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Concrete and Plastic: Thinking through Materiality

Concrete and Plastic: Thinking through Materiality

Author: Kylie Crane (University of Rostock, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350380639
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Bringing plastic and concrete - two of the contemporary age's most significant materials - together, this book uses...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature...

Author: Cosima Bruno (SOAS University of London) ,  Lucas Klein (Arizona State University)
ISBN: 9781350215351
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Offering the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies...  Read More >>

Mary Butts: Necessary Contradictions and Feminist Reconstructions

Mary Butts: Necessary Contradictions and Feminist Reconstructions...

Author: Dr. Joel Hawkes (University of Victoria, Canada)
ISBN: 9781501380754
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A scholarly and experimental collection that offers fresh insight—with a feminist focus—into the often overlooked...  Read More >>

Conflict, Trauma, Memory: A Chronicle of Northeast Indian Literature

Conflict, Trauma, Memory: A Chronicle of Northeast Indian...

Author: Jayini Bhaumik
ISBN: 9781803748368
Format: Paperback
$160.91

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Comic Book Apocalypse!: The Death of Pre-Code Comics and Why It Happened, 1940–1955

Comic Book Apocalypse!: The Death of Pre-Code Comics...

Author: David J. Hogan ,  Maggie Thompson
ISBN: 9780764369599
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Explore the rise and fall of pre-Code comics with 500 covers revealing America's cultural shifts, censorship, and...  Read More >>

Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga

Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron...

Author: Dr Harriet Fletcher (Lecturer in Media and Communications, Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350447523
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Covering literature, visual media and popular culture, this book explores how the Gothic is consistently used to...  Read More >>

Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's Science Fiction

Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's...

Author: Jerome Winter
ISBN: 9781666956801
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The book argues that Ian McDonald’s globalized science fiction functions as a complex, hybrid fusion of magic realism...  Read More >>

The Third Doctor: Earthbound Defender of Time (Jon Pertwee, 1970-1974)

The Third Doctor: Earthbound Defender of Time (Jon Pertwee,...

Author: Matthew Petchinsky
ISBN: 9798295431388
Format: Paperback
$31.65

The Third Doctor: Earthbound Defender of Time is a powerful, in-depth exploration of Jon Pertwee's groundbreaking...  Read More >>

The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching: Prints, Process, Prose

The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching: Prints,...

Author: Rachel Skokowski (Curator, Janet Turner Print Museum and Director of Galleries, California State University)
ISBN: 9780198975274
Format: Hardback
$182.95

The first comprehensive study of the Goncourt brothers' etchings, including never-before published images of their...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian Literature

Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian...

Author: Tamar Koplatadze (Associate Professor in Postsocialist Literature and Culture, Associate Professor in Postsocialist Literature and Culture, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198974062
Format: Hardback
$208.95

A monograph on the rich and complex history of postcolonial literature from the Caucasus and Central Asia, examining...  Read More >>

Writing Noise in Interwar Britain: Literature and the Politics of Sound

Writing Noise in Interwar Britain: Literature and the...

Author: Anna Snaith (Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, English Department, King's College London)
ISBN: 9780198951476
Format: Hardback
$208.95

This book explores the preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound in interwar Britain. It contends that the extreme decibel...  Read More >>

Meatfiction: The Treatment of Animals in the Contemporary American Novel

Meatfiction: The Treatment of Animals in the Contemporary...

Author: Jamie Redgate
ISBN: 9783032083722
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Pushcart Prize L: Best of the Small Presses (2026)

Pushcart Prize L: Best of the Small Presses (2026)

Author: Bill Henderson ,  The Pushcart Prize Editors
ISBN: 9798985469790
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Awards: Highest Honors—American Academy of Arts & Letters Lifetime Achievement—National Book Critics Circle...  Read More >>

Pushcart Prize L: Best of the Small Presses (2026)

Pushcart Prize L: Best of the Small Presses (2026)

Author: Bill Henderson ,  The Pushcart Prize Editors
ISBN: 9798985469783
Format: Hardback
$62.95

Awards: Highest Honors—American Academy of Arts & Letters Lifetime Achievement—National Book Critics Circle...  Read More >>

Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine: A Commentary on the Tale by Apuleius

Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine:...

Author: Erich Neumann ,  Ralph Manheim
ISBN: 9780691279282
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, this book shows how the contest between...  Read More >>

Mid-Century Women's Writing: Disrupting the Public/Private Divide

Mid-Century Women's Writing: Disrupting the Public/Private...

Author: Melissa Dinsman ,  Megan Faragher
ISBN: 9781526195517
Format: Paperback
$68.99

This book re-examines British women's writing in the mid-century and its relationship to public and domestic spaces....  Read More >>

Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance

Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance

Author: Chloe Kathleen Preedy ,  Rachel Willie
ISBN: 9781526195524
Format: Paperback
$68.99

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  Read More >>

House of Splendid Isolation

House of Splendid Isolation

Author: Edna O'Brien
ISBN: 9780571397556
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An unlikely friendship in an old country house, in this political thriller from the legendary novelist of the human...  Read More >>

The Light of Evening

The Light of Evening

Author: Edna O'Brien
ISBN: 9780571397518
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A heartbreaking novel about mothers and daughters, from the legendary novelist of the human heart.  Read More >>

Twilight of Love: (Silhouette - A Collection of 100 Wonderful Short and Long Stories)

Twilight of Love: (Silhouette - A Collection of 100...

Author: Dr Ratan Bhattacharjee
ISBN: 9781543785197
Format: Paperback
$81.81

'Twilight of Love a collection of short stories must be given prominence in the literary milieu, purely for their...  Read More >>

Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine: A Commentary on the Tale by Apuleius

Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine:...

Author: Erich Neumann ,  Ralph Manheim
ISBN: 9780691279275
Format: Hardback
$62.99

Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, this book shows how the contest between...  Read More >>

George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: A Critical Companion

George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: A Critical...

Author: Joseph Rex Young
ISBN: 9783032080226
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book provides a brief scholarly introduction to A Game of Thrones, the first volume of George R. R. Martin's...  Read More >>

Geometries of Empathy: Modernism, Attention, and the Contemporary Novel

Geometries of Empathy: Modernism, Attention, and the...

Author: Ágota Márton (Lecturer in English, Brasenose College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198983316
Format: Hardback
$182.95

Geometries of Empathy offers a new take on the contemporary Anglophone novel through the much-contested problem...  Read More >>

Unveiled: The Mysteries of God from Genesis to Revelation

Unveiled: The Mysteries of God from Genesis to Revelation...

Author: Rene Claude Kouakou
ISBN: 9798232333997
Format: Paperback
$73.89

Throughout Scripture, God has woven a golden thread of divine mysteries-truths once hidden in the counsels of eternity,...  Read More >>

Political and Gender Dialectics in Three Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novels of the Bourbon Restoration (1874-1931)

Political and Gender Dialectics in Three Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Bobby Clinton
ISBN: 9783034355360
Format: Hardback
$237.47

This book analyzes the three most iconic realist Spanish novels of the nineteenth century as a dialogue between...  Read More >>

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