Literary studies: general books

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Nineteenth Century Science Fiction: Volume I: Experiments, Inventions, and Case Studies

Nineteenth Century Science Fiction: Volume I: Experiments,...

Author: David Seed
ISBN: 9780367520823
Format: Hardback
$242.00

This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving...  Read More >>

Katherine Mansfield and Children

Katherine Mansfield and Children

Author: Gerri Kimber ,  Todd Martin
ISBN: 9781474491914
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Presents cutting-edge criticism on the theme of Katherine Mansfield and children.  Read More >>

Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law

Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and...

Author: Judith Hudson
ISBN: 9781474454360
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Traces the ways in which changing ideas about criminal sanction were reflected in and engaged with in early modern...  Read More >>

The Clockwork Testament or: Enderby's End: By Anthony Burgess

The Clockwork Testament or: Enderby's End: By Anthony...

Author: Ákos Farkas ,  Anthony Burgess
ISBN: 9781526163486
Format: Hardback
$184.00

Semi-autobiographical reflection on the author's experience of having been the subject of Stanley Kubrick's film...  Read More >>

D. H. Lawrence and the Literary Marketplace: The Early Writings

D. H. Lawrence and the Literary Marketplace: The Early...

Author: Annalise Grice
ISBN: 9781474458016
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Examines how D. H. Lawrence established a professional writing career.  Read More >>

Witnessing to the Faith: Absolutism and the Conscience in John Donne’s England

Witnessing to the Faith: Absolutism and the Conscience...

Author: Shanyn Altman
ISBN: 9781526154842
Format: Hardback
$195.00

This book examines John Donne's theory of royal absolutism within a tradition of conformist thought.It argues that...  Read More >>

Alison Light   Inside History: From Popular Fiction to Life-Writing

Alison Light Inside History: From Popular Fiction...

Author: Alison Light
ISBN: 9781474481724
Format: Paperback
$51.72

A collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light's work.  Read More >>

Refiguring Speech: Late Victorian Fictions of Empire and the Poetics of Talk

Refiguring Speech: Late Victorian Fictions of Empire...

Author: Amy R. Wong
ISBN: 9781503635173
Format: Hardback
$144.99

In this book, Amy R. Wong unravels the colonial and racial logic behind seemingly innocuous assumptions about ""speech"":...  Read More >>

Dichten Und Denken - Der Gang Ins Wirkliche: Studien Zur Poetologie Von Ernst Meisters Metapoesie

Dichten Und Denken - Der Gang Ins Wirkliche: Studien...

Author: Andreas Gerards
ISBN: 9783968219912
Format: Paperback
$348.48

In dieser Studie wird die Metapoesie des Buchner-Preistragers Ernst Meister in ihrer Entwicklung und ihrem Facettenreichtum...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels

The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels...

Author: Eva-Maria Windberger
ISBN: 9781032308586
Format: Hardback
$294.00

It combines the investigation of David Mitchell’s novels with the introduction of a new critical concept to literary...  Read More >>

Errant Letters: Jacques Rancière and the Philosophy of Literature

Errant Letters: Jacques Rancière and the Philosophy...

Author: Ryszard Nycz ,  Mikołaj Golubiewski
ISBN: 9783631881644
Format: Hardback
$119.03

Comprehensive presentation of Jacques Rancière’s thought on relations between politics and literature in the context...  Read More >>

Matria Redux: Caribbean Women Novelize the Past

Matria Redux: Caribbean Women Novelize the Past

Author: Tegan Zimmerman
ISBN: 9781496846341
Format: Hardback
$159.50

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Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Zachary Tavlin
ISBN: 9780817360894
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Examines how the ‘glance’ rather than the ‘gaze’ in nineteenth-century literature and art anticipates the turn to...  Read More >>

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, and Other Creative Writers Who Lived Between 1990 and 1999, from the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Criticism of the...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535872997
Format: Hardback
$1875.72

"""This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures...  Read More >>

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion of the Works of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9780028684956
Format: Hardback
$1881.00

"""Turn to this authoritative international resource for complete critical coverage of the careers and works of...  Read More >>

The Global Frontier: Postwar Travel in American Literature

The Global Frontier: Postwar Travel in American Literature...

Author: Eric Strand
ISBN: 9781609389017
Format: Paperback
$244.20

After World War II, the Western frontier of self-reinvention and spatial expansion opened up through the explosion...  Read More >>

This is Not a Grail Romance: Understanding Historia Peredur Vab Efrawc

This is Not a Grail Romance: Understanding Historia...

Author: Natalia I. Petrovskaia
ISBN: 9781837720361
Format: Paperback
$49.95

This book provides the modern reader with the key to understanding the structure and context of the complex and...  Read More >>

Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers

Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9780028684437
Format: Hardback
$1356.96

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Nineteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, & Other Creative Writers

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9780028685052
Format: Hardback
$1356.96

A convenient source of critical commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed authors who died between 1800 and...  Read More >>

Gifting Translation in Early Modern England: Women Writers and the Politics of Authorship

Gifting Translation in Early Modern England: Women Writers...

Author: Kirsten Inglis
ISBN: 9789463721202
Format: Hardback
$345.84

Translation was a critical mode of discourse for early modern writers. Gifting Translation in Early Modern England:...  Read More >>

The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens

The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens

Author: Bart Eeckhout ,  Lisa Goldfarb
ISBN: 9783031070341
Format: Paperback
$343.17

Wallace Stevens’s musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music...  Read More >>

Short Stories, Knowledge and the Supernatural: Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant

Short Stories, Knowledge and the Supernatural: Machado...

Author: Amândio Reis
ISBN: 9783031066832
Format: Paperback
$343.17

This book proposes a comparative approach to the supernatural short stories of Machado de Assis, Henry James and...  Read More >>

Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing: Dreamwrighting for Stage and Screen

Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing: Dreamwrighting for Stage...

Author: David A. Crespy
ISBN: 9789004535954
Format: Hardback
$314.16

Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing: Dreamwrighting for Stage and Screen is a book about how to use your dreams, content,...  Read More >>

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