Literary studies: general books

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Selected Short Stories

Selected Short Stories

Author: Rabindranath Tagore ,  Sumit Chakrabarti (Presidency University)
ISBN: 9780192865816
Format: Paperback
$25.95

A collection of new translations of short stories by Bengali poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)....  Read More >>

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

Author: Charles Ignatius Sancho ,  Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University - Boston)
ISBN: 9780192869609
Format: Paperback
$23.95

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African provides an unequalled portrait of the everyday life of a Black...  Read More >>

Beowulf: Poem, Poet and Hero

Beowulf: Poem, Poet and Hero

Author: Heather O'Donoghue (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781350607507
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The story behind what makes Beowulf such a remarkable work of art, and why it is of such cultural significance....  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

Author: Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University, Boston) ,  Kristina Huang (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
ISBN: 9781009280600
Format: Paperback
$64.69

One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>

Medieval Icelandic Bodies in ""Tristram Ok Ísodd""

Medieval Icelandic Bodies in ""Tristram Ok Ísodd""

Author: Karen Lurkhur
ISBN: 9780935995305
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Medieval Icelandic Bodies in ""Tristram ok Ísodd"" examines the depiction of the bodies of the two main characters...  Read More >>

W. G. Sebald in Context

W. G. Sebald in Context

Author: Uwe Schütte (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781009055529
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Within the five years before his premature death in 2001, W.G. Sebald made an astounding ascent into the canon of...  Read More >>

The Latin Poems of Christian Wedsted: A Moravian in 18th-Century Pennsylvania

The Latin Poems of Christian Wedsted: A Moravian in...

Author: Aaron Palmore (Loyola University Maryland, USA) ,  Gesine Manuwald (University College London UK)
ISBN: 9781350261440
Format: Hardback
$180.00

An edition, with translation and commentary, of the transatlantic Latin poetry of Christian Wedsted (1727-1757)....  Read More >>

Cleophilus’ De coetu poetarum and Iustus Lipsius’ Somnium: Dreaming of the Literary Tradition

Cleophilus’ De coetu poetarum and Iustus Lipsius’ Somnium:...

Author: Dr. Gesine Manuwald (Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature, University College London, UK) ,  Dr Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle (University of Basel, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781350468740
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first modern editions and annotated English translations of two Latin texts important in literary history.  Read More >>

Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction: Gender, Race, and Genre

Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction: Gender,...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Ruth Maxey (University of Nottingham, UK) ,  Dr. Daniel Robert King (University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9798765125236
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Inspired by the career of Judie Newman, a genuinely ground-breaking scholar in the fields of U.S. and postcolonial...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

Author: Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University, Boston) ,  Kristina Huang (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
ISBN: 9781009280648
Format: Hardback
$207.00

One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>

Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s...

Author: Guy Cuthbertson
ISBN: 9780300266375
Format: Hardback
$41.95

A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, tracing its life over the last century  Read More >>

Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis Tusculanarum Disputationum)

Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis...

Author: Robert A. Kaster (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780198891925
Format: Hardback
$94.95

This is the first new edition of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations in over forty years. Robert A. Kaster draws on an...  Read More >>

Sufism in Contemporary Fiction in English: From the Secular to the Sacred

Sufism in Contemporary Fiction in English: From the...

Author: Billy Gray
ISBN: 9783032204530
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This is the first full-length study to explore how contemporary, Western manifestations of Sufism are represented...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

Author: Kate Hext (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009015967
Format: Paperback
$64.69

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System

Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary...

Author: Jordan Brower (University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9781009419208
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This book charts the Hollywood studio system's genesis, international dominance, and self-understood demise by way...  Read More >>

Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry

Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry...

Author: David Streitfeld
ISBN: 9780063234888
Format: Hardback
$55.00

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

Author: Kate Hext (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781316516690
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Multi-scalar Poetics

Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Multi-scalar...

Author: Liliane Campos (Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Institut Universitaire de France)
ISBN: 9781009699419
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

The Wisdom of Charlotte Brontë: Thoughts Gathered from Her Novels

The Wisdom of Charlotte Brontë: Thoughts Gathered from...

Author: Charlotte Brontë ,  Grace Milne Rae
ISBN: 9781851246748
Format: Hardback
$19.99

This inspirational book is a delightful gift for readers and fans of Charlotte Bronte's novels.  Read More >>

Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian Memoirs

Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian...

Author: Martina Horáková
ISBN: 9781839990571
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals-writers, historians,...  Read More >>

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira...

Author: Sandra Sousa
ISBN: 9781839998102
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de S Nogueira examines the life and journalism of Maria Teresa de S Nogueira,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness

Author: Leslie C. Dunn ,  Avi Mendelson
ISBN: 9783032088963
Format: Hardback
$336.35

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern...  Read More >>

The True Colors of Feeling Brown: Racialized Affect and the Poetics of Space in Latina Narratives

The True Colors of Feeling Brown: Racialized Affect...

Author: Natalia Villanueva-Nieves
ISBN: 9783032194336
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book examines the transnational dynamics that shape Latina affect narrative from the 1990s through the twenty-first...  Read More >>

Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea

Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha...

Author: Stephen C. E. Hopkins (Assistant Professor)
ISBN: 9781526175038
Format: Hardback
$194.99

A groundbreaking comparative study of the weird apocryphal hells found in the vernaculars of medieval Ireland, England,...  Read More >>

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