Literary studies: general books

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A Life of One's Own

A Life of One's Own

Author: Marion Milner ,  Rachel Bowlby (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781032757551
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A pioneering work that anticipated the contemporary phenomenon of mindfulness, A Life of One’s Own is a great adventure...  Read More >>

As the Dust of the Earth – The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine

As the Dust of the Earth – The Literature of Abandonment...

Author: H Murav
ISBN: 9780253068798
Format: Hardback
$186.99

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Looking at Persians

Looking at Persians

Author: David Stuttard (Independent Scholar, UK) ,  Aeschylus
ISBN: 9781350227965
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Aeschylus’ Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece’s victory...  Read More >>

Cultural Antagonism and the Crisis of Reality in Latin America

Cultural Antagonism and the Crisis of Reality in Latin...

Author: Professor Horacio Legrás (Professor, University of California, Irvine, USA)
ISBN: 9781501392900
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""Provides a historical and theoretical account of how the point of view of minorities has affected and complicated...  Read More >>

Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit

Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair...

Author: Sara Upstone (Kingston University, London, UK) ,  Peter Ely (independent scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350244061
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the...  Read More >>

The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles

The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary...

Author: Michael Docherty
ISBN: 9781438497112
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility,...  Read More >>

The Serpent's Plumes: Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement

The Serpent's Plumes: Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words...

Author: Adam W. Coon
ISBN: 9781438497778
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s...  Read More >>

Soundings in Context: Poetry's Embodiments

Soundings in Context: Poetry's Embodiments

Author: Judith Goldman ,  James Maynard
ISBN: 9781438497556
Format: Hardback
$261.36

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Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History

Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History

Author: William Bryan Jones, Jr.
ISBN: 9781476688329
Format: Hardback
$127.60

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Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid: By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger

Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid: By John Fletcher and...

Author: José A. Pérez Díez
ISBN: 9781526178800
Format: Paperback
$45.99

A fully annotated critical edition of John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's ground-breaking comedy Love's Cure, or...  Read More >>

Hyde Park: By James Shirley

Hyde Park: By James Shirley

Author: Eugene Giddens
ISBN: 9781526178794
Format: Paperback
$45.99

Hyde Park is a striking Caroline example of London city comedy. This critical edition unpicks its valuable insights...  Read More >>

Bestsellers and Masterpieces: The Changing Medieval Canon

Bestsellers and Masterpieces: The Changing Medieval...

Author: Heather Blurton ,  Dwight F. Reynolds (Professor of Arabic Language and Literature)
ISBN: 9781526178770
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the...  Read More >>

Riddles at Work in the Early Medieval Tradition: Words, Ideas, Interactions

Riddles at Work in the Early Medieval Tradition: Words,...

Author: Megan Cavell ,  Jennifer Neville
ISBN: 9781526178763
Format: Paperback
$56.99

The first collection devoted solely to early medieval riddles, Riddles at work showcases recent research in this...  Read More >>

D. H. Lawrence and Ambivalence in the Age of Modernity: Rereading Midlands Novels and Wartime Writings in Social and Political Contexts

D. H. Lawrence and Ambivalence in the Age of Modernity:...

Author: Gaku Iwai
ISBN: 9781032675664
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Books Like Sapphires: From the Library of Congress Judaica Collection

Books Like Sapphires: From the Library of Congress Judaica...

Author: Ann Brener
ISBN: 9781684581986
Format: Hardback
$82.95

"""Books Like Sapphires features highlights of Hebrew literary...  Read More >>

Pudd'nhead Wilson: The Authoritative Edition, with Those Extraordinary Twins

Pudd'nhead Wilson: The Authoritative Edition, with Those...

Author: Mark Twain ,  Benjamin Griffin
ISBN: 9780520398108
Format: Paperback
$32.95

"This critical edition publishes—for the first time anywhere—the original manuscript and revised versions of Pudd'nhead...  Read More >>

Sensibility: An Introduction

Sensibility: An Introduction

Author: Janet Todd
ISBN: 9781032745138
Format: Hardback
$183.00

In Sensibility, originally published in 1986, Janet Todd charts the growth and decline of sentimental writing as...  Read More >>

Myth and Literature

Myth and Literature

Author: William Righter
ISBN: 9781032765464
Format: Hardback
$183.00

First published in 1975, Myth and Literature considers the points at which the concept of myth has entered literary...  Read More >>

Anomie: History and Meanings

Anomie: History and Meanings

Author: Marco Orru
ISBN: 9781032765808
Format: Hardback
$194.00

First published in 1987, Anomie attempts to write the history of the concept of anomie, to account for the fluctuations...  Read More >>

Disability in Modern Children's Fiction

Disability in Modern Children's Fiction

Author: John Quicke
ISBN: 9781032768380
Format: Hardback
$183.00

First published in 1985, Disability in Modern Children’s Fiction presents a case for the inclusion of a planned...  Read More >>

Leyla and Mejnun: with a history of the poem, notes, and bibliography by Alessio Bombaci

Leyla and Mejnun: with a history of the poem, notes,...

Author: Fuzuli ,  Sofi Huri
ISBN: 9781032772844
Format: Hardback
$231.00

First published in 1970, Leyla and Mejnun provides a thorough introduction to the Leyla and Mejnun love story and...  Read More >>

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific

Author: ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui ,  Joyce Pualani Warren
ISBN: 9780824897352
Format: Paperback
$97.65

Features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative...  Read More >>

A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst

A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and...

Author: Thomas Hallock
ISBN: 9780817361648
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Presents essays that fuse literary scholarship and personal travelogue to explore American identity. This volume...  Read More >>

Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis

Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis

Author: Robert Cochran, Jr.
ISBN: 9781682262474
Format: Paperback
$44.00

A pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933-2020), best known for the novel...  Read More >>

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