Literary studies: general books

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John Gower's Rhetoric: Classical Authority, Biblical Ethos, and Renaissance Receptions

John Gower's Rhetoric: Classical Authority, Biblical...

Author: Georgiana Donavin
ISBN: 9782503595771
Format: Hardback
$396.00

This is the first book-length study in decades to offer in-depth readings of a variety of late medieval poems across...  Read More >>

Passe Et Present: 1830-1838

Passe Et Present: 1830-1838

Author: Karl Gutzkow ,  Lucien Calvie
ISBN: 9782406142072
Format: Hardback
$219.12

The interest of the text is in highlighting the role of Heine and Borne, Jewish intellectuals, in the genesis of...  Read More >>

Oeuvres Completes: Le Banquet

Oeuvres Completes: Le Banquet

Author: Dante Alighieri ,  Bruno Pinchard
ISBN: 9782406142041
Format: Hardback
$298.32

Dante is not just a poet but also a philosopher, and he presents the same innovative force in both sides of his...  Read More >>

A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory

A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory

Author: Michael Ryan
ISBN: 9781032305028
Format: Hardback
$263.00

A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory offers an accessible introduction to all the current approaches...  Read More >>

Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back: Symptoms of Sincerity

Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the...

Author: Charles Reeve
ISBN: 9780367221324
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Reading lifewriting that runs from Tracey Emin, Faith Ringgold and Judy Chicago to Marie Bashkirtseff, Benvenuto...  Read More >>

Courtly Pastimes

Courtly Pastimes

Author: Gloria Allaire ,  Julie Human
ISBN: 9781032307909
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Courtly Pastimes analyzes the underlying rationales for such activities: to display power and prestige, to acquire...  Read More >>

Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture: Inhabiting Contested Thresholds

Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture: Inhabiting...

Author: Kaye McLelland
ISBN: 9780367620851
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Violent liminalities in Early Modern Culture is a methodologically innovative book combining the twin disciplines...  Read More >>

The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre

The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre...

Author: Tim Hannigan
ISBN: 9781787388284
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A writer sets out to find the truth about his own genre, from Orientalism and falsehoods to today's new voices....  Read More >>

Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction

Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction

Author: Antonio Córdoba ,  Emily A. Maguire
ISBN: 9783031117909
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This volume explores how Latin American and Latinx creators have engaged science fiction to explore posthumanist...  Read More >>

The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge

The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge

Author: Tim Fulford (De Montfort University, Bedford)
ISBN: 9781108940795
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge's renewed relevance 250 years after...  Read More >>

The Battle Rhetoric of Crusade and Holy War, c. 1099–c. 1222

The Battle Rhetoric of Crusade and Holy War, c. 1099–c....

Author: Connor Christopher Wilson
ISBN: 9780367491185
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book examines Latin narratives produced in the aftermath of the First Crusade and challenges the narrative...  Read More >>

Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals: Conviction and Career

Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals:...

Author: Annemarie McAllister
ISBN: 9781032069937
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores...  Read More >>

Austen After 200: New Reading Spaces

Austen After 200: New Reading Spaces

Author: Kerry Sinanan ,  Annika Bautz
ISBN: 9783031083716
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Collecting these new essays in one volume enables a unique view of the crossovers and divergences in engagements...  Read More >>

Modern Literatures in Spain

Modern Literatures in Spain

Author: Jo Labanyi (New York University, USA) ,  Luisa Elena Delgado
ISBN: 9780745634951
Format: Hardback
$113.95

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Rilke’s Hands: An Essay on Gentleness

Rilke’s Hands: An Essay on Gentleness

Author: Harold Schweizer
ISBN: 9781032385075
Format: Hardback
$96.99

This is a book of meditative reading with an aim to experience and to examine gentleness, how it shapes and pervades...  Read More >>

African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970: Volume 13: Black Art, Politics, and Aesthetics

African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970:...

Author: Shelly Eversley
ISBN: 9781108422932
Format: Hardback
$232.85

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Molière in Context

Molière in Context

Author: Jan Clarke (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781108493215
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics,...  Read More >>

Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity: The Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus

Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late...

Author: Carson Bay (Universität Bern, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781009268561
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The first English-language monograph on a significant yet often-neglected Latin Christian history from late antiquity...  Read More >>

The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge

The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge

Author: Tim Fulford (De Montfort University, Bedford)
ISBN: 9781108832229
Format: Hardback
$181.10

This new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge's renewed relevance 250 years after...  Read More >>

Work and the Nineteenth-Century Press: Living Work for Living People

Work and the Nineteenth-Century Press: Living Work for...

Author: Andrew King
ISBN: 9781032346557
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Work and the Nineteenth-Century Press:Living Work for Living People advances our knowledge of how our identities...  Read More >>

Misanthropy in the Age of Reason: Hating Humanity from Shakespeare to Schiller

Misanthropy in the Age of Reason: Hating Humanity from...

Author: Joseph Harris (Professor of Early Modern French and Comparative Literature, Professor of Early Modern French and Comparative Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9780192867575
Format: Hardback
$209.95

Bringing together a range of material from various genres, periods, and countries, this comparative study explores...  Read More >>

The Passions of John Addington Symonds

The Passions of John Addington Symonds

Author: Shane Butler (Hall Professor in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University)
ISBN: 9780192866936
Format: Hardback
$265.95

The first critical analysis to embrace a wide and representative selection of John Addington Symonds's work, beyond...  Read More >>

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