Literary studies: general books

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Alone with Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist Encounters

Alone with Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist...

Author: Katja Haustein (University of Kent, Canterbury)
ISBN: 9781009363280
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Alone With Others provides an unparalleled intellectual-historical account of tact in modernist literature, film,...  Read More >>

Henry James and the Promise of Fiction

Henry James and the Promise of Fiction

Author: Stuart Burrows (Brown University, Rhode Island)
ISBN: 9781009419697
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Exploring the relationship between Henry James's ethical vision and his densely metaphorical style, his experiments...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals

Author: Derek Ryan (University of Kent, Canterbury)
ISBN: 9781009300056
Format: Hardback
$181.13

This book surveys the role of animals across literary history. It explores how engaging with animals alters our...  Read More >>

The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature

The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature...

Author: Patrick Vincent (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781108497060
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Presenting European Romanticism as a phenomenon that superseded national borders, and in which Britain played a...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author: Michael Nowlin (University of Victoria, British Columbia)
ISBN: 9781108839969
Format: Hardback
$181.13

The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2nd edition, provides authoritative critical insight into Scott...  Read More >>

Ovid: Amores Book 3: Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Ovid: Amores Book 3: Edited with an Introduction, Translation,...

Author: Editor
ISBN: 9780198871309
Format: Hardback
$307.00

This volume presents a new translation into English and the first detailed commentary in any language on Ovid's...  Read More >>

Cosmopolitan Love: Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

Cosmopolitan Love: Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence...

Author: Sijia Yao
ISBN: 9780472076536
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Examines the writings of D.H. Lawrence, a British writer whose literature focused primarily on interpersonal relationships...  Read More >>

"""Simply a Particular Contemporary"": Interviews, 1970–79": Interviews, 1970–79

"""Simply a Particular Contemporary"": Interviews, 1970–79":...

Author: Roland Barthes ,  Chris Turner
ISBN: 9781803092782
Format: Paperback
$27.95

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available...  Read More >>

The New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France: Rationalizing Rape

The New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France:...

Author: Mary McAlpin (University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA)
ISBN: 9781032255538
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book argues that rape as we know it was invented in the eighteenth century, examining texts as diverse as medical...  Read More >>

Reimkulturen Des Mittelalters: Bedingungen - Verfahren - Bedeutungen. Reimschrift Fur Uta Stormer-Caysa

Reimkulturen Des Mittelalters: Bedingungen - Verfahren...

Author: Claudia Lauer ,  Mirna Kjorveziroska
ISBN: 9783825395360
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Die Frage nach dem Reim, dem Phanomen sprachlichen Gleichklangs und eines im engeren Sinne literarischen Stil- und...  Read More >>

Bees, Science, and Sex in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

Bees, Science, and Sex in the Literature of the Long...

Author: Alexis Harley ,  Christopher Harrington
ISBN: 9783031395697
Format: Hardback
$310.47

The long nineteenth century (1789-1914) has been described as an axial age in the history of both bees and literature....  Read More >>

The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love

The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and...

Author: Rachel Feder
ISBN: 9781683693574
Format: Paperback
$32.99

What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how...  Read More >>

Suetonius' Life of Augustus

Suetonius' Life of Augustus

Author: Darryl A. Phillips (Associate Professor of Classics, Associate Professor of Classics, Connecticut College)
ISBN: 9780199392384
Format: Paperback
$56.95

This volume provides a comprehensive edition of Suetonius's Life of Augustus for readers of Latin at the intermediate...  Read More >>

Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel

Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel...

Author: Pardis Dabashi
ISBN: 9780226829258
Format: Paperback
$49.95

An examination of the relationship between literature and classical Hollywood cinema, revealing a profound longing...  Read More >>

Zenithism (1921–1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology

Zenithism (1921–1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology...

Author: Aleksandar Bošković ,  Steven Teref
ISBN: 9781644697214
Format: Hardback
$460.55

This is the first-ever English language anthology of zenithism, an eclectic avant-garde movement unique to the Yugoslav...  Read More >>

Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel

Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel...

Author: Pardis Dabashi
ISBN: 9780226829241
Format: Hardback
$163.95

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Popliteratur 3.0: Soziale Medien und Gegenwartsliteratur

Popliteratur 3.0: Soziale Medien und Gegenwartsliteratur...

Author: Stephanie Catani ,  Christoph Kleinschmidt
ISBN: 9783110795394
Format: Paperback
$68.55

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Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800-1880

Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800-1880...

Author: Stefan Schöberlein (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University at Central Texas)
ISBN: 9780197693681
Format: Hardback
$157.95

In the nineteenth century, American and British culture experienced an explosion of interest in writings about the...  Read More >>

How to Reread a Novel

How to Reread a Novel

Author: Matthew Clark
ISBN: 9780807180709
Format: Paperback
$84.48

A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How...  Read More >>

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers...

Author: Courtney Thorsson
ISBN: 9780231204729
Format: Hardback
$47.95

The Sisterhood tells the story of how a remarkable community of Black women writers transformed American writing...  Read More >>

Women and Devotional Literature in the Middle Ages: Giving Voice to Silence. Essays in Honour of Catherine Innes-Parker

Women and Devotional Literature in the Middle Ages:...

Author: Cate Gunn ,  Liz Herbert McAvoy
ISBN: 9781843846628
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist...  Read More >>

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