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Henrik Ibsen The Man and the Mask

de Figueiredo Ivo

ISBN: HB: 9780300208818, Yale University Press, February 2019
704 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 colour illus., 22 black&white illus.

Henrik Ibsen (1820-1908) is arguably the most important playwright of the nineteenth century. Globally he remains the most performed playwright after Shakespeare, and "Hedda Gabler", "A Doll's House", "Peer Gynt", and "Ghosts" are all masterpieces of...

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Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 20 Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings

Johnson Samuel, Brack O. M., DeMaria Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300228281, Yale University Press, February 2019
672 pp., 22.2x14.3 cm, 1 black&white illus.

The English critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson was among the most influential figures of the eighteenth century. This twentieth and final volume of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson presents the author's occasional writing, inc...

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Babel Adventures in Translation

Duncan Dennis, Harrison Stephen, Kohl Katrin, Reynolds Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9781851245093, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2019
176 pp., 24.4x20.7 cm, 65 colour illus.

This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. It tells the story of how ideas have travelled via the medium of tran...

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Other Things

Brown Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780226283029, ISBN: HB: 9780226076652, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour plates, 30 halftones

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone – the humanities continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? In "Other Thin...

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Africa

Race, Nation, Translation South African Essays, 1990-2013

Wicomb Zoe, van der Vlies Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300226171, Yale University Press, January 2019
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoe Wicomb, one of South Africa's leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume. This compilation features critical essays on the works of such prominent South...

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Culture Studies

Social Life of Books Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

Williams Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780300240252, ISBN: HB: 9780300208290, Yale University Press, January 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 57 black&white illus.

A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century. Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainme...

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