Literary studies: general books

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Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination: The Amerindian Fictions of Henty, Haggard, and Griffith

Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination:...

Author: Luz Elena Ramirez
ISBN: 9781032260044
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book by examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in History of the Conquest...  Read More >>

The Routledge Global Haiku Reader

The Routledge Global Haiku Reader

Author: James Shea ,  Grant Caldwell
ISBN: 9781032275659
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The Routledge Global Haiku Reader ushers haiku into the twenty-first century in a critically minded and historically...  Read More >>

The Baroque: Literature and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Europe

The Baroque: Literature and Culture in Seventeenth-Century...

Author: Peter N. Skrine
ISBN: 9781032485812
Format: Hardback
$183.00

First Published in 1978, The Baroque focuses on eight areas where it expressed itself most successfully. The cultural...  Read More >>

Legacies of the Stone Guest: The Don Juan Legend in Russian Literature

Legacies of the Stone Guest: The Don Juan Legend in...

Author: Alexander Burry
ISBN: 9780299342104
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Published in 1830, The Stone Guest is now recognised, with other Pushkin masterpieces, as part of the Russian literary...  Read More >>

Theatre History, Attribution Studies, and the Question of Evidence

Theatre History, Attribution Studies, and the Question...

Author: Holger Schott Syme (University of Toronto )
ISBN: 9781009227414
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element offers an in-depth reinterpretation of Philip Henslowe's records of new plays, develops a novel account...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Challenge of the Contemporary: Performance, Politics and Aesthetics

Shakespeare and the Challenge of the Contemporary: Performance,...

Author: Francesca Clare Rayner (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
ISBN: 9781350269071
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Contemporary performance is a particularly stimulating area for the study of how Shakespeare is produced and received...  Read More >>

Ireland, the Irish, and the Rise of Biofiction

Ireland, the Irish, and the Rise of Biofiction

Author: Professor Michael Lackey (Distinguished McKnight University Professor of English, University of Minnesota, USA)
ISBN: 9781501378515
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant...  Read More >>

Beyond English: World Literature and India

Beyond English: World Literature and India

Author: Prof Bhavya Tiwari (University of Houston, USA) ,  Thomas Oliver Beebee (Penn State University USA)
ISBN: 9781501386879
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Honorable Mention, Harry Levin Prize, 2022 (American Comparative Literature Association) Beyond English: World...  Read More >>

Haiti’s Literary Legacies: Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution

Haiti’s Literary Legacies: Romanticism and the Unthinkable...

Author: Prof Kir Kuiken (SUNY Albany, USA) ,  Prof Deborah Elise White (Emory University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501376047
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The essays gathered in Haiti’s Literary Legacies unpack the theoretical, historical, and political resonance of...  Read More >>

The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early 20th-Century Russia

The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early 20th-Century...

Author: Professor Yvonne Howell (University of Richmond, USA) ,  Professor Nikolai Krementsov (University of Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350232846
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The idea that morally, mentally, and physically superior ‘new men’ might replace the currently existing mankind...  Read More >>

The Politics of Form in Greek Literature

The Politics of Form in Greek Literature

Author: Phiroze Vasunia (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350191594
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The Politics of Form in Greek Literature explores the relationship between form and political life specifically...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Malone and the Problems of Chronology

Shakespeare, Malone and the Problems of Chronology

Author: Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781009224727
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element will be on the three versions of Edmond Malone's An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in which the Plays...  Read More >>

Shakespeare & Collaborative Writing

Shakespeare & Collaborative Writing

Author: Dr Will Sharpe (Teaching Fellow in Shakespeare, Teaching Fellow in Shakespeare, The University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780198819639
Format: Hardback
$106.95

Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing offers a rich account of Shakespeare's artistic development in, against, and...  Read More >>

The Early Development of Project Gutenberg c.1970–2000

The Early Development of Project Gutenberg c.1970–2000...

Author: Simon Rowberry (University College London)
ISBN: 9781108743181
Format: Paperback
$32.32

Project Gutenberg is lauded as one of the earliest digitisation initiatives, a mythology that Michael Hart, its...  Read More >>

“All-Electric” Narratives: Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945–2020

“All-Electric” Narratives: Time-Saving Appliances and...

Author: Dr. Rachele Dini (Lecturer in English Literature, University of Roehampton, UK)
ISBN: 9781501383939
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Winner of the 2023 Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies “All-Electric” Narratives is the first...  Read More >>

The Ends of Knowledge: Outcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and Sciences

The Ends of Knowledge: Outcomes and Endpoints Across...

Author: Rachael Scarborough King ,  Seth Rudy
ISBN: 9781350242289
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits...  Read More >>

Serial Mexico: Storytelling Across Media, From Nationhood to Now

Serial Mexico: Storytelling Across Media, From Nationhood...

Author: Amy E. Wright
ISBN: 9780826505620
Format: Hardback
$169.40

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L'Anglais Mangeur d'Opium

L'Anglais Mangeur d'Opium

Author: Alfred De Musset ,  Gilles Castagnes
ISBN: 9782406150664
Format: Hardback
$227.04

""L'Anglais mangeur d'opium, premier ouvrage d'Alfred de Musset, est censâe ãetre la traduction des Confessions...  Read More >>

Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa

Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial...

Author: Sakiru Adebayo
ISBN: 9780472076239
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Argues that the post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa depicts the intricate ways in which the past is etched...  Read More >>

The Irish Revival: A Complex Vision

The Irish Revival: A Complex Vision

Author: Joseph Valente ,  Marjorie Howes
ISBN: 9780815638018
Format: Hardback
$224.40

The Irish Revival has inspired a richly diverse and illuminating body of scholarship that has enlarged our understanding...  Read More >>

Faulkner's Families

Faulkner's Families

Author: Jay Watson ,  James G. Thomas Jr.
ISBN: 9781496845030
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Family played an outsized role in both William Faulkner’s life and writings, often in deeply problematic ways. The...  Read More >>

Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others: Finding the Heart of the Play

Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others: Finding the...

Author: Sidney Homan (University of Florida, USA)
ISBN: 9781032348629
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Homan offers his personal choices of such lines in five plays by Shakespeare and works by Beckett, Brecht, Pinter,...  Read More >>

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