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Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States: Written Discourse and the Experience of Depression

Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States: Written...

Author: Dr Zsófia Demjén (Lecturer (English Lang/App Linguistics), University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781474212663
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Focusing on the first journal in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, this book writes a convincing case for...  Read More >>

This Life, This World: New Essays on Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, Gilead, and Home

This Life, This World: New Essays on Marilynne Robinson’s...

Author: Jason Stevens
ISBN: 9789004296633
Format: Paperback
$298.32

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The Pusher and the Sufferer: An Unsentimental Reading of ""Moby Dick""

The Pusher and the Sufferer: An Unsentimental Reading...

Author: Suzanne Stein
ISBN: 9781138878457
Format: Paperback
$46.99

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The Clubwomen's Daughters: Collectivist Impulses in Progressive-era Girl's Fiction, 1890-1940

The Clubwomen's Daughters: Collectivist Impulses in...

Author: Gwen Tarbox
ISBN: 9781138883437
Format: Paperback
$103.00

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to ‘Emma'

The Cambridge Companion to ‘Emma'

Author: Peter Sabor (McGill University, Montréal)
ISBN: 9781107442993
Format: Paperback
$64.69

This collection of essays on Jane Austen's Emma, her last novel published in her lifetime, offers both close readings...  Read More >>

Three's A Crowd: Book Slam Annual Vol. III

Three's A Crowd: Book Slam Annual Vol. III

Author: Book Slam Production Ltd
ISBN: 9781908615602
Format: Hardback
$38.79

Three's A Crowd is the third volume from Book Slam , London's legendary night of words and music that has reinvigorated...  Read More >>

The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction

The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction

Author: J. S. Bratton (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138944312
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Originally published in 1981. This book describes and evaluates writing for children in the Victorian period. It...  Read More >>

From Brown to Bunter: The Life and Death of the School Story

From Brown to Bunter: The Life and Death of the School...

Author: P. W. Musgrave
ISBN: 9781138946378
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Originally published in 1985. This is a fascinating account of the life cycle of a minor literary genre, the boys’...  Read More >>

Critical Approaches to Joseph Conrad

Critical Approaches to Joseph Conrad

Author: Agata Szczeszak-Brewer
ISBN: 9781611175295
Format: Hardback
$118.77

Offers a collection of essays directed to both new and experienced readers of Conrad. Editor Agata Szczeszak-Brewer...  Read More >>

A Companion to Herman Melville

A Companion to Herman Melville

Author: Wyn Kelley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
ISBN: 9781119045274
Format: Paperback
$78.95

* * This comprehensive resource demonstrates the relevance of Melville s works in the twenty-first century....  Read More >>

Joyce's Creative Process and the Construction of Characters in Ulysses: Becoming the Blooms

Joyce's Creative Process and the Construction of Characters...

Author: Luca Crispi (Lecturer in Joyce Studies and Modernism, Lecturer in Joyce Studies and Modernism, University College Dublin)
ISBN: 9780198718857
Format: Hardback
$288.95

A ground-breaking book examining how James Joyce wrote Ulysses and, in doing so, created some of the most iconic...  Read More >>

Life is Like a Glass of Tea: Studies of Classic Jewish Jokes (Second Edition)

Life is Like a Glass of Tea: Studies of Classic Jewish...

Author: Richard Raskin ,  Marc Galanter
ISBN: 9781610273220
Format: Hardback
$103.47

"The first book on Jewish humor in which individual jokes are singled out for comprehensive study, Life is Like...  Read More >>

Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics: C.L.R. James' Critique of Modernity

Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics: C.L.R. James'...

Author: Brett St Louis
ISBN: 9781138874695
Format: Paperback
$46.99

This book assesses the oeuvre of Trinidadian activist-intellectual C.L.R. James in its entire polymath range, analyzing...  Read More >>

Frodo's Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of the Lord of the Rings

Frodo's Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of the...

Author: Joseph Pearce ,  Jef Murray
ISBN: 9781618906755
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Dracula Invades England: The Text, the Context, and the Readers

Dracula Invades England: The Text, the Context, and...

Author: Cristina Artenie
ISBN: 9780993995101
Format: Paperback
$36.30

A long overdue study of the social, political and cultural context of Bram Stoker's Dracula, using British and...  Read More >>

Gothic and Racism

Gothic and Racism

Author: Cristina Artenie
ISBN: 9780993995149
Format: Paperback
$40.70

Collection of essays analyzing the various manifestations of racism in Gothic narratives: literature, film, TV,...  Read More >>

The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children’s Literature: Heroes and Eagles

The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children’s...

Author: Lisa Maurice
ISBN: 9789004298590
Format: Hardback
$543.84

The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children’s Literature: Heroes and Eagles investigates the varying receptions...  Read More >>

Decades of Contemporary British Fiction: The 1970s to the 2000s

Decades of Contemporary British Fiction: The 1970s to...

Author: Dr Leigh Wilson (University of Westminster, UK) ,  Dr Nick Hubble (Brunel University, London, UK)
ISBN: 9781474227742
Format: Mixed media product
$950.00

Moving beyond a survey approach, this collection explores British fiction's place among the cultural shifts and...  Read More >>

Crisis y Reemergencia: El Siglo XIX en la Ficción Contemporánea de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (1980–2001)

Crisis y Reemergencia: El Siglo XIX en la Ficción Contemporánea...

Author: Verónica Garibotto
ISBN: 9781557537157
Format: Paperback
$118.80

In the last decades—and especially since the 1990s—there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century...  Read More >>

Patrick White Beyond the Grave

Patrick White Beyond the Grave

Author: Ian Henderson ,  Anouk Lang
ISBN: 9781783083985
Format: Paperback
$40.00

Carrying forward the momentum of the twenty-first-century 'rediscovery' of Patrick White (19121990), winner of the...  Read More >>

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