Literary studies: general books

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Compatriots or Competitors?: Welsh, Scottish, English and Northern Irish Writing and Brexit in Comparative Contexts

Compatriots or Competitors?: Welsh, Scottish, English...

Author: Hywel Dix
ISBN: 9781786839343
Format: Paperback
$51.95

This book debates how Brexit has exacerbated cultural differences between the four nations of Britain in a way that...  Read More >>

Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas: Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series

Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas: Female Renown and the...

Author: Gregory M. Pfitzer
ISBN: 9781625346933
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Between 1932 and 1958, thousands of children read volumes in the book series Childhood of Famous Americans. These...  Read More >>

The Plastic Turn

The Plastic Turn

Author: Ranjan Ghosh
ISBN: 9781501766978
Format: Paperback
$86.99

""Ghosh introduces the term 'plastic turn' and gives a new direction for how we can interpret and experience the...  Read More >>

Errancies of Desire: Monstrous Masculinities across the Atlantic

Errancies of Desire: Monstrous Masculinities across...

Author: Vartan P. Messier
ISBN: 9780815637783
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Focuses on the intersections of phallocratic violence and masculine identity in contemporary works of fiction across...  Read More >>

Spatial Literary Studies in China

Spatial Literary Studies in China

Author: Ying Fang ,  Robert T. Tally Jr.
ISBN: 9783031039133
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Chinese scholars have been exploring spatially oriented literary criticism in two different and mutually reinforcing...  Read More >>

Women Writing Intimate Spaces: The Long Nineteenth Century at the Fringes of Europe

Women Writing Intimate Spaces: The Long Nineteenth Century...

Author: Birgitta Lindh Estelle ,  Carmen Beatrice Duțu
ISBN: 9789004518506
Format: Hardback
$282.48

The volume focuses on the issue of intimacy (such as love, eros, affection, confidentiality and friendship or anti-intimacy)...  Read More >>

Flames from the Earth: A Novel from the Lódz Ghetto

Flames from the Earth: A Novel from the Lódz Ghetto...

Author: Julian Levinson ,  Isaiah Spiegel
ISBN: 9780810145580
Format: Hardback
$224.40

An emotionally powerful, poetic Yiddish novel, available in English for the first time, that expands our understanding...  Read More >>

Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson

Author: Armelle Parey
ISBN: 9781526148520
Format: Hardback
$183.99

From Behind the Scenes at the Museum to Big Sky, this book explores the major themes and formal concerns in Kate...  Read More >>

Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives

Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives...

Author: Katherine Elkins (Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature, Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature, Kenyon College)
ISBN: 9780190921583
Format: Paperback
$69.95

In this edited collection, prominent philosophers and critics explore a number of themes in Proust's In Search of...  Read More >>

The Economics of Books and Reading

The Economics of Books and Reading

Author: Samuel Cameron
ISBN: 9783031181986
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book gives an overview of the key issues related to books and reading within the field of cultural economics...  Read More >>

The Good, the Bad and the Ancient: Essays on the Greco-Roman Influence in Westerns

The Good, the Bad and the Ancient: Essays on the Greco-Roman...

Author: Sue Matheson
ISBN: 9781476667645
Format: Paperback
$89.10

Outstanding film and television directors drew inspiration from antiquity when creating the Wild West, and the Graeco-Roman...  Read More >>

Light as Experience and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times

Light as Experience and Imagination from Medieval to...

Author: David S. Herrstrom
ISBN: 9781683933632
Format: Hardback
$226.00

This scholarly work focuses on encounters with light, telling the story of ""seduction"" from the Middle Ages through...  Read More >>

Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual

Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat:...

Author: Joyce White
ISBN: 9781793646637
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Marginalized Women and Work in 20th- and 21st-Century British and American Literature and Media

Marginalized Women and Work in 20th- and 21st-Century...

Author: Hediye Özkan ,  Samantha Allan
ISBN: 9781666923841
Format: Hardback
$172.00

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The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages

The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds...

Author: Albrecht Classen
ISBN: 9781666917864
Format: Hardback
$202.00

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The Plastic Turn

The Plastic Turn

Author: Ranjan Ghosh
ISBN: 9781501766268
Format: Hardback
$343.20

""Ghosh introduces the term 'plastic turn' and gives a new direction for how we can interpret and experience the...  Read More >>

The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown

The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown

Author: Martha Cutter
ISBN: 9780812254051
Format: Hardback
$131.87

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Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England

Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern...

Author: Dr Eoin Bentick (Author)
ISBN: 9781843846444
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Explores the myriad ways in which alchemy was conceptualised by adepts and sceptics alike, from those with recourse...  Read More >>

Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor

Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor...

Author: Bridget Whearty
ISBN: 9781503632752
Format: Hardback
$158.50

Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever-thanks to digital...  Read More >>

Synopsis and Research on Outbreaks and Pandemics: The Life of a Disease Detective

Synopsis and Research on Outbreaks and Pandemics: The...

Author: Donna J Dixon
ISBN: 9798368305783
Format: Paperback
$29.01

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Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse

Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse

Author: Professor Anahid Nersessian
ISBN: 9780226826523
Format: Paperback
$39.60

"""When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over--like this world,...  Read More >>

Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent

Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of...

Author: Emily Dumler-Winckler (Assistant Professor of Constructive Theology, Assistant Professor of Constructive Theology, Saint Louis University)
ISBN: 9780197632093
Format: Hardback
$169.95

Modern societies are plagued with conflicts about basic beliefs, values, and ideals. What some call virtue, others...  Read More >>

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