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The Monstrous and the Dead
$35.00What is the political function of monstrosity? What is the nature of our political relationship with the dead? Why are the undead so threatening? In The Monstrous and the Dead,…
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The Monstrous Middle Ages
$24.95List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsAbbreviations1. Introduction: Conceptualizing the Monstrous Bettina Bildhauer and Robert Mills2. Jesus as Monster Robert Mills3. Monstrous Masculinities in Julian of Norwich’s A Revelation of Love and…
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The New Poetry in Wales
$25.00By evolving new techniques to explore today’s most pressing issues—environmental destruction and the damage inflicted on the third world by global capitalism—contemporary Welsh poets are making some of the most…
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The Novels of José Saramago
$35.00Since he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, José Saramago’s prominence amongst English speakers has risen dramatically. In The Novels of José Saramago, David Frier presents a comprehensive…
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The Politics of Literature
$30.00In Poland, literature is politics by other means; writers are the real national leadership. The history of post-war Polish literature is also very much the story of opposition to communism….
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The Road to 1789
$13.00The subject of the origins of the French Revolution is one of the most important and controversial themes in European history. This fresh critical appraisal begins with a masterly exposition…
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The Welsh Academy English-Welsh Dictionary
$40.00This volume represents the most comprehensive English-Welsh dictionary ever compiled. It opens up the immense resources of a language which not only carries a rich cultural heritage but is changing…
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The Welsh Fairy Book
$8.00The Welsh Fairy Book is the finest example of Welsh book illustration to have been produced in the ferment of the early twentieth century. Published originally in 1907, the stories…
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The Welsh in London, 1500-2000
$49.95This work examines how the Welsh became absorbed into London’s population yet retained aspects of Welsh culture from language to Eisteddfod, through societies. The study begins with the earliest contacts…
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The Welsh King and His Court
$65.00Early medieval kingship was exercised in a domestic setting with no divide between the officers of state and the royal household. The Laws of Court in the medieval Welsh lawbooks…
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The Welsh Language
$19.95This accessible and comprehensive introduction traces the development of the Welsh language from its origins, which extend back at least 2,500 years within Britain, to the present day, when about…
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These Poor Hands
$25.00First published in 1939, These Poor Hands was an instant best-seller, catapulting its author, B. L. Coombes, to the front rank of proletarian writers. Coombes was born in England, but…
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