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This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers...  Read More >>

I went out drinking that night in the company of friends that were mine, not yours, and when I returned after...  Read More >>

Pagination not included in publisher information.  Read More >>

""This series presents critical views on the most widely studied writers of short fiction. Each volume includes...  Read More >>

A convenient source of critical commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed authors who died between 1800 and...  Read More >>

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Explores the English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race....  Read More >>

Robert Lowell was one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century. This volume explores the various...  Read More >>

Explores the challenges facing literature, philosophy, and theory at a time when the humanities appear to some as...  Read More >>

Introduces readers to the southern African poetry scene in Malawi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, illustrating how...  Read More >>

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

Analyses more than a dozen pieces of Ernest Hemingway’s celebrated short fiction, with a focus on manuscripts and...  Read More >>

Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future, this volume focuses on...  Read More >>

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

Elegantly written and deeply engaged with previous scholarship as well as interviews with the novelist, this study...  Read More >>

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

Introduces readers to the southern African poetry scene in Malawi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, illustrating how...  Read More >>

The most wide-ranging study of the history of children's periodicals to date  Read More >>

A poetic meditation on the challenges and pleasures of contemporary speculative fiction.  Read More >>

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863–1944), who often published under the pen-name of 'Q', was one of the giants of early...  Read More >>

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When Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that...  Read More >>