Literary studies: general books

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Looking at Agamemnon

Looking at Agamemnon

Author: David Stuttard (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350214347
Format: Paperback
$61.99

A collection of essays on Aeschylus' Agamemnon written by 12 international contributors, with an English translation...  Read More >>

Migrating Shakespeare: First European Encounters, Routes and Networks

Migrating Shakespeare: First European Encounters, Routes...

Author: Prof. Janet Clare (University of Bristol, UK) ,  Dominique Goy-Blanquet (University of Picardie, France)
ISBN: 9781350213852
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Migrating Shakespeare is the first comparative study of inaugurative cultural and national encounters with Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

Narrative in the Age of the Genome: Genetic Worlds

Narrative in the Age of the Genome: Genetic Worlds

Author: Dr Lara Choksey (University of Exeter, UK) ,  Anton Kirchhofer
ISBN: 9781350213845
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Shortlisted for the 2021 BSLS Book Prize Genomic technologies have had a profound impact on understandings of...  Read More >>

Transcultural Ecocriticism: Global, Romantic and Decolonial Perspectives

Transcultural Ecocriticism: Global, Romantic and Decolonial...

Author: Dr Stuart Cooke (Griffith University, Australia) ,  Dr Peter Denney (Griffith University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350213821
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Bringing together decolonial, Romantic and global literature perspectives, Transcultural Ecocriticism explores innovative...  Read More >>

The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora: Meaning and Identity since the Islamic Revolution

The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora: Meaning and...

Author: Sanaz Fotouhi
ISBN: 9780755649242
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Sanaz Fotouhi here traces the origins of the emerging body of diasporic Iranian literature in English, and uses...  Read More >>

Navigating by the Southern Cross: A History of the European Discovery and Exploration of Australia

Navigating by the Southern Cross: A History of the European...

Author: Professor Kenneth Morgan (Brunel University London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350214545
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"""In this comprehensive new study, leading historian Kenneth Morgan provides an authoritative account of European...  Read More >>

Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature

Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American...

Author: Joseph Fichtelberg
ISBN: 9783031078446
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency....  Read More >>

The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama: Forms of Talk on the London Stage

The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama: Forms of...

Author: Matthew Hunter (Texas Tech University)
ISBN: 9781316517468
Format: Hardback
$194.06

The Pursuit of Style in English Drama embraces and expands the concept of style to offer new readings of Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Spatial Justice After Apartheid: Nomos in the Postcolony

Spatial Justice After Apartheid: Nomos in the Postcolony...

Author: Jaco Barnard-Naudé ,  Julia Chryssostalis
ISBN: 9781138559370
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book considers the question of spatial justice after apartheid, from several disciplinary perspectives – jurisprudence,...  Read More >>

Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages

Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages

Author: Mark Chinca (University of Cambridge) ,  Christopher Young (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781108477642
Format: Hardback
$194.06

The contributors to this volume offer a ground-breaking investigation into the birth of new literatures in the vernacular...  Read More >>

Cinq Livres de l'Erynne Francoise (1585)

Cinq Livres de l'Erynne Francoise (1585)

Author: Ubert Philippe de Villiers
ISBN: 9782406132431
Format: Hardback
$219.12

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William James

William James

Author: Philip Davis (Emeritus Professor of Literature and Psychology, University of Liverpool)
ISBN: 9780192847324
Format: Hardback
$44.95

This volume discusses the life and work of William James (1842-1910), a founder of the study of psychology. It concerns...  Read More >>

British Activist Authors Addressing Children of Colour

British Activist Authors Addressing Children of Colour...

Author: Professor Karen Sands-O'Connor (British Academy Global Professor of Children’s Literature, Newcastle University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350196032
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Exploring a history of activists writing for and about children of colour from abolition to Black Lives Matter,...  Read More >>

Woke Cinderella: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations

Woke Cinderella: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations

Author: Suzy Woltmann ,  Camille S. Alexander
ISBN: 9781793625960
Format: Paperback
$71.99

This book examines contemporary ""Cinderella"" fairy tale adaptations to argue that the traditionally passive princess...  Read More >>

Critical Essays on William Faulkner

Critical Essays on William Faulkner

Author: Robert W. Hamblin
ISBN: 9781496841131
Format: Paperback
$48.40

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Reading Confederate Monuments

Reading Confederate Monuments

Author: Maria Seger ,  Joanna Davis-McElligatt
ISBN: 9781496841643
Format: Paperback
$40.70

Addresses the urgent and vital need for scholars, educators, and the general public to be able to read and interpret...  Read More >>

Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index

Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index

Author: Allen H. Redmon
ISBN: 9781496841827
Format: Paperback
$48.40

Offers a reassessment of the cinematic index as it sits at the intersection of film studies, trauma studies, and...  Read More >>

American Literature in the Era of Trumpism: Alternative Realities

American Literature in the Era of Trumpism: Alternative...

Author: Dolores Resano
ISBN: 9783030738570
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This edited collection offers an exploration of American literature in the age of Trumpism—understood as an ongoing...  Read More >>

Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust

Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks:...

Author: Caroline Wiesenthal Lion
ISBN: 9781032121376
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust uses Jewish theology to mount...  Read More >>

Politics in the Roman Republic: Perspectives from Niebuhr to Gelzer

Politics in the Roman Republic: Perspectives from Niebuhr...

Author: Cary Michael Barber
ISBN: 9789004530003
Format: Paperback
$221.76

Politics in the Roman Republic rewrites the field's modern historiographical narrative through critical re-examinations...  Read More >>

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