Literary studies: general books

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Melincourt

Melincourt

Author: Thomas Love Peacock ,  Gary Dyer (Cleveland State University)
ISBN: 9781107032262
Format: Hardback
$232.88

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Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity

Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural...

Author: Linda Hughes (Texas Christian University)
ISBN: 9781316512845
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Progressive women writers discovered unparalleled freedoms and opportunities for intellectual agency in Germany...  Read More >>

Fact, Fiction, and Polygamy: A Tale of Utah War Intrigue, 1857-1858-A. G. Browne's The Ward of the Three Guardians

Fact, Fiction, and Polygamy: A Tale of Utah War Intrigue,...

Author: William P. McKinnon ,  Kenneth L. Alford
ISBN: 9781647690694
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Contextualises the little-known novella by Albert Brown entitled Ward of the Three Guardians. The novella, published...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness: Pain in Post-War Francophone Drama

Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness: Pain...

Author: Hannah Simpson (Rosemary Pountney Junior Research Fellow, Rosemary Pountney Junior Research Fellow, St Anne's College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780192863263
Format: Hardback
$175.95

This study explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World...  Read More >>

Pseudo-Longinus: On the Sublime

Pseudo-Longinus: On the Sublime

Author: Stephen Halliwell
ISBN: 9780192894205
Format: Hardback
$467.95

Stephen Halliwell provides the first translation into English of On the Sublime in over fifty years. This volume...  Read More >>

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9: Edited with Introduction,...

Author: Neil W. Bernstein (Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, Ohio University)
ISBN: 9780198838166
Format: Hardback
$323.95

Book 9 of Silius Italicus' first-century Latin epic poem Punica begins the narrative of the Battle of Cannae (August...  Read More >>

Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration

Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration

Author: Benjamin Folit-Weinberg (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781316517819
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Parmenides invented extended deductive argumentation and the practice of demonstration, a transformative event in...  Read More >>

Women Writing Men: 1689 to 1869

Women Writing Men: 1689 to 1869

Author: Joanne Ella Parsons (Falmouth University, UK) ,  Ruth Heholt (Falmouth University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032227542
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores how women writers create and question men and masculinity. It will be of interest to academics,...  Read More >>

Robert Morgan: Essays on the Life and Work

Robert Morgan: Essays on the Life and Work

Author: Robert M. West ,  Jesse Graves
ISBN: 9780786448630
Format: Paperback
$104.50

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Same Old: Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics of Sameness

Same Old: Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics...

Author: Ben Nichols
ISBN: 9781526163813
Format: Paperback
$44.99

This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture. The frameworks offered by queer theory-steeped in philosophical,...  Read More >>

The Tao of S: America's Chinese & the Chinese Century in Literature and Film

The Tao of S: America's Chinese & the Chinese Century...

Author: Sheng-mei Ma
ISBN: 9781643363073
Format: Hardback
$105.57

Provides an engaging study of American racialization of Chinese and Asians, Asian American writing, and contemporary...  Read More >>

English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood

English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms...

Author: Alexandra Verini
ISBN: 9783031009167
Format: Hardback
$181.10

English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women’s utopianism...  Read More >>

Language Commonality and Literary Communities in Early Modern England: Translation, Transmission, Transfer

Language Commonality and Literary Communities in Early...

Author: Laetitia Sansonetti ,  Remi Vuillemin
ISBN: 9782503598147
Format: Hardback
$298.32

In the early modern period, the humanist practice of translation of sacred as well as secular texts created new...  Read More >>

Poems from the Mediatized Soulscape

Poems from the Mediatized Soulscape

Author: J Martin Strangeweather
ISBN: 9780578288475
Format: Paperback
$18.09

In his fifth collection of poetic strangeness, J. Martin Strangeweather identifies and defines a relatively new...  Read More >>

A Merry Senhor in the Malay World: Four Texts of the Syair Sinyor Kosta, volume 2

A Merry Senhor in the Malay World: Four Texts of the...

Author: R.M. Dumas
ISBN: 9789004531864
Format: Hardback
$100.32

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The Common Reader

The Common Reader

Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9789356144705
Format: Paperback
$18.11

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The Western Reinvention of Chinese Literature, 1910-2010: From Ezra Pound to Maxine Hong Kingston

The Western Reinvention of Chinese Literature, 1910-2010:...

Author: Zong-qi Cai ,  Stephen Roddy
ISBN: 9789004515048
Format: Hardback
$345.84

This book surveys influential readings and rewritings of the Chinese literary tradition by Western writers over...  Read More >>

Frances Burney and the Arts

Frances Burney and the Arts

Author: Francesca Saggini
ISBN: 9783030988890
Format: Hardback
$103.47

This collection of essays by leading scholars in Burney studies provides an innovative, interdisciplinary critical...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change

Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change

Author: Russell McDougall ,  John Ryan
ISBN: 9789004514171
Format: Hardback
$377.52

Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change investigates the evolving nature of postcolonial literatures and criticism...  Read More >>

What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures

What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing,...

Author: Amos Oz
ISBN: 9780691219905
Format: Hardback
$29.99

Translation of: Mi-mah °asui ha-tapuaòh.  Read More >>

Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia

Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution...

Author: Harriet L Murav ,  Aleksandra Glebovskaya
ISBN: 9781644699935
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations...  Read More >>

Hyde Park: By James Shirley

Hyde Park: By James Shirley

Author: Eugene Giddens
ISBN: 9780719077418
Format: Hardback
$185.00

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

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