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Singing Songs of Sixpence?: Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth and the Languages of Music

Singing Songs of Sixpence?: Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth...

Author: Claire Davison
ISBN: 9781911426059
Format: Paperback
$12.94

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Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman: Rethinking the Wilhelm Meister Novels

Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman: Rethinking...

Author: Frederick Amrine (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
ISBN: 9781108477680
Format: Hardback
$316.80

A refreshingly unique reading of the most influential German novels. By jettisoning the problematical notion of...  Read More >>

Interkulturelle Intertextualitaet Im «Widuwilt»: Diskussion - Konzeption - Analyse

Interkulturelle Intertextualitaet Im «Widuwilt»: Diskussion...

Author: Thomas Bein ,  Jennifer Koch
ISBN: 9783631805046
Format: Hardback
$165.99

Die Autorin setzt sich kritisch mit den Begriffen der Interkulturellen Germanistik auseinander und formuliert eigene...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf and Masculinity

Virginia Woolf and Masculinity

Author: Lisa Griffin
ISBN: 9781474433426
Format: Hardback
$207.00

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Uncle Tom's Cabins: The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book

Uncle Tom's Cabins: The Transnational History of America's...

Author: Tracy C. Davis ,  Stefka Mihaylova
ISBN: 9780472037766
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Explores the many ways this mid-nineteenth-century U.S. bestseller functions as world literature and enduring icon...  Read More >>

The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life

The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie...

Author: Andrew Blauner (Editor) ,  Mark Boyett
ISBN: 9781713541851
Format: Audio
$65.97

"A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip - and the life lessons it can teach us - from a stellar...  Read More >>

Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays

Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays

Author: Matthew Teutsch
ISBN: 9781496827838
Format: Paperback
$62.70

The first book-length study of Frank Yerby's life and work. The collection explores a myriad of topics, including...  Read More >>

Set Down in Malice

Set Down in Malice

Author: Gerald Cumberland
ISBN: 9781847020895
Format: Paperback
$20.44

Gerald Cumberland was the pseudonym used by the British author, journalist, poet and composer Charles Frederick...  Read More >>

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Essay Writing Guide for GCSE (9-1)

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Essay Writing Guide for GCSE...

Author: R P Davis ,  R P Davis
ISBN: 9781916373532
Format: Paperback
$29.01

So you now know the novel - but how do you structure your essay? This clean & simple new guide from Accolade Press...  Read More >>

Modern Fantasy

Modern Fantasy

Author: Colin N Manlove
ISBN: 9781532691829
Format: Paperback
$97.68

After a decade from 1965 which had seen the growth in Britain and America of an enormous interest in fantasy literature,...  Read More >>

The Classics Slacker Reads Madame Bovary

The Classics Slacker Reads Madame Bovary

Author: Deb Martin ,  Heidi Mastrogiovanni
ISBN: 9798648881389
Format: Paperback
$31.68

"Hooray! ""The Classics Slacker Reads"" series (Reading the classics so you don't have to) is back with its second...  Read More >>

A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937: Disgust, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror

A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937: Disgust, Metaphysics,...

Author: Jonathan Newell
ISBN: 9781786835444
Format: Paperback
$64.69

A Century of Weird Fiction, 18321937 explores the intersections between weird fiction, aesthetics and philosophy,...  Read More >>

Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836

Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary...

Author: Simon Bainbridge (Professor of Romantic Studies, University of Lancaster)
ISBN: 9780198857891
Format: Hardback
$155.95

This volume argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is...  Read More >>

Jane Williams (Ysgafell)

Jane Williams (Ysgafell)

Author: Gwyneth Tyson Roberts
ISBN: 9781786835635
Format: Paperback
$52.99

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Modern Fantasy

Modern Fantasy

Author: Colin N Manlove
ISBN: 9781532691836
Format: Hardback
$124.08

After a decade from 1965 which had seen the growth in Britain and America of an enormous interest in fantasy literature,...  Read More >>

Religion and American Literature Since 1950

Religion and American Literature Since 1950

Author: Professor Mark Eaton (Azusa Pacific University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350123755
Format: Hardback
$190.00

From Flannery O’Connor and James Baldwin to the post-9/11 writings of Don DeLillo, imaginative writers have often...  Read More >>

Ottoman Culture and the Project of Modernity: Reform and Translation in the Tanzimat Novel

Ottoman Culture and the Project of Modernity: Reform...

Author: Prof. Monica M. Ringer (Amherst College, USA) ,  Dr Etienne Charrière (Bilkent University, Turkey)
ISBN: 9781788314527
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Central to the nineteenth-century Ottoman Tanzimat reform project, the novel originally developed outside of Ottoman...  Read More >>

War, Nation and Europe in the Novels of Storm Jameson

War, Nation and Europe in the Novels of Storm Jameson...

Author: Dr Katherine Cooper (University of East Anglia, UK)
ISBN: 9781350094437
Format: Hardback
$190.00

The novels of Storm Jameson and their depictions of Britain’s relationship to Europe around the Second World War...  Read More >>

Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror

Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror

Author: Dawn Keetley
ISBN: 9780814255803
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Essays explore Get Out's roots in the horror tradition and its complex and timely commentary on twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris

Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne,...

Author: John T. Matthews
ISBN: 9780820356709
Format: Hardback
$71.15

Difficult truths were hidden in plain sight, allowing beholders at once to recognize and disavow knowledge they...  Read More >>

Willa Cather and E. M. Forster: Transatlantic Transcendence

Willa Cather and E. M. Forster: Transatlantic Transcendence...

Author: Alan Blackstock
ISBN: 9781611479799
Format: Hardback
$277.20

Willa Cather and E. M. Forster examines the novels of these influential twentieth-century writers in the context...  Read More >>

Finding Truth in Fiction: What Fan Culture Gets Right--and Why it's Good to Get Lost in a Story

Finding Truth in Fiction: What Fan Culture Gets Right--and...

Author: Karen E. Dill-Shackleford (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, Fielding Graduate University) ,  Cynthia Vinney (Doctoral Candidate, Doctoral Candidate, Fielding Graduate University)
ISBN: 9780190643607
Format: Hardback
$66.95

In Finding Truth in Fiction, two media psychologists reveal that there's much more to our desire to seek out stories...  Read More >>

Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror

Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror

Author: Dawn Keetley
ISBN: 9780814214275
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Essays explore Get Out's roots in the horror tradition and its complex and timely commentary on twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

Unreal Houses: Character, Gender, and Genealogy in the Tale of Genji

Unreal Houses: Character, Gender, and Genealogy in the...

Author: Edith Sarra
ISBN: 9780674244436
Format: Hardback
$117.95

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