Empire Under the Microscope

This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor…

Reading Breath in Literature

This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a transhistorical literary device. Drawing together scholars of Medieval Romance, Early Modern Drama, Fin de Siècle Aesthetics, American…

Pynchon and Philosophy

Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical readings of Pynchon that work harmoniously, rather than antagonistically, resulting in a wholly fresh approach. Dr. Martin Paul Eve is a lecturer in literature at the…

The War Tiger : or, Adventures and wonderful fortunes of the young sea chief …

As free use is made in the following story of the names of personages who played important parts in and during the last Tartar Conquest of China, the Author believes that a slight sketch of that turbulent epoch may not be uninteresting to his readers. Twenty-two dynasties have given some two hundred and forty Emperors to the Celestial Kingdom; of these, two were Tartars, who obtained the thr…

A Princess of Thule

A Princess of Thule is a novel written by William Black and published in 1892. The story is set in the remote and rugged landscape of the Scottish Hebrides, where a young and beautiful woman named Sheila Mackenzie lives with her father, a wealthy and powerful landowner. Sheila is known for her wild and independent spirit, and she has captured the hearts of many of the local men, including the h…

The Sea Raiders

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Rogue archives :digital cultural memory and media fandom

"The task of archiving was once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions that acted as repositories of culture in material form. But with the rise of digital networked media, a multitude of self-designated archivists -- fans, pirates, hackers -- have become practitioners of cultural preservation on the Internet. These nonprofessional archivists have democratized cultural mem…

The Lord of life and death

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224 p. ; 20 cm

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The conduct of life

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iii, 319 p. : 20 cm,On cover: The home library

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[Zoology]

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12 pts. in 1 v. 15 cm,In Chinese and English

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