Literary studies: general books

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Authors and the World: Literary Authorship in Modern Germany

Authors and the World: Literary Authorship in Modern...

Author: Dr. Rebecca Braun (Executive Dean, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) ,  Imke Meyer (University of Illinois at Chicago USA)
ISBN: 9781501391064
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""Reconstructing literary practice across the last 75 years of carefully contextualized German history, this study...  Read More >>

Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry: Poets, Practitioners, and the Plague

Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry: Poets,...

Author: Eve Salisbury
ISBN: 9781350249837
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Exploring medical writing in England in the 100+ years after the advent of the “Great Mortality”, this book examines...  Read More >>

Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and Comedy

Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and Comedy

Author: Regina Barreca
ISBN: 9781032226279
Format: Paperback
$67.99

"First published in 1988, the 19 original essays (and three ""Sylvia"" cartoons) included in this volume deal with...  Read More >>

Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Very Short Introduction

Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Deborah Martinsen (Associate Dean of Alumni Education, Columbia College, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780198864332
Format: Paperback
$21.95

This book shows why it is that Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his treatment of the big questions of...  Read More >>

Aeschylus' Oresteia: Translation and Theatrical Commentary

Aeschylus' Oresteia: Translation and Theatrical Commentary...

Author: Michael Ewans
ISBN: 9781032646961
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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LOST BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: The Saga of Hrómundur and Its Manuscript Transmission

LOST BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: The Saga of Hrómundur and Its...

Author: Katarzyna Anna Kapitan
ISBN: 9781838464172
Format: Hardback
$131.97

For over nine centuries the saga of Hrómundur has enthralled audiences in Iceland and beyond. 'Lost but Not Forgotten'...  Read More >>

A Culture of Mimicry: Laurence Sterne, His Readers and the Art of Bodysnatching

A Culture of Mimicry: Laurence Sterne, His Readers and...

Author: Warren L Oakley
ISBN: 9781839545863
Format: Paperback
$60.69

After his death in 1768, the famous novelist Laurence Sterne did not rest undisturbed in his grave. While rumours...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945

The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945...

Author: Jen Harvie (Queen Mary University of London) ,  Dan Rebellato (Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9781108421805
Format: Hardback
$181.13

British theatre underwent a vast transformation and expansion in the decades after World War II. This Companion...  Read More >>

Aeschylus' Oresteia: Translation and Theatrical Commentary

Aeschylus' Oresteia: Translation and Theatrical Commentary...

Author: Michael Ewans
ISBN: 9781032646985
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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A Performance History of The Fair Penitent

A Performance History of The Fair Penitent

Author: Elaine McGirr (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781009485968
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element is of the eighteenth-century performance history of The Fair Penitent demonstrates the interrelation...  Read More >>

Die 'Konstanzer Weltchronik': Modulare Textpraxis in Der Spatmittelalterlichen Schriftlichkeit. Edition Und Untersuchungen

Die 'Konstanzer Weltchronik': Modulare Textpraxis in...

Author: Sarah Hutterer
ISBN: 9783777634050
Format: Hardback
$293.04

Die anonyme 'Konstanzer Weltchronik' aus dem 14. Jahrhundert bietet einen komplexen Uberlieferungsfall: Der je nach...  Read More >>

Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination: Matrilineal Legacies in the High Middle Ages

Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination:...

Author: Emma O. Bérat
ISBN: 9781009434751
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Emma O. Bérat uncovers the striking array of female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts and...  Read More >>

Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830

Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers...

Author: Cristina S. Martinez (University of Ottawa) ,  Cynthia E. Roman (Yale University)
ISBN: 9781108844772
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Sixteen international scholars uncover neglected histories about the contributions of eighteenth-century women to...  Read More >>

The «Doppelgaenger» in our Time: Visions of Alterity in Literature, Visual Culture, and New Media

The «Doppelgaenger» in our Time: Visions of Alterity...

Author: Timothy Mathews ,  Dawn Ades
ISBN: 9781800793613
Format: Paperback
$124.20

What does the doppelgänger look like today? This book explores interpretations of the figure of the double in the...  Read More >>

Imagination on Fire: The Literary Career of Alice Muriel Williamson

Imagination on Fire: The Literary Career of Alice Muriel...

Author: Richard Rex
ISBN: 9781680536201
Format: Hardback
$236.50

A first-person account by the former dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture, an international architect...  Read More >>

Placing Disability: Personal Essays of Embodied Geography

Placing Disability: Personal Essays of Embodied Geography...

Author: Susannah B. Mintz ,  Gregory Fraser
ISBN: 9783031412189
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Each chapter engages the question of what it means to be disabled in a specific place, exploring issues of movement,...  Read More >>

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s «Hamilton»: Silenced Women’s Voices and Founding Mothers of Color: A Critical Race Theory Counterstory

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s «Hamilton»: Silenced Women’s Voices...

Author: Astrid Böger ,  Vanessa Vollmann
ISBN: 9783631901762
Format: Hardback
$119.03

Chill and swaggering colorbent Founding Fathers have been blowing away Hamilton audiences since 2015. And there...  Read More >>

The Book Forger: The true story of a literary crime that fooled the world

The Book Forger: The true story of a literary crime...

Author: Joseph Hone
ISBN: 9781784744670
Format: Hardback
$50.00

A true detective story from the age of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers- the literary crime that fooled the...  Read More >>

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 49: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 49: Studies in Medieval...

Author: Reinhold F. Glei ,  Maik Goth
ISBN: 9781538191743
Format: Hardback
$166.00

Volume 49 contains four articles ranging from medieval literature (discovery of the Self in the twelfth century)...  Read More >>

A Culture of Mimicry: Laurence Sterne, His Readers and the Art of Bodysnatching

A Culture of Mimicry: Laurence Sterne, His Readers and...

Author: Warren L Oakley
ISBN: 9781839545856
Format: Hardback
$168.93

After his death in 1768, the famous novelist Laurence Sterne did not rest undisturbed in his grave. While rumours...  Read More >>

Fashioning Society in Eighteenth-Century British Jamaica

Fashioning Society in Eighteenth-Century British Jamaica...

Author: Chloe Northrop (Tarrant County College, USA)
ISBN: 9781032109718
Format: Hardback
$284.00

By examining writings by women in the long eighteenth century and comparing them to contemporary sources, this book...  Read More >>

Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India

Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical...

Author: Maria Heim
ISBN: 9780691222936
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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Un-Mapping the Global South

Un-Mapping the Global South

Author: Gero Bauer ,  Nicole Hirschfelder
ISBN: 9781032727462
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions...  Read More >>

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