Literary studies: general books

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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and...

Author: Renée Bergland
ISBN: 9780691235288
Format: Hardback
$57.99

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature

The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature

Author: Douglas A. Vakoch ,  Sabine Sharp
ISBN: 9781032431550
Format: Hardback
$462.00

The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature examines the intersection of transgender studies and literary studies,...  Read More >>

The Blue Castle: The Original Manuscript

The Blue Castle: The Original Manuscript

Author: Lucy Montgomery ,  Carolyn Strom Collins
ISBN: 9781774712757
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Published for the first time ever, the first draft of The Blue Castle exactly as L. M. Montgomery originally wrote...  Read More >>

Marxismus, Pragmatismus und Postmetaphysik: Vom Finden zum Machen

Marxismus, Pragmatismus und Postmetaphysik: Vom Finden...

Author: Ulf Schulenberg
ISBN: 9783031528415
Format: Hardback
$224.37

Vom Finden zum Machen bietet die erste ausführliche Diskussion über die Beziehung zwischen Marxismus und Pragmatismus....  Read More >>

La Langue de la Fiction Dans La Nouvelle Historique Et Galante

La Langue de la Fiction Dans La Nouvelle Historique...

Author: Claire Badiou-Monferran ,  Emily Lombardero
ISBN: 9782406167006
Format: Paperback
$150.48

This work looks at the question of the nature of fiction from a dual perspective, historical and linguistic. Based...  Read More >>

Julian of Norwich and the Problem of Evil

Julian of Norwich and the Problem of Evil

Author: Richard Norton
ISBN: 9780718896157
Format: Paperback
$53.69

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Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality

Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality

Author: Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9781009320405
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Greek poetry invented ephemerality as a mark of the human condition and introduced materials for confronting it....  Read More >>

La Langue de la Fiction Dans La Nouvelle Historique Et Galante

La Langue de la Fiction Dans La Nouvelle Historique...

Author: Claire Badiou-Monferran ,  Emily Lombardero
ISBN: 9782406167013
Format: Hardback
$298.32

This work looks at the question of the nature of fiction from a dual perspective, historical and linguistic. Based...  Read More >>

Approaching the Interval in the Early Modern Theatre: The Significance of the 'Act-Time'

Approaching the Interval in the Early Modern Theatre:...

Author: Mark Hutchings (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
ISBN: 9781108791922
Format: Paperback
$43.99

In requiring artificial light, the early modern indoor theatre had to interrupt the action so that the candles could...  Read More >>

Breaking free

Breaking free

Author: Jalyn Jace
ISBN: 9798224186440
Format: Paperback
$29.04

Breaking Free: Escaping Toxic Relationships with Family, Friends, and Partners offers a compassionate and empowering...  Read More >>

Pleasure of Thinking

Pleasure of Thinking

Author: Wang Xiaobo ,  Yan Yan
ISBN: 9780241633267
Format: Paperback
$28.99

The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now...  Read More >>

French Tragic Drama in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

French Tragic Drama in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth...

Author: Geoffrey Brereton
ISBN: 9781032251554
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1973, the history of French tragedy and tragicomedy from their origins in the sixteenth...  Read More >>

Authors and Adaptation: Writing Across Media in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Authors and Adaptation: Writing Across Media in the...

Author: Annie Nissen
ISBN: 9783031468216
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book studies British literary writers’ engagement with adaptations of their work across literary, theatrical,...  Read More >>

Sensation Fiction and Modernity: The Meanings of Ambivalence in Mid-Victorian Britain

Sensation Fiction and Modernity: The Meanings of Ambivalence...

Author: James Aaron Green
ISBN: 9783031498336
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. More fundamentally, it...  Read More >>

Seneca and the Self

Seneca and the Self

Author: Shadi Bartsch ,  David Wray
ISBN: 9781009516136
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Many modern critics have treated Seneca as an innovator in historical understandings of 'selfhood' and self-awareness....  Read More >>

Energy Culture: Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and the Soviet Union

Energy Culture: Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and...

Author: Jillian Porter ,  Maya Vinokour
ISBN: 9783031143229
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social...  Read More >>

Disavowing Authority in the Shakespeare Classroom

Disavowing Authority in the Shakespeare Classroom

Author: Huw Griffiths (University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781108948692
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element questions the role of authority in Shakespeare teaching. It connects an understanding of how Shakespearean...  Read More >>

Staging Revolutions and the Many Faces of Modernism: Performing Politics in Irish and Egyptian Theatre

Staging Revolutions and the Many Faces of Modernism:...

Author: Amina ElHalawani
ISBN: 9781032728902
Format: Paperback
$77.99

The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics...  Read More >>

The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction

The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction

Author: Paul Stasi (University of Albany)
ISBN: 9781009223164
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Designed for scholars of literature as well as readers of realist and modernist fiction, The Persistence of Realism...  Read More >>

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between...

Author: Sarah Hart
ISBN: 9780008601119
Format: Paperback
$24.99

‘A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart’s lightness of touch...  Read More >>

Quatrevingt-Treize

Quatrevingt-Treize

Author: Victor Hugo
ISBN: 9789357950671
Format: Paperback
$68.01

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Modernekritik und Fortschrittsskepsis bei Robert Musil: Freuds Triebtheorie im Typologiekreis der Wiener Moderne

Modernekritik und Fortschrittsskepsis bei Robert Musil:...

Author: Gernot Wimmer
ISBN: 9783662687666
Format: Paperback
$197.97

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