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This collection honors the career of Donald «Sandy» Petrey, Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for over forty years. The diversity of essays – written by colleagues, friends, and former students, and ranging in subject...
Liberty against oppression, right against wrong - a clear message has come down to us about the origins of the American War of Independence, one of the founding events of the modern world. As with so many legends, the truth is somewhat different. In this revealing...
The adventures of the daring Thomas Cochrane, called 'the sea wolf' by Napoleon, are so extraordinary that his life reads like a page-turning work of fiction. In one sense it became so, for the novelist Patrick O'Brian by his own admission used Cochrane as the basis for...
Simon Bolivar was the archetypal romantic revolutionary. Born into privilege and nurtured in the Rousseau's philosophy of the Homme Sauvage, it was not until the young colonial visited Europe that the taper of revolution was lit that sent the young man on a...
In an age of backroom generals who command from far behind troop lines, it is often forgotten that wars have been won or lost by the personality and leadership of a maverick commander.In twelve riveting portrait, best-selling historian, Robert Harvey, explores the mind...
Robert Harvey brilliantly recreates the story of the greatest conflict that stretches from the first blaze of revolution in Paris in 1789 to final victory on the muddy fields of Waterloo.On land and at sea, throughout the four corners of the continent, from the frozen...
Lieu de mystère séparé des espaces ordinaires de la vie, où les morts connaissent un éternel repos, le cimetière constitue une source de fascination sans cesse renouvelée aux yeux des vivants. Que dit de nous cette fascination, qui a aussi traversé toute l’histoire de...
Les rares rescapés des camps de la mort nazis disparaissent de leur mort "naturelle". Ce sont nos témoins modèles. Mais comment pouvons nous prendre la relève de leur "témoinité" sans passer par une expérience d'horreur ? Ce livre propose d'explorer les divers artifices...
Robert Harvey propose ici la toute première étude portant sur les fondements imaginatifs de l’œuvre d’Anne Hébert et les principes unificateurs de son langage. Il montre d’abord que la poétique hébertienne s’inscrit en filigrane dans les premiers écrits de l’auteure....
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