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The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns

The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns

Author: Gerard Carruthers (Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9780198846246
Format: Hardback
$307.00

The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns explores the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national...  Read More >>

Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers

Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana...

Author: Norma Elia Cantú ,  Raquel Valle-Sentíes
ISBN: 9780816551828
Format: Hardback
$264.00

This innovative collection pairs portraits with critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an...  Read More >>

China Mysteries: Crime Novels from China’s Others

China Mysteries: Crime Novels from China’s Others

Author: Jeffrey C. Kinkley
ISBN: 9780824895204
Format: Hardback
$179.52

Examines more than a hundred China mysteries - many describing and analysing social and economic changes at the...  Read More >>

The Progress of a Biographer

The Progress of a Biographer

Author: Hugh Kingsmill
ISBN: 9781032224510
Format: Paperback
$58.99

First published in 1949, The Progress of a Biographer contains sketches of men, most of which were written between...  Read More >>

Empire of Objects: Iurii Trifonov and the Material World of Soviet Culture

Empire of Objects: Iurii Trifonov and the Material World...

Author: Benjamin M. Sutcliffe
ISBN: 9780299344009
Format: Hardback
$211.07

Scholars have both neglected Iurii Trifonov in recent years and focused their limited attention on the author’s...  Read More >>

Staging Existence: Chekhov's Tetralogy

Staging Existence: Chekhov's Tetralogy

Author: Svetlana Evdokimova
ISBN: 9780299344801
Format: Hardback
$211.07

Anton Chekhov’s contribution to intellectual and philosophical discourse was obscured both by his contemporaries...  Read More >>

James Salter: Pilot, Screenwriter, Novelist

James Salter: Pilot, Screenwriter, Novelist

Author: Jeffrey Meyers
ISBN: 9780807181164
Format: Hardback
$92.27

The first full-length study of James Salter in twenty-six years, this book is intended to introduce Salter to new...  Read More >>

Relief after Hardship: The Ottoman Turkish Model for The Thousand and One Days

Relief after Hardship: The Ottoman Turkish Model for...

Author: Ulrich Marzolph
ISBN: 9780814351154
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Based upon Andreas Tietze’s unpublished German translation of the Ottoman Turkish Ferec ba’d es-sidde, this book...  Read More >>

The Common Reader: Second Series

The Common Reader: Second Series

Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9780008658458
Format: Paperback
$9.99

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The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir

The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir

Author: Ramachandra Guha
ISBN: 9780008670146
Format: Hardback
$57.99

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary...  Read More >>

Black Hibiscus: African Americans and the Florida Imaginary

Black Hibiscus: African Americans and the Florida Imaginary...

Author: John Wharton Lowe
ISBN: 9781496848604
Format: Paperback
$48.40

Explores Florida’s colonial past, focusing particularly on interactions between maroons who escaped enslavement,...  Read More >>

Conversations with Orhan Pamuk

Conversations with Orhan Pamuk

Author: Erdağ Göknar ,  Pelin Kıvrak
ISBN: 9781496849427
Format: Paperback
$42.90

In over thirty interviews ranging from 1982 until 2022, Conversations with Orhan Pamuk reveals a writer of intense...  Read More >>

See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition

See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African...

Author: Christopher Michael Brown
ISBN: 9781496848208
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Argues that African American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots. Tracing this throughline from the...  Read More >>

Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom

Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children's...

Author: Karen Michele Chandler
ISBN: 9781496845948
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Examines Black-authored historical novels and films for children that depict creative means by which ordinary African...  Read More >>

See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition

See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African...

Author: Christopher Michael Brown
ISBN: 9781496848192
Format: Hardback
$185.90

Argues that African American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots. Tracing this throughline from the...  Read More >>

Conversations with Orhan Pamuk

Conversations with Orhan Pamuk

Author: Erdağ Göknar ,  Pelin Kıvrak
ISBN: 9781496849410
Format: Hardback
$185.90

In over thirty interviews ranging from 1982 until 2022, Conversations with Orhan Pamuk reveals a writer of intense...  Read More >>

Black Hibiscus: African Americans and the Florida Imaginary

Black Hibiscus: African Americans and the Florida Imaginary...

Author: John Wharton Lowe
ISBN: 9781496848598
Format: Hardback
$177.10

Explores Florida’s colonial past, focusing particularly on interactions between maroons who escaped enslavement,...  Read More >>

Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom

Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children's...

Author: Karen Michele Chandler
ISBN: 9781496845931
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Examines Black-authored historical novels and films for children that depict creative means by which ordinary African...  Read More >>

Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects

Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects...

Author: Daphne Lamothe
ISBN: 9781469675312
Format: Paperback
$56.10

Developing the idea of ‘Black aesthetic time’ - a multipronged theoretical concept that analyses the ways race and...  Read More >>

Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects

Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects...

Author: Daphne Lamothe
ISBN: 9781469675305
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Developing the idea of ‘Black aesthetic time’ - a multipronged theoretical concept that analyses the ways race and...  Read More >>

Introduction to Claudia Rankine

Introduction to Claudia Rankine

Author: Kathy Lou Schultz
ISBN: 9781941423080
Format: Paperback
$51.62

Provides the first book-length introduction to this vitally important poet. Written for scholars, poets, students,...  Read More >>

The Paradox of Paradise: Creative Destruction and the Rise of Urban Coastal Tourism in Contemporary Spanish Culture

The Paradox of Paradise: Creative Destruction and the...

Author: William Nichols
ISBN: 9780826506214
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Focuses on the trajectory of urban coastal tourism in Spain from the late Franco years to the present through the...  Read More >>

Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change

Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production...

Author: Carolyn Fornoff
ISBN: 9780826506177
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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