Literary studies: general books

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Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus and the Writing of History in the Greco-Roman World

Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus and the Writing...
Author: John Marincola (Leon Golden Professor Emeritus of Classics, Florida State University) ISBN: 9780198979180 Format: Hardback	$246.95
This volume explores Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus within the traditions of Greek literary and rhetorical... Read More >>

Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe

Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and...
Author: Julie Stone Peters (H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) ISBN: 9780197903957 Format: Paperback	$70.95
Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition... Read More >>

The Future Is Fiction: A Cultural History of Intergenerational Justice

The Future Is Fiction: A Cultural History of Intergenerational...
Author: Stacey Margolis (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Utah) ISBN: 9780197839584 Format: Hardback	$194.95
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The Poetics of Agency: Action and Form in Post-War US Poetry

The Poetics of Agency: Action and Form in Post-War US...
Author: Tymek Woodham (University College London, UK.) ISBN: 9781350417229 Format: Hardback	$170.00
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Frankenstein Retold: Literary Adaptation in Contemporary Fiction

Frankenstein Retold: Literary Adaptation in Contemporary...
Author: Dr Daniel Cook (University of Dundee, UK) , Daniel Cook (University of Dundee UK) ISBN: 9781350501959 Format: Hardback	$170.00
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Disability and Rurality in American Literature: Ecosomatic Pastoralism

Disability and Rurality in American Literature: Ecosomatic...
Author: Matthew J. C. Cella ISBN: 9781666965124 Format: Hardback	$160.00
An exploration of the relationships between American rurality, conceptions of wellness and civic “fitness,” and... Read More >>

Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval English Literature

Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval...
Author: Caleb D. Molstad ISBN: 9781666979701 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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Japanese Forms in American Poetry: Beyond Haiku

Japanese Forms in American Poetry: Beyond Haiku
Author: Ce Rosenow ISBN: 9781666964226 Format: Hardback	$130.00
An analysis of haiku-related poetic forms that traces their histories and analyzes current trends, while arguing... Read More >>

Sexual Violence in Comics: The Ethics of Visualizing Trauma

Sexual Violence in Comics: The Ethics of Visualizing...
Author: Lee Okan ISBN: 9781666929157 Format: Hardback	$160.00
An examination of how artists use comics to challenge dominant portrayals and reclaim narrative control, positioning... Read More >>

Violence and Rebellion in Contemporary French Women’s Autofiction: “We Stand up and We Split”

Violence and Rebellion in Contemporary French Women’s...
Author: Michèle Bacholle ISBN: 9781666926965 Format: Hardback	$180.00
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Romantic Citizenship and the Transatlantic World: Bordering on British

Romantic Citizenship and the Transatlantic World: Bordering...
Author: Alison Cotti-Lowell ISBN: 9781666972986 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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Disability in Contemporary American Poetry: Radical Accessibility

Disability in Contemporary American Poetry: Radical...
Author: Declan Gould (Temple University, USA) ISBN: 9781350456457 Format: Hardback	$170.00
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The Mabinogion Set: The Fractal Structure of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi

The Mabinogion Set: The Fractal Structure of the Four...
Author: Natalia I. Petrovskaia ISBN: 9781837723355 Format: Paperback	$57.99
The Mabinogion Setis a book about the most famous of medieval Welsh stories: the Four Branches of the Mabinogi.... Read More >>

Trauma and Tears in The Book of Margery Kempe

Trauma and Tears in The Book of Margery Kempe
Author: Rachel Scoggins ISBN: 9781666932362 Format: Hardback	$160.00
Offers a unique perspective to medieval femininity and spirituality through the lens of trauma present within The... Read More >>

Post-Marxism, Representation, and Resistance in Tony Kushner's Political Plays

Post-Marxism, Representation, and Resistance in Tony...
Author: Arnab Ray ISBN: 9781666979015 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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Introducing the Medieval Bear

Introducing the Medieval Bear
Author: Karen Sullivan ISBN: 9781837723751 Format: Paperback	$34.99
Since the Middle Ages, bearshave mostfrequentlybeen seenas objects. For many centuries, Europeans regarded bears... Read More >>

Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity

Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures...
Author: Alexander Fyfe ISBN: 9780813954950 Format: Paperback	$80.99
How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests... Read More >>

Christ’s war: Holiness, heroism and horror in Carolingian poetry, c.730–c.900 CE

Christ’s war: Holiness, heroism and horror in Carolingian...
Author: Dr Matthew Bryan Gillis ISBN: 9781526193780 Format: Hardback	$194.99
Christ's war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution... Read More >>

Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives

Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone...
Author: Michelle Stork ISBN: 9783032160560 Format: Hardback	$284.60
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The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies...
Author: Vicky Osterweil ISBN: 9798888903667 Format: Hardback	$47.99
A provocative history of Disney's rise to cultural dominance, pulling skeletons from the corporate closet to decode... Read More >>

The Atlantic Republic of Letters: Knowledge and Colonialism in the Age of Franklin

The Atlantic Republic of Letters: Knowledge and Colonialism...
Author: Diego Pirillo ISBN: 9781512829310 Format: Hardback	$116.00
Places Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia in the context of a broader Atlantic intellectual world and investigates... Read More >>

Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity

Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures...
Author: Alexander Fyfe ISBN: 9780813954943 Format: Hardback	$266.00
How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests... Read More >>

Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2025

Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark - Shortlisted...
Author: Frances Wilson ISBN: 9781526663078 Format: Paperback	$26.99
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Translation and the Truth of History: Thucydides between Valla and Hobbes

Translation and the Truth of History: Thucydides between...
Author: José María Pérez Fernández (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, University of Granada) ISBN: 9780197902202 Format: Paperback	$44.95
Using samples taken from translations of Thucydides' influential History of the Peloponnesian War, the book argues... Read More >>

The Language of Early English Dialect Literature

The Language of Early English Dialect Literature
Author: Alex Broadhead ISBN: 9783032021403 Format: Hardback	$232.85
This book is the first monograph devoted entirely to English dialect literature published between the sixteenth... Read More >>

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