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This volume contains 16 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2008-10. From romantic love in sub-Saharan Africa to the British industrial revolution, from John Donne to Arthur Miller, from surrealism to Chinese flower imagery, these lectures demonstrate unparalleled breadth and depth of scholarship.

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Author:   Ron Johnston (Professor of Geography, University of Bristol; Fellow of the British Academy)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   167
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   1.176kg
ISBN:  

9780197264775

ISBN 10:   0197264778
Pages:   536
Publication Date:   30 June 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Megan Vaughan: The History of Romantic Love in Sub-Saharan African: Between Interest and Emotion Thomas Clancy: Gaelic in Medieval Scotland: Advent and Expansion Martin McLaughlin: Leon Battista Alberti and the Redirection of Renaissance Humanism John Kerrigan: Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows Dawn Ades: Surrealism and its Legacies in Latin America Tom Lockwood: Donne, by Hand Robert Crawford: T.S. Eliot's Daughter Christopher Bigsby: Arthur Miller: Realism, Language, Poetry Robert Allen: The British Industrial Revolution in a Global Perspective Hung Wu: Shitao and the Traditional Chinese Conception of Ruins Lila Abu-Lughod: Anthropology in the Territory of Rights - Human or Otherwise Sir John Baker: Our Unwritten Constitution Jan Stuart: Timely Images: Chinese Art for Festival Display Sarah E. Fraser: Buddhist Archaeology in Republican China: A New Relationship to the Past Sir Francis Jacobs: Many Legal Orders, One Law Valerie Rumbold: The Reason of this Preference>"": Sleeping, Flowing and Freezing in Pope's Dunciad"

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