Literary studies: general books

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Approaches to Teaching Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Approaches to Teaching Jacobs's Incidents in the Life...

Author: Lynn Domina
ISBN: 9781603296540
Format: Hardback
$149.60

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The Collected Poems of Henry Kirke White

The Collected Poems of Henry Kirke White

Author: Tim Fulford
ISBN: 9781802074703
Format: Hardback
$323.44

This book is the first-ever scholarly edition of one of the bestselling and most revered poets in the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Truth Is Trickiest: The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter Book Riddles

Truth Is Trickiest: The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter...

Author: Jennifer Neville
ISBN: 9781487552527
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Truth Is Trickiest seeks to turn the study of Old English riddles away from reductive searches for single answers....  Read More >>

Recovering Police Legitimacy: A Radical Framework

Recovering Police Legitimacy: A Radical Framework

Author: Rafe McGregor (Edge Hill University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032546414
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Recovering Police Legitimacy challenges conventional criminological, political, and public solutions to the problem...  Read More >>

Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910: Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival

Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910:...

Author: Dennis Denisoff (University of Tulsa)
ISBN: 9781108994279
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent...  Read More >>

Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory: Towards a Critical Dialogue

Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory: Towards...

Author: Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany)
ISBN: 9781009339575
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Demonstrates the limits of narratology in understanding ancient texts and forges a new approach that investigates...  Read More >>

Catullan Questions Revisited

Catullan Questions Revisited

Author: T. P. Wiseman (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009235716
Format: Paperback
$51.72

A new insight into the brilliant poet who loved an aristocratic girl, attacked Julius Caesar and became a satirical...  Read More >>

Pindar and Greek Religion: Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes

Pindar and Greek Religion: Theologies of Mortality in...

Author: Hanne Eisenfeld (Boston College, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781108926430
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Argues that Pindar's victory songs, when viewed within their contemporary religious landscapes, are engaged in theological...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's ‘Lady Editors': A New History of the Shakespearean Text

Shakespeare's ‘Lady Editors': A New History of the Shakespearean...

Author: Molly G. Yarn
ISBN: 9781009001120
Format: Paperback
$59.49

From novelists and professors to suffragists and Irish revolutionaries, Shakespeare's women editors lived extraordinary...  Read More >>

Nabokov's Secret Trees

Nabokov's Secret Trees

Author: Stephen H. Blackwell
ISBN: 9781487554422
Format: Hardback
$125.00

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Collected Verse

Collected Verse

Author: Paul Valéry ,  Paul Ryan
ISBN: 9780198820321
Format: Paperback
$20.95

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A Short History of African American Literature

A Short History of African American Literature

Author: Nandana Dutta
ISBN: 9789354424335
Format: Paperback
$51.72

This accessible Short History not only introduces readers to African American literature but also offers myriad...  Read More >>

We Are What We Read: A Life Within and Without Books

We Are What We Read: A Life Within and Without Books...

Author: Vybarr Cregan-Reid
ISBN: 9781785908187
Format: Hardback
$44.99

Part memoir, part manifesto, part history, We Are What We Read is not just about how education can place you back...  Read More >>

Rediscovering Rubén Darío through Translation

Rediscovering Rubén Darío through Translation

Author: Dr. Carlos F. Grigsby
ISBN: 9798765119112
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony

The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony...

Author: Professor Saikat Majumdar (Professor of English and Creative Writing, Ashoka University, India)
ISBN: 9781501399862
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Can ignorance, mistake, failure shape ways of reading, or do they disrupt its proper practice? What happens when...  Read More >>

Writing During the Disasters: Modes of Rendering Suffering in Contemporary Experimental American Poetry

Writing During the Disasters: Modes of Rendering Suffering...

Author: Marius Henderson
ISBN: 9783825349677
Format: Hardback
$147.84

'Writing during the Disasters' is devoted to conceptualizing the relation between suffering and poetic writing....  Read More >>

William Morris: Selected Writings

William Morris: Selected Writings

Author: Dr Ingrid Hanson (Lecturer in English Literature, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780192894816
Format: Hardback
$234.95

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series brings together a selection of William Morris's poetry and...  Read More >>

What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why)

What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why)

Author: Susan Allen Ford (Delta State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350416727
Format: Hardback
$110.00

The first detailed account of Austen’s characters’ reading experience to date, this book explores both what her...  Read More >>

Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism

Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism...

Author: Scott M. Reznick (Assistant Professor of English, State University of New York at Plattsburgh)
ISBN: 9780198891956
Format: Hardback
$149.95

This volume traces how American literature evolved in response to widespread conflicts over the very nature of US...  Read More >>

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