Literary studies: general books

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Specters of Cavafy

Specters of Cavafy

Author: Maria Boletsi
ISBN: 9780472076840
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Drawing from theorizations of specters and haunting, Specters of Cavafy develops spectrality as a lens for revisiting...  Read More >>

Black Contemplative Preaching: A Hidden History of Prayer, Proclamation, and Prophetic Witness

Black Contemplative Preaching: A Hidden History of Prayer,...

Author: E. Trey Clark
ISBN: 9781481319355
Format: Paperback
$68.20

In this book, E. Trey Clark expands our understanding of Black religiosity by drawing attention to the rich history...  Read More >>

The Resilient Apocalypse: Narrating the End from Early Spanish Visualizations to Twenty-First Century Latin American Articulations

The Resilient Apocalypse: Narrating the End from Early...

Author: Julia A. Kushigian
ISBN: 9781469681887
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Portraits of good battling evil in the geography of hell come in many forms in the Hispanic World. This investigation...  Read More >>

A Life of One's Own

A Life of One's Own

Author: Marion Milner ,  Rachel Bowlby (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781032757551
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Restoring Relations Through Stories: From Dinétah to Denendeh

Restoring Relations Through Stories: From Dinétah to...

Author: Renae Watchman ,  Luci Tapahonso
ISBN: 9780816550340
Format: Paperback
$92.40

An insightful volume that delves into land-based Dine and Dene imaginaries as embodied in stories - oral, literary,...  Read More >>

Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II

Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after...

Author: Erin Lee Mock
ISBN: 9780813950952
Format: Paperback
$104.28

Engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic...  Read More >>

A Mirror for History: How Novels and Art Reflect the Evolution of Middle-Class America

A Mirror for History: How Novels and Art Reflect the...

Author: Marc Egnal
ISBN: 9781621909040
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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British Romanticism and Denmark

British Romanticism and Denmark

Author: Cian Duffy
ISBN: 9781474498234
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Traces a multifaceted discourse about Denmark in British eighteenth-century and Romantic-period culture.  Read More >>

The California Gothic in Fiction and Film

The California Gothic in Fiction and Film

Author: Bernice M. Murphy
ISBN: 9781474497879
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Focuses on the California Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  Read More >>

Mary Wollstonecraft: Cosmopolitan

Mary Wollstonecraft: Cosmopolitan

Author: Laura Kirkley
ISBN: 9781399503105
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Redefines Mary Wollstonecraft as a multi-lingual cosmopolitan.  Read More >>

Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused

Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused...

Author: Anita Wohlmann
ISBN: 9781399500876
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Defends conventional and even problematic illness metaphors by emphasizing their varied usability.  Read More >>

The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader

The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority...

Author: Sophie Corser
ISBN: 9781474481441
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Rethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James...  Read More >>

Asbestos   the Last Modernist Object

Asbestos the Last Modernist Object

Author: Arthur Rose
ISBN: 9781474482431
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Presents the first extended account of asbestos in literature, film and visual culture.  Read More >>

Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited

Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited

Author: Richard C. Sha ,  Joel Faflak
ISBN: 9781474485111
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Brings Romanticism into dialogue with current understandings of consciousness.  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers: Victorian Legacies and Literary Afterlives

Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers:...

Author: Anne Reus
ISBN: 9781474485630
Format: Paperback
$51.72

The first comprehensive analysis of Virginia Woolf's literary biography.  Read More >>

The Lady's Magazine (1770 1832) and the Making of Literary History

The Lady's Magazine (1770 1832) and the Making of Literary...

Author: Jennie Batchelor
ISBN: 9781474487658
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The first major study of one of the most influential periodicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  Read More >>

The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry

The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry

Author: Olivia Loksing Moy
ISBN: 9781474487184
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Victorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf's Apprenticeship: Becoming an Essayist

Virginia Woolf's Apprenticeship: Becoming an Essayist...

Author: Rigel Beth Daugherty
ISBN: 9781399504522
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Provides the most comprehensive portrayal of Virginia Woolf's education to date.  Read More >>

(P)Rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship

(P)Rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction...

Author: Stephanie Peebles Tavera
ISBN: 9781474493208
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Examines how women writers of medical fiction rewrite cultural narratives of the female body against censorship...  Read More >>

Literary Neo-Orientalism and the Arab Uprisings: Tensions in English, French and German Language Fiction

Literary Neo-Orientalism and the Arab Uprisings: Tensions...

Author: Julia Wurr
ISBN: 9781474488013
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Provides a transnational study of the Arab uprisings in the Western literary market  Read More >>

Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914 1934: The Ghosts of World War One

Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914 1934:...

Author: Andrew Smith
ISBN: 9781474443449
Format: Paperback
$51.72

The first detailed analysis of Gothic literature and trauma in World War One.  Read More >>

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