Literary studies: general books

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Theophrastus: Characters

Theophrastus: Characters

Author: James Diggle (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781108831284
Format: Hardback
$194.04

Theophrastus: Characters is a work of supreme importance and interest both as a pioneering text of world literature...  Read More >>

The History of Modern Korean Fiction (1890-1945): The Topography of Literary Systems and Form

The History of Modern Korean Fiction (1890-1945): The...

Author: Young Min Kim ,  Rachel Min Park
ISBN: 9781793631916
Format: Paperback
$78.99

This book traces the emergence of modern Korean literature and its trajectory towards the turn of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the First Hamlet

Shakespeare and the First Hamlet

Author: Terri Bourus
ISBN: 9781800735538
Format: Hardback
$230.29

The first edition of Hamlet - often called 'Q1', shorthand for 'first quarto' - was published in 1603. The essays...  Read More >>

The Brown Curtains

The Brown Curtains

Author: Clive Sankardayal
ISBN: 9780970443250
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Girls in Contemporary Vampire Fiction

Girls in Contemporary Vampire Fiction

Author: Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska
ISBN: 9783030717469
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book explores the narratives of girlhood in contemporary YA vampire fiction, bringing into the spotlight the...  Read More >>

The Song of Bertrand du Guesclin

The Song of Bertrand du Guesclin

Author: Nigel Bryant ,  Cuvelier
ISBN: 9781783276967
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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The New Man of the House: Suburban Masculinities in British Fiction, 1880-1914

The New Man of the House: Suburban Masculinities in...

Author: Brian Gibson
ISBN: 9781476686448
Format: Paperback
$108.90

The modern-day suburb began in 19th century Britain. As suburbia spread, the 'New Woman' arose and fin-de-siecle...  Read More >>

Reading Jhumpa Lahiri: Women, Domesticity and the Indian American Diaspora

Reading Jhumpa Lahiri: Women, Domesticity and the Indian...

Author: Nilanjana Chatterjee
ISBN: 9781032081571
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book is an innovative & unconventional study of Jhumpa Lahiri's Indian American female characters' lived &...  Read More >>

Living with Monsters: A Study of the Art of Characterization in Aldous Huxley’s Novels

Living with Monsters: A Study of the Art of Characterization...

Author: Indrani Deb
ISBN: 9781032232393
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Aldous Huxley is one of the most well-known modernist intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century -...  Read More >>

Seamus Heaney and American Poetry

Seamus Heaney and American Poetry

Author: Christopher Laverty
ISBN: 9783030955670
Format: Hardback
$232.85

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The Septuagint and Its Reception: Collected Essays

The Septuagint and Its Reception: Collected Essays

Author: Martin Meiser
ISBN: 9783161549175
Format: Hardback
$427.97

The Septuagint is an important source for the study of ancient Judaism and, in terms of textual development and...  Read More >>

Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century

Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth...

Author: David Caute
ISBN: 9781839762451
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A gripping history of the Security Service and its covert surveillance on British writers and intellectuals in the...  Read More >>

Cultures of Witnessing: Law and the York Plays

Cultures of Witnessing: Law and the York Plays

Author: Emma Lipton ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
ISBN: 9780812253856
Format: Hardback
$171.60

""In Cultures of Witnessing, Emma Lipton considers the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast...  Read More >>

Publicity and the Early Modern Stage: People Made Public

Publicity and the Early Modern Stage: People Made Public...

Author: Allison K. Deutermann ,  Matthew Hunter
ISBN: 9783030523343
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Drawing on the insights of Habermasean public sphere theory and on the interdisciplinary field of celebrity studies,...  Read More >>

Foreignness and Selfhood: Sino-British Encounters in English Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Foreignness and Selfhood: Sino-British Encounters in...

Author: Mengmeng Yan
ISBN: 9781032248028
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In inviting a rethinking of ideas of foreignness and selfhood, this book explores Sino-British encounters in eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back

A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back

Author: gloria j wilson ,  Joni Boyd Acuff
ISBN: 9780816544080
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women: A Tragic Reading of Politics

Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women: A Tragic...

Author: Sotiris Manolopoulos
ISBN: 9781032171876
Format: Hardback
$103.00

Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women applies the ‘tragic’ reading of politics, presented by Euripides in...  Read More >>

The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and one young Man 's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold

The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and one...

Author: Everett C Kelly
ISBN: 9798834828709
Format: Paperback
$24.76

This is not a book by Michael Loynd nor is it affiliated with the author, it is an independent publication by Everett...  Read More >>

Tolkien as a Literary Artist: Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in The Lord of the Rings

Tolkien as a Literary Artist: Exploring Rhetoric, Language...

Author: Thomas Kullmann ,  Dirk Siepmann
ISBN: 9783030693015
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book takes a fresh look at Tolkien’s literary artistry from the points of view of both linguistics and literary...  Read More >>

Subterranean Space in Contemporary Mexico City Literature

Subterranean Space in Contemporary Mexico City Literature...

Author: Liesbeth François
ISBN: 9783030694586
Format: Paperback
$155.22

This book studies the role of subterranean spaces in literary works about Mexico City. It analyzes how underground...  Read More >>

Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages: The Lives of the Seafaring Middle Class

Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English...

Author: James Seth
ISBN: 9789463725415
Format: Hardback
$248.40

Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard...  Read More >>

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