Literary studies: general books

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Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies: Interdisciplinary...

Author: Jürg Glauser ,  Pernille Hermann
ISBN: 9783112256817
Format: Paperback
$153.09

Memory Studies has increasingly provided new perspectives on Nordic culture, and building on this momentum, this...  Read More >>

Belgrade: A Cultural and Literary History

Belgrade: A Cultural and Literary History

Author: David Norris
ISBN: 9780722364093
Format: Hardback
$59.49

Belgrade sits above the confluence of two great rivers, the Sava and Danube. It has been home to many civilizations:...  Read More >>

Bath - An Innercities Cultural Guide

Bath - An Innercities Cultural Guide

Author: John Payne
ISBN: 9780722364062
Format: Hardback
$56.90

Bath, Queen of the West, is internationally famous as one of England's oldest and most beautiful cities. The picturesque...  Read More >>

Bangkok: A Cultural and Literary History

Bangkok: A Cultural and Literary History

Author: Maryvelma O'Neil
ISBN: 9780722363812
Format: Hardback
$62.07

Bangkok stands out as a place of extraordinary allure. Beginning as a floating city in a lush tropical setting,...  Read More >>

Sails and Winds: A Cultural History of Valencia

Sails and Winds: A Cultural History of Valencia

Author: Michael Eaude
ISBN: 9780722363300
Format: Hardback
$69.84

This book tells the story of today's Spanish provinces of Valencia, Castelló and Alacant (Alicante), with their...  Read More >>

Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape

Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape

Author: James Canton
ISBN: 9780722363294
Format: Hardback
$56.90

Beyond the brash modern stereotypes of Essex there exists a landscape that has inspired some of England's finest...  Read More >>

Bali: A Cultural History

Bali: A Cultural History

Author: Arthur Cotterell
ISBN: 9780722362600
Format: Hardback
$62.07

Bali is unlike anywhere else. Despite the advent of international tourism, this Indonesian island remains an untarnished...  Read More >>

Brittany: A Cultural History

Brittany: A Cultural History

Author: Wendy Mewes
ISBN: 9780722362617
Format: Hardback
$64.66

Brittany’s richly layered landscape has contributed depth and character to the region’s traditional oral culture,...  Read More >>

Andalucía: A Cultural History

Andalucía: A Cultural History

Author: John Gill
ISBN: 9780722362327
Format: Hardback
$64.66

This book traces Andalucia's origins from the earliest hominid settlers through successive Phoenician, Greek, Roman...  Read More >>

Enver Hoxha's Long Shadow: Travels in Albania

Enver Hoxha's Long Shadow: Travels in Albania

Author: John Watkins ,  Miranda Vickers
ISBN: 9780722362310
Format: Hardback
$64.66

Communist Albania was unlike any other European nation. It was a “hermit state” ruled by a dictator, Enver Hoxha,...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

Author: Kate Hext (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009015967
Format: Paperback
$64.69

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System

Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary...

Author: Jordan Brower (University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9781009419208
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This book charts the Hollywood studio system's genesis, international dominance, and self-understood demise by way...  Read More >>

Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry

Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry...

Author: David Streitfeld
ISBN: 9780063234888
Format: Hardback
$55.00

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

Author: Kate Hext (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781316516690
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Multi-scalar Poetics

Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Multi-scalar...

Author: Liliane Campos (Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Institut Universitaire de France)
ISBN: 9781009699419
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

The Wisdom of Charlotte Brontë: Thoughts Gathered from Her Novels

The Wisdom of Charlotte Brontë: Thoughts Gathered from...

Author: Charlotte Brontë ,  Grace Milne Rae
ISBN: 9781851246748
Format: Hardback
$19.99

This inspirational book is a delightful gift for readers and fans of Charlotte Bronte's novels.  Read More >>

Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian Memoirs

Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian...

Author: Martina Horáková
ISBN: 9781839990571
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals-writers, historians,...  Read More >>

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira...

Author: Sandra Sousa
ISBN: 9781839998102
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de S Nogueira examines the life and journalism of Maria Teresa de S Nogueira,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness

Author: Leslie C. Dunn ,  Avi Mendelson
ISBN: 9783032088963
Format: Hardback
$336.35

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern...  Read More >>

Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea

Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha...

Author: Stephen C. E. Hopkins (Assistant Professor)
ISBN: 9781526175038
Format: Hardback
$194.99

A groundbreaking comparative study of the weird apocryphal hells found in the vernaculars of medieval Ireland, England,...  Read More >>

Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism

Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism

Author: Rita Filanti
ISBN: 9781526177063
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This study of Voltairine de Cleyre's transnational anarchism focuses on her work as pedagogue and translator to...  Read More >>

The True Colors of Feeling Brown: Racialized Affect and the Poetics of Space in Latina Narratives

The True Colors of Feeling Brown: Racialized Affect...

Author: Natalia Villanueva-Nieves
ISBN: 9783032194336
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book examines the transnational dynamics that shape Latina affect narrative from the 1990s through the twenty-first...  Read More >>

Words of Witness: The Fiction of Elie Wiesel

Words of Witness: The Fiction of Elie Wiesel

Author: Léonard Rosmarin
ISBN: 9781771617567
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Delve into the profound spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel through this comprehensive study of his fiction. From the...  Read More >>

Encountering Primo Levi: Reading and Teaching Trauma Narratives

Encountering Primo Levi: Reading and Teaching Trauma...

Author: Cheryl Chaffin
ISBN: 9783032068965
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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