Literary studies: general books

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Byron's Don Juan: The Liberal Epic of the Nineteenth Century

Byron's Don Juan: The Liberal Epic of the Nineteenth...

Author: Richard Cronin (University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781009366236
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The first full-length study of Byron's masterpiece in over thirty years, this book boldly argues that Don Juan should...  Read More >>

Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney

Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary...

Author: Taylor Cowdery (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
ISBN: 9781009223744
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This revisionist literary history of late-medieval and Renaissance poetry offers in-depth analyses of six major...  Read More >>

Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy

Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance...

Author: Deanne Williams (York University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350343207
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Deanne Williams offers the very first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor. Whereas previous histories...  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: 9781350242296
Format: Hardback
$130.00

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

The Divine Vision of Dante's Paradiso: The Metaphysics of Representation

The Divine Vision of Dante's Paradiso: The Metaphysics...

Author: William Franke (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)
ISBN: 9781009016919
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Bristling with interdisciplinary insights, this book will open up new dimensions for Dante scholars and attract...  Read More >>

Henry Fielding: A Life

Henry Fielding: A Life

Author: Martin C Battestin
ISBN: 9781032404080
Format: Hardback
$389.00

First published in 1989, Henry Fielding is a biography presenting a fresh interpretation of Fielding’s life and...  Read More >>

The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction

The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American...

Author: Michael Kalisch
ISBN: 9781526172044
Format: Paperback
$44.99

How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction from Philip...  Read More >>

In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists

In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century...

Author: Martin Ferguson Smith
ISBN: 9781526171931
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Illuminates Virginia Woolf and several contemporary writers and artists through new research and discoveries.  Read More >>

Cormac Mccarthy: A Complexity Theory of Literature

Cormac Mccarthy: A Complexity Theory of Literature

Author: Lydia R. Cooper
ISBN: 9781526172051
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in...  Read More >>

Imagining the Self in South Asian and African Literatures

Imagining the Self in South Asian and African Literatures...

Author: Inder Sidhu
ISBN: 9783031276040
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book examines the idea of the self in Anglophone literatures from British colonies in Africa and the subcontinent,...  Read More >>

Greek Mythic Heroines in Brazilian Literature and Performance

Greek Mythic Heroines in Brazilian Literature and Performance...

Author: Carlos Morais ,  Fiona Macintosh
ISBN: 9789004678460
Format: Hardback
$451.44

Greek mythical heroines are still with us! Antigone, Medea, the Trojan cycle women, Alcestis…This volume presents...  Read More >>

American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle: Art, Protest, and Cultural Transformation

American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle: Art,...

Author: Kirsten MacLeod
ISBN: 9781487556433
Format: Paperback
$171.47

In American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle, Kirsten MacLeod examines the rise of a new print media form –...  Read More >>

The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable

The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy...

Author: Kevin Killeen
ISBN: 9781503635852
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes...  Read More >>

Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read

Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the...

Author: Terry Eagleton
ISBN: 9780300270440
Format: Paperback
$22.95

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Neuro-Narratology: The Neural Secrets of Narration

Neuro-Narratology: The Neural Secrets of Narration

Author: Dagmar Reichardt ,  Rotraud von Kulessa
ISBN: 9783631896174
Format: Hardback
$95.74

The volume is the result of transdisciplinary studies carried out by a professor working at the University of Modena...  Read More >>

The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print Media

The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in...

Author: Nathan Shockey
ISBN: 9780231194297
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Nathan Shockey examines the emergence of new forms of reading, writing, and thinking in Japan from the last years...  Read More >>

Poetry and Poem Books: Built from Broken: (Love and Other Words)

Poetry and Poem Books: Built from Broken: (Love and...

Author: Gabriella Vasilescu
ISBN: 9798399972596
Format: Paperback
$39.52

"Embark on an emotional odyssey of healing and rediscovery with ""Built from Broken"" - a profound poetry book tracing...  Read More >>

A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts: A Festschrift for Gordon Campbell

A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed...

Author: Edward Jones (Oklahoma State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781119067313
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion...  Read More >>

John Ruskin, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Religious Imagination: Sacre Conversazioni

John Ruskin, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Religious Imagination:...

Author: Sheona Beaumont ,  Madeleine Emerald Thiele
ISBN: 9783031215537
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This volume presents a collection of essays by leading experts which examine nineteenth century ideas about Christian...  Read More >>

Sound Effects: Hearing the Early Modern Stage

Sound Effects: Hearing the Early Modern Stage

Author: Laura Jayne Wright
ISBN: 9781526159182
Format: Hardback
$195.00

Blending theatre history and sensory studies this book recaptures the sound of early modern drama, acknowledging...  Read More >>

The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable

The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy...

Author: Kevin Killeen
ISBN: 9781503635395
Format: Hardback
$186.99

Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes...  Read More >>

The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century

The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth...

Author: Jeremy Chow
ISBN: 9780813949512
Format: Paperback
$77.88

Reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental...  Read More >>

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