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Reappraises the correspondence between the French novelist and his literary lover, the Polish countess Evelina Hanska. Suitable for biographical and critical studies, this volume approaches the letters as a literary text in their own right.

This pack is designed as an aid to teachers to teach materials aspects in an 'A' level physics, chemistry, design and technology. It provides suggestions for experiments to accompany course material. It covers materials and structure, mechanical properties, processing and materials selection.

Making the Personal Political is an interdisciplinary account of a now forgotten success story in the history of the society and culture of the Netherlands. While Dutch women had apparently retreated into domesticity after gaining the vote in 1919, women writers were out there in the market place selling the inside story of women's lives.

With an insight into the rich cultural canvas of the Middle Ages is granted by a host of texts: liturgical manuals; manuscripts of epic poetry, vernacular lyric, and music; paintings, and many more, this title reveals the two-fold performative nature of such texts: they document, mediate, or prefigure acts of performance.

This book explores the relationship between literary fiction and sacred scripture in contemporary works of fiction and thought. It presents positions that vary from a latent engagement with the divine to a very explicit upholding of a sense of dichotomy between literary text and sacred scripture.

The decoration of church vestments, which are the ceremonial garments worn by the clergy at the celebration of the Mass, has always been a matter of high fashion. This book aims is to show something of the origins and use of the vestments themselves, but mainly to trace the development of their decoration in the context of the arts of one period.

Collective nouns such as majorite or foule have long been of interest to linguists for their unusual semantic properties, and provide a valuable source of new data on the evolution of French grammar. This book tests the hypothesis that plural agreement with collective nouns is becoming more frequent in French.

Both W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) and the Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr (1954-) were born too late to know directly the violence of the Second World War and the Holocaust, but these traumatic events are a persistent presence in their work.

Terence Cave's work has made a major contribution to the rethinking of the relationship between literature, history and culture over the last half-century.

If the past is indeed a foreign country, then how can we make sense of its richness and difference, without approaching it on our terms alone? 'Pre-histories' and 'afterlives', methods that have emerged in recent work by Terence Cave, offer new ways of shaping the stories we tell of the past and the analyses we offer.

This well-presented contribution to settlement archaeology examines the archaeological and historical evidence for the settlements of that most nomadic of peoples, the Vikings.

The definitive record of the monuments in Leeds Parish Church, dating from medieval times to the present day. Set out in near-facsimilie of the original manuscript, and illustrated with line drawings and photographs, this book contains an historical introduction, detailed notes on individual memorials, and a comprehensive index.

The poetic is an abiding yet elusive qualification within the discursive system of twentieth-century French literature. No longer amenable to formal assignment, its recurrences delimit a shifting, multi-layered practice of artistic and intellectual (self-) invention.

Critical interest in biography and autobiography has never been higher. However, while life-writing flourishes in the UK, in Italy it is a less prominent genre.

The latter part of the 3rd millennium BC witnessed severe dislocations in the social, economic and political structures of the lands at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea - the Levant.

The Hellenistic paintings found in a pair of tombs at Marisa/Maresha in Israel were among the most important surviving examples of Hellenistic art to survive into recent times.

China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated their annee de la Chine in 2004.

This collection of papers, first delivered at the BAA's annual conference in 2002, celebrates medieval Rochester, including both cathedral and castle, an outstanding pair of surviving monuments to the power of contemporary church and state.

Crime fiction is a popular target for literary pastiche in France. From the nouveau roman and the Oulipo group to the current avant-garde, writers have seized on the genre to exploit it for their own ends, toying with its traditional plots and characters, and exploring its preoccupations with perception, reason and truth.

Of the three Cistercian houses in north Staffordshure, Hulton Abbey is the only one to have been properly investigated. Founded in 1219, it was a poor monastic house which was dissolved in 1538.

In 2000 the annual conference of The British Archaeological Association met at Angers in France. This publication contains sixteen papers from the conference, in English and French, covering a number of different aspects of the history, art and architecture of Anjou and its surrounding area in the medieval period.