Literary studies: general books

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The Scandal of the Century

The Scandal of the Century

Author: Lisa Hilton
ISBN: 9781405953337
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Playwright, poet, spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals . . . meet Aphra Behn, history's most fascinating...  Read More >>

The Writings of Padraic Colum: ‘That Queer Thing, Genius’

The Writings of Padraic Colum: ‘That Queer Thing, Genius’...

Author: Pádraic Whyte ,  Keith O’Sullivan
ISBN: 9781032393223
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together...  Read More >>

Style and Sense(s)

Style and Sense(s)

Author: Linda Pillière ,  Sandrine Sorlin
ISBN: 9783031548833
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This edited volume celebrates cutting-edge research in stylistics and, more specifically, recent work on sense and...  Read More >>

Empty Spaces

Empty Spaces

Author: Jordan Abel
ISBN: 9780300275544
Format: Hardback
$41.95

A hypnotic and mystifying exploration of land and legacy, exploring what it means to be an intergenerational, Indigenous...  Read More >>

An Introduction to the French Poets: Villon to the Present Day

An Introduction to the French Poets: Villon to the Present...

Author: Geoffrey Brereton
ISBN: 9781032253015
Format: Paperback
$62.99

The French poetry of some five centuries is here surveyed in a series of studies of the work and personality of...  Read More >>

Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 & More Leaves, 1862-1882

Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands,...

Author: Queen Victoria ,  Margaret Homans (Yale University)
ISBN: 9780192893857
Format: Hardback
$35.95

The books offer intimate views of the most important woman of her times as she shares her love of her family and...  Read More >>

The Scandal of the Century

The Scandal of the Century

Author: Lisa Hilton
ISBN: 9781405953320
Format: Hardback
$56.93

Playwright, poet, spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals . . . meet Aphra Behn, history's most fascinating...  Read More >>

Contemporary European Crime Fiction: Representing History and Politics

Contemporary European Crime Fiction: Representing History...

Author: Monica Dall'Asta ,  Jacques Migozzi
ISBN: 9783031219818
Format: Paperback
$369.57

Understanding crime fiction in its broadest sense, as a transmedia practice, and offering unique insights into this...  Read More >>

The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy

The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and...

Author: Seth Benardete ,  Ronna Burger
ISBN: 9780226826431
Format: Paperback
$49.95

This volume brings together Seth Benardete’s studies of Hesiod, Homer, and Greek tragedy, eleven Platonic dialogues,...  Read More >>

Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour

Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour

Author: Robert Volpicelli
ISBN: 9780198914792
Format: Paperback
$52.95

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Winner and Waster and its Contexts: Chivalry, Law and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England

Winner and Waster and its Contexts: Chivalry, Law and...

Author: W Mark Ormrod
ISBN: 9781843847090
Format: Paperback
$43.96

Full-length analysis of one of the most politically and socially engaged medieval poems  Read More >>

The Literary Beach: History and Aesthetics of a Modern Topos

The Literary Beach: History and Aesthetics of a Modern...

Author: Carsten Meiner (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) ,  Katrine Helene Andersen
ISBN: 9781032526737
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book studies the literary representation of the beach from ancient Greek literature up until today, drawing...  Read More >>

The Kinky Renaissance

The Kinky Renaissance

Author: Gillian Knoll ,  Joseph Gamble
ISBN: 9780866988452
Format: Paperback
$52.67

A provocative essay collection that theorizes the Renaissance through the lens of kink. The Kinky Renaissance...  Read More >>

In Poe's Wake: Travels in the Graphic and the Atmospheric

In Poe's Wake: Travels in the Graphic and the Atmospheric...

Author: Jonathan Elmer
ISBN: 9780226833491
Format: Paperback
$36.95

"Explores how Edgar Allan Poe has become a household name, as much a brand as an author. You'll find his face...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose

Author: Robert Morrison (British Academy Global Professor, British Academy Global Professor, Bath Spa University)
ISBN: 9780198834540
Format: Hardback
$311.95

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is the first full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British...  Read More >>

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Voice of the People

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century:...

Author: Stephen Knight
ISBN: 9781032739052
Format: Hardback
$284.00

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century discusses the valuable fiction written in mid-nineteenth...  Read More >>

The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture: Development and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud

The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture:...

Author: Roisín Laing
ISBN: 9783031413810
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast: Spaccio della bestia trionfante

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast: Spaccio della...

Author: Giordano Bruno ,  Hilary Gatti
ISBN: 9781487552015
Format: Paperback
$89.99

In this work of moral philosophy, Giordano Bruno condemns both the ancient and the modern worlds for filling their...  Read More >>

How to Read Middle English Poetry

How to Read Middle English Poetry

Author: Daniel Sawyer (Departmental Lecturer in English Literature and Manuscript Studies, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198895237
Format: Hardback
$149.95

A textbook that introduces students to Middle English poetry and offers advice about the understanding and interpretation...  Read More >>

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8:...

Author: Cyrus R. K. Patell (Professor of English, New York University) ,  Deborah Lindsay Williams (Clinical Professor of Liberal Studies, New York University)
ISBN: 9780192844729
Format: Hardback
$260.95

An overview of US fiction since 1940 that explores the history of literary forms, the history of narrative forms,...  Read More >>

Emotional Practice in Old English Literature

Emotional Practice in Old English Literature

Author: Dr Alice Jorgensen
ISBN: 9781843847052
Format: Hardback
$194.06

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