Literary studies: general books

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The Prefaces

The Prefaces

Author: Henry James ,  Oliver Herford (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781107002685
Format: Hardback
$245.81

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Critical Theory and Dystopia

Critical Theory and Dystopia

Author: Patricia McManus (Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural History)
ISBN: 9781526139757
Format: Paperback
$45.99

Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both...  Read More >>

Women, Science and Fiction Revisited

Women, Science and Fiction Revisited

Author: Debra Benita Shaw
ISBN: 9783031251733
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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Another Literary Tour of Italy

Another Literary Tour of Italy

Author: Tim Parks
ISBN: 9781846884726
Format: Hardback
$51.75

Following the critical and commercial success of A Literary Tour of Italy, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks presents...  Read More >>

Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film

Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in...

Author: Christopher Hanscom
ISBN: 9780231208499
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Christopher P. Hanscom questions common understandings of political art by examining four figures central to recent...  Read More >>

Idealist Epistemology and the Baudelairean Experience of Modernity: Fragments in the Dark

Idealist Epistemology and the Baudelairean Experience...

Author: Uta Felten ,  Anna-Sophia Buck
ISBN: 9783631902103
Format: Hardback
$124.20

This study proposes an epistemological model on the basis of a streamlined and heavily modified German Idealism....  Read More >>

We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump

We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from...

Author: Douglas Dowland
ISBN: 9780813950839
Format: Hardback
$250.80

When Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that...  Read More >>

Robinson Crusoe, A Longman Cultural Edition

Robinson Crusoe, A Longman Cultural Edition

Author: Daniel DeFoe ,  Marilyn Gaull
ISBN: 9780321202062
Format: Paperback
$12.91

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V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center

V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center

Author: Sanjay Krishnan (Associate Professor, Boston Universty)
ISBN: 9780231216685
Format: Paperback
$42.95

Sanjay Krishnan rereads V. S. Naipaul’s work to offer new perspectives on his achievements, shortcomings, trajectory,...  Read More >>

The Land Between: A History of Slovenia

The Land Between: A History of Slovenia

Author: Oto Luthar ,  Marjeta Šašel Kos
ISBN: 9783631910467
Format: Hardback
$168.19

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Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy: Feminist Myths of Monstrosity

Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy: Feminist Myths of Monstrosity...

Author: Salomé Paul
ISBN: 9781032288871
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy examines the feminist transposition of Greek tragedy in the theatre of the contemporary...  Read More >>

Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell

Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell...

Author: D. J. Taylor
ISBN: 9780300272987
Format: Hardback
$39.95

A spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays  Read More >>

The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction

The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch...

Author: Lee Gutkind
ISBN: 9780300251159
Format: Hardback
$51.95

An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the “godfather” of the genre  Read More >>

The Art of the Literary Poster

The Art of the Literary Poster

Author: Allison Rudnick ,  Jennifer A. Greenhill
ISBN: 9781588397744
Format: Hardback
$82.95

An exploration of late nineteenth-century American literary posters—a vibrant genre at the vanguard of modern commercial...  Read More >>

Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film

Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in...

Author: Christopher Hanscom
ISBN: 9780231208482
Format: Hardback
$198.95

Christopher P. Hanscom questions common understandings of political art by examining four figures central to recent...  Read More >>

Why Surrealism Matters

Why Surrealism Matters

Author: Mark Polizzotti
ISBN: 9780300257090
Format: Hardback
$34.95

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why the movement continues to resonate...  Read More >>

America's Imagined Revolution: The Historical Novel of Reconstruction

America's Imagined Revolution: The Historical Novel...

Author: Tomos Wallbank-Hughes ,  Scott Romine
ISBN: 9780807181546
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical...  Read More >>

Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction and Film

Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction...

Author: Josep M. Armengol
ISBN: 9783031533488
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture,...  Read More >>

Premodern Masculinities in Transition

Premodern Masculinities in Transition

Author: Professor Konrad Eisenbichler ,  Jacqueline Murray (Customer)
ISBN: 9781837651702
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Sheds new light on how masculinity was understood, lived, performed and viewed during a period of huge change.  Read More >>

New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages: Collecting, Curating, Assembling

New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages: Collecting,...

Author: Emily N. Savage
ISBN: 9781032019277
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume brings together scholars of History, Manuscript Studies, and Art and Architectural History to examine...  Read More >>

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