Literary studies: general books

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Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics

Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics

Author: Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo ,  Frederick Luis Aldama
ISBN: 9780816553310
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Offers new understandings of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives by looking at the genre’s growth in stories...  Read More >>

The Chilean Dictatorship Novel: Memory, Postmemory, Affect, and Emotions

The Chilean Dictatorship Novel: Memory, Postmemory,...

Author: Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
ISBN: 9780826366191
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Examines fifteen novels and one testimony written on the topic of dictatorship to illustrate how these Chilean narratives...  Read More >>

The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century

The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the...

Author: Ariane Bankes
ISBN: 9780715654989
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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Mary Wollstonecraft: Cosmopolitan

Mary Wollstonecraft: Cosmopolitan

Author: Laura Kirkley
ISBN: 9781399503105
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Redefines Mary Wollstonecraft as a multi-lingual cosmopolitan.  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 >>

Robert Southey Essays Moral and Political 1832

Robert Southey Essays Moral and Political 1832

Author: Tim Fulford
ISBN: 9781032450520
Format: Hardback
$242.00

Robert Southey's Essays Moral and Political, originally published in 1832, brings together many of Southey’s most...  Read More >>

A Tale of Two Villains: Theme and Symbolism in Dracula and the Harry Potter Saga

A Tale of Two Villains: Theme and Symbolism in Dracula...

Author: Calvin H. Cherry
ISBN: 9781592113743
Format: Paperback
$52.77

The millions of fans of Dracula and Harry Potter consist of all ages and varied enthusiasm, ranging from a curious...  Read More >>

British Romanticism and Denmark

British Romanticism and Denmark

Author: Cian Duffy
ISBN: 9781474498234
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Traces a multifaceted discourse about Denmark in British eighteenth-century and Romantic-period culture.  Read More >>

The California Gothic in Fiction and Film

The California Gothic in Fiction and Film

Author: Bernice M. Murphy
ISBN: 9781474497879
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Focuses on the California Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  Read More >>

The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader

The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority...

Author: Sophie Corser
ISBN: 9781474481441
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Rethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers: Victorian Legacies and Literary Afterlives

Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers:...

Author: Anne Reus
ISBN: 9781474485630
Format: Paperback
$51.72

The first comprehensive analysis of Virginia Woolf's literary biography.  Read More >>

The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry

The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry

Author: Olivia Loksing Moy
ISBN: 9781474487184
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Victorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf's Apprenticeship: Becoming an Essayist

Virginia Woolf's Apprenticeship: Becoming an Essayist...

Author: Rigel Beth Daugherty
ISBN: 9781399504522
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Provides the most comprehensive portrayal of Virginia Woolf's education to date.  Read More >>

The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII: Three Papal Poets from Baroque to Risorgimento

The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and...

Author: Stephen Harrison
ISBN: 9781350292383
Format: Hardback
$170.00

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Mary Butts: Necessary Contradictions and Feminist Reconstructions

Mary Butts: Necessary Contradictions and Feminist Reconstructions...

Author: Dr. Joel Hawkes (University of Victoria, Canada)
ISBN: 9781501380716
Format: Hardback
$190.00

A scholarly and experimental collection that offers fresh insight—with a feminist focus—into the often overlooked...  Read More >>

A Life of One's Own

A Life of One's Own

Author: Marion Milner ,  Rachel Bowlby (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781032757551
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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The Mountain Man of Letters: Essays on the Works of Howard O'Hagan

The Mountain Man of Letters: Essays on the Works of...

Author: Sergiy Yakovenko
ISBN: 9781771838733
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Howard O'Hagan was one of the first native-born westerners to make a mark on Canadian literature. The purpose of...  Read More >>

Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914 1934: The Ghosts of World War One

Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914 1934:...

Author: Andrew Smith
ISBN: 9781474443449
Format: Paperback
$51.72

The first detailed analysis of Gothic literature and trauma in World War One.  Read More >>

The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles

The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary...

Author: Michael Docherty
ISBN: 9781438497112
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility,...  Read More >>

The Serpent's Plumes: Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement

The Serpent's Plumes: Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words...

Author: Adam W. Coon
ISBN: 9781438497778
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s...  Read More >>

Soundings in Context: Poetry's Embodiments

Soundings in Context: Poetry's Embodiments

Author: Judith Goldman ,  James Maynard
ISBN: 9781438497556
Format: Hardback
$261.36

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Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History

Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History

Author: William Bryan Jones, Jr.
ISBN: 9781476688329
Format: Hardback
$127.60

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Books Like Sapphires: From the Library of Congress Judaica Collection

Books Like Sapphires: From the Library of Congress Judaica...

Author: Ann Brener
ISBN: 9781684581986
Format: Hardback
$82.95

"""Books Like Sapphires features highlights of Hebrew literary...  Read More >>

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