Literary studies: general books

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Storying the Ecocatastrophe: Contemporary Narratives about the Environmental Collapse

Storying the Ecocatastrophe: Contemporary Narratives...

Author: Helena Duffy ,  Katarina Leppänen
ISBN: 9781032726946
Format: Hardback
$273.00

How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action?...  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
$273.00

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

Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy's Catholic Critique of American Enlightenment

Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy's Catholic Critique...

Author: D. Marcel DeCoste
ISBN: 9780807181539
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Confirms the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament to the spiritual and ethical outlook of the...  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

This essential guide to reading Dante reveals the originality and power of the language of the Divine Comedy. It...  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: 9781621909040
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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

Black Fire-This Time, Volume 2

Black Fire-This Time, Volume 2

Author: Derrick Harriell ,  Kofi Antwi
ISBN: 9798988165583
Format: Paperback
$132.00

"In this follow-up volume, over seventy-five poets and writers come together on the theme of """"Black is Beautiful,...  Read More >>

Cormac McCarthy: An American Apocalypse

Cormac McCarthy: An American Apocalypse

Author: Markus Wierschem
ISBN: 9781611864823
Format: Paperback
$112.20

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The Poetics of Scale: From Apollinaire to Big Data

The Poetics of Scale: From Apollinaire to Big Data

Author: Conrad Steel
ISBN: 9781609389314
Format: Paperback
$244.20

Shows how the history of poetry - with its particular formal affordances, and the particular hopes and fears we...  Read More >>

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print...

Author: Michaël Roy ,  Susan Pickford
ISBN: 9780299338442
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources,...  Read More >>

D. H. Lawrence and Feminism

D. H. Lawrence and Feminism

Author: Hilary Simpson
ISBN: 9781032748955
Format: Hardback
$179.00

First published in 1982, D. H. Lawrence and Feminism discusses Lawrence’s works by examining it in relation to aspects...  Read More >>

Performing Disability in Medieval and Early Modern Britain

Performing Disability in Medieval and Early Modern Britain...

Author: Mark C. Chambers (Department of English Studies at Durham University)
ISBN: 9781802700091
Format: Hardback
$292.39

Examines the nature and socialization of disabled performers in the medieval and early Tudor periods.  Read More >>

The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture: Development and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud

The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture:...

Author: Roisín Laing
ISBN: 9783031413810
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture – canonical literature, children’s...  Read More >>

Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China

Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China

Author: Benoît Vermander
ISBN: 9781032735467
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, the book offers a novel construal...  Read More >>

Dante's Divine Comedy: A Reading Guide

Dante's Divine Comedy: A Reading Guide

Author: K. P. Clarke (University of York)
ISBN: 9781009400817
Format: Hardback
$181.13

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The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals

The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals

Author: Kristine Moruzi ,  Beth Rodgers
ISBN: 9781399506656
Format: Hardback
$452.81

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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 >>

Black Fire-This Time, Volume 2

Black Fire-This Time, Volume 2

Author: Derrick Harriell ,  Kofi Antwi
ISBN: 9798988165576
Format: Hardback
$171.57

"In this follow-up volume, over seventy-five poets and writers come together on the theme of """"Black is Beautiful,...  Read More >>

The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland

The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland

Author: Angela Youngman
ISBN: 9781526797155
Format: Paperback
$44.99

After reading The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland, you'll never see the original in quite the same light as before....  Read More >>

The Family of Love: By Lording Barry

The Family of Love: By Lording Barry

Author: Sophie Tomlinson
ISBN: 9781526178879
Format: Paperback
$45.99

The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations,...  Read More >>

Revolutionary Bodies: Homoeroticism and the Political Imagination in Irish Writing

Revolutionary Bodies: Homoeroticism and the Political...

Author: Michael G. Cronin
ISBN: 9781526178848
Format: Paperback
$45.99

An ambitious and wide-ranging study of the Irish gay novel, not merely in relation to a broader Irish political...  Read More >>

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