Appropriating Shakespeare : A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe 9781683930457, 9781683930440

Shakespeare and laughter: A cultural history 9781847791696

This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter.

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A Cultural History of the British Empire: A Cultural History of the British Empire 9780300268812

A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around t

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A Short History of Cultural Studies 0761950281

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Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding 9781501752810

In Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff asks how hoarding—once a paradigm of economic rationality—came to be defined as a menta

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Chopsticks: a Cultural and Culinary History 9781107023963

Chopsticks have become a quintessential part of the Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese culinary experience across

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Big and Small: A Cultural History of Extraordinary Bodies 9780300231717

A groundbreaking work that explores human size as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thought

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Surrealism and Quebec Literature: History of a Cultural Revolution 9781442632295

In manifestos, poems, articles, and theatre pieces Bourassaexamines the nature of Quebec surrealism and its internationa

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Shakespeare and Donne: Generic Hybrids and the Cultural Imaginary 9780823292585

Centering on cross-fertilization between the writings of Shakespeare and Donne, the essays in this volume examine relati

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Fear: A Cultural History 9780349006925

Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific: flames s

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A Cultural History of Serbia: Tradition and Change 113834401X, 9781138344013

This volume focuses on Serbia's need to manage change while preserving community identities, a narrative that avoid

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