Literary studies: general books

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Life's Little Ironies

Life's Little Ironies

Author: Thomas Hardy ,  Alan Manford
ISBN: 9781108491433
Format: Hardback
$232.88

An invaluable resource for students of nineteenth-century writing and of Hardy in particular, this edition presents...  Read More >>

Cli-Fi and Class: Socioeconomic Justice in Contemporary American Climate Fiction

Cli-Fi and Class: Socioeconomic Justice in Contemporary...

Author: Debra J. Rosenthal ,  Jason de Lara Molesky
ISBN: 9780813950259
Format: Paperback
$104.28

Focuses on the representation of class dynamics in climate-change narratives. With fifteen essays on the intersection...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels

The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels

Author: Daniel Cook (University of Dundee) ,  Nicholas Seager (Keele University)
ISBN: 9781108830195
Format: Hardback
$181.13

Approaching Gulliver's Travels from a variety of critical perspectives, this Cambridge Companion provides students...  Read More >>

The American House Poem, 1945-2021

The American House Poem, 1945-2021

Author: Prof Walt Hunter (Chair, Department of English and Associate Professor of English, Chair, Department of English and Associate Professor of English, Case Western Reserve University)
ISBN: 9780192856258
Format: Hardback
$153.95

"This book explores the politics of American housing from the perspective of poets. Hunter follows the emergence...  Read More >>

Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction

Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction...

Author: Alice Hall
ISBN: 9781350180161
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction introduces readers to key theorists and shifting critical...  Read More >>

Roger Ascham’s Themata Theologica

Roger Ascham’s Themata Theologica

Author: Dr Lucy R. Nicholas (King’s College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350267947
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Roger Ascham is often classified as ‘a great mid-Tudor humanist’ and he is perhaps best known for his role as tutor...  Read More >>

The Dark Matter of Children’s 'Fantastika' Literature: Speculative Entanglements

The Dark Matter of Children’s 'Fantastika' Literature:...

Author: Dr Chloe Germaine (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ,  Dr Lisa Sainsbury (University of Roehampton, UK)
ISBN: 9781350167018
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Following the material turn in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue...  Read More >>

Jokes in Greek Comedy: From Puns to Poetics

Jokes in Greek Comedy: From Puns to Poetics

Author: Dr Naomi Scott (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9781350248489
Format: Hardback
$170.00

"""In ancient Greek comedy, nothing is ever 'just a joke'. This book treats jokes with the seriousness they deserve,...  Read More >>

James Joyce and Cultural Genetics: The Joycean Genome

James Joyce and Cultural Genetics: The Joycean Genome...

Author: Dr Wim Van Mierlo ,  Dr Erik Tonning (University of Bergen, Norway)
ISBN: 9781350169883
Format: Hardback
$170.00

As a genetic study, this book uncovers the creative DNA of James Joyce’s oeuvre by looking at the cultural forces...  Read More >>

Literature and the Telephone: Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place

Literature and the Telephone: Conversations on Poetics,...

Author: Sarah Jackson
ISBN: 9781350259607
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Literature and the Telephone explores the ways that the telephone taps into the operations of reading and writing,...  Read More >>

Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman

Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman

Author: Alastair Bennett (Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9780192886262
Format: Hardback
$183.95

The book describes the process by which the narratives of Piers Plowman are composed and how they mediate and reconfigure...  Read More >>

Cli-Fi and Class: Socioeconomic Justice in Contemporary American Climate Fiction

Cli-Fi and Class: Socioeconomic Justice in Contemporary...

Author: Debra J. Rosenthal ,  Jason de Lara Molesky
ISBN: 9780813950242
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Focuses on the representation of class dynamics in climate-change narratives. With fifteen essays on the intersection...  Read More >>

Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies: Nature and the Environment in Old Norse Literature and Culture

Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies: Nature and the Environment...

Author: Reinhard Hennig ,  Emily Lethbridge
ISBN: 9782503604848
Format: Hardback
$298.32

Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies is the first anthology to combine environmental humanities approaches and the...  Read More >>

Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English

Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature...

Author: Om Prakash Dwivedi
ISBN: 9783031068195
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book analyzes precarious conditions and their manifestations in recent South Asian literature in English. The...  Read More >>

German-Language Children's and Youth Literature In The Media Network 1900-1945.

German-Language Children's and Youth Literature In The...

Author: Petra Josting ,  Marlene Antonia Illies
ISBN: 9783476058911
Format: Hardback
$284.60

With the research of German-language children's and youth literature and its media associations in the period from...  Read More >>

Audio Description for the Arts: A Linguistic Perspective

Audio Description for the Arts: A Linguistic Perspective...

Author: Elisa Perego (University of Trieste, Italy)
ISBN: 9780367681005
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This book traces the development of audio description (AD), a form of audiovisual translation delivered orally or...  Read More >>

Gothic and Racism

Gothic and Racism

Author: Cristina Artenie
ISBN: 9781988963686
Format: Hardback
$227.70

A collection of essays analyzing the various manifestations of racism in Gothic narratives: literature, film, TV,...  Read More >>

The Tale of the Living Vampyre

The Tale of the Living Vampyre

Author: Kevin Dodd ,  John Edgar Browning
ISBN: 9781988963648
Format: Hardback
$243.23

An entirely original look at the evolution of a cultural phenomenon. As John Edgar Browning puts it in his Foreword,...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Naturalism: Periodization, World-Literature, and the Anglophone Novel

Postcolonial Naturalism: Periodization, World-Literature,...

Author: Eric D. Smith
ISBN: 9781837640508
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Supported by careful, theoretically and critically sophisticated analyses of exemplary literary works, this important...  Read More >>

Vsus Scribendi: Le Projet Litteraire de Symmaque Dans Les Lettres, Les Discours Et Les Rapports

Vsus Scribendi: Le Projet Litteraire de Symmaque Dans...

Author: Nicolas Cavuoto-Denis
ISBN: 9782503604947
Format: Hardback
$427.68

Symmaque est connu des historiens et des philologues de l'Antiquite tardive comme le temoin des dernieres aspirations...  Read More >>

On Niccolò Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics

On Niccolò Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics

Author: Gabriele Pedullà
ISBN: 9780231205559
Format: Paperback
$24.95

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A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture

A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture

Author: Bill Angus
ISBN: 9781474499835
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Tracks the history of concepts and practices associated with the physical crossroads in the early modern period....  Read More >>

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