British imperialism's favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But real British conquests also generated a surprising cultural obsession with suff

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Melodrama is often seen as a blunt aesthetic tool tainted by its reliance on improbable situations, moral binaries, and overwhelming emotion, features that made

Leo Baeck (1873–1956) was a famous Jewish thinker and the leader of German Jewry during the Holocaust. This book offers the first interpretation of his religi