Literary studies: general books

313228 books were found.

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

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world...  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 >>

Introducing the Medieval Bear

Introducing the Medieval Bear

Author: Karen Sullivan
ISBN: 9781837723751
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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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

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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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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 >>

Arden of Faversham: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Arden of Faversham: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Iman Sheeha (Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature, Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature, Brunel University of London)
ISBN: 9780192872685
Format: Paperback
$18.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

The Winter's Tale: New Oxford Shakespeare

The Winter's Tale: New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Harry Newman (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9780198871873
Format: Paperback
$18.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

Henry VI, Part II: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part II: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: Christopher Marlowe ,  William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780198915348
Format: Paperback
$18.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth Century

Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth...

Author: Maïa Hruska
ISBN: 9780008768614
Format: Hardback
$34.99

‘Dazzling … one fine day, you open a book by an unknown writer, and a charge of pure talent blows you away’ La...  Read More >>

The Poetry of Disaster: Chernobyl, Katrina, and the Anthropocene

The Poetry of Disaster: Chernobyl, Katrina, and the...

Author: Claire Cox
ISBN: 9783032165541
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Recent news images of disastrous floods, fires and earthquakes vividly show we live in an unstable world. This book...  Read More >>

Malawian Resistance Literature

Malawian Resistance Literature

Author: Dike Okoro
ISBN: 9783032129598
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the...  Read More >>

Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours

Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours

Author: William D. Paden
ISBN: 9780813079585
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Challenging the belief that medieval marriages were loveless, this book analyzes troubadour poetry and historical...  Read More >>

Zadie Smith: New perspectives

Zadie Smith: New perspectives

Author: Nurten Birlik ,  Noémi Albert
ISBN: 9781526177742
Format: Hardback
$206.99

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

Cormorant: A Cultural History of Greed and Prejudice

Cormorant: A Cultural History of Greed and Prejudice...

Author: Gordon McMullan (King's College London)
ISBN: 9781009652988
Format: Hardback
$90.56

Cormorant is the natural and cultural history of a 'greedy' bird that is hated across the world and the object of...  Read More >>

William Blake and Romantic Biology: Evolution, Originality, and Organic Form

William Blake and Romantic Biology: Evolution, Originality,...

Author: Tara Lee (The University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781009626453
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Delving into his biological imagery, Tara Lee shows how Blake articulates radical views about spirituality and embodiment,...  Read More >>

Modernism Revisited: Texts and Contexts

Modernism Revisited: Texts and Contexts

Author: Amitayu Chakraborty
ISBN: 9781666916485
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This book delves into modernism, addressing its intricate relationship with the socio-political, philosophical,...  Read More >>

The First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture

The First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture

Author: Dr. Anne-Marie Evans (York St John University, UK) ,  Dr. Sarah Trott (York St John University, UK)
ISBN: 9798765142233
Format: Hardback
$160.00

From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies’ Home Journal to Vogue this diverse...  Read More >>

Victorian Darknesses: Body, Mind, and Place

Victorian Darknesses: Body, Mind, and Place

Author: Norbert Lennartz ,  Jacqueline F. Kolditz
ISBN: 9783032120779
Format: Hardback
$362.22

This book targets a cluster of darknesses in a century that, in the wake of the Romantic euphoria for the nocturnal,...  Read More >>

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