"Offering readings of a range of fictional and biographical texts, including work by Richard Selzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Willa Cather, Natalie Kusz and Lucy Grealy, this book examines reactions to facially disfigured people on the basis of Emmanuel Levinas' ethics of the face.
Thomas Heywood (c.1573-1641) was one of the most prolific and influential dramatists of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and early Caroline theatre. This modern edition of his works establishes him as a major and seminal contributor to early modern English drama, poetry and prose.
Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan narrates forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship and love between Victorian female travellers and Meiji Japanese between 1853 and 1912.
