First World War is often dismissed. The war, the story goes, was a masculine domain, and as women did not fight, it is also assumed that they were excluded from a war experience. This bibliography challenges that view by listing and annotating hundreds of published books, articles, memoirs, diaries and ... Leer más

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  • Classics: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

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    This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur.We are all Classicists - we come into touch with the Classics daily: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true ... Leer más

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  • Civilisation

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    Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation.The author takes us from Iona in the ninth century to France in the twelfth, from Florence to Urbino, from Germany to Rome, England, Holland and America. Against these ... Leer más

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  • The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction

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  • Robertson Davies

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