The Faber book of gay short fiction

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One on one : the best men's monologues for the 21st century

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Victorian demons : medicine, masculinity and the Gothic at the fin-de-siècle by Smith, Andrew, 1964-

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Eighteenth-century English literature

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Women in the eighteenth century : constructions of femininity

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The Canadian short story : interpretations

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The Oxford book of English traditional verse

Table of Contents: “…The famous flower of serving-men --…”


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All in due time; the collected essays and broadcast talks of Humphry House. by House, Humphry, 1908-1955

Table of Contents: “…The macabre Dickens ; An introduction to Oliver Twist ; G.B.S. on Great expectations ; A new edition of Dickens's letters ; The Dickens story -- Men and books. The art of reading ; A famous literary periodical ; An unposted letter to Mr. …”


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Irish writing in the twentieth century : a reader

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Nineteenth-century literary perspectives : essays in honor of Lionel Stevenson

Table of Contents: “…"The new Prometheus of new men": Byron's 1816 poems and Manfred.--Svaglic, M.J. …”


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Horrifying sex : essays on sexual difference in Gothic literature

Table of Contents: “…Murphy -- Other love: Le Fanu's Carmilla as lesbian gothic / Adrienne Antrim Major -- Preying on the pervert: the uses of homosexual panic in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Damion Clark -- Horror and homosexuality in Christopher Isherwood's Mr. Norris Changes Trains / Brian Whaley -- Invasion of the husband snatchers: masculine crisis and the lavender menace in I Married a Monster From Outer Space / Andrew Scahill -- The lesbian vampire: transgressive sexuality / Paulina Palmer -- Another "gendered other"? …”


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Kissing the rod : an anthology of seventeenth-century women's verse

Table of Contents: “…Susan Dove, The dream. An epistle to Mr. Dryden / Elizabeth Thomas -- The golden island / A lady of honour -- To my much esteemed firend, Urania ... on the death of John Dryden, Esq / Lady Sarah Piers.…”


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The Oxford book of English prose

Table of Contents: “…A collateral security (Letters to his son) -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Mr. Pickwick (Charles Dickens). The battle of the Marne (the crimes of England) -- Richard William Church: Spenser's ideal gentleman (English men of letters, Spenser) -- Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon: A small cloud in the north (Life). …”


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Death's door : modern dying and the ways we grieve by Gilbert, Sandra M.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Death opens -- All Souls' Day -- A door opens -- On the threshold -- Voices -- Widow -- Phone call -- Keening/kissing -- Plath's etymology -- Sati -- The widower's Exequy -- The widow's lament -- The widow's desire -- Mr. Lowell and the spider -- Yahrzeit -- Why is this day different from other days? …”


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The Oxford book of satirical verse

Table of Contents: “…How the Doughty Duke of Albany -- Colin Clout -- Why Come ye not to Court -- The Amendis to the Telyouris and Sowtaris -- Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis -- How the First Hielandman of God -- Of the Courtier's Life, Written to John Poyntz -- On Lieutenant Shift -- Virgidemiae -- Satyrus Peregrinans -- Hudibras -- The Rebel Scot -- Juvenal's Tenth Satire Translated -- The Character from Holland -- The Last Instructions to a Painter -- The Litany -- On Tobacco -- The Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants -- The Spanish Friar -- On Jacob Tonson, his Publisher -- Absalom and Achitophel -- Mac Flecknoe -- The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel -- The Hind and the Panther: The Third Part -- Cymon and Iphigenia -- Juvenal's Sixth Satire -- On Mr Edward Howard, upon his British Princes.…”


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Literary giants, literary Catholics by Pearce, Joseph, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…-- Making Oscar wild: unmasking Oscar Wilde's opposition to "pathological" gay marriage -- Truth is stranger than science fiction -- Hollywood and the "holy war" -- Three cheers for Hollywood -- Purity and passion: examining the sacred heart of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ -- Paul McCartney: a grief observed -- Above all shadows rides the sun: the poetry of praise -- The magic of technology -- Russian revelations -- Dante: assent's ascent -- Shakespeare: good will for all men -- Modern art: friend or foe? -- Salvador Dali: from Freud to faith -- Mr. …”


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The poetry of slavery : an Anglo-American anthology, 1764-1865

Table of Contents: “…Chester -- 'The Slave in the Dismal Swamp' / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- 'The Warning' / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- 'The Witness, ' in Poems on Slavery / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- from The Virginia Philosopher; or, A Few Lucky Slave Catchers: A Poem by Mr. Latimer's Brother / Daniel Mann -- 'Song of the Abolitionist' / William Lloyd Garrison -- 'The Kneeling Slave' / William Lloyd Garrison -- 'To Isaac T. …”


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The New Oxford book of Christian verse

Table of Contents: “…(The pilgrim song) (Who would true valour see) -- Oakes, Urian. from An elegie upon the death of the Reverend Mr Thomas Shepard -- Dryden, John. from The state of innocence/from Religio laici/The character of a good parson -- Traherne, Thomas. …”


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The Oxford book of verse in English translation

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Blood to remember : American poets on the Holocaust

Table of Contents: “…Preface to the Revised Second Edition -- Bicycles Cousins, [Would it have been possible to take in the Jews] / Marjorie Agosin -- from Inside Dachau / Sherman Alexie -- "Hitler Builds a City for the Jews", Mr. Panitz, Night Travel, Voices in My Skin, Voyage Home / Karen Alkalay-Gut -- David-Horodok, Pebbles from Auschwitz, Postcard from Poland / Michael Alpiner -- Verboten / John Amen -- Pinochle Day / Frieda Arkin -- Morning After a Fight, He Says / Brett Axel -- The Suffering Cuts Both Ways / David B. …”


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