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Cantos de Adolescencia
Songs of Youth (1932-1937) Translator: Ben Olguín
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Invaluable Trees:
Cultures of Nature, 1660-1830 Edited by Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook and Laura Auricchio and Giulia Pacini
Shi:
A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry Author: Yunte Huang
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Wordsworth
The Sense of History Author: Alan Liu
The Textuality of Old English Poetry Cover
The Textuality of Old English Poetry Author: Carol Braun Pasternack
Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages Cover
Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages Edited by Carol Braun Pasternack and Sharon Farmer
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Ivy and Industry
Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980 Author: Christopher Newfield
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Black Love, Black Hate
Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature Author: Felice Blake
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Watsonville/Circle in the Dirt Author: Cherríe Moraga
This Bridge Called My Back Cover
This Bridge Called My Back
Writings by Radical Women of Color Edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
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Red Leather Gloves Author: Ben Olguín
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The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative Author: H. Porter Abbott
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Apocalyptic Futures
Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee Author: Russell Samolsky
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The Frame of Art
Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815 Author: David Marshall
The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World Cover
The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture Author: Bernadette Andrea
Electronic Literature Collection v2 Edited by Rita Raley and Laura Borràs, Talan Memmott, Brian Kim Stefans
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England's First Family of Writers
Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley Author: Julie Carlson
Surprising Effects of Sympathy Cover
The Surprising Effects of Sympathy
Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley Author: David Marshall
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In the Theatre of Romanticism
Coleridge, Nationalism, Women Author: Julie Carlson
Empire and Environment, by Heidi Amin-Hong
Empire and Environment
Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific Edited by Heidi Amin-Hong and Jeffrey Santa Ana, Rina Garcia Chua, Zhou Xiaojing
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One World of Literature Edited by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim and Norman Spencer
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Transnational Asia Pacific
Gender, Culture, and the Public Sphere Edited by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim and Larry E. Smith and Wimal Dissanayake
Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds Cover
Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds Edited by Bernadette Andrea and Linda McJannet
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The Hungry Woman
A Mexican Medea Author: Cherríe Moraga
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Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain
From Mary Shelley to George Eliot Author: Janis Caldwell

  • The inscriptive . . . takes shape within the context of a heightened awareness of the intensified generation and circulation of language across media environments by human and nonhuman agents alike…

    Inscriptive Studies
    Toward a Field Articulation
    Edited by Rita Raley and Paul Benzon

  • Poetic and abolitionist imaginaries continue to intervene in our current political and cultural landscape in ways that challenge the violent status quo. As our beautiful vision reminds us, we are not the passive observers of history…

    Antiracism Inc.
    Why the Way We Talk About Racial Justice Matters
    Edited by Felice Blake and Paula Ioanide, Alison Reed
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Research-oriented Social Environment

2008 Duration: Four Years

RoSE is an online exploration environment for humanities students and researchers modeled as a dynamic “social network” of authors and works, past or present.  It presents bibliographical information on the human record as an interconnected network ...

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