Literary studies: general books

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Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion

Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Dana Medoro
ISBN: 9781625346476
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Through the thwarted plotlines, genealogical interruptions, and terminated ideas of Poe’s Dupin trilogy and Hawthorne’s...  Read More >>

The Routledge Introduction to American Drama

The Routledge Introduction to American Drama

Author: Paul Thifault
ISBN: 9780367696535
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to American drama. Designed to support students in reading,...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body

The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the...

Author: Travis M. Foster (Villanova University, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781108841924
Format: Hardback
$194.04

This volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining...  Read More >>

The Making of an Antifascist: Nordahl Grieg between the World Wars

The Making of an Antifascist: Nordahl Grieg between...

Author: Dean Krouk
ISBN: 9780299336509
Format: Hardback
$211.07

In this comprehensive and accessible book, Dean Krouk examines a significant public figure in Scandinavian literature...  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: 9780813948140
Format: Hardback
$250.80

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: 9780813948355
Format: Hardback
$250.80

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

Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era

Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era...

Author: Ryan M. Brooks
ISBN: 9781316519813
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the...  Read More >>

Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition, and Context

Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition,...

Author: Berenice Verhelst (Universiteit van Amsterdam) ,  Tine Scheijnen (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781316516058
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Adopts and promotes a bilingual focus on the Greek and Latin poetry of late antiquity. Sheds light on the literary...  Read More >>

Headlong Hall

Headlong Hall

Author: Thomas Love Peacock ,  Nicholas A. Joukovsky (Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9781107030732
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This new edition of Headlong Hall provides an authoritative text of Peacock's ground-breaking first novel. Alongside...  Read More >>

Readers in a Revolution: Bibliographical Change in the Nineteenth Century

Readers in a Revolution: Bibliographical Change in the...

Author: David McKitterick (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009200844
Format: Hardback
$77.60

Tracing a mid-nineteenth-century revolution in understandings of old and second-hand books, David McKitterick reveals...  Read More >>

New Directions in Literary History

New Directions in Literary History

Author: Ralph Cohen
ISBN: 9781032162904
Format: Hardback
$221.00

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The Poems of Robert Browning: Volume Six: The Ring and the Book, Books 7-12

The Poems of Robert Browning: Volume Six: The Ring and...

Author: John Woolford (University of Manchester, UK) ,  Daniel Karlin (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9781032164748
Format: Hardback
$452.00

The appendices present a selection from the original sources, a list of variants from extant proofs, and key passages...  Read More >>

Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel

Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality,...

Author: Robert Higney
ISBN: 9780813948591
Format: Hardback
$250.80

From the late nineteenth-century era of high imperialism to the rise of the British welfare state in the mid-twentieth...  Read More >>

Homer: Iliad Book I

Homer: Iliad Book I

Author: Seth L. Schein (University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9781108420082
Format: Hardback
$194.04

An edition, fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, of the opening book of Homer's Iliad. Provides...  Read More >>

Preposterous Virgil: Reading through Stoppard, Auden, Wordsworth, Heaney

Preposterous Virgil: Reading through Stoppard, Auden,...

Author: Professor Juan Christian Pellicer
ISBN: 9781848856516
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This study in reception develops close readings of English literature as means of interrogating Virgil’s texts....  Read More >>

Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660-1750

Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660-1750...

Author: Catherine Ingrassia
ISBN: 9780813948089
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Drawing on the popular press, unpublished personal correspondence, and archival documents, Catherine Ingrassia provides...  Read More >>

The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE

The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320...

Author: Alexa Piqueux (Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, Université Paris Nanterre)
ISBN: 9780192845542
Format: Hardback
$271.95

Through both textual and iconographic sources, this book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and...  Read More >>

Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism

Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism...

Author: Dalida Agri (Hon. Research Fellow in Classics, University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780192859303
Format: Hardback
$205.95

Explores the textual representations of fear and its cognate emotions (anger, envy, and hatred) in Flavian epic...  Read More >>

W. B. Yeats and the Language of Sculpture

W. B. Yeats and the Language of Sculpture

Author: Jack Quin (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780192843159
Format: Hardback
$175.95

A study of the relationship between literature and sculpture in the work of W. B. Yeats that draws on an extensive...  Read More >>

Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century: The Father of English Poetry

Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century: The Father of English...

Author: David Hopkins (Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol) ,  Tom Mason (Research Fellow, University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780192862624
Format: Hardback
$259.95

Examines how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic,...  Read More >>

Contested Borders: Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb

Contested Borders: Queer Politics and Cultural Translation...

Author: William J. Spurlin
ISBN: 9781786600813
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Contested Borders broadens understandings of dissident sexualities in Africa through focusing specifically on the...  Read More >>

The Arthurian World

The Arthurian World

Author: Victoria Coldham-Fussell ,  Miriam Edlich-Muth
ISBN: 9780367172701
Format: Hardback
$462.00

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Early Modern Drama at the Universities: Institutions, Intertexts, Individuals

Early Modern Drama at the Universities: Institutions,...

Author: Elizabeth Sandis (Early Career Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London)
ISBN: 9780192857132
Format: Hardback
$200.95

Explores early modern university plays from Oxford and Cambridge and the extent to which participation in university...  Read More >>

The American Western in Canadian Literature

The American Western in Canadian Literature

Author: Joel Deshaye
ISBN: 9781773852775
Format: Hardback
$144.90

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The Slave Sublime: The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music

The Slave Sublime: The Language of Violence in Caribbean...

Author: Stacy J. Lettman
ISBN: 9781469668079
Format: Hardback
$152.90

In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy Lettman explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican...  Read More >>

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