Oxford University Press

Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature turns feminist sensitivity toward silenced voices to look afresh at major nondramatic texts by Donne, Marvell, Browne, Milton, and Dryden. Anne Cotterill examines richly digressive speakers who carve literary mazes through a dangerous world for psychological, political, and poetic survival - and...

While social capital theorists have studied the consequences of having effective social networks, few have examined why some people have better networks than others. This book argues that the answer lies less in people's deliberate "e;networking"e; than in the institutional conditions of the churches, colleges, firms, gyms, and other...

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Accounts of travel to far-flung places have deservedly gripped the imagination of        readers for centuries. Yet travelogues can reveal much more than the customs of a        foreign land; they can also serve as a window into the culture and concerns of their        place of origin. Drawing on a series of travel narratives by Iranian visitors...

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