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Horace

David Armstrong

Among the greatest names in Roman—and European—poetry has always been that of Horace.  Through all the centuries since his death in 8 B.C., his superb poetic craftsmanship has remained unassailable.  Yet the full range...

September 10, 1989, Paper, $25.00

Dead Secrets

Wilkie Collins and the Female Gothic

Tamar Heller

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February 26, 1992, Cloth, $56.00

No Man's Land

The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: The War of the Words

Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

The first book in a landmark three-volume work that brings feminist theory to bear on modern literature in English. Focusing on both male and female writers, Gilbert and Gubar here survey social, literary, and linguistic...

September 10, 1989, Paper, $34.00

State Supreme Courts in State and Nation

Mary Cornelia Aldis Porter and G. Alan Tarr

This is the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of state supreme courts. Offering detailed case studies of the Alabama, Ohio, and New Jersey supreme courts, G. Alan Tarr and Mary Cornelia Aldis Porter then use this...

September 10, 1990, Paper, $30.00

The Failure of the Word

The Protagonist as Lawyer in Modern Fiction

Richard H. Weisberg

The cruel power of misdirected words, artfully structured but spiritually empty and bearing the stamp of law or legalistic reasoning, is a persistent theme in the modern novel.  Richard Weisberg, who has written...

September 10, 1989, Paper, $26.00

The Gospel of Gentility

American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China

Jane Hunter

At the turn of the century, women represented over half of the American foreign mission force and had settled in “heathen” China to preach the lessons of Christian domesticity.  In this engrossing narrative, Jane Hunter uses...

September 10, 1989, Paper, $34.00

The New Orpheus

Essays on Kurt Weill

Edited by Kim H. Kowalke

In this prizewinning book, leading musical, theatrical, and literary scholars here examine different aspects of the life and work of Kurt Weill, one of the most controversial composers of the twentieth century....

September 10, 1990, Paper, $37.00

Papers on Psychoanalysis

This volume brings together many of the important writings of Hans Loewald, one of the major theoreticians of psychoanalysis today. Among other subjects, Dr. Loewald discusses the nature of the internalization processes...

September 10, 1989, Paper, $42.00

Woman in the Crested Kimono

The Life of Shibue Io and Her Family Drawn from Mori Ogai's Shibue Chusai

Edwin McClellan

“The life of Shibue Io and her family, a kind of Japanese Buddenbrooks, may be unknown in the West, but her rich and engaging story marks the intersection of a remarkable woman with a fascinating time in history.”—Arthur...

October 11, 1998, Paper, $24.00

Origins of Sex

Three Billion Years of Genetic Recombination

Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan

A fascinating and detailed examination of the evolution—and occasional devolution—of sexuality in microorganisms and more complex forms of life. Margulis and Sagan trace sex from its inauspicious beginnings in...

September 10, 1990, Paper, $29.00

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