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Product Description: Through careful attention to the contexts of Renaissance culture invoked by the language, action, and visual spectacle in Measure for Measure, Darryl Gless brings a new and original interpretation to one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays...read more

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9780691635811, titled "Measure for Measure, the Law and the Convent" | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $104.95 | About this edition: Through careful attention to the contexts of Renaissance culture invoked by the language, action, and visual spectacle in Measure for Measure, Darryl Gless brings a new and original interpretation to one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays.
9780691064031 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 1, 1979, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Through careful attention to the contexts of Renaissance culture invoked by the language, action, and visual spectacle in Measure for Measure, Darryl Gless brings a new and original interpretation to one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays.

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9780691607207, titled "Measure for Measure, the Law and the Convent" | Princeton Univ Pr, March 8, 2015, cover price $41.95
9780020340003, titled "Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan" | Reissue edition (Collier Books, October 1, 1981), cover price $6.95 | also contains Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan | About this edition: The personal journal of a member of the Warsaw Jewish community during the Nazi occupation of Poland

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Product Description: Anna A. Berman’s book brings to light the significance of sibling relationships in the writings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Relationships in their works have typically been studied through the lens of erotic love in the former, and intergenerational conflict in the latter...read more

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9780810131576 | Northwestern Univ Pr, September 30, 2015, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Anna A.

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9780810131743 | Northwestern Univ Pr, September 30, 2015, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Anna A.

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Product Description: The literature of the European Middle Ages attends closely to the relationship of brother and sister, laying bare sibling behaviours in their most dramatic forms as models to emulate, to marvel at or to avoid. The literary treatment of siblings opens up multiple perspectives on brothers' and sisters' emotions: love, hate, rivalry, desire, nurturing and ambivalence underlie sibling stories...read more

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9781903153628 | York Medieval Pr, May 21, 2015, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The literature of the European Middle Ages attends closely to the relationship of brother and sister, laying bare sibling behaviours in their most dramatic forms as models to emulate, to marvel at or to avoid.

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Product Description: At the end of all of Jane Austen's novels, an innovative social and moral group emerges that closely resembles a fraternity or sibship. Glenda Hudson's book examines Austen's presentation of sibling love and rivalry in the context of the dramatic social and historical changes in the late eighteenth centuries; and it does so in a way that proves to be of interest to both the general and the academic reader...read more

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9780312067960, titled "Sibling Love and Incest in Jane Austen's Fiction" | Palgrave Macmillan, January 1, 1992, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: At the end of all of Jane Austen's novels, an innovative social and moral group emerges that closely resembles a fraternity or sibship.

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9781349218684, titled "Sibling Love and Incest in Jane Austen's Fiction" | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: At the end of all of Jane Austen's novels, an innovative social and moral group emerges that closely resembles a fraternity or sibship.
9780312211134, titled "Sibling Love and Incest in Jane Austen's Fiction" | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1999, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: At the end of all of Jane Austen's novels, an innovative social and moral group emerges that closely resembles a fraternity or sibship.

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Product Description: This study posits that the narrative of sibling love as a culturally significant tradition in nineteenth-century American fiction. Ultimately, Emily E. VanDette suggests that these novels contribute to historical conversations about affiliation in such tumultuous contexts as sectional divisions, slavery debates, the Civil War, and Reconstruction...read more

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9781137287182 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 6, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This study posits that the narrative of sibling love as a culturally significant tradition in nineteenth-century American fiction.

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Product Description: This volume is an exciting collection of papers that explore a wide range of issues that affect sibling relationships—a long neglected subject in the arena of psychoanalytic thought. Since the time of Sigmund Freud, psychoanalytic attention has focused firmly on the Oedipal triangle, with siblings languishing in virtual oblivion...read more
By Prophecy Coles (editor)

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9781855753235 | Karnac Books, March 1, 2006, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: This volume is an exciting collection of papers that explore a wide range of issues that affect sibling relationships—a long neglected subject in the arena of psychoanalytic thought.

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Product Description: This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861). Eliot's radical cultural politics and the arrestingly original fictional strategies that characterise two of her most popular novels are explored from a variety of perspectives - feminist, historicist, structuralist and psychoanalytic...read more
By Andrew Maunder (editor) and Nahem Yousaf (editor)

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9780333728048 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 2002, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861).

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9780333728055 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, February 1, 2004, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861).

By George L. Geckle (editor)

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9780485810042 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, November 1, 2001, cover price $290.00

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Product Description: This book argues that brother-sister relationships, idealized by the Romantics, intensified in nineteenth-century English domestic culture, and is a neglected key to understanding Victorian gender relations. Attracted by the apparent purity of the sibling bond, novelists and poets also acknowledged its innate ambivalence and instability, through conflicting patterns of sublimated devotion, revenge fantasy, and corrosive obsession...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780333749302 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 20, 2002, cover price $185.00 | About this edition: This book argues that brother-sister relationships, idealized by the Romantics, intensified in nineteenth-century English domestic culture, and is a neglected key to understanding Victorian gender relations.

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Product Description: This book argues that Measure for Measure is not a cynical problem play but a comic romance through which Shakespeare examines Tudor humanism's desire to reform social ills through art. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780874136715 | Univ of Delaware Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: This book argues that Measure for Measure is not a cynical problem play but a comic romance through which Shakespeare examines Tudor humanism's desire to reform social ills through art.
9781611491838 | Univ of Delaware Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This book argues that Measure for Measure is not a cynical problem play but a comic romance through which Shakespeare examines Tudor humanism's desire to reform social ills through art.

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The personal journal of a member of the Warsaw Jewish community during the Nazi occupation of Poland

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9780020340003 | Reissue edition (Collier Books, October 1, 1981), cover price $6.95 | also contains Measure for Measure, the Law, and the Convent | About this edition: The personal journal of a member of the Warsaw Jewish community during the Nazi occupation of Poland
9780020340003 | Reissue edition (Collier Books, October 1, 1981), cover price $6.95 | also contains Measure for Measure, the Law, and the Convent | About this edition: The personal journal of a member of the Warsaw Jewish community during the Nazi occupation of Poland

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Examines Austen's presentation of sibling love and rivalry in the context of the social and historical changes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and analyses the incest motif in numerous works of the period, arguing that the handling of incestuous themes represents a stage in the development of the novel. Originally published in 1992.

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9780333752074 | New edition (Palgrave Macmillan, May 12, 1999), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Examines Austen's presentation of sibling love and rivalry in the context of the social and historical changes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and analyses the incest motif in numerous works of the period, arguing that the handling of incestuous themes represents a stage in the development of the novel.

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Product Description: Continuing radical disagreement about Measure for Measure questions criticism's ability to be answerable to Shakespearean drama. This book illustrates an eclectic historical criticism capable of manifesting this problematic play's coherence. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780874135930 | Univ of Delaware Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Continuing radical disagreement about Measure for Measure questions criticism's ability to be answerable to Shakespearean drama.

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By Peter Corbin (editor) and Nigel Wood (editor)

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9780335192366 | Open Univ Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $28.95

Product Description: In this provocative commentary on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Marc Shell focuses on the play's basic themes of sexual extremism, exchange, and political order. At the crux of the play, he notes, the novice nun Isabella accuses her brother Claudio: "Is't not a kind of incest, to take life/From thine own sister's shame?" Shell's analysis shows exactly how Claudio's request is a kind of incest in a virtuoso analysis that extends his earlier work on philosophical and literary economies...read more

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9780801852671, titled "The End of Kinship: "Measure for Measure," Incest, and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood" | December 1, 1995, cover price N/A
| About this edition: In this provocative commentary on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Marc Shell focuses on the play's basic themes of sexual extremism, exchange, and political order.
9780804712644, titled "The End of Kinship: Measure for Measure, Incest, and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood" | Stanford Univ Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In this provocative commentary on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Marc Shell focuses on the play's basic themes of sexual extremism, exchange, and political order.

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9780801852428, titled "The End of Kinship: 'Measure for Measure,' Incest and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood" | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 1, 1995), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this provocative commentary on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Marc Shell focuses on the play's basic themes of sexual extremism, exchange, and political order.

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9780391036253 | Humanities Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $29.95

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9780391036260 | Humanities Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $8.50

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Offers a fresh look at Shakespeare's play and discusses its themes of forgiveness, sin, and mortality

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9780805787009 | Twayne Pub, January 1, 1988, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Offers a fresh look at Shakespeare's play and discusses its themes of forgiveness, sin, and mortality

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9780805787030 | Twayne Pub, January 1, 1988, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Offers a fresh look at Shakespeare's play and discusses its themes of forgiveness, sin, and mortality

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A collection of critical essays on Shakespeare's problematical comedy 'Measure for Measure' arranged in chronological order of publication.
By Harold Bloom (editor)

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9780877549314 | Chelsea House Pub, November 1, 1987, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: A collection of critical essays on Shakespeare's problematical comedy 'Measure for Measure' arranged in chronological order of publication.

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