Politics and literature
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Making something happen
Forms of nationhood
Radical revisions
Heroes & states
Mothers of the nation
Hemingway
Graham Greene's thrillers and the 1930s
Pope's once and future kings
Wole Soyinka
Vaste est la prison
Shadowplay
Politics of discourse
Writers and partisans
Identity, narrative, and politics
Blake
Democracy, Indian secularism, and the case of Taslima Nasrin
Unacknowledged legislation
Inventing the American primitive
Soviet culture and power
Illustrations of political economy
The politics of unease in the plays of John Fletcher
Political allegory in late medieval England
Inside the Soviet Writers' Union
The politics of Ernest Hemingway
Radical fictions and the novels of Norman Mailer
Shakespeare's legal and political background
Imagining the king's death
Studies in the literary backgrounds of English radicalism
English Women's Poetry, 1649-1714
Arrested voices
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