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At once so similar and dissimilar, the intricate retrospectives of the two novelists on bohemia and Society, upbringing and mortality, relationships and personality, invite interrelated judgements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe closing chapters of \u003ci\u003eDifferent Speeds, Same Furies \u003c\/i\u003ereach beyond their handlings of time to chart the historical novel from \u003ci\u003eWaverley\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eUnderworld,\u003c\/i\u003e and the breakthrough in epistolatory fiction of Montesquieu’s \u003ci\u003ePersian Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, held together by what its author described as ‘a secret chain which remains, as it were, invisible’.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307634504053,"sku":"9781804290798","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804290798_67853929-90b0-4f21-a5f8-df0f6a63329f.jpg?v=1786026698"},{"product_id":"9781839764417","title":"Ever Closer Union?","description":"\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive, critical assessment of the EU after Brexit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe European Union is a political order of peculiar stamp and continental scope, its polity of 446 million the third largest on the planet, though with famously little purchase on the conduct of its representatives. Sixty years after the founding treaty, what sort of structure has crystallised, and does the promise of ever closer union still obtain?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgainst the self-image of the bloc, Perry Anderson poses the historical record of its assembly. He traces the wider arc of European history, from First World War to Eurozone crisis, the hegemony of Versailles to that of Maastricht, and casts the work of the EU’s leading contemporary analysts – both independent critics and court philosophers – in older traditions of political thought. Are there likenesses to the age of Metternich, lessons in statecraft from that of Machiavelli?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excursus on the UK’s jarring departure from the Union considers the responses it has met with inside the country’s intelligentsia, from the contrite to the incandescent. How do Brussels and Westminster compare as constitutional forms? 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