Literary studies: general books

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A Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham

A Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature...

Author: Anthony W. Lee ,  Anthony W. Lee
ISBN: 9781684483518
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Gathering essays by some of the most distinguished scholars in eighteenth-century studies, A Clubbable Man takes...  Read More >>

Race in American Literature and Culture

Race in American Literature and Culture

Author: John Ernest (University of Delaware)
ISBN: 9781108487399
Format: Hardback
$77.60

A comprehensive, multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in American literature by top...  Read More >>

Space and Irish Lesbian Fiction: Towards a Queer Liminality

Space and Irish Lesbian Fiction: Towards a Queer Liminality...

Author: Amy Jeffrey
ISBN: 9781032009476
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Soundtracked Books from the Acoustic Era to the Digital Age: "A Century of ""Books That Sing"""

Soundtracked Books from the Acoustic Era to the Digital...

Author: Justin St. Clair
ISBN: 9781032101699
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Offering both a short history and a theoretical framework, this book is the first extended study of the soundtracked...  Read More >>

Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History

Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels:...

Author: Lynne W. Hinojosa
ISBN: 9781032155364
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History argues historical novels can...  Read More >>

Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival

Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival...

Author: Darren Freebury-Jones
ISBN: 9781032154060
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book offers the most rigorous attempt yet undertaken to determine the scope of Robert Greene's canon through...  Read More >>

James Joyce and Photography

James Joyce and Photography

Author: Dr Georgina Binnie-Wright
ISBN: 9781350136960
Format: Hardback
$180.00

James Joyce and Photography is the first book to explore in-depth James Joyce's personal and professional engagement...  Read More >>

The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World

The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World

Author: Dr Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (University of Montpellier III Paul Valery, France)
ISBN: 9781350055490
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World explores Shakespeare’s complex art of insults and shows how the playwright...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Actor

Shakespeare and the Actor

Author: Lois Potter (Ned B. Allen Professor of English Emerita, Ned B. Allen Professor of English Emerita, University of Delaware)
ISBN: 9780198852612
Format: Hardback
$133.95

A history of acting Shakespeare that explores the ways in which the lives and careers of actors have been shaped...  Read More >>

Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts

Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts

Author: Jacqueline Fay (Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Arlington)
ISBN: 9780198757573
Format: Hardback
$161.95

Provides a new way of understanding how people became English during the Anglo-Saxon period by tracing the links...  Read More >>

Reading Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Prose Poem

Reading Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris and the Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Seth Whidden (Professor of French, Professor of French, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780192849908
Format: Hardback
$200.95

A study of Charles Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris (1859) that explores how the practice of reading prose poems...  Read More >>

A Sudden Frenzy: Improvisation, Orality, and Power in Renaissance Italy

A Sudden Frenzy: Improvisation, Orality, and Power in...

Author: James K. Coleman
ISBN: 9781487563448
Format: Hardback
$125.00

A Sudden Frenzy explores the intellectual and cultural history of improvisation and oral poetry in Renaissance Italy....  Read More >>

The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective

The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective

Author: Simone Marchesi ,  Susanna Barsella
ISBN: 9781487540494
Format: Hardback
$145.00

This collection of original essays from leading scholars breaks new ground in our understanding of the tales belonging...  Read More >>

Making Stars: Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Making Stars: Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Nora Nachumi ,  Kristina Straub
ISBN: 9781644532645
Format: Paperback
$139.79

In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in this...  Read More >>

Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders

Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress...

Author: Gretchen Braun
ISBN: 9780814214848
Format: Hardback
$152.53

""Examines the pre-history of psychic and somatic responses to trauma known as PTSD as they influence canonical...  Read More >>

The Origins of Russian Literary Theory: Folklore, Philology, Form

The Origins of Russian Literary Theory: Folklore, Philology,...

Author: Jessica Merrill
ISBN: 9780810144903
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Reconstructs lost Formalist theories of authorship, of the psychology of narrative structure, and of the social...  Read More >>

Theuerdank: The Illustrated Epic of a Renaissance Knight

Theuerdank: The Illustrated Epic of a Renaissance Knight...

Author: Howard Louthan ,  Jonathan Green
ISBN: 9780367148829
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Now appearing in its first English translation, Theuerdank introduces readers to the fascinating world of the Renaissance....  Read More >>

New Forms of Environmental Writing: Gleaning and Fragmentation

New Forms of Environmental Writing: Gleaning and Fragmentation...

Author: Timothy C. Baker ,  Greg Garrard (University of British Columbia Canada)
ISBN: 9781350271319
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Surveying a wide range of contemporary poetry, fiction, and memoir by women writers, this book explores our most...  Read More >>

Troja Bauen: Vormodernes Erzahlen Von Der Antike in Komparatistischer Sicht

Troja Bauen: Vormodernes Erzahlen Von Der Antike in...

Author: Anne-Katrin Federow ,  Kay Malcher
ISBN: 9783825348038
Format: Hardback
$134.64

Troja gehort zu den grossen mythologischen Reservoirs europaischer Kulturen. Zu allen Zeiten konnte der Ruckgriff...  Read More >>

Cultural Realism: Reconsidering Magical Realism in the Works of Contemporary American Women Writers

Cultural Realism: Reconsidering Magical Realism in the...

Author: Antje Kley ,  Nasrin Babakhani
ISBN: 9783631877548
Format: Hardback
$119.03

This book’s main contributions happen on three levels; a feminist approach to magical realism, a hemispheric approach...  Read More >>

Narratives of Addiction: Savage Usury

Narratives of Addiction: Savage Usury

Author: Kevin McCarron
ISBN: 9783030884635
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Narratives of Addiction: Savage Usury is the first book to argue, in the face of more than a century’s received...  Read More >>

Montaigne's 'Essais'

Montaigne's 'Essais'

Author: Dorothy Gabe Coleman
ISBN: 9781032303260
Format: Hardback
$221.00

This book, first published in 1987, is an examination of Montaigne’s Essais and a guide to the reading of this fascinating,...  Read More >>

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual: Volume 4

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual: Volume 4

Author: John D. Morgenstern (Clemson University Press (United States)) ,  Julia E. Daniel
ISBN: 9781802077650
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Chinitz, Loyola University Chicago Anthony Cuda, University of North Carolina–Greensboro Robert Crawford, University...  Read More >>

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