Oxford University Press

This unique edition brings together for the first time Austen-Leigh's memoir of his aunt Jane Austen, together with shorter recollections by James Edward's two sisters. It also includes Jane's brother Henry's two biographical accounts. - ;'I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so...

In this groundbreaking book, noted philosopher and feminist Claudia Card presents a workable theory of evil, examining in particular human atrocities - acts of cruelty committed by human beings on others. Unlike natural disasters or morally ambiguous acts, Card describes atrocities as the wrongful infliction of harm -- in the form of rape,...

`The Vampyre' was first published in 1819 in the London New Monthly Magazine. The present volume - a companion to Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine in World's Classics - selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 1819 and 1838. It includes Edward Bulwer's chilling account...

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Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, the nineteenth century encounter        between East Asia and the Western world has been narrated as a legal encounter.          Commercial treaties--negotiated by diplomats and focused on trade--framed the        relationships among Tokugawa-Meiji Japan, Qing China, Choson Korea, and...

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