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Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement Freedom and the City

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Romanticism and the Museum

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Theory and the Common from Marx to Badiou — P. McGee

Theory and the Common from Marx to Badiou

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Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination Novels of Exile and Alternate Worlds

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Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space — Adam Hanna

Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space

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Utopian Literature and Science From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond — Patrick Parrinder

Utopian Literature and Science From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond

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Queering Contemporary Gothic Narrative 1970-2012

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Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680

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Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915

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The Elegies of Ted Hughes

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Frank Herbert’s “Dune” A Critical Companion

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The Contemporary Novel and the City Re-conceiving National and Narrative Form

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