Literary studies: general books

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The Libyan Novel: Humans, Animals and the Poetics of Vulnerability

The Libyan Novel: Humans, Animals and the Poetics of...

Author: Charis Olszok
ISBN: 9781474457460
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Analysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices,...  Read More >>

The Poetry of the Age of Wordsworth: An Anthology of the Five Major Poets

The Poetry of the Age of Wordsworth: An Anthology of...

Author: J. Dover Wilson
ISBN: 9781107586086
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Originally published in 1927, this anthology covers the five major poets at the forefront of the artistic movement...  Read More >>

Friedrich Und Dorothea Schlegel: Während Der Erhebung Gegen Napoleon (1811-1814). Herausgegeben Von Cosima Jungk Und Anke Lindemann

Friedrich Und Dorothea Schlegel: Während Der Erhebung...

Author: Friedrich Schlegel ,  Cosima Jungk
ISBN: 9783506778284
Format: Hardback
$599.28

1 b/w illus, 2 col illus, 3 b/w tbls & 1 col map  Read More >>

The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder

The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental...

Author: Paul Dobryden
ISBN: 9780810144965
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Framing hygiene within the project of national reconstruction after World War I, The Hygienic Apparatus explores...  Read More >>

Voices from Beyond: Physiology, Sentience, and the Uncanny in Eighteenth-Century French Literature

Voices from Beyond: Physiology, Sentience, and the Uncanny...

Author: Scott M. Sanders
ISBN: 9780813947334
Format: Paperback
$92.40

There was much uncertainty about how voice related to body in the early eighteenth century, and this became a major...  Read More >>

The Force of The Umbrella Academy: Essays on Voices and Violence in the Comics and Netflix Series

The Force of The Umbrella Academy: Essays on Voices...

Author: Lisann Anders
ISBN: 9781476682006
Format: Paperback
$57.00

These essays give a voice to the misunderstood family members of The Umbrella Academy in the comic book series and...  Read More >>

Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c. 1400-1750

Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c....

Author: Natasha Seaman ,  Joanna Woodall
ISBN: 9789463726078
Format: Hardback
$443.52

Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c. 1400-1750 focuses on coins as material artefacts and agents...  Read More >>

Wild Intelligence: Poets' Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America

Wild Intelligence: Poets' Libraries and the Politics...

Author: M. C. Kinniburgh
ISBN: 9781625346551
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Taking up case studies of four poets who began writing during the 1950s and 1960s, M.C. Kinniburgh shows that the...  Read More >>

Song of Exile: A Cultural History of Brazil's Most Popular Poem, 1846-2018

Song of Exile: A Cultural History of Brazil's Most Popular...

Author: Joshua Alma Enslen
ISBN: 9781612496924
Format: Paperback
$72.60

Written in Portugal in 1843 by a homesick student longing for Brazil, Song of Exile has inspired thousands of parodies,...  Read More >>

The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans

The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War...

Author: Allison M. Johnson
ISBN: 9780807177464
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Collects and annotates a unique and little-known body of Civil War literature: narrative sketches, accounts, and...  Read More >>

Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris

Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne,...

Author: John T. Matthews
ISBN: 9780820362595
Format: Paperback
$55.31

Examines signal nineteenth-century works by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Joel Chandler...  Read More >>

The Sun of Jesús del Monte: A Cuban Antislavery Novel

The Sun of Jesús del Monte: A Cuban Antislavery Novel...

Author: Andrés Avelino de Orihuela ,  David Luis-Brown
ISBN: 9780813946214
Format: Paperback
$104.28

Translated into English for the first time, Andrés Avelino de Orihuela's El Sol de Jesús del Monte is a landmark...  Read More >>

Justus Lipsius, Monita et exempla politica / Political Admonitions and Examples: Edited with Translation, Commentary and Introduction

Justus Lipsius, Monita et exempla politica / Political...

Author: Jan Papy ,  Toon Van Houdt
ISBN: 9789462703056
Format: Paperback
$282.04

Political thought and philosophy in 17th-century Europe  Read More >>

The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse

The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse

Author: Roberta Frank
ISBN: 9780268202521
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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Dreaming of the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement

Dreaming of the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black...

Author: Irvin J. Hunt
ISBN: 9781469667935
Format: Paperback
$55.00

In their darkest hours over the course of the twentieth century, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and...  Read More >>

Vital Stein: Gertrude Stein, Modernism and Life

Vital Stein: Gertrude Stein, Modernism and Life

Author: Sarah Posman
ISBN: 9781474425353
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Stein's modernist fascination with life connects her writing to late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers....  Read More >>

Robert Louis Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Literary Relations at the Fin De Siecle

Robert Louis Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century French...

Author: Katherine Ashley
ISBN: 9781474493239
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A comparative literary history that explores Robert Louis Stevenson and French literature.  Read More >>

Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature

Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature...

Author: Zoe Roth
ISBN: 9781474497503
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Demonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and literary language and form.  Read More >>

Understanding Philip Roth

Understanding Philip Roth

Author: Matthew A. Shipe
ISBN: 9781643363103
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Offers an in-depth introduction to Philip Roth’s work and illuminating and straightforward readings of his major...  Read More >>

Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts

Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading...

Author: Jon Phelan
ISBN: 9780367563424
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader's close analysis...  Read More >>

Hispanic and Lusophone Voices of Africa

Hispanic and Lusophone Voices of Africa

Author: David Mongor-Lizarrabengoa
ISBN: 9781648894268
Format: Hardback
$203.28

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La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Francis Carco, l'Apache Des Lettres

La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Francis Carco, l'Apache...

Author: Antoine Piantoni
ISBN: 9782406131588
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Contributeurs: Karine Abadie, Bernard Baritaud, Adrien Cavallaro, Michel Collomb, Audrey Coudevylle-Vue, Fabien...  Read More >>

Le Royaume Arthurien Au Xiie Siecle: La Quete d'Une Eutopie

Le Royaume Arthurien Au Xiie Siecle: La Quete d'Une...

Author: Flore Verdon
ISBN: 9782406129103
Format: Paperback
$97.68

"This thesis analyses the fundamental role of the Arthurian kingdom in the Arthurian narrative of the twelfth century....  Read More >>

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