Literary studies: general books

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Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question: The Case of Neera

Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman...

Author: Catherine Ramsey-Portolano
ISBN: 9780367508944
Format: Paperback
$41.99

Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary...  Read More >>

The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder

The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental...

Author: Paul Dobryden
ISBN: 9780810144972
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic....  Read More >>

Historical Lacunae and Poetic Space: A Creative Approach to Old Norse Poetry and Poetics

Historical Lacunae and Poetic Space: A Creative Approach...

Author: Graeme Davis ,  Karl Bernhardt
ISBN: 9781800795440
Format: Paperback
$150.85

This book explores the nature of poetic reading using a creative approach to understanding Old Norse poetry. Through...  Read More >>

Keywords in Western Literary Criticism and Contemporary China: Volume 2

Keywords in Western Literary Criticism and Contemporary...

Author: Yamin Hu (Professor, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Central China Normal University, China) ,  Yanwen Sun
ISBN: 9780367490928
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume examines five of the most influential keywords from Western literary theory as it has impacted on Chinese...  Read More >>

The Discourse of Desperation: Late 18th and Early 19th Century Letters by Paupers, Prisoners, and Rogues

The Discourse of Desperation: Late 18th and Early 19th...

Author: Ivor Timmis (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367522643
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries mobilised their...  Read More >>

Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress After Slavery

Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress After Slavery...

Author: Gregory Laski
ISBN: 9780197624128
Format: Paperback
$93.95

Untimely Democracy offers an exploration of how one of the bleakest periods in American racial history provided...  Read More >>

Strangeness in Jacobean Drama

Strangeness in Jacobean Drama

Author: Callan Davies
ISBN: 9780367501280
Format: Paperback
$81.99

"Strangeness in Jacobean Drama offers an alternative model for understanding this important period of English dramatic...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic...

Author: Frederick Luis Aldama (Distinguished University Professor at the Ohio State University.)
ISBN: 9780367505295
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies is a comprehensive, global and interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time

The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time

Author: Miriamne Ara Krummel
ISBN: 9780472132379
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Studies violent temporal clashes that are written into the medieval vision of annus domini. Through a select group...  Read More >>

Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies

Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid...

Author: Laura R. Kremmel
ISBN: 9781786838483
Format: Hardback
$145.95

This book demonstrates how Gothic literature experiments with and subverts Romantic medical debates to reassess...  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: 9780807177075
Format: Hardback
$237.60

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

Combating Injustice: The Naturalism of Frank Norris, Jack London, and John Steinbeck

Combating Injustice: The Naturalism of Frank Norris,...

Author: Jon Falsarella Dawson
ISBN: 9780807177129
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Approaches American literary naturalism as a means of social criticism, exploring the powerful economic arguments...  Read More >>

The Prague Circle: Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Max Brod, Franz Werfel and Paul Kornfeld, and Their Legacies

The Prague Circle: Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Max...

Author: Stephen James Shearier
ISBN: 9781680537765
Format: Hardback
$198.00

A group of mostly Jewish German-speaking writers, the Prague Circle included some of the most significant figures...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the World: Cross-Cultural Adaptation in Europe and Colonial India, 1850-1900

Shakespeare in the World: Cross-Cultural Adaptation...

Author: Suddhaseel Sen
ISBN: 9780367568870
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Shakespeare in the World traces the reception histories and adaptations of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century,...  Read More >>

Sami Tchak: Les voies d'un renouveau

Sami Tchak: Les voies d'un renouveau

Author: Papa Samba Diop
ISBN: 9782807618961
Format: Paperback
$95.74

Associant hommages, analyses textuelles et deux transcriptions de ses entretiens en séminaire, ce livre propose...  Read More >>

Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature

Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature...

Author: Jay Rajiva (Georgia State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367519896
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book uses the conceptual framework of animism, the belief in the spiritual qualities of nonhuman matter, to...  Read More >>

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: 9781469667928
Format: Hardback
$135.00

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

The Scent of Ancient Magic

The Scent of Ancient Magic

Author: Britta K. Ager
ISBN: 9780472133024
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Explores the complex interconnection of scent and magic in the Greco-Roman world between 800 BCE and CE 600, drawing...  Read More >>

Contested Pasts: A Determinist History of Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire

Contested Pasts: A Determinist History of Alexander...

Author: Jennifer Finn
ISBN: 9780472133031
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Taking as a key turning point the self-fashioning of the first Roman emperor Augustus, Jennifer Finn revisits the...  Read More >>

Summary of Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America By Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard

Summary of Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized...

Author: Kick Books
ISBN: 9798832458212
Format: Paperback
$14.31

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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: 9782406129110
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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

Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination

Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination...

Author: Carol T. Christ ,  John O. Jordan
ISBN: 9780520357709
Format: Hardback
$157.95

19th-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the pre-eminent organ of truth. These essays explore...  Read More >>

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