Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Moll Flanders

Moll Flanders
Author: Daniel Defoe ISBN: 9791043135477 Format: Paperback	$65.87
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe is a novel published in 1722. Born in prison to a convict mother, Moll navigates survival... Read More >>

Walden

Walden
Author: Henry David Thoreau ISBN: 9791043139765 Format: Paperback	$65.87
One of the most influential books in early American literature. Read More >>

The Woman in White

The Woman in White
Author: Wilkie Collins ISBN: 9791043139307 Format: Paperback	$97.55
A young drawing teacher falls for his pupil, but she's married off to a baronet. A sinister plot unfolds, involving... Read More >>

Essays in Memory of E.A. Speiser

Essays in Memory of E.A. Speiser
Author: William W Hallo ISBN: 9780940490536 Format: Hardback	$157.08
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Translation and the Truth of History: Thucydides between Valla and Hobbes

Translation and the Truth of History: Thucydides between...
Author: José María Pérez Fernández (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, University of Granada) ISBN: 9780197902202 Format: Paperback	$44.95
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Inventing Immortality: Heterodoxy and Histories of the Soul in Early Enlightenment England

Inventing Immortality: Heterodoxy and Histories of the...
Author: Michelle Pfeffer (Calleva Postdoctoral Research Associate, Calleva Postdoctoral Research Associate, Magdalen College, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780198989202 Format: Hardback	$246.95
Around 1700, England saw a heated public debate about the soul's immortality. Two unlikely figures--a lawyer and... Read More >>

Translation and the Truth of History: Thucydides between Valla and Hobbes

Translation and the Truth of History: Thucydides between...
Author: José María Pérez Fernández (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, University of Granada) ISBN: 9780192865946 Format: Hardback	$218.95
Using samples taken from translations of Thucydides' influential History of the Peloponnesian War, the book argues... Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete...
Author: Fabian Alfie ISBN: 9780268210595 Format: Paperback	$104.00
Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian... Read More >>

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature
Author: Yuanfei Wang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) , Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania) ISBN: 9781009272353 Format: Paperback	$46.58
Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes... Read More >>

Before World Literature: The Trickster Tales of Al-Ḥarīrī in an Age of Commentary

Before World Literature: The Trickster Tales of Al-Ḥarīrī...
Author: Matthew L. Keegan ISBN: 9781512828870 Format: Hardback	$116.00
An account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, a twelfth-century... Read More >>

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature
Author: Yuanfei Wang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) , Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania) ISBN: 9781009500159 Format: Hardback	$142.31
Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes... Read More >>

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales...
Author: Nancy Mason Bradbury (Smith College) ISBN: 9780271096896 Format: Paperback	$72.99
""Situates Chaucer's proverbs in their premodern cultural and intellectual contexts, arguing that Chaucer places... Read More >>

Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism

Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism
Author: Matthew Thomas Miller ISBN: 9780520426344 Format: Paperback	$57.95
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Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism

Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism
Author: Matthew Thomas Miller ISBN: 9780520426337 Format: Hardback	$157.95
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Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It

Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the...
Author: Emily Hauser ISBN: 9781804992791 Format: Paperback	$29.99
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A Narratological Commentary on Herodotus' Histories

A Narratological Commentary on Herodotus' Histories...
Author: Irene J. F. de Jong (Universiteit van Amsterdam) ISBN: 9781108470988 Format: Hardback	$388.12
This commentary offers a close reading of one of the most famous ancient texts, Herodotus' Histories. It focuses... Read More >>

Epicurus’ Human Beings: Beyond Person and Self

Epicurus’ Human Beings: Beyond Person and Self
Author: Solmeng-Jonas Hirschi (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna) ISBN: 9780192874962 Format: Hardback	$246.95
Ancient philosophers developed a rich toolbox to better reach, teach, and affect their addressees or, indeed, practitioners,... Read More >>

Commentary on Plotinus

Commentary on Plotinus
Author: Marsilio Ficino , Stephen Gersh ISBN: 9780674303218 Format: Hardback	$61.95
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Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch

Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally...
Author: Luke O'Sullivan (Career Development Fellow in Early Modern French, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9781399522977 Format: Paperback	$44.99
Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne's Essais and early modern intellectual culture Read More >>

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman...
Author: Maijastina Kahlos (Senior Research Fellow, University of Helsinki) ISBN: 9781399514446 Format: Hardback	$219.00
In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it... Read More >>

Silent Medievalisms: Reimagining the Middle Ages During Film's Foundational Era

Silent Medievalisms: Reimagining the Middle Ages During...
Author: Tison Pugh , Angela Jane Weisl ISBN: 9780814216118 Format: Hardback	$237.47
Examines how early films used medieval stories and tropes to propagate contemporary political, national, and social... Read More >>

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death
Author: Jessica Barr ISBN: 9780268210946 Format: Hardback	$150.00
Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about... Read More >>

Homer Und Die Frühen Griechen

Homer Und Die Frühen Griechen
Author: Barbara Patzek ISBN: 9783110468762 Format: Paperback	$42.81
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Kleine Schriften Zur Antiken Medizin

Kleine Schriften Zur Antiken Medizin
Author: Jutta Kollesch ISBN: 9783110653410 Format: Hardback	$274.47
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Kommentar

Kommentar
Author: Marina Coray , Martha Krieter-Spiro ISBN: 9783110703368 Format: Hardback	$382.77
Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Kommentar"" verfügbar. Read More >>

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