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Ain't No Jazz in Kansas City

Ain't No Jazz in Kansas City

Author: Bruce Rodgers
ISBN: 9798869366641
Format: Paperback
$42.11

It was the beginning of the 1980s and he had the perfect part-time job. As a doorman, Corey Edwards could drink,...  Read More >>

Arms and the Many: Multiplicity in Lucan’s Bellum Civile

Arms and the Many: Multiplicity in Lucan’s Bellum Civile...

Author: Dr Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9781350377547
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Taking at its centre Lucan's violent and subversive military epic on the Roman Civil War, this volume responds to...  Read More >>

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 6, 1934–1936

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 6, 1934–1936...

Author: Ernest Hemingway ,  Sandra Spanier (Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9780521897389
Format: Hardback
$90.56

Hemingway's letters constitute a rich, continuous portrait of the artist. Never intended for publication, the letters...  Read More >>

Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves

Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves

Author: J. Drew Lanham
ISBN: 9798885740302
Format: Hardback
$29.99

From J. Drew Lanham, MacArthur ""Genius"" Grant recipient and author of Sparrow Envy: A Field Guide to Birds and...  Read More >>

Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays

Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays...

Author: Wade Davis
ISBN: 9781778400445
Format: Hardback
$49.99

'Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape,...  Read More >>

You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

Author: Ada Limn
ISBN: 9781571315687
Format: Hardback
$39.99

Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limn, this book challenges what...  Read More >>

Mirror Nation

Mirror Nation

Author: Don Mee Choi
ISBN: 9798891060005
Format: Hardback
$72.99

""Elegiac and haunting, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with Hardly War (Wave...  Read More >>

The Leaving Season: A Memoir

The Leaving Season: A Memoir

Author: Kelly McMasters
ISBN: 9781324076056
Format: Paperback
$44.85

“One of the most beautifully written books I've ever read. Kelly McMasters is a literary giant.”—Zibby Owens, Good...  Read More >>

Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy

Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and...

Author: Simon Wu
ISBN: 9780063316201
Format: Hardback
$73.89

""An essay collection exploring the aesthetics of class aspirationalism, the complications of creating art and fashion...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American...

Author: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (Pomona College, California)
ISBN: 9781009204156
Format: Hardback
$194.06

""This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It...  Read More >>

Cruel Destiny and The White Negress: Two Novels by Cléante Desgraves Valcin

Cruel Destiny and The White Negress: Two Novels by Cléante...

Author: Adam Nemmers ,  Jeanne Jégousso
ISBN: 9781978837584
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Cléante Desgraves Valcin (1891-1956) was a poet, writer, and feminist—most prominently Haiti’s first published female...  Read More >>

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

Author: Willow White
ISBN: 9781644533406
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Feminist Comedy argues that the development of modern feminist thought is closely linked to theatrical comedy. Through...  Read More >>

christopher oscar peña: Three Plays: how to make an American Son; the strangers; a cautionary tail

christopher oscar peña: Three Plays: how to make an...

Author: christopher oscar peña ,  Mark Armstrong
ISBN: 9781350427105
Format: Hardback
$150.00

""Three plays from acclaimed Latinx American playwright Christopher Oscar Peäna which deal with bicultural identities,...  Read More >>

Smoothing the Jew: ""Abie the Agent"" and Ethnic Caricature in the Progressive Era

Smoothing the Jew: ""Abie the Agent"" and Ethnic Caricature...

Author: Jeffrey A. Marx
ISBN: 9781978836341
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Both the object of admiration and anxiety, Jewish immigrants to the United States at the turn of the nineteenth...  Read More >>

American Anti-Pastoral: Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth

American Anti-Pastoral: Brookside, New Jersey and the...

Author: Thomas Gustafson
ISBN: 9781978838024
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Combining literary analysis with historical research, Thomas Gustafson examines how Philip Roth's acclaimed 1997...  Read More >>

Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751

Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in...

Author: Dayne C. Riley
ISBN: 9781684485314
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Consuming Anxieties examines the varied representations of alcohol and tobacco products in literary satire from...  Read More >>

The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe

The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits...

Author: Javier Patiño Loira
ISBN: 9781644533444
Format: Paperback
$158.27

A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

A History of Argentine Literature

A History of Argentine Literature

Author: Alejandra Laera (University of Buenos Aires) ,  Mónica Szurmuk (Universidad Nacional de San Martín /National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina)
ISBN: 9781009283045
Format: Hardback
$258.75

""Attentive to production in indigenous and migration languages, this book proposes a major reimagining of the field...  Read More >>

The Cake Man

The Cake Man

Author: Robert Merritt
ISBN: 9781760629137
Format: Paperback
$44.85

On newly-declared terra nullius, a Priest, a Civilian and a Soldier watch an Aboriginal family. On a New South Wales...  Read More >>

Closure

Closure

Author: Valeria Abelli
ISBN: 9798989555154
Format: Paperback
$42.21

No handbook explains the perfect way to heal because it doesn't exist. Written by singer-songwriter Valerie...  Read More >>

Declaration of Independence for The New Earth

Declaration of Independence for The New Earth

Author: Anna Rebecca R Quinn
ISBN: 9798218354480
Format: Paperback
$36.96

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U-Turns, Wrong Turns, and Collisions

U-Turns, Wrong Turns, and Collisions

Author: K Monique Gassoway
ISBN: 9798328617567
Format: Paperback
$18.45

Honest revelations and reflections, unapologetically K Monique Gassoway speaks truth into every poem written. Not...  Read More >>

Beckett and Cioran

Beckett and Cioran

Author: Steven Matthews (University of Reading)
ISBN: 9781009494724
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element discusses the link between Samuel Beckett and E. M. Cioran, drawing upon the terms of Beckett's engagement...  Read More >>

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