Literary studies: general books

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Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660–1700

Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660–1700

Author: Robert D. Hume (Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9781009270519
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby...  Read More >>

Woden: A Historical Companion

Woden: A Historical Companion

Author: Stephen Pollington
ISBN: 9781961361072
Format: Paperback
$79.17

All-father, warlord, runemaster, kingmaker, healer-manifold aspects, numerous stories. This book brings together...  Read More >>

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 3, Books 13–15 and Indices

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 3, Books...

Author: Alessandro Barchiesi (New York University) ,  Phillip Hardie (Trinity College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780521895811
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential...  Read More >>

Lustrum Band 64 - 2022

Lustrum Band 64 - 2022

Author: Marcus Deufert ,  Irmgard Mannlein-Robert
ISBN: 9783525802380
Format: Paperback
$303.60

"Lustrum Band 64, eine Fortsetzung der Lustrum-Bande 54 (2012), 56 (2014) und 61 (2019), bietet ein weiteres grosses...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman

The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman

Author: Kenneth M. Price (Hillegass University Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) ,  Stefan Schöberlein (Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University-Central Texas)
ISBN: 9780192894847
Format: Hardback
$307.00

A Handbook on Walt Whitman that reflects the best new work in the field including chapters that set his work within...  Read More >>

The Hero's Mortal Walls: Identity and Defenses in Early Epic and Romance

The Hero's Mortal Walls: Identity and Defenses in Early...

Author: William F. Woods
ISBN: 9781476686233
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Analyses seven iconic heroes and compares each champion to a walled town or castle, hardened against an outer threat....  Read More >>

Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism

Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism

Author: Patricia García ,  Anna-Leena Toivanen
ISBN: 9783031427978
Format: Hardback
$310.47

"Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism explores the entwinement of mobility and immobility in urban spaces...  Read More >>

The Middle Dutch Brut: An Edition and Translation

The Middle Dutch Brut: An Edition and Translation

Author: Sjoerd Levelt
ISBN: 9781802073614
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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Scripting Shame in African Literature

Scripting Shame in African Literature

Author: Stephen L. Bishop
ISBN: 9781802075380
Format: Paperback
$72.42

This book locates the frequent expressions of shame in sub-Saharan African literature and shows how its diverse...  Read More >>

Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance

Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance...

Author: Rachel Gregory Fox ,  Ahmad Qabaha
ISBN: 9781802075373
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance confronts how Palestinians have recently felt obliged...  Read More >>

The Brain of Robert Frost: A Cognitive Approach to Literature

The Brain of Robert Frost: A Cognitive Approach to Literature...

Author: Norman N. Holland
ISBN: 9781032658155
Format: Hardback
$173.00

Originally published in 1988, this book brings brain science to...  Read More >>

The Pointe of the Pen: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Balletic Imagination

The Pointe of the Pen: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and...

Author: Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol
ISBN: 9781802073607
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Originally a courtly art, ballet experienced dramatic evolution (but never, significantly, theprospect of extinction)...  Read More >>

Keeping the Ancient Way: Aspects of the Life and Work of Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)

Keeping the Ancient Way: Aspects of the Life and Work...

Author: Robert Wilcher
ISBN: 9781802074840
Format: Paperback
$90.54

Each of the chapters is self-contained and places its topic in relation to past and current critical debates, but...  Read More >>

Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature

Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature...

Author: George Alexander Gazis ,  Anthony Hooper (Lecturer, University of Wollongong (Australia))
ISBN: 9781802074802
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The concept of the afterlife has always been prominent in both Greek literature and modern scholarship alike. The...  Read More >>

The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volume 2 (1992-2016)

The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volume 2...

Author: David Clare ,  Fiona McDonagh
ISBN: 9781802073737
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This two-volume edited collection...  Read More >>

The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volume 1 (1716-1992)

The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volume 1...

Author: David Clare ,  Fiona McDonagh
ISBN: 9781802073720
Format: Paperback
$86.68

Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This two-volume edited collection...  Read More >>

Mary Hays (1759?1843): The Growth of a Woman's Mind

Mary Hays (1759?1843): The Growth of a Woman's Mind...

Author: Gina Luria Walker
ISBN: 9780367893026
Format: Paperback
$79.99

The author's intellectual history of Hays finally makes the case for her importance as an innovator. She was a feminist...  Read More >>

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 2, Books 7-12

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 2, Books...

Author: Alessandro Barchiesi (New York University) ,  E. J. Kenney (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780521895804
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential...  Read More >>

Campus Fictions: Exemption and the American Campus Novel

Campus Fictions: Exemption and the American Campus Novel...

Author: Wesley Beal
ISBN: 9783031499104
Format: Hardback
$258.72

The book takes an eclectic approach to the academic novel with chapters discussing, for example, the genre’s rampant...  Read More >>

New Latin Contexts for Old English Homilies: Editions and Studies of Ten Sources and Analogues

New Latin Contexts for Old English Homilies: Editions...

Author: Stephen Pelle
ISBN: 9780888442338
Format: Paperback
$303.60

This book sheds new light on the Latin background of various Old English homilies, and of certain homilies from...  Read More >>

The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volumes 1 & 2

The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volumes...

Author: David Clare ,  Fiona McDonagh
ISBN: 9781802073713
Format: Paperback
$124.20

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