Oxford University Press

A fascinating study of English words and phrases in  A la recherche du temps perdu, dealing both with the social comedy of French 'Anglomania' - characters who yearn to resemble 'un parfait  gentleman' or invite each other to 'le    five-o'clock tea' - and with Proust's profound understanding of the necessary 'impurity' of all languages and...

One of the earliest surviving examples of 'art history', Pliny the Elder's 'chapters on art' form part of his encyclopaedic  Natural History. This important study reassesses Pliny's discussion of art, revealing how art is used to expound the Roman imperial agenda which dominates the work as a whole....

Leading scholars bring together eighteenth-century studies and postcolonial theory to analyze the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial projects and aspirations....

The age of nationalism in the eastern Mediterranean world began with the Greek revolt against Ottoman rule. Exploring the power struggles which followed, this book focuses on Britain's role in the expansion of Greece as an independent nation-state, and on the engagement between British power and Hellenic nationalism....

This revised edition of Conrad's second novel has a new text (the English first edition), revised introduction and notes, and new chronology and bibliography....

This new edition, now with full-colour maps and illustrations, has been thoroughly revised to bring it up to date with regard both to biblical scholarship and to archaeology and topography. The   Atlas provides a superb guide to the geography of the Holy Land throughout biblical history, from the Exodus period through to New Testament times....