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Claudian the Poet

By: Clare Coombe

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This comprehensive reassessment of the carmina maiora of the fourth-century poet Claudian contributes to the growing trend to recognize that Late Antique poets should be approached as just that: poets. Its methodology is developed from that of Michael Roberts' seminal The Jeweled Style. It analyzes Claudian's poetics and use of story telling to argue that the creation of a story world in which Stilicho, his patron, becomes an epic hero, and the barbarians are giants threatening both the borders of Rome and the order of the very universe is designed to convince his audience of a world-view in which it is only the Roman general who stands between them and cosmic chaos. The book also argues that Claudian uses the same techniques to promote the message that Honorius, young hero though he may seem, is not yet fit to rule, and that Stilicho's rightful position remains as his regent.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108614337

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9781108614337

Life and Death in Higher Education

By: Clare Debenham

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Life and Death in Higher Education

By: Clare Debenham

At its peak in 1961 there we're 40,000 men and women who entered colleges of education compared to 50,000 who entered traditional universities. This controversial project critically traces the origins of the colleges, their development and reasons for their abrupt closure. Current debates are addressed such as school versus college training and the balance between academic and professional training and the balance between academic and professional training (where the academic training should take place). Social issues are analysed such as the role of women in colleges (links to the suffrage movement), social mobility (working class teacher), control and rebellion (how far were the colleges total institutions), student life (sport and transnationalism.) Oral history is used. As well as drawing on my personal experience, thirty former colleges of educations students were interviewed, the oldest being 101years and including Estelle Morris, former Labour Party Education Secretary. Shortly before he died Professor Asa Briggs lamented to me that there was no public debate about the closures of colleges of education and the restructuring of higher education. Now secret meetings and documents are exposed. The role of government is researched. Archival material from individual colleges, local and national government is traced ad former civil servants interviewed. Margaret Thatchers' role in the closures is re-assessed. This new evidence contradicts the Official version of events which was the closures were on educational rather than administrative grounds.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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0718895509

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9780718895501

Patent Inventions - Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel

By: Clare Pettitt

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Patent Inventions - Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel

By: Clare Pettitt

Although much has been written about the history of copyright and authorship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, very little attention has been given to the impact of the development of other kinds of intellectual property on the ways in which writers viewed their work in this period. This book is the first to suggest that the fierce debates over patent law and the discussion of invention and inventors in popular texts during the nineteenth century informed the parallel debate over the professional status of authors. The book examines the shared rhetoric surrounding the creation of the 'inventor' and the 'author' in the debate of the 1830s, and the challenge of the emerging technologies of mass production to traditional ideas of art and industry is addressed in a chapter on authorship at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Subsequent chapters show how novelists Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot participated in debates over the value and ownership of labour in the 1850s, such as patent reform and the controversy over married women's property. The book shows the ways in which these were reflected in their novels. It also suggests that the publication of those novels, and the celebrity of their authors, had a substantial effect on the subsequent direction of these debates. The final chapter shows that Thomas Hardy's later fiction reflects an important shift in thinking about creativity and ownership towards the end of the century. Patent Inventions argues that Victorian writers used the novel not just to reflect, but also to challenge received notions of intellectual ownership and responsibility. It ends by suggesting that detailed study of the debate over intellectual property in the nineteenth century leads to a better understanding of the complex negotiations over the bounds of selfhood and social responsibility in the period.

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356

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OUP Oxford

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0191554901

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9780191554902

The Glass Wall

A Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery

By: Clare Curzon

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The Glass Wall

A Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery

By: Clare Curzon

The mysterious fall of a bed-ridden elderly woman from the seventh floor of an apartment building triggers an investigation, led by Superintendent Mike Yeadings and Sergeant Rosemary Zycynski.

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254

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Macmillan

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0312349637

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9780312349639

A Guide to Copies & Abstracts of Irish Wills

By: Wallace Clare

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A Guide to Copies & Abstracts of Irish Wills

By: Wallace Clare

An index of Irish wills, dates and places of origin, and source of the abstracts.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806305150

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9780806305158

Devil-Land

England Under Siege, 1588-1688

By: Clare Jackson

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Devil-Land

England Under Siege, 1588-1688

By: Clare Jackson

*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022* A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday Times A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis. As an unmarried heretic with no heir, Elizabeth I was regarded with horror by Catholic Europe, while her Stuart successors, James I and Charles I, were seen as impecunious and incompetent. The traumatic civil wars, regicide and a republican Commonwealth were followed by the floundering, foreign-leaning rule of Charles II and his brother, James II, before William of Orange invaded England with a Dutch army and a new order was imposed. Devil-Land reveals England as, in many ways, a 'failed state': endemically unstable and rocked by devastating events from the Gunpowder Plot to the Great Fire of London. Catastrophe nevertheless bred creativity, and Jackson makes brilliant use of eyewitness accounts - many penned by stupefied foreigners - to dramatize her great story. Starting on the eve of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and concluding with a not-so 'Glorious Revolution' a hundred years later, Devil-Land is a spectacular reinterpretation of England's vexed and enthralling past.

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Penguin UK

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0141984589

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9780141984582

Shadowplay

The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare

By: Clare Asquith

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Shadowplay

The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare

By: Clare Asquith

In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from abroad and plotters at home. This age of terror was also the era of the greatest creative genius the world has ever known: William Shakespeare. How, then, could such a remarkable man born into such violently volatile times apparently make no comment about the state of England in his work? He did. But it was hidden. Revealing Shakespeare's sophisticated version of a forgotten code developed by 16th-century dissidents, Clare Asquith shows how he was both a genius for all time and utterly a creature of his own era: a writer who was supported by dissident Catholic aristocrats, who agonized about the fate of England's spiritual and political life and who used the stage to attack and expose a regime which he believed had seized illegal control of the country he loved. Shakespeare's plays offer an acute insight into the politics and personalities of his era. And Clare Asquith's decoding of them offers answers to several mysteries surrounding Shakespeare's own life, including most notably why he stopped writing while still at the height of his powers. An utterly compelling combination of literary detection and political revelation, Shadowplay is the definitive expose of how Shakespeare lived through and understood the agonies of his time, and what he had to say about them.

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395

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PublicAffairs

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1541774302

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9781541774308

Mr Horniman's Walrus

Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family

By: Clare Paterson

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Mr Horniman's Walrus

Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family

By: Clare Paterson

A riveting tale of entrepreneurship, philanthropy, intrigue and betrayal through three generations of an extraordinary Victorian family.

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322

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Michael O'Mara Books

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1789294010

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9781789294019

Unsettling Narratives

Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature

By: Clare Bradford

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Unsettling Narratives

Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature

By: Clare Bradford

Children’s books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about race relations, and how they conceptualize systems of power and government. Clare Bradford focuses on texts produced since 1980 in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand and includes picture books, novels, and films by Indigenous and non-Indigenous publishers and producers. From extensive readings, the author focuses on key works to produce a thorough analysis rather than a survey. Unsettling Narratives opens up an area of scholarship and discussion—the use of postcolonial theories—relatively new to the field of children’s literature and demonstrates that many texts recycle the colonial discourses naturalized within mainstream cultures.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889205078

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9780889205079

Unlikely Rebels

The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom

By: Anne Clare

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Unlikely Rebels

The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom

By: Anne Clare

The Gifford sisters, Grace (later Plunkett), Muriel (later MacDonagh), Nellie (later Donnelly), and Sydney (later Czira) were key figures in the Republican struggle during the 1916 period. Grace Gifford is one of the tragic stories of the 1916 Easter Rising, but the poignancy of her brief marriage to the executed rebel leader Joseph Mary Plunkett has tended to overshadow her family's deep commitment to the cause of the Irish Republic. Grace was the second youngest of twelve children. Despite coming from a strongly unionist background and being raised in the Protestant faith, the Gifford sisters became heavily involved with the republican Irish movement and with the fight for Irish freedom. Both in Ireland and in America they supported the republican cause, despite the heartache and difficulties this caused them. This fascinating book tells the stories of the four sisters in the context of their time, with a light touch that belies the depth of detail involved.

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Mercier Press Ltd

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1856357120

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9781856357128

MTV Ireland

By: Christi Daugherty,Olivia Edward,Clare O'Connor

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MTV Ireland

By: Christi Daugherty,Olivia Edward,Clare O'Connor

Get the inside scoop on the Emerald Isle. From the coolest nightclubs in Belfast to surfing off the coast of Clare, MTV Ireland shows you where you want to be, with choices for every budget to help you travel the way you want to. Alternative accommodations, cheap eats, great clubs, bars, and pubs, offbeat attractions, world-class arts, and adrenaline adventures—you’ll find them all in MTV Ireland. Download a free companion podcast about Ireland at Frommers.com

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*Frommers

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0764587749

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9780764587740

Willings Press Guide

United Kingdom

By: Clare Redman

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Willings Press Guide

United Kingdom

By: Clare Redman

This press guide aims to provide a comprehensive, accurate and informative guide to the UK press, both print and broadcast and to give details about the leading newspapers and periodicals in the United Kingdom.

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1550

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Cision

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1906035032

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9781906035037

The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Dictionary

By: Tom Pulliam,Clare Grundman

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The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Dictionary

By: Tom Pulliam,Clare Grundman

You will discover in this Third Edition many alternate and uncommon synonyms of finding words. You will also discover many synonyms consisting of phrases of two or more words unaccompanied by qualifying explanations, such as "two words". There are other new additions to this volume. In short, all these additions confirm that this edition remains the most comprehensive and current puzzle dictionary available.

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Random House Puzzles & Games

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0812911318

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9780812911312

Claudian the Poet

By: Clare Coombe

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Claudian the Poet

Claudian the Poet

Life and Death in Higher Education

Life and Death in Higher Education

Patent Inventions - Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel

Patent Inventions - Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel

The Glass Wall

The Glass Wall

A Guide to Copies & Abstracts of Irish Wills

A Guide to Copies & Abstracts of Irish Wills

Devil-Land

Devil-Land

Shadowplay

Shadowplay

Mr Horniman's Walrus

Mr Horniman's Walrus

Unsettling Narratives

Unsettling Narratives

Unlikely Rebels

Unlikely Rebels

MTV Ireland

MTV Ireland

Willings Press Guide

Willings Press Guide

The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Dictionary

The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Dictionary

Claudian the Poet

Claudian the Poet

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