Oxford University Press

The Other Virgil tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say        different things to different people. As a school text it was generally taught to        support the values and ideals of a succession of postclassical societies, but        between 1500 and 1800 a number of unusually sensitive readers responded to cues in        the...

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After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important woman novelist of the early eighteenth century. In the 1740s and 50s Haywood also edited several serial newspapers, the most important being   The Female Spectator which appeared every month from April 1744 to May 1746 and was written with a markedly female audience in mind. The first modern...

Hypnosis provides a rich paradigm for those seeking to understand the processes that underlie consciousness. This book describes the latest advances in understanding hypnosis and similar trance states by researchers within the neuroscience of consciousness....

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