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Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage

Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early...

Author: Jennifer Eun-Jung Row
ISBN: 9780810144712
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Explores how seventeenth-century French theatre represents queer desire. In this first queer theoretical treatment...  Read More >>

Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production

Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production...

Author: Warren Montag ,  Audrey Wasser
ISBN: 9780810145122
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This collection revisits A Theory of Literary Production (1966) to show how Pierre Macherey’s remarkable - and still...  Read More >>

The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment

The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect,...

Author: Kelly Mee Rich ,  Nicole M. Rizzuto
ISBN: 9780810145511
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Rather than merely making visible infrastructure’s modes of power, this volume brings literary methods to bear on...  Read More >>

The Poem, the Garden, and the World: Poetry and Performativity in Elizabethan England

The Poem, the Garden, and the World: Poetry and Performativity...

Author: Jim Ellis
ISBN: 9780810145306
Format: Hardback
$171.60

How is a garden like a poem? Early modern writers frequently compared the two, and as Jim Ellis shows, the metaphor...  Read More >>

The Crooked Mirror: Plays from a Modernist Russian Cabaret

The Crooked Mirror: Plays from a Modernist Russian Cabaret...

Author: Laurence Senelick ,  Laurence Senelick
ISBN: 9780810146143
Format: Hardback
$316.80

As a cultural phenomenon of the Silver Age, the Crooked Mirror deserves critical attention, yet it has received...  Read More >>

We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition

We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti...

Author: Sarah Hernandez
ISBN: 9780816545636
Format: Hardback
$264.00

After centuries of colonization, this important new work recovers the literary record of Oceti Sakowin (historically...  Read More >>

Central American Counterpoetics: Diaspora and Rememory

Central American Counterpoetics: Diaspora and Rememory...

Author: Karina Alma
ISBN: 9780816552573
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Connecting past and present, Central American Counterpoetics proposes the concepts of rememory and counterpoetics...  Read More >>

From Boys to Men: The Boy Problem and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series

From Boys to Men: The Boy Problem and the Childhood...

Author: Gregory M. Pfitzer
ISBN: 9781625347961
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Based on deep archival research into the publication history of the ‘Childhood of Famous Americans’ book series...  Read More >>

Bledsoe (Signature Series Limited Edition): Poems

Bledsoe (Signature Series Limited Edition): Poems

Author: William Wright
ISBN: 9781680033649
Format: Hardback
$65.87

An extended narrative poem that centres on a mute Appalachian man named Durant Bledsoe. Specifically, the poem takes...  Read More >>

A Wake with Nine Shades: Poems

A Wake with Nine Shades: Poems

Author: Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
ISBN: 9781680033632
Format: Hardback
$65.87

An exploration of grief and culpability, a Dantean descent through contemporary midlife crisis. Populated by ghosts...  Read More >>

The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature between Ideology and the Unconscious

The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature between Ideology...

Author: Nathan Gorelick
ISBN: 9780810146778
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Traces the relations between literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins in the Enlightenment...  Read More >>

The Philocalia of Origen: A New Translation with Annotations

The Philocalia of Origen: A New Translation with Annotations...

Author: Ronald E. Heine (Professor Emeritus of Bible and Theology, Professor Emeritus of Bible and Theology, Bushnell University)
ISBN: 9780198893219
Format: Hardback
$341.95

A scholarly edition of The Philocalia of Origen presenting a new translation in English alongside an amended facing-page...  Read More >>

Rachel Bowlby   Unexpected Items: """Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories"""

Rachel Bowlby Unexpected Items: """Shopping, Parenthood,...

Author: Rachel Bowlby
ISBN: 9781399528405
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader

The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader...

Author: Peter D McDonald
ISBN: 9781399524407
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts

The Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British...

Author: Jakub Lipski ,  M-C. Newbould
ISBN: 9781399506625
Format: Hardback
$388.12

Offers compelling insights into the eighteenth-century novel and its vibrant relationships with the arts  Read More >>

Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller

Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis...

Author: Helen Tyson
ISBN: 9781399522090
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century  Read More >>

Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen

Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading...

Author: Harryette Mullen ,  Georgina Colby
ISBN: 9781399523608
Format: Hardback
$323.44

The first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day  Read More >>

Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music

Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music

Author: David Remnick
ISBN: 9780375702310
Format: Paperback
$50.16

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing...  Read More >>

Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and its Manuscript Contexts

Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and its Manuscript...

Author: John Eldevik (Associate Professor of History, Hamilton College)
ISBN: 9781942401834
Format: Hardback
$330.00

This book explores the origins and diffusion of the Prester John legend and its influence on theology, politics,...  Read More >>

No Soy Un Robot

No Soy Un Robot

Author: Juan Villoro
ISBN: 9788433924292
Format: Paperback
$63.23

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The Winter Dance Party: Poems, 1983-2023

The Winter Dance Party: Poems, 1983-2023

Author: David Kirby
ISBN: 9780807182932
Format: Hardback
$158.40

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Washing the Wings of the Angels

Washing the Wings of the Angels

Author: Bob Heman
ISBN: 9781935835332
Format: Paperback
$44.88

"A selection of ""information"" prose poems by Bob Heman."  Read More >>

Pethau Sy'n Digwydd

Pethau Sy'n Digwydd

Author: Siôn Tomos Owen
ISBN: 9781911584896
Format: Paperback
$28.33

Poet and illustrator Siôn Tomos Owen's book is full of colour and passion about life as a father and patriot from...  Read More >>

Character Flaw: …Or is it ADHD?

Character Flaw: …Or is it ADHD?

Author: Philippa Dawson
ISBN: 9781804471340
Format: Paperback
$20.67

Pip is forever arriving late and losing things, and things happen around her. She’s always just written it off as...  Read More >>

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