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Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition

Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity...
Author: Wen-chin Ouyang (Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, SOAS, University of London)
ISBN: 9781399564878
Format: Paperback 		$57.99

Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nationstate, modernity and tradition.  Read More >>

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Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in the Diaspora

Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in...
Author: Syrine Hout (Associate Professor, American University of Beirut)
ISBN: 9781399564847
Format: Paperback 		$57.99

Investigates the semantic permutations of 'homeness' in post-war diasporic Anglophone Lebanese novels.  Read More >>

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The Werner Sollors Reader: Ethnicity, Cosmopolitanism and Particularism

The Werner Sollors Reader: Ethnicity, Cosmopolitanism...
Author: Werner Sollors (Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and of African American Literature, Harvard University) ,  Daniel G. Williams (Professor of English Literature, Swansea University)
ISBN: 9781399536226
Format: Paperback 		$79.99

The first comprehensive overview of Werner Sollors' ground-breaking work on culture and ethnicity.  Read More >>

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Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892-2008

Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892-2008...
Author: Hoda Elsadda (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cairo University)
ISBN: 9781399564984
Format: Paperback 		$57.99

Provides a nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national'...  Read More >>

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Dickens and Switzerland

Dickens and Switzerland
Author: Christine Gmür (independent researcher and a teacher in English and German at the Upper Secondary School Kantonsschule im Lee, Winterthur)
ISBN: 9781399535663
Format: Paperback 		$44.99

The first in-depth study of the essential role Switzerland played in Charles Dickens's imagination  Read More >>

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The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: The Doom of Empire

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: The Doom...
Author: Martin Green
ISBN: 9781041313618
Format: Hardback 		$388.12

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century (1984) discusses 6 authors whom Dr Green saw as the most interesting...  Read More >>

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Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum...
Author: Allison S. Curseen
ISBN: 9781469694191
Format: Hardback 		$229.00

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  Read More >>

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The Tragedy of the Korosko and The Fires of Fate: with The Nile Journal

The Tragedy of the Korosko and The Fires of Fate: with...
Author: Professor Douglas Kerr (Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London) ,  Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9781399554541
Format: Hardback 		$288.00

Brings together Arthur Conan Doyle's Egyptian-themed works, based on his imperial travels.  Read More >>

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The Rapture: The Awakening Of The Faithful

The Rapture: The Awakening Of The Faithful
Author: Ray Aquil
ISBN: 9798195051297
Format: Paperback 		$55.41

This fiction story may be fiction, but it had a deeper story to tell let me give a few highlights of this story....  Read More >>

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Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces
Author: Laini Kavaloski
ISBN: 9781978830998
Format: Hardback 		$224.40

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The Feminist New Age: Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield and Modernist-Era Periodical Culture

The Feminist New Age: Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield...
Author: Carey Snyder (Associate Professor of English, Ohio University) ,  Lise Shapiro Sanders
ISBN: 9781399561853
Format: Hardback 		$230.00

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Telepoetics: Writing the Phone in Literature, Culture and Theory

Telepoetics: Writing the Phone in Literature, Culture...
Author: Sarah Jackson (Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University) ,  Philip Leonard (Professor of Literature and Theory, Nottingham Trent University)
ISBN: 9781399543170
Format: Hardback 		$230.00

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The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray and the Arts

The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray and the Arts...
Author: Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon (Professor of British Literature, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), France) ,  Camille Manfredi (Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Western Brittany)
ISBN: 9781399551373
Format: Hardback 		$345.00

A comprehensive and cutting-edge guide to Alasdair Gray's literary and artistic practice.  Read More >>

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Lives in Adab: Essays in Honour of Julia Bray

Lives in Adab: Essays in Honour of Julia Bray
Author: Alexander Key (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University) ,  Letizia Osti (Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Milan)
ISBN: 9781399543132
Format: Hardback 		$230.00

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Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature

Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature...
Author: Adam Kelly (Associate Professor of English, University College Dublin) ,  Katerina Pavlidi (Postdoctoral Fellow, University College Dublin)
ISBN: 9781399551977
Format: Hardback 		$219.00

Studies literature's role in representing and addressing dis/trust in the digital world.  Read More >>

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Anthropofugal Fictions: Literature, Species Politics and Flight from Humanity

Anthropofugal Fictions: Literature, Species Politics...
Author: Robert McKay (Professor of Contemporary Literature, University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9781399551854
Format: Hardback 		$219.00

Reveals how animal rights and species identity are reimagined in literature of the late twentieth century.  Read More >>

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The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture: From Conviviality to Cursed Thirst

The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture: From...
Author: Pam Lock (Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781399502221
Format: Hardback 		$200.00

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Rothelan: A Romance of the English Histories

Rothelan: A Romance of the English Histories
Author: Adam Kozaczka (Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M International University) ,  Clare A. Simmons (Professor of English, Ohio State University)
ISBN: 9781399531320
Format: Hardback 		$219.00

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American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...
Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211819
Format: Paperback 		$57.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

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Judy Blume: a life

Judy Blume: a life
Author: Mark Oppenheimer
ISBN: 9781761380686
Format: Paperback 		$39.99

The definitive, all-access biography of one of the world's most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant...  Read More >>

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Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and...
Author: Rongbin Han
ISBN: 9780231220552
Format: Paperback 		$57.95

Rongbin Han examines the production and consumption of online alt-history fiction in China, offering new insight...  Read More >>

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Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories
Author: Richard Barlow (Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University) ,  Paul Fagan (Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Maynooth University)
ISBN: 9781399529440
Format: Paperback 		$44.99

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

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The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter

The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter
Author: Paul Benedict Grant (Associate Professor of English, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
ISBN: 9781399519229
Format: Paperback 		$57.99

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The Idea in Fiction

The Idea in Fiction
Author: H.W. Leggett
ISBN: 9781041326120
Format: Hardback 		$388.12

First published in 1934, The Idea in Fiction by H. W. Leggett explores storytelling methods, tracing an idea’s journey...  Read More >>

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Littérature de voyage et autobiogéographie (XIXe-XXIe siècles)

Littérature de voyage et autobiogéographie (XIXe-XXIe...
Author: Sarga Moussa ,  Małgorzata Sokołowicz
ISBN: 9789004755413
Format: Hardback 		$287.76

This volume is the first to introduce autobiogeography as a new interpretative framework for reading travel writing...  Read More >>

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