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Shakespeare and Queer Representation

Shakespeare and Queer Representation

Stephen Guy-Bray Routledge 2021 In this engaging and accessible guidebook, Stephen Guy-Bray uses queer theory to argue that in many of Shakespeare’s works representation itself becomes queer. Shakespeare often uses representation, not just as a lens through which to tell a story, but as a textual tool in itself. Shakespeare and Queer Representation includes a […]

Writing the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948

Writing the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948

Eva-Marie Kröller  University of Toronto Press 2021 Writing the Empire is a collective biography of the McIlwraiths, a family of politicians, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, scientists, and scholars. Known for their contributions to literature, politics, and anthropology, the McIlwraiths originated in Ayrshire, Scotland and spread across the British Empire, specifically North America and Australia, from the mid-nineteenth […]