Literary studies: general books

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L'Art de l'Arnaque, Decouvertes Considerables: A Notable Discovery of Cozenage

L'Art de l'Arnaque, Decouvertes Considerables: A Notable...

Author: Robert Greene ,  Pascale Drouet
ISBN: 9782406130437
Format: Hardback
$205.92

In 1591, Robert Greene wrote A Notable Discovery of Cozenage to denounce the ploys of the cony-catchers working...  Read More >>

Contemporary Women’s Ghost Stories: Spectres, Revenants, Ghostly Returns

Contemporary Women’s Ghost Stories: Spectres, Revenants,...

Author: Gina Wisker
ISBN: 9783030890537
Format: Hardback
$232.85

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Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800

Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800

Author: Sophie Chiari ,  Samuel Cuisinier-Delorme
ISBN: 9783030665708
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Literatures from Northeast India: Beyond the Centre–Periphery Debate

Literatures from Northeast India: Beyond the Centre–Periphery...

Author: K M Baharul Islam (Indian Institute of Management, Kashipur, India)
ISBN: 9781032156798
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book showcases the diverse literary traditions from India’s Northeast and their shared connections and lineages....  Read More >>

The Murdochian Mind

The Murdochian Mind

Author: Silvia Caprioglio Panizza (University College Dublin, Eire) ,  Mark Hopwood (The University of the South, Sewanee, USA)
ISBN: 9780367468019
Format: Hardback
$452.00

An outstanding reference source to the full span of Murdoch's work, comprising 37 specially commissioned chapters...  Read More >>

Hacking in the Humanities: Cybersecurity, Speculative Fiction, and Navigating a Digital Future

Hacking in the Humanities: Cybersecurity, Speculative...

Author: Aaron Mauro (Brock University, Canada) ,  Anthony Mandal
ISBN: 9781350231023
Format: Paperback
$46.99

What would it take to hack a human? How exploitable are we? In the cybersecurity industry, professionals know that...  Read More >>

Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature

Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature...

Author: Mark Atherton ,  Kazutomo Karasawa
ISBN: 9782503599571
Format: Hardback
$380.16

Across three thematically-linked sections, this volume charts the development of competing geographical, national,...  Read More >>

Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar

Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar...

Author: Phebe Jensen ,  Alison A. Chapman
ISBN: 9780367609290
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar is a handbook designed to help modern readers unlock...  Read More >>

Don DeLillo In Context

Don DeLillo In Context

Author: Jesse Kavadlo
ISBN: 9781316515433
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Don DeLillo In Context benefits scholars and students interested in intersections between his literature and its...  Read More >>

Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture

Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial...

Author: John Levi Barnard (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, The College of Wooster)
ISBN: 9780197635100
Format: Paperback
$80.95

"From the US Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, classical forms and ideas have been central...  Read More >>

The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe

The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe

Author: Professor Robert Hampson, FEA FRSA (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) ,  Véronique Pauly (University of Versailles, France)
ISBN: 9781474241083
Format: Hardback
$300.00

Born and brought up in Poland bilingually in French and Polish but living for most of his professional life in England...  Read More >>

W. S. Graham: The Poem as Art Object

W. S. Graham: The Poem as Art Object

Author: David Nowell Smith (Associate Professor of Poetry/Poetics, University of East Anglia)
ISBN: 9780192842909
Format: Hardback
$200.95

David Nowell Smith draws on newly available archival materials to examine the work of British poet W. S. Graham....  Read More >>

Moral Powers: Normative Necessity in Language and History

Moral Powers: Normative Necessity in Language and History...

Author: Anthony Holiday
ISBN: 9780367476519
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1986, this book subverts an attitude towards the moral dimension of life which the author...  Read More >>

Human Character and Morality: Reflections on the History of Ideas

Human Character and Morality: Reflections on the History...

Author: Stephen D. Hudson
ISBN: 9780367512255
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1986, this book explores the animating qualities of human character and moral thought and...  Read More >>

Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology

Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial...

Author: Matthew Dimmock (Professor of Early Modern Studies, Professor of Early Modern Studies, University of Sussex) ,  Andrew Hadfield (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9780198871576
Format: Paperback
$62.07

An anthology of writings by English travellers in the Renaissance that helps students understand travel and colonial...  Read More >>

Theodore Roosevelt: A Literary Life

Theodore Roosevelt: A Literary Life

Author: Thomas C. Bailey ,  Katherine Joslin
ISBN: 9781493066728
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Of all the many biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, none has presented the twenty-sixth president as he saw himself:...  Read More >>

Chorodidaskalia: Studi di poesia e performance in onore di Angela Andrisano

Chorodidaskalia: Studi di poesia e performance in onore...

Author: Virginia Mastellari ,  Massimiliano Ornaghi
ISBN: 9783949189425
Format: Hardback
$222.50

The articles in this volume deal with various forms of poetry and performance in Graeco-Roman antiquity, from archaic...  Read More >>

Review of Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland by Kristi Noem

Review of Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland...

Author: Kevin G Atkins
ISBN: 9798838898036
Format: Paperback
$23.34

"THIS IS NOT A BOOK BY KRISTI NOEM NOR, IS IT AFFILIATED WITH KRISTI NOEM. IT IS AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION BY KEVIN...  Read More >>

The Maqamat of Badi' Al-Zaman Al-Hamadhani: Authorship, Texts, and Contexts

The Maqamat of Badi' Al-Zaman Al-Hamadhani: Authorship,...

Author: Bilal Orfali ,  Maurice Alex Pomerantz
ISBN: 9783752000023
Format: Hardback
$234.96

"Through investigations of the manuscripts, this book explores important aspects of the life of Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani's...  Read More >>

Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora

Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture...

Author: Raquel Kennon
ISBN: 9780807176818
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Explores the epistemological possibilities of the ‘Black world’ paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography...  Read More >>

The Tacky South

The Tacky South

Author: Katharine A. Burnett ,  Monica Carol Miller
ISBN: 9780807177891
Format: Paperback
$92.40

As a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word ‘tacky’ has distinctly southern origins, with its roots...  Read More >>

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