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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2025Queer as folklore
The hidden queer history of myths and monsters
by Sacha Coward
A celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before. Queer as folklore travels across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new. Leaving no headstone unturned, Sacha Coward takes you on a wild ride through the night from ancient Greece to the main stage of RuPaul's Drag Race, visiting cross-dressing pirates, radical fairies and the graves of the 'queerly departed' along the way. Queer communities have often sought refuge in the shadows and created safe spaces in underworlds. But these forgotten narratives tell stories of resilience that deserve to be heard. Join any Pride march and you will see a glorious display of papier-mâché unicorn heads, drag queens in mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. These are not just accessories: they are queer symbols with historic roots. To truly understand who queer people are today, we must confront the twisted tales of the past.
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January 1997Unsere trügerischen Herzen
Warum Frauen immer alles falsch machen, obwohl sie alles besser wissen
by Coward, Rosalind
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The ArtsOctober 2019The never-ending Brief Encounter
by Brian McFarlane
This is a book for all those who have been absorbed and moved by Brief Encounter in the seventy or so years since its first appearance. It explores the central relationship of the film, where two people who fall unexpectedly in love come to realise that there is more to life than self-gratification. Mores have undoubtedly changed, for better or worse, but that essential moral choice has never lost its power. While acknowledging this, the book goes further in an effort to account for the way the film has passed into the wider culture. People born decades after its first appearance are now adept at picking up references to it, whether a black-and-white scene in a much later film or a passing joke about a bald man in a barber's shop.
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Children's & YATilda Appleseed. Christmas in the Winter Forest
by Andreas H. Schmachtl
There are 24 days to go until Christmas. In the mouse house there is a delicious smell of punch, and Tilda busily hunts through her pantry: she wants to do some baking. The best of all flavours is still Aunt Emily’s frost-hip jelly. Christmas can’t come without that. But what a shock! There are no frost hips left! And it’s so difficult to get fresh ones, because they only grow in the north. Without further ado, Tilda sets off on an exciting journey through the winter forest, and she has the most weird and wonderful Christmas adventures on the way…
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April 1979Die Marquise von O...
by Heinrich Kleist, Werner Berthel, Werner Berthel, Heinz Politzer
Der Dramatiker, Erzähler, Lyriker und Publizist Heinrich von Kleist wurde am 18. Oktober 1777 in Frankfurt an der Oder geboren. Zu seinen bekanntesten Werken gehören u.a. die Dramen Der zerbrochne Krug (1811) und Penthesilea (1808) sowie die Erzählungen Die Marquise von O... (1808) und Das Erdbeben in Chili (1807). Am 21. November 1811 nahm er sich am Kleinen Wannsee bei Berlin das Leben.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2002The Cromwellian Protectorate
by Barry Coward, Mark Greengrass
Examines the nature of the first regime ever to have effective control of the British Isles and the impact that it had on England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and on Britain's international reputation. One of the few stuides to view the period as one of acheivement rather than merely a reactionary regime. Examines the aspirations of the Cromwellian Protectorate and underlines their committemnt to a radical vision, despite the pressures and crises that the regime faced. Examines the international dimension of the rules of Oliver and Richard Cromwell. Containing many key documents of the period and a bibliographical essay, considers A and AS level requirements as well as being valuable to undergraduates and general readers. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2020Christmas in nineteenth-century England
by Neil Armstrong
Whether for reasons of family, food, shopping or religion, it's hard to imagine a British winter without Christmas, or to think of a more traditional national festival. But how and when did Christmas cards, pantomimes and advertising become part of that tradition? This book looks at how people in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries experienced Christmas and how today's priorities and rituals began and endured. It explores the origins of our deeply held notions around Christmas traditions and demonstrates how those ideas were in fact shaped by the fast-paced modernisation of English life. A fascinating account of the development of many things we now take for granted, the book touches on the history of childhood and the family, philanthropy and work, and the beginnings of consumerism that shaped the Christmas we know today.
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March 2009Das Erdbeben in Chili. Die Marquise von O.... Die Verlobung in St. Domingo
by Heinrich Kleist, Helmut Nobis, Helmut Nobis
Das Erdbeben in Chili – Die Marquise von O... – Die Verlobung in St. Domingo – Kommentar von Helmut Nobis
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October 1999Mademoiselle O
Erzählungen 1935 - 1939
by Nabokov, Vladimir / Übersetzt von Gerhardt, Renate; Übersetzt von Neuberger, Jochen; Übersetzt von Zimmer, Dieter E.
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February 2015Das Lied von Mond und Sonne
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by McIntyre, Vonda N. / Übersetzt von Bauche-Eppers, Eva
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September 2011Das Ur-Heidi. Eine Enthüllungsgeschichte
by Peter O. Büttner
Heidi, das schweizerischste aller Mädchen, soll einen deutschen Vater haben? Als im April 2010 ein Schweizer Germanist ein Vorbild für Johanna Spyris Kinderbuchklassiker gefunden zu haben glaubte, ging ein Sturm der Entrüstung durchs Land. In einer Erzählung des heute vergessenen deutschen Autors und Pädagogen Hermann Adam von Kamp, "Adelaide, das Mädchen vom Alpengebirge", machte Peter O. Büttner frappierende Parallelen zu Spyris Kinderbuchklassiker aus und zudem noch – wie in "Heidi" selbst! – erotische Untertöne. Mit der Erzählung Hermann Adam von Kamps, einem Essay des Entdeckers Peter O. Büttner sowie "Heidi"-Illustrationen verschiedener Epochen.
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September 2024Weihnachten in Kirkby Cottage
Britische Weihnachten und ein Happy End mit Hindernissen.
by Anthony Trollope, Irmela Schautz, Andrea Ott
»Eigentlich ist Weihnachten langweilig.« Nur ein kleiner Satz, aber für Isabel Lownd unverzeihlich, zumal er aus dem Mund des jungen Mannes kommt, in den sie sich – noch im Geheimen – unsterblich verliebt hat: Maurice Archer, ein junger Gutsbesitzer aus der Gegend und Freund der Familie, verbringt die Feiertage mit der Pastorenfamilie Lownd, und auch er ist unsterblich in Isabel verliebt. Doch die junge Frau, für die Weihnachten der schönste Tag des Jahres ist, ist tief gekränkt, und Maurice gibt sich alle Mühe, die Wogen wieder zu glätten und dem Fest der Liebe doch noch etwas abzugewinnen. Wird Isabel ihm seinen Fauxpas verzeihen? Eine herrlich vergnügliche Weihnachtsgeschichte um zwei Verliebte, deren Annäherung ausgerechnet an den Feiertagen allen möglichen Missverständnissen unterliegt – mit bestem britischem Humor von Anthony Trollope.
