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The first book of its kind to study the Romantic obsession with the "antique lands" of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing is an important contribution to the recent wave of interest in exotic travel writing. Drawing generously on both original texts and modern scholarship in literature, history, geography, and anthropology, it focuses on the unstable discourse of "curiosity" to offer an important...

This book shows the diversity of structural problems and synthesis solution as well as the practical aspects and methodologies required for large-scale syntheses. The eleven chapters focus on chemical process research in the pharmaceutical industry.

Questions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth century, ranging from debates over the likelihood of a personal immortality, to anxieties over the more dispersed and unpredictable aftermath of particular acts and utterances. Victorian Afterlives sets out to recover this atmosphere, and to explain why its pressures are still being exercised on and in our own ways of thinking. Moving freely between different fields of inquiry (in...

From the tenth century, the monastic community at Ely venerated a group of female saints: thelthryth, its founding patroness, who died in 679, supposedly a virgin despite two marriages, her sister Seaxburh, another supposed sister Wihtburh, whose remains had been stolen by the monks of Ely from her tomb in Norfolk, Seaxburgh's daughter Eormenhild, and Eormenhild's daughter W rburh. This is the first edition and translation of the Lives of thes...

Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape ofmagic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Fa...

This richly informed collection brings together his essays on such major figures as Sir Philip Sidney and Milton, but also less celebrated writers, including Thomas Carew and, in a new piece, William Drummond, to reconfigure the familiar and help extend the canon. Shakespeare looms large in this volume and his poems, plays and influence on Keats, are the subject of half the book.

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Nominalisierte Infinitive werden in der einschlägigen Literatur gerne als bona-fide-Ereignisnomina herangezogen. Das Ableitungsmuster gilt als uneingeschränkt produktiv und auch die Vererbung und Realisierung der Argumente des Basisverbs unterliegt scheinbar keinen Beschränkungen. Dagegen sind native speakers befragt über die Grammatikalität von Konstruktionen mit nominalisierten Infinitiven häufig sehr unsicher und ihre Urteile fallen widersp...

Neuere Entwicklungen der Linguistik verleihen der historischen Semantik innovative Impulse. Für die romanistische Wortforschung ist der Moment gekommen, Sprachtheoretiker und -historiker miteinander ins Gespräch zu bringen. Soweit die strukturalistische Semantik in kognitive Konzepte der historischen Semantik integriert wird, bleibt sie für die lexikalische Analyse älterer Sprachstufen attraktiv und für die Linguistik des Bedeutungswandels rel...

Theres nothing happens to a person that cant be cured if you get what it takes to do it. We come out of the earth, and theres something in the earth to cure everything - I dont fix a tonic until Im sure whats wrong with a person. I dont make guesses. I have to be sure, because medicine can do bad as well as good, and I dont want to hurt anybody. - Maybe it takes some herbs. Maybe it takes some touching. But most of all, it takes faith"--Vernon...

mRNA processing is a key step in gene expression that effects all the proteins within the cell. In mRNA Processing and Metabolism: Methods and Protocols, world-renowned researchers bring together the latest techniques spanning the breadth of mRNA processing and metabolism. Drawing on recent advances in microscopy, whole genome sequencing, microarrays, mass spectrometry, fluorescent detection methodologies, and RNA interference, the authors off...

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