Oxford University Press

In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920's in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon and homosexual incest are some of the...

This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects        on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their        time texting sometimes appear unable or unwilling to write much else. Media outrage        has ensued. "e;It is bleak, bald, sad shorthand,"e; writes a commentator...

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The Stoic philosopher Epictetus has always been one of the most influential of        ancient thinkers. Ten specially written papers discuss his thought on a wide range        of subjects, including ethics, logic, theology, and psychology; explore his        relations to his predecessors; and examine his influence on later thinkers....

This is the first examination of the whole range of the thought of John Damascene, one-time Arab civil servant, later a Palestinian monk, who thought of himself as a Byzantine churchman. He was one of the most influential of Byzantine theologians, whose work came to provide an essential resource for later Western theology. Many will be surprised by...

In May, 1631, the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven was executed for abetting the rape of his wife and for sodomitical relations with his servants. A fantastic exploration into a house of gross disorder, the trial revolved around myriad sexual couplings across gender and class, forced rape and public adultery, and always the pursuit of property and title. A...