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William Empson: The Structure of Complex Words

William Empson: The Structure of Complex Words

Author: William Empson ,  Helen Thaventhiran (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780198713432
Format: Hardback
$276.95

This is the first scholarly edition of William Empson's The Structure of Complex Words (1951), a classic of literary...  Read More >>

Life After Truth

Life After Truth

Author: Ceridwen Dovey
ISBN: 9781760895365
Format: Paperback
$32.99

'A sublime gem of a novel' Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites  Read More >>

Site-Seeing Aesthetics: California Sojourns in Five Installations

Site-Seeing Aesthetics: California Sojourns in Five...

Author: Lene Johannessen
ISBN: 9789004437999
Format: Hardback
$332.64

Site-Seeing Aesthetics: California Sojourns in Five Installations draws on multiple disciplines for a regional deep...  Read More >>

Romanciers fin-de-siècle

Romanciers fin-de-siècle

Author: Edyta Kociubińska
ISBN: 9789004443716
Format: Hardback
$353.76

L’ouvrage propose de réfléchir sur la richesse de la création romanesque de l’époque crépusculaire en réunissant...  Read More >>

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: Volume 2: ""Mid-Season Form"": The coming of Jeeves and Wooster, Blandings, and Lord Emsworth

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: Volume 2: ""Mid-Season Form"":...

Author: Paul Kent
ISBN: 9781916190863
Format: Hardback
$56.93

In 1915, P.G. Wodehouse's fictional world mushroomed. His best-known creations, Jeeves and Bertie, arrived, as did...  Read More >>

The Poems and Aphorisms of Maurice Chapelan

The Poems and Aphorisms of Maurice Chapelan

Author: Mary Munro-Hill
ISBN: 9781527560673
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This book, prefaced by the French novelist and essayist, Jeanne Cressanges, focuses on Maurice Chapelan’s poetry...  Read More >>

South of the Future: Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas

South of the Future: Marketing Care and Speculating...

Author: Anindita Banerjee ,  Debra A. Castillo
ISBN: 9781438481074
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.  Read More >>

Scottish Romanticism and the Making of Collective Memory in the British Atlantic

Scottish Romanticism and the Making of Collective Memory...

Author: Kenneth McNeil
ISBN: 9781474455466
Format: Hardback
$230.00

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Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories

Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories

Author: Enda Duffy ,  Gerri Kimber
ISBN: 9781474477307
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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Vagabond Fictions: Gender and Experiment in British Women's Writing, 1945-1970

Vagabond Fictions: Gender and Experiment in British...

Author: Carole Sweeney
ISBN: 9781474426176
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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Chuck Palahniuk and the Comic Grotesque: Subversion of Ideology in the Fiction

Chuck Palahniuk and the Comic Grotesque: Subversion...

Author: David McCracken
ISBN: 9781476678177
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Aliens, Robots & Virtual Reality Idols in the Science Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov and William Gibson

Aliens, Robots & Virtual Reality Idols in the Science...

Author: John L. Steadman
ISBN: 9781789045109
Format: Paperback
$43.96

John L. Steadman argues that there is little difference between alien indifferentism and alien inclusionism in the...  Read More >>

Understanding David Foster Wallace

Understanding David Foster Wallace

Author: Marshall Boswell
ISBN: 9781643360690
Format: Paperback
$44.00

Since its publication in 2003, Understanding David Foster Wallace has served as an accessible introduction to the...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts

The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts...

Author: Catherine Brown ,  Susan Reid
ISBN: 9781474456623
Format: Hardback
$391.00

This book includes twenty-eight innovative chapters by specialists from across the arts, reassessing Lawrence's...  Read More >>

Understanding Stewart O'Nan

Understanding Stewart O'Nan

Author: Heike Paul
ISBN: 9781643361505
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West

Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul...

Author: David P. Deavel ,  Jessica Hooten Wilson
ISBN: 9780268108250
Format: Hardback
$330.00

For many Americans of both right and left political persuasions, the Russian bear is more of a bugbear. On the right,...  Read More >>

Tone: Writing and the Sound of Feeling

Tone: Writing and the Sound of Feeling

Author: Professor Judith Roof (Rice University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501362576
Format: Paperback
$46.99

""Explores a crucial but elusive aspect of writing, tone, across fiction, creative non-fiction, and electronically-generated...  Read More >>

The Write Plan: A Guided Notebook for Writers

The Write Plan: A Guided Notebook for Writers

Author: Hannah Bauman
ISBN: 9781735455303
Format: Hardback
$50.13

The Write Plan is a guided notebook and dot grid journal for fiction writers who want to organize their ideas on...  Read More >>

Angela Carter’s Critique of Her Contemporary World: Politics, History, and Mortality

Angela Carter’s Critique of Her Contemporary World:...

Author: Yutaka Okuhata
ISBN: 9783631830376
Format: Hardback
$144.51

This research sheds new light on Angela Carter’s critique of her contemporary world, not only as a feminist and...  Read More >>

C. S. Lewis: His Literary Achievement

C. S. Lewis: His Literary Achievement

Author: Colin Manlove
ISBN: 9781935688501
Format: Hardback
$52.77

This book is the first thorough analysis of the whole of Lewis' fiction to show it has behind it a considerable...  Read More >>

Das Warschauer Ghetto: Zwischen Ausnahmezustand und permanent schlechtem Gewissen. Eine Untersuchung anhand zentraler Texte der polnischen Literatur. Mit einem Vorwort von Claus Leggewie

Das Warschauer Ghetto: Zwischen Ausnahmezustand und...

Author: Alexander Höllwerth
ISBN: 9783631779279
Format: Hardback
$212.05

Der Band untersucht zentrale Texte der polnischen Literatur zum Warschauer Ghetto. Der Ereignisraum des Warschauer...  Read More >>

The Don Carlos Enigma: Variations of Historical Fictions

The Don Carlos Enigma: Variations of Historical Fictions...

Author: Maria-Cristina Necula
ISBN: 9781680539523
Format: Hardback
$231.00

The death of Spain's Don Carlos, Prince of Asturias, on July 24, 1568, remains an enigma. This book investigates...  Read More >>

Publishing Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen and the Writing Profession

Publishing Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen and the Writing...

Author: Margie Burns
ISBN: 9781648891311
Format: Hardback
$192.72

The objective of this book is to make Austen's early publishing history clear, bringing to light information and...  Read More >>

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