Literary studies: general books

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The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century

The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy...

Author: Patrick R. O'Malley
ISBN: 9780813950570
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Analyses the role of Irishness in nineteenth-century constructions of race and racialization, both in the British...  Read More >>

Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime

Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime

Author: Odile Ferly ,  Tegan Zimmerman
ISBN: 9783031321108
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetime inherited from western modernity through its theoretical...  Read More >>

Koume’s World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration

Koume’s World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman...

Author: Simon Partner
ISBN: 9780231211857
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Kawai Koume (1804–1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking...  Read More >>

Laughing at Domestica Facta: Identity Construction in Mid-Republican Rome Through the Lens of the Togata

Laughing at Domestica Facta: Identity Construction in...

Author: Giuseppe Eugenio Rallo
ISBN: 9783949189968
Format: Hardback
$242.88

In this monograph, the author embarks on a captivating journey to shed fresh light on the togata, a mid-Republican...  Read More >>

Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many

Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of...

Author: Thomas P. Hillman
ISBN: 9781606354711
Format: Paperback
$105.60

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Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity

Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature:...

Author: Ben Moore
ISBN: 9781399508483
Format: Hardback
$232.88

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The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704 1894

The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing,...

Author: Louis Kirk McAuley
ISBN: 9781399527149
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Advances our understanding of the literary legacy of contemporary ecological crises to investigate the interfaces...  Read More >>

Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel: From Telepathy to the Network Novel

Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British...

Author: Mark Taylor
ISBN: 9781399524483
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>

Jahrbuch Literatur Und Medizin: Band XIV: Words of Illness, Words of Healing in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Jahrbuch Literatur Und Medizin: Band XIV: Words of Illness,...

Author: Vincenzo Damiani ,  Florian Steger
ISBN: 9783825395537
Format: Hardback
$108.24

The fourteenth volume of the 'Jahrbuch', edited by Vincenzo Damiani and Florian Steger, focuses on a historically...  Read More >>

The Artifice of Affect: American Realist Literature and Emotional Truth

The Artifice of Affect: American Realist Literature...

Author: Nicholas Manning
ISBN: 9781399507998
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Offers a literary and cultural critique of the concept of true feeling, using affect theory to analyze post-war...  Read More >>

Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival

Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival

Author: Petra Johana Poncarova
ISBN: 9781399501194
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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For Pleasure: Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics

For Pleasure: Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics...

Author: Rachel Jane Carroll
ISBN: 9781479826735
Format: Paperback
$68.99

""For Pleasure argues that aesthetic pleasure and formal experimentalism hold the twinned capacity to maintain a...  Read More >>

The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'

The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's...

Author: Brian Gastle ,  Catherine Carter
ISBN: 9781580446792
Format: Hardback
$234.96

John Gower's Confessio Amantis (The Lover's Confession) is one of the most important English works of the C14th....  Read More >>

Koume’s World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration

Koume’s World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman...

Author: Simon Partner
ISBN: 9780231211840
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Kawai Koume (1804–1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking...  Read More >>

Tagore’s Solutions for Colonial Degeneration: Indic Societalism, Nation, Identities, and Communities

Tagore’s Solutions for Colonial Degeneration: Indic...

Author: Amartya Mukhopadhyay (University of Calcutta, India)
ISBN: 9781032631622
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book focuses on Rabindranath Tagore as a social and political thinker.  Read More >>

Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities: History, Archaeology, Empire

Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities: History, Archaeology,...

Author: Takis Kayalis
ISBN: 9783031349010
Format: Hardback
$343.17

Focusing on selected poems which stage readings of Hellenistic and late ancient texts and material objects, this...  Read More >>

Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition: Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton

Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition:...

Author: Aleida Auld
ISBN: 9781032344546
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume adds a new dimension to authorship studies by linking the editorial tradition to the transformative...  Read More >>

Textual and Critical Intersections: Conversations with Laurence Sterne and Others

Textual and Critical Intersections: Conversations with...

Author: Melvyn New
ISBN: 9780813069838
Format: Hardback
$224.40

In this collection of essays representing fifty years of scholarship on Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New brings Sterne...  Read More >>

Ernest Dowson: Lyric Lives

Ernest Dowson: Lyric Lives

Author: Robert Stark (Teacher, Department of Education, Mie University, Japan)
ISBN: 9780192884763
Format: Hardback
$164.95

Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) was a British writer of the fin de siècle period, widely seen as the most representative...  Read More >>

Modern Character: 1888-1905

Modern Character: 1888-1905

Author: Julian Murphet (Jury Chair of English Language and Literature, Jury Chair of English Language and Literature, University of Adelaide)
ISBN: 9780192863126
Format: Hardback
$188.95

In this groundbreaking and comprehensive study, Julian Murphet examines how dramatists and prose writers at the...  Read More >>

Epic Ambition: Hercules and the Politics of Emulation in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica

Epic Ambition: Hercules and the Politics of Emulation...

Author: Jessica Blum-Sorensen
ISBN: 9780299344603
Format: Hardback
$263.87

By the time the Roman poet Valerius Flaccus wrote in the first century CE, the tale of Jason and his famous ship...  Read More >>

Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood: In the Spaces Provided

Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood: In the Spaces...

Author: Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle
ISBN: 9781032146805
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood is a collection of essays in which life writing scholars theorize their...  Read More >>

Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII

Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII...

Author: Nadia T. van Pelt (Lecturer, Lecturer, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780192863447
Format: Hardback
$149.95

In this new addition to the Oxford Textual Perspectives series, Nadia van Pelt takes the reader along to the dazzling...  Read More >>

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