Literary studies: general books

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Delight

Delight

Author: J. B. Priestley
ISBN: 9780008585709
Format: Paperback
$22.99

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Correspondance Avec Romain Rolland Et Andre Spire

Correspondance Avec Romain Rolland Et Andre Spire

Author: Christian Senechal ,  Claudine Delphis
ISBN: 9782406143796
Format: Hardback
$287.76

As a Germanist, literary critic, translator and author, Christian Senechal (1886-1939) was a key figure in the French...  Read More >>

L'Autre Legende Du Siecle: Creation Et Reception Des Burgraves de Victor Hugo

L'Autre Legende Du Siecle: Creation Et Reception Des...

Author: Agathe Giraud
ISBN: 9782406142881
Format: Hardback
$298.32

"In 1843, Les Burgraves by Victor Hugo are said to have ""fallen."" This myth led to a periodization of theatrical...  Read More >>

Choix de Lettres, II: Des Ponts Dans l'Espace

Choix de Lettres, II: Des Ponts Dans l'Espace

Author: Jules Supervielle ,  Sophie Fischbach
ISBN: 9782406138327
Format: Hardback
$266.64

Thanks to its variety and richness, Supervielle's unpublished correspondence with around fifty interlocutors allows...  Read More >>

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 28)

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early...

Author: Kevin L. Cope ,  Samara Anne Cahill
ISBN: 9781684484638
Format: Hardback
$422.40

Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements...  Read More >>

Shakespeare: The World as a Stage

Shakespeare: The World as a Stage

Author: Bill Bryson
ISBN: 9780008610043
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Bill Bryson’s biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding...  Read More >>

Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming - An Essay

Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming - An Essay

Author: George Eliot ,  Sarah Bacaller
ISBN: 9798212641043
Format: Audio
$97.68

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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between...

Author: Sarah Hart
ISBN: 9780008601089
Format: Hardback
$37.99

‘A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart’s lightness of touch...  Read More >>

Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid: Stoic World Fate and Human Responsibility

Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid: Stoic World Fate...

Author: Graham Zanker (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781009319874
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Explores how Virgil's incorporation of Stoic thought on human responsibility and providential world fate into the...  Read More >>

Late Romanticism and the End of Politics: Byron, Mary Shelley, and the Last Men

Late Romanticism and the End of Politics: Byron, Mary...

Author: John Havard (Binghamton University, State University of New York)
ISBN: 9781009289207
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This study invites researchers of Romantic literature and literary and political culture to consider how this period's...  Read More >>

Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Author: Richard Meek (University of Hull)
ISBN: 9781009280266
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing an...  Read More >>

The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Volume 1: Religio Medici

The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Volume 1: Religio...

Author: Reid Barbour (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) ,  Brooke Conti (Cleveland State University)
ISBN: 9780199659630
Format: Hardback
$448.00

This is the first comparative edition of Religio Medici ever to appear. It includes the 1643 authorized print version...  Read More >>

Medieval Allegory as Epistemology: Dream-Vision Poetry on Language, Cognition, and Experience

Medieval Allegory as Epistemology: Dream-Vision Poetry...

Author: Marco Nievergelt (Forward College)
ISBN: 9780192849212
Format: Hardback
$283.00

This volume shows how late medieval dream-poetry explored problems arising from the reception of Aristotle's philosophical...  Read More >>

Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited: A Reader's Companion

Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited: A Reader's Companion...

Author: Ronald R. Gray
ISBN: 9781476689104
Format: Paperback
$84.70

A comprehensive and detailed encyclopedia for readers of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. It contains 175 entries...  Read More >>

Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf: Flights of Translation

Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf: Flights of...

Author: Alexander Bubb (Senior Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer in English, Roehampton University)
ISBN: 9780198866275
Format: Hardback
$183.95

The interest among Victorian readers in classical literature from Asia has been greatly underestimated, and Asian...  Read More >>

Nina Berberova: Known and Unknown

Nina Berberova: Known and Unknown

Author: Irina Vinokurova
ISBN: 9798887191898
Format: Hardback
$79.99

This book is the first biography of Nina Berberova. Based on years of archival research, the author deciphers many...  Read More >>

Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud

Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud...

Author: Max Statkiewicz
ISBN: 9781793603944
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice

Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern...

Author: Kathryn Taylor
ISBN: 9781644532997
Format: Paperback
$113.39

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Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures

Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters,...

Author: Brenda E.F. Beck
ISBN: 9781487529345
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Building on a South Asian oral folk legend, Hidden Paradigms identifies the important symbolic patterns that well-known...  Read More >>

An Historical Syntax of the English Language

An Historical Syntax of the English Language

Author: F.Th. Visser
ISBN: 9789004683105
Format: Book
$736.56

This reproduction of Visser's volumes is more than welcome, and timely, as the volumes have been out of print for...  Read More >>

Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld

Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World...

Author: Lee Rozelle
ISBN: 9780817360788
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Probes the metaphor of environmental catastrophe in American literature of the last 150 years. In each instance,...  Read More >>

Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist

Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist

Author: Keyvan Allahyari
ISBN: 9783031275630
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist recounts Peter Carey’s literary career from his emergence in the Australian...  Read More >>

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