Literary studies: general books

315291 books were found.

After Critique: Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age

After Critique: Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal...

Author: Mitchum Huehls (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9780190067830
Format: Paperback
$124.05

Taking up four different political themes--human rights, the relation between public and private space, racial justice,...  Read More >>

Imre: A Memorandum

Imre: A Memorandum

Author: Edward Prime-Stevenson ,  Zsolt Bojti (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University)
ISBN: 9780198884477
Format: Paperback
$18.95

Edward Prime-Stevenson's Imre: A Memorandum (1906), considered one of the first examples of the 'homosexual' novel,...  Read More >>

Sodom and Gomorrah

Sodom and Gomorrah

Author: Marcel Proust ,  Helen Constantine
ISBN: 9780192846181
Format: Paperback
$25.95

Sodom and Gomorrah is the fourth volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Work

Shakespeare and Work

Author: Michelle M. Dowd (Hudson Strode Professor of English, Hudson Strode Professor of English, University of Alabama)
ISBN: 9780198896098
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Offering an accessible and wide-ranging account of how Shakespeare engaged with the working world around him, this...  Read More >>

Marvell and Milton: Poets in a Fallen World

Marvell and Milton: Poets in a Fallen World

Author: Warren Chernaik (University of London)
ISBN: 9781009735643
Format: Paperback
$82.80

John Milton and Andrew Marvell are central figures of seventeenth-century literature. Yet there has until now been...  Read More >>

How D. H. Lawrence Wrote: Performance on the Page

How D. H. Lawrence Wrote: Performance on the Page

Author: Paul Eggert (University of New South Wales)
ISBN: 9781316513422
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Students of creative writing and Modernist literature, and readers already familiar with D.H. Lawrence's works,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Work

Shakespeare and Work

Author: Michelle M. Dowd (Hudson Strode Professor of English, Hudson Strode Professor of English, University of Alabama)
ISBN: 9780198896074
Format: Hardback
$118.95

Offering an accessible and wide-ranging account of how Shakespeare engaged with the working world around him, this...  Read More >>

Marvell and Milton: Poets in a Fallen World

Marvell and Milton: Poets in a Fallen World

Author: Warren Chernaik (University of London)
ISBN: 9781009735650
Format: Hardback
$245.81

John Milton and Andrew Marvell are central figures of seventeenth-century literature. Yet there has until now been...  Read More >>

The Written Word in Early Medieval England: Kent, Mercia and Wessex, c. 830–920

The Written Word in Early Medieval England: Kent, Mercia...

Author: Robert Gallagher (University of Kent)
ISBN: 9781009628877
Format: Hardback
$284.63

This book offers an innovative study of the uses of writing in early medieval England during a pivotal century of...  Read More >>

The Letters of William Godwin: Volume IV: 1816–1828

The Letters of William Godwin: Volume IV: 1816–1828...

Author: Pamela Clemit
ISBN: 9780199562640
Format: Hardback
$522.95

This is the fourth volume of the landmark scholarly edition of William Godwin's letters.  Read More >>

Migrant Women Writers and the Short Story in North America: 1980-2020

Migrant Women Writers and the Short Story in North America:...

Author: Laura Gallon
ISBN: 9783032155856
Format: Hardback
$258.72

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Reading Keats's Letters: An Epistolary Poetics

Reading Keats's Letters: An Epistolary Poetics

Author: Andrew Bennett (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781009745994
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This is the first full-length critical study of Keats's letters. Featuring insightful close readings and developing...  Read More >>

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient Literature

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient...

Author: Emily Wilson
ISBN: 9781805225850
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Emily Wilson reflects on the power of language to evolve our understanding of the past  Read More >>

Studying For Dummies

Studying For Dummies

Author: Miles Painter
ISBN: 9781394391653
Format: Paperback
$36.95

Take charge of your assignments and become the most successful student you can be Studying For Dummies explains...  Read More >>

A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell

A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell

Author: Nathan Waddell
ISBN: 9780861549788
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A pioneering biography of George Orwell told through moments of everyday life.  Read More >>

Luckless: The Idea of Luck in Ancient Greek Thought

Luckless: The Idea of Luck in Ancient Greek Thought...

Author: Daniel Schillinger (Lecturer in Political Science, Lecturer in Political Science, Yale University)
ISBN: 9780197690246
Format: Hardback
$191.95

What is luck? What is the significance of luck for our ethical and political lives? Could it be the case that luck...  Read More >>

Reading Keats's Letters: An Epistolary Poetics

Reading Keats's Letters: An Epistolary Poetics

Author: Andrew Bennett (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781009745963
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This is the first full-length critical study of Keats's letters. Featuring insightful close readings and developing...  Read More >>

The Queer Bookshelf: A Reader’s Guide

The Queer Bookshelf: A Reader’s Guide

Author: Layla McCay
ISBN: 9781917189071
Format: Hardback
$39.99

We are in the middle of a vibrant renaissance of queer writing. But LGBTQ+ writers, characters and readers have...  Read More >>

Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the Female Demonic

Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the...

Author: Orianne Smith (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
ISBN: 9781009650021
Format: Hardback
$245.81

From its recurring appearances in Gothic poetry and prose to the menacing images of Fuseli and Blake, Orianne Smith...  Read More >>

Jim Crow Modernism

Jim Crow Modernism

Author: Professor Adam McKible (Professor of English, Professor of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice) ,  Professor Robert Jackson (James G. Watson Professor of English, James G. Watson Professor of English, University of Tulsa)
ISBN: 9780197699690
Format: Hardback
$191.95

Taking as its starting point the contemporaneity of the Jim Crow era and the modernist era in art and culture, Jim...  Read More >>

Dionysiaca

Dionysiaca

Author: Tim Whitmarsh ,  Nonnus
ISBN: 9780520281318
Format: Paperback
$74.95

Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity....  Read More >>

The Scarlet Letter: A Bestseller Classic Novel

The Scarlet Letter: A Bestseller Classic Novel

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN: 9781803968438
Format: Paperback
$50.13

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published...  Read More >>

The Uncollected Writings of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Uncollected Writings of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings...

Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ,  Rodger L. Tarr
ISBN: 9780813081472
Format: Paperback
$73.99

This collection of early work, college writing, newspaper pieces, and stories of life in Florida by Marjorie Kinnan...  Read More >>

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