Literary studies: general books

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Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas Overbury and the Jacobean Playhouse

Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas...

Author: Jackie Watson
ISBN: 9781474483377
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Analyses how the political career of Sir Thomas Overbury exposes the changing systems of power at the English court...  Read More >>

Storying the Ecocatastrophe: Contemporary Narratives about the Environmental Collapse

Storying the Ecocatastrophe: Contemporary Narratives...

Author: Helena Duffy ,  Katarina Leppänen
ISBN: 9781032726946
Format: Hardback
$284.00

How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action?...  Read More >>

Looking at Persians

Looking at Persians

Author: David Stuttard (Independent Scholar, UK) ,  Aeschylus
ISBN: 9781350227965
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Aeschylus’ Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece’s victory...  Read More >>

Cultural Antagonism and the Crisis of Reality in Latin America

Cultural Antagonism and the Crisis of Reality in Latin...

Author: Professor Horacio Legrás (Professor, University of California, Irvine, USA)
ISBN: 9781501392900
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""Provides a historical and theoretical account of how the point of view of minorities has affected and complicated...  Read More >>

Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit

Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair...

Author: Sara Upstone (Kingston University, London, UK) ,  Peter Ely (independent scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350244061
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the...  Read More >>

British Writers, Popular Literature and New Media Innovation, 1820 45

British Writers, Popular Literature and New Media Innovation,...

Author: Alexis Easley
ISBN: 9781399514002
Format: Hardback
$245.81

The first edited essay collection of its kind to focus on innovators and innovations in the mass-market press from...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the Arts

The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the Arts...

Author: Charles I. Armstrong ,  Adrian Paterson
ISBN: 9781474499668
Format: Hardback
$388.12

The first book to comprehensively address Yeats's engagements across the arts as both writer and cultural worker...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship

The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship...

Author: Daniel Fisher-Livne ,  Michelle May-Curry
ISBN: 9781032163390
Format: Hardback
$462.00

Across humanities disciplines, public scholarship brings academics and community members and organizations together...  Read More >>

Dante's Divine Comedy: A Reading Guide

Dante's Divine Comedy: A Reading Guide

Author: K. P. Clarke (University of York)
ISBN: 9781009400824
Format: Paperback
$67.25

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Teaching Film from the People's Republic of China

Teaching Film from the People's Republic of China

Author: Zhuoyi Wang ,  Emily Wilcox
ISBN: 9781603296311
Format: Hardback
$160.60

Essays for teaching Chinese film, history, and society. This volume brings a diverse range of voices - from anthropology,...  Read More >>

Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature

Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature...

Author: Nalini Iyer ,  Pallavi Rastogi
ISBN: 9781603296373
Format: Hardback
$160.60

Encouraging a deep engagement with works whose personal, political, and cultural insights are specific to South...  Read More >>

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Volume III: Literature and Philosophy in the ‘Long-Late-Victorian’ Period

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British...

Author: Andrea Selleri
ISBN: 9781032548685
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This is the third in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis

Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis

Author: Robert Cochran, Jr.
ISBN: 9781682262467
Format: Hardback
$68.20

A pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933-2020), best known for the novel...  Read More >>

Uncanny Fairy Tales: Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror

Uncanny Fairy Tales: Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror

Author: Francesca Arnavas
ISBN: 9781032516790
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This research individuates uncanny-related narrative techniques and cognitive responses as means to decodify and...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf and Capitalism

Virginia Woolf and Capitalism

Author: Clara Jones
ISBN: 9781399514088
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Refines our understanding of Virginia Woolf as a politically engaged writer  Read More >>

Victorian Love Letters in Literature and Art

Victorian Love Letters in Literature and Art

Author: J. B. Bullen ,  Roberta Zanasi
ISBN: 9781803743486
Format: Paperback
$124.20

Through an analysis of a broad corpus of correspondences, novels and paintings, this book aims to re-establish the...  Read More >>

We the Barbarians: Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century

We the Barbarians: Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First...

Author: Mabel Moraña ,  Stephanie Kirk
ISBN: 9780826506702
Format: Hardback
$203.50

Provides a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction:...  Read More >>

Las Raras: Feminine Style, Intellectual Networks, and Women Writers during Spanish-American Modernismo

Las Raras: Feminine Style, Intellectual Networks, and...

Author: Sarah Moody
ISBN: 9780826506894
Format: Hardback
$169.40

Proposes that the Modernistas’ advocacy for a writing style they considered feminine helps us to understand why...  Read More >>

Romanticism, Realism and the Lines of Mimesis

Romanticism, Realism and the Lines of Mimesis

Author: Polly Dickson
ISBN: 9781399506502
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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Comic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

Comic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

Author: Avril Horner ,  Sue Zlosnik
ISBN: 9781399505758
Format: Hardback
$245.81

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In Transition: Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation

In Transition: Young Adult Literature and Transgender...

Author: Emily Corbett
ISBN: 9781496852601
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Through a comprehensive exploration of historical conventions, genres, character diversity, and ideologies of trans...  Read More >>

A Mirror for History: How Novels and Art Reflect the Evolution of Middle-Class America

A Mirror for History: How Novels and Art Reflect the...

Author: Marc Egnal
ISBN: 9781621908678
Format: Hardback
$237.60

In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society....  Read More >>

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