Literary studies: general books

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UT Pictura Poeta: Author Images and the Reading of Ancient Literature / Autorbilder Und Die Lekture Antiker Literatur

UT Pictura Poeta: Author Images and the Reading of Ancient...

Author: Ute Tischer ,  Ursula Gartner
ISBN: 9782503598666
Format: Paperback
$250.80

The leitmotif of this volume is the concept of 'author images', which is used in modern literary studies to describe...  Read More >>

Synopsis Of Haven

Synopsis Of Haven

Author: Oliver Andrew
ISBN: 9798846102002
Format: Paperback
$23.26

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The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature

The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature

Author: Claire Westall
ISBN: 9783030659745
Format: Paperback
$258.72

It examines works by canonical authors – Brathwaite, Lamming, Lovelace, Naipaul, Phillips and Selvon – and by understudied...  Read More >>

Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction

Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability...

Author: Kylee-Anne Hingston
ISBN: 9781802076875
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Articulating Bodies shows how Victorian fiction’s narrative form as well as narrative theme to negotiate how to...  Read More >>

Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution: 'Consider the Lord as Ever Present Reader'

Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the Methodist...

Author: Andrew O. Winckles
ISBN: 9781802076899
Format: Paperback
$126.69

This book traces specific cases of how evangelical and Methodist discourse practices interacted with major cultural...  Read More >>

Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction

Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History...

Author: Glyn Morgan ,  Charul Palmer-Patel
ISBN: 9781802076950
Format: Paperback
$118.77

This important collection of essays acknowledges the long and distinctive history of the alternate history genre...  Read More >>

Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform

Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures...

Author: Kevin A. Morrison
ISBN: 9781802076974
Format: Paperback
$118.77

In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britain’s most lionized living novelists. Today he is comparatively...  Read More >>

Rough Beasts: The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800–2000

Rough Beasts: The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800–2000...

Author: Jack Fennell
ISBN: 9781802076936
Format: Paperback
$126.69

This book looks at Irish Gothic and horror texts, in both English and Irish, from the beginning of the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Cottonopolis: An Archaeology of the Cotton Industry of North West England

Cottonopolis: An Archaeology of the Cotton Industry...

Author: Michael Nevell
ISBN: 9780719088261
Format: Hardback
$316.80

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Litterature Et Politique Melees: Essais Sur Victor Hugo

Litterature Et Politique Melees: Essais Sur Victor Hugo...

Author: Franck Laurent
ISBN: 9782406131410
Format: Paperback
$105.60

This collection of essays proposes, through examples of varied nature and scope (novel, theater, poetry, theoretical...  Read More >>

The Traumatic Celebration of Beauty in Alan Hollinghurst's Fiction

The Traumatic Celebration of Beauty in Alan Hollinghurst's...

Author: Jose M Yebra
ISBN: 9783825349660
Format: Hardback
$110.88

'The Traumatic Celebration of Beauty in Alan Hollinghurst's Fiction' is the first monograph to delve into all the...  Read More >>

Political Philosophy in Gulliver’s Travels: Shocked by The Just Society

Political Philosophy in Gulliver’s Travels: Shocked...

Author: Lloyd W. Robertson
ISBN: 9783030988524
Format: Hardback
$284.60

The claim that the Travels is “a kind of prolegomena” to political philosophy leaves open the possibility that it...  Read More >>

New World Maker Volume 40: Radical Poetics, Black Internationalism, and the Translations of Langston Hughes

New World Maker Volume 40: Radical Poetics, Black Internationalism,...

Author: Ryan James Kernan
ISBN: 9780810144422
Format: Paperback
$105.47

In an ambitious reappraisal of Langston Hughes’s work and legacy, Ryan James Kernan reads Hughes’s political poetry...  Read More >>

French Decadence in a Global Context: Colonialism and Exoticism

French Decadence in a Global Context: Colonialism and...

Author: Julia Hartley ,  Wanrug Suwanwattana
ISBN: 9781802070569
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Decadence is seldom looked at in the context of colonialism, and yet its heyday in the 1880s and 1890s is directly...  Read More >>

Litterature Et Politique Melees: Essais Sur Victor Hugo

Litterature Et Politique Melees: Essais Sur Victor Hugo...

Author: Franck Laurent
ISBN: 9782406131427
Format: Hardback
$229.68

This collection of essays proposes, through examples of varied nature and scope (novel, theater, poetry, theoretical...  Read More >>

Understanding Bharati Mukherjee

Understanding Bharati Mukherjee

Author: Ruth Maxey
ISBN: 9781643363479
Format: Paperback
$58.05

The first book to examine this pioneering author’s complete oeuvre and to identify its legacy. Ruth Maxey offers...  Read More >>

Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First Century

Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First...

Author: Theresa M. Towner
ISBN: 9780813948300
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Examines Faulkner’s characters, events, locations, and visualizations, as well as offering more theoretical reflections...  Read More >>

The People of the Book and the Camera: Photography in the Hebrew Novel

The People of the Book and the Camera: Photography in...

Author: Ofra Amihay
ISBN: 9780815637318
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors....  Read More >>

New World Maker Volume 40: Radical Poetics, Black Internationalism, and the Translations of Langston Hughes

New World Maker Volume 40: Radical Poetics, Black Internationalism,...

Author: Ryan James Kernan
ISBN: 9780810144439
Format: Hardback
$316.80

In an ambitious reappraisal of Langston Hughes’s work and legacy, Ryan James Kernan reads Hughes’s political poetry...  Read More >>

Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature

Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature

Author: Abe Davies
ISBN: 9783030663353
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of...  Read More >>

Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books

Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private...

Author: Jason Camlot ,  J.A. Weingarten
ISBN: 9781771125680
Format: Hardback
$144.10

An edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in...  Read More >>

The Epic of Cuba Libre: The Mambí, Mythopoetics, and Liberation

The Epic of Cuba Libre: The Mambí, Mythopoetics, and...

Author: Éric Morales-Franceschini
ISBN: 9780813948157
Format: Paperback
$92.40

The mambi is the foremost icon of Cuba’s past and present. Scrutinizing how this figure has been aesthetically rendered...  Read More >>

Toxic Matters: Narrating Italy's Dioxin

Toxic Matters: Narrating Italy's Dioxin

Author: Monica Seger
ISBN: 9780813948362
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Explores the interplay between bodies, soil, industrial emissions, and the wealth of dynamic particulate matter...  Read More >>

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