Literary studies: general books

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Oscar Wilde's Paris: Legends and Legacies

Oscar Wilde's Paris: Legends and Legacies

Author: Colette Colligan ,  Gregory Mackie
ISBN: 9781487541415
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus

Author: Thomas Mann ,  Ritchie Robertson (Emeritus Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German, Emeritus Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198867722
Format: Paperback
$27.95

Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947) recounts the life of a solitary composer, Adrian Leverkühn, whose personal and...  Read More >>

Herodotus: Histories Book VII

Herodotus: Histories Book VII

Author: Chris Carey (University College London) ,  Herodotus
ISBN: 9780521479462
Format: Paperback
$90.54

Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus' Histories. It brings together many of the work's themes and contains the...  Read More >>

Death in Venice and Other Stories

Death in Venice and Other Stories

Author: Thomas Mann ,  Nicola Luckhurst
ISBN: 9780198850076
Format: Paperback
$20.95

This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912,...  Read More >>

Translating His-stories

Translating His-stories

Author: Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte (University of Salamanca)
ISBN: 9781009673167
Format: Paperback
$46.58

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish...

Author: Guy Woodward (Research Associate in the Department of English Studies, Research Associate in the Department of English Studies, Durham University)
ISBN: 9780198973423
Format: Hardback
$218.95

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing is the first dedicated study of British and Irish...  Read More >>

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830

Author: Jakub Lipski (Kazimierz Wielki University)
ISBN: 9781009435079
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

The American Scene

The American Scene

Author: Henry James ,  Peter Collister
ISBN: 9781108454933
Format: Paperback
$77.60

A cultural and social critique of early-twentieth-century America, addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and...  Read More >>

The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama: Volume 1, Art

The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama:...

Author: Henry James ,  Peter Collister
ISBN: 9781316505687
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Henry James was a leading commentator on the art of his time. Readers of this complete collection of his nonfictional...  Read More >>

The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama: Volume 2, Drama

The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama:...

Author: Henry James ,  Peter Collister
ISBN: 9781316505694
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Henry James is a highly readable commentator on the theatre and performance practices of his time. Readers of this...  Read More >>

The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Climate, Retreat and Revolution

The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Climate,...

Author: David Sergeant (University of Plymouth)
ISBN: 9781009279925
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This book shows how novels and films set in the near future can shed light both on our failures of imagination before...  Read More >>

Herodotus: Histories Book VII

Herodotus: Histories Book VII

Author: Chris Carey (University College London) ,  Herodotus
ISBN: 9780521474153
Format: Hardback
$409.20

Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus' Histories. It brings together many of the work's themes and contains the...  Read More >>

Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays

Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays

Author: Kent Lehnhof (Chapman University, California)
ISBN: 9781009613873
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Combining sound studies and contemporary philosophy, this study reveals the ethical potency of the sound of the...  Read More >>

The Book Unbound: Material Cultures of Reading and Collecting, 1750–1850

The Book Unbound: Material Cultures of Reading and Collecting,...

Author: Luisa Calè (Birkbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9781009599986
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Exploring Romantic-period works as open-ended collections of discrete book parts, prints, watercolours, manuscripts,...  Read More >>

American Objectivist Poetry Across the 20th Century

American Objectivist Poetry Across the 20th Century...

Author: Xavier Kalck (University of Lille, France)
ISBN: 9781350419476
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Offering a new introduction to an important yet overlooked group of 20th century American poets, this book re-examines...  Read More >>

Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth

Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics...

Author: Nick Katsiadas ,  Carl Sell
ISBN: 9781666971484
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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