Literary studies: general books

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Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein: The Making of a Hollywood Monster

Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein: The...

Author: Peggy Webling ,  Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum
ISBN: 9781350371644
Format: Hardback
$130.00

The 1931 Universal Pictures film adaptation of Frankenstein directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as...  Read More >>

Loveland: A Memoir of Romance and Fiction

Loveland: A Memoir of Romance and Fiction

Author: Susan Ostrov
ISBN: 9781963614046
Format: Paperback
$52.77

This is not your usual memoir – much less a typical love story. Loveland is about the unfolding of unmet expectations,...  Read More >>

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing (Esprios Classics): Edited by Asa Don Dickinson

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing (Esprios Classics): Edited...

Author: Neltje Blanchan
ISBN: 9781714007721
Format: Paperback
$87.09

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing was published in 1917 (and republished in 1922) as a result of an adaptation by Asa Don...  Read More >>

Perspectives on Dante Politico: At the Crossroad of Arts and Sciences

Perspectives on Dante Politico: At the Crossroad of...

Author: Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio
ISBN: 9783110790863
Format: Hardback
$303.57

This book argues that political concerns, inseparable from Dante's biography, permeate his entire corpus, emerging...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature...

Author: Sherryl Vint (University of California, Riverside)
ISBN: 9781009180054
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, this Companion charts...  Read More >>

Desv�os de la naturaleza: O tratado del origen de los monstruos (1695)

Desv�os de la naturaleza: O tratado del origen de los...

Author: Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo ,  Jos� de Rivilla Bonet Y Pueyo
ISBN: 9781588713988
Format: Hardback
$124.08

David F. Slade's critical edition elucidates the 1695 Peruvian treatise on the birth of short-lived conjoined twins...  Read More >>

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural...

Author: Azariah Alfante
ISBN: 9781684484959
Format: Paperback
$82.99

In this elegantly-written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals,...  Read More >>

An Ancient Guide to Good Politics: A Literary and Ethical Reading of Cicero's De Republica

An Ancient Guide to Good Politics: A Literary and Ethical...

Author: Moryam VanOpstal
ISBN: 9781793652263
Format: Paperback
$68.99

In An Ancient Guide to Good Politics: A Literary and Ethical Reading of Cicero's De Republica, Moryam VanOpstal...  Read More >>

Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers

Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers

Author: Demetrio S. Yocum ,  Francesco Petrarca
ISBN: 9780268207854
Format: Paperback
$92.40

The first English translation of Petrarch’s Psalms and Prayers provides an intimate look at the personal devotions...  Read More >>

Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel: Why Literature Is Not Philosophy

Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel: Why Literature...

Author: Lyra Ekström Lindbäck
ISBN: 9781350332911
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Lyra Ekström Lindbäck revisits the crucial distinction between literature and philosophy in Iris Murdoch’s work...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature...

Author: Sherryl Vint (University of California, Riverside)
ISBN: 9781009180061
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, this Companion charts...  Read More >>

Poetry in Late Byzantium

Poetry in Late Byzantium

Author: Krystina Kubina
ISBN: 9789004699670
Format: Hardback
$570.24

This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of poetry in the late Byzantine period, covering texts originating...  Read More >>

L. M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon: A Children's Classic at 100

L. M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon: A Children's Classic...

Author: Yan Du ,  Joe Sutliff Sanders
ISBN: 9781496852502
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Despite being overshadowed by the immense popularity of Anne of Green Gables, the Emily of New Moon trilogy has...  Read More >>

The Saint's Life and the Senses of Scripture: Hagiography as Exegesis

The Saint's Life and the Senses of Scripture: Hagiography...

Author: Ann W. Astell
ISBN: 9780268208110
Format: Hardback
$184.80

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Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural...

Author: Azariah Alfante
ISBN: 9781684484966
Format: Hardback
$266.99

In this elegantly-written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals,...  Read More >>

Nos Vemos en Estocolmo

Nos Vemos en Estocolmo

Author: William Castano-Bedoya
ISBN: 9798988867166
Format: Hardback
$75.90

"En el vibrante escenario del bohemio Barrio Franc�s de Nueva Orleans, seis escritores independientes se re�nen...  Read More >>

Jane Austen's Men

Jane Austen's Men

Author: Helen Amy
ISBN: 9781398110434
Format: Hardback
$59.49

The lives of the men in Austen’s life, her relationships, how typical they were of men of their time and their impact...  Read More >>

Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection: An Annotated Selection

Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection:...

Author: Young-mee Yu Cho ,  Sungmin Park
ISBN: 9781978828797
Format: Hardback
$105.47

"William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928) graduated from Rutgers College in 1869 and taught four years in Fukui and Tokyo....  Read More >>

Antiquity in Print: Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth Century

Antiquity in Print: Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth...

Author: Daniel Orrells
ISBN: 9781350407770
Format: Paperback
$46.99

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