Literary studies: general books

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Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated by Langston Hughes

Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated...

Author: Ricardo Wilson II
ISBN: 9780691268415
Format: Hardback
$47.99

A landmark book-the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen...  Read More >>

Queer Forms and Pronouns: Gender Nonconformity in Anglophone Literature

Queer Forms and Pronouns: Gender Nonconformity in Anglophone...

Author: Lena Mattheis (Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, University of Surrey)
ISBN: 9780198974116
Format: Hardback
$191.95

In Queer Forms and Pronouns, author Lena Mattheis explores gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in Anglophone literature...  Read More >>

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Author: Yuanfei Wang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) ,  Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009272353
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

Lady Church in the Christian Imagination: From Early Christianity to Early Modernity

Lady Church in the Christian Imagination: From Early...

Author: Lora Walsh (University of Arkansas)
ISBN: 9781009766289
Format: Paperback
$82.80

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History...

Author: Günter Leypoldt (Professor of American Studies, Professor of American Studies, University of Heidelberg)
ISBN: 9780197815113
Format: Hardback
$245.95

Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between...  Read More >>

Pilgrim Myths in American Fiction, 1820-1920

Pilgrim Myths in American Fiction, 1820-1920

Author: Kari Holloway Miller
ISBN: 9781666956689
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Disappearance and Candor in Contemporary Women’s Writing

Disappearance and Candor in Contemporary Women’s Writing...

Author: Lane Glisson
ISBN: 9781666950519
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An exploration of variations on the theme of disappearance in contemporary women's writing  Read More >>

Fantastic Creatures in Italian Literature: From the Age of Dante to Modernity

Fantastic Creatures in Italian Literature: From the...

Author: Giulia M. Cipriani ,  Paolo Rigo
ISBN: 9781666956740
Format: Hardback
$150.00

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Elizabeth Bowen in Context

Elizabeth Bowen in Context

Author: Allan Hepburn (McGill University, Montréal)
ISBN: 9781009536004
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Recognising herself as a child...  Read More >>

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Author: Yuanfei Wang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) ,  Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009500159
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

Lady Church in the Christian Imagination: From Early Christianity to Early Modernity

Lady Church in the Christian Imagination: From Early...

Author: Lora Walsh (University of Arkansas)
ISBN: 9781009766258
Format: Hardback
$245.81

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

Canada and the Spanish Civil War: An Anthology

Canada and the Spanish Civil War: An Anthology

Author: Bart Vautour ,  Emily Robins Sharpe
ISBN: 9780776644943
Format: Paperback
$54.99

The Spanish Civil War (19361939) inspired an outpouring of responses among Canadian cultural producers. Yet, the...  Read More >>

Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume IV: Essays of Elia and The Last Essays of Elia

Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume IV:...

Author: Gregory Dart (Professor of English, Professor of English, University College London)
ISBN: 9780198882985
Format: Hardback
$482.95

This fourth volume of The Collected Works of Charles and Mary Lamb contains Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia,...  Read More >>

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales...

Author: Nancy Mason Bradbury (Smith College)
ISBN: 9780271096896
Format: Paperback
$72.99

""Situates Chaucer's proverbs in their premodern cultural and intellectual contexts, arguing that Chaucer places...  Read More >>

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry

Author: Adam Plunkett
ISBN: 9781250420336
Format: Paperback
$42.00

Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and...  Read More >>

Censorship and the Irish Writer: Politics, Polemics, and the International Dialectic

Censorship and the Irish Writer: Politics, Polemics,...

Author: Brad Kent
ISBN: 9781487567613
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Struggle, Resistance, and Decolonization in African American Literature after 1960

Struggle, Resistance, and Decolonization in African...

Author: W. Lawrence Hogue
ISBN: 9781839997945
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan

Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan

Author: Ariel Stilerman
ISBN: 9780674303416
Format: Hardback
$86.95

In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan, Ariel Stilerman examines the transformation of classical Japanese...  Read More >>

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