For several decades, interest in the British Romantics’ theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms. GlobalRomanticism: Origins, Orientations, andEngagements, 1760–1820 charts a new intellectual course by exploring the literature and culture of the Romantic era through the lens of long-durational globalization. In a series of wide-ranging but complementary chapters, this provocative...

The humble ballad, defined in 1728 as "a song commonly sung up and down the streets," was widely used in elite literature in the eighteenth century and beyond. Authors ranging from John Gay to William Blake to Felicia Hemans incorporated the seemingly incongruous genre of the ballad into their work. Ballads were central to the Scottish Enlightenment's theorization of culture and nationality, to Shakespeare's canonization in the eighteenth century, and to the New Criticism's most influentia...

Andrew Carnegie comes back down from "the heavens" for just one night, in order to deliver one of the Lost Keys to mankind which appears to be currently necessary for the actual achievement of 'true' World Peace.This story is a continuation of his prior life's work dating back to the late 1800's to help mankind to make our Earth into a heaven. This is written in a type of fictional format which can be most easily understood and absorbed by the audience.This is an inspired work which came i...

THE GRIPPING ESPIONAGE THRILLER FROM AWARD-WINNER RJ ELLORY 'Tense, atmospheric, totally belivable' The SunThe mission was supposed to be simple.Stroud is a former war photographer who left the frontline before his luck ran out. His closest friend and mentor, Vincent Raphael, was not so fortunate.To prove his friend is dead.When Raphael is allegedly sighted in Istanbul - six yea...