Legenda (Latin, "things to be read") is an

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founded in 1995 by the European Humanities Research Centre at

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. In 2004, Legenda became an imprint of the

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, in partnership with

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. Under the guidance of

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, late Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, this new press underwent rapid growth. Recent successes include Clive Scott's ''Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000'', which was awarded the 2004 Gapper Prize as the best contribution to French studies of its year, and Shun-liang Chao's ''Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crasahw, Baudelaire, Magritte'', which was awarded an honourable mention for the 2013 Anna Balakian Prize by the

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