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The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts

The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the...

Author: Ann-Marie Einhaus (Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Northumbria University) ,  Katherine Isobel Baxter (Reader in English Literature, Northumbria University)
ISBN: 9781399546751
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war's upheavals across a wide...  Read More >>

Desde Un Camino Olvidado Des Todos: Mujer Vanguardia, Exilio Y Existencialismo En La Sin Razón De Rosa Chacel

Desde Un Camino Olvidado Des Todos: Mujer Vanguardia,...

Author: Ana Gómez-Pérez
ISBN: 9781469688497
Format: Paperback
$150.00

La sinrazón (1960), obra magna de Rosa Chacel, es uno de los testimonios más importantes de la literatura del exilio...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East

The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East...

Author: Anna Ball (Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University) ,  Karim Mattar (Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado, Boulder)
ISBN: 9781474427692
Format: Paperback
$89.99

The first collection of essays on this subject, this Edinburgh Companion assembles some of the world's foremost...  Read More >>

The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature and Visual Culture

The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature and Visual...

Author: Maria Flood (Senior Lecturer in World Cinema, University of Liverpool) ,  Michael C. Frank (Professor of Literatures in English of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, University of Zurich)
ISBN: 9781474497596
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Contains thirteen original essays and an expansive introduction, including contributions by some of the foremost...  Read More >>

Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s: The Modernist Period

Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s:...

Author: Faith Binckes (Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Bath Spa University) ,  Carey Snyder (Associate Professor of English, Ohio University)
ISBN: 9781399546805
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This collection highlights the contributions of women writers, editors and critics to periodical culture in the...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope

The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope

Author: Frederik Van Dam (Assistant Professor of European Literature, Radboud University) ,  David Skilton (Emeritus Professor in English, Cardiff University)
ISBN: 9781399546867
Format: Paperback
$79.99

By bringing together leading Victorianists with a wide range of interests, this innovative collection of essays...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Ezra Pound and the Arts

The Edinburgh Companion to Ezra Pound and the Arts

Author: Roxana Preda (Researcher and Leverhulme Fellow, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781399546782
Format: Paperback
$89.99

The present volume of new, interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the arts with which Pound had a lifelong interaction...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English

The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English...

Author: Paul Delaney (Assistant Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin) ,  Adrian Hunter (University of Stirling)
ISBN: 9781399546775
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s–1900s: The Victorian Period

Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s–1900s:...

Author: Alexis Easley (Professor of English, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota) ,  Clare Gill (Teaching Fellow in the English Department at the University of St. Andrews, University of St Andrews)
ISBN: 9781474433914
Format: Paperback
$89.99

Presents 35 thematically organised, research-led essays on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain....  Read More >>

Original Copy: Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination in Nineteenth Century American Literature

Original Copy: Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination...

Author: Christa Holm Vogelius
ISBN: 9781625348449
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Focused on four major writers of the period—Wheatley, Fuller, Hawthorne, and Longfellow—Original Copy frames ekphrasis...  Read More >>

The Absurd History of English Literature: Book 1 - Bards, Beards & Bad Decisions: The Classical Era (1200 BCE-455 CE)

The Absurd History of English Literature: Book 1 - Bards,...

Author: Mason Carter
ISBN: 9798316032105
Format: Paperback
$34.29

History is full of war, wisdom, and world-changing ideas... but it's also full of petty feuds, bad decisions, and...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 4: Letters to John Middleton Murry 1919–1922

The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine...

Author: Claire Davison (Professor of Modernist Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) ,  Gerri Kimber (Visiting Professor in the Department of English, University of Northampton)
ISBN: 9781474445566
Format: Hardback
$426.00

A completely revised edition of Katherine Mansfield's letters, incorporating recently discovered material and extensive...  Read More >>

Original Copy: Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination in Nineteenth Century American Literature

Original Copy: Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination...

Author: Christa Holm Vogelius
ISBN: 9781625348456
Format: Hardback
$229.00

Focused on four major writers of the period—Wheatley, Fuller, Hawthorne, and Longfellow—Original Copy frames ekphrasis...  Read More >>

The Handbook of Persian Dialects and Dialectology

The Handbook of Persian Dialects and Dialectology

Author: Alireza Korangy ,  Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari
ISBN: 9789819981502
Format: Hardback
$413.97

This innovative, investigative, and expansive handbook covers a multitude of angles through which the intricacies...  Read More >>

Concise Handbook of Word and Music Studies

Concise Handbook of Word and Music Studies

Author: Peter Dayan
ISBN: 9789004468290
Format: Hardback
$256.08

This highly readable book is a vital contribution to the study of intermediality. It is the first full survey of...  Read More >>

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, and Other Creative Writers Who Lived Between 1990 and 1999, from the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Criticism of the...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535880206
Format: Hardback
$1496.88

""This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures...  Read More >>

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion of the Works of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535879675
Format: Hardback
$1496.88

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading...  Read More >>

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535879941
Format: Hardback
$1116.72

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

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, and Other Creative Writers Who Lived Between 1990 and 1999, from the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Criticism of the...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535880190
Format: Hardback
$1496.88

""This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures...  Read More >>

Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers

Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535878685
Format: Hardback
$1496.88

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other...  Read More >>

Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature

Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535879460
Format: Hardback
$1116.72

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Nineteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, & Other Creative Writers

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Excerpts from...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535879231
Format: Hardback
$1496.88

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

Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers

Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535878692
Format: Hardback
$1496.88

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other...  Read More >>

The Works of Graham Greene, Volume 2: A Guide to the Graham Greene Archives

The Works of Graham Greene, Volume 2: A Guide to the...

Author: Mike Hill (Editor, A Sort of Newsletter, UK) ,  Dr Jon Wise (independent scholar)
ISBN: 9781350512719
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Over a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific writer. While his published works established him as one of...  Read More >>

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