Literary studies: general books

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Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience

Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience...

Author: Patrice D. Rankine
ISBN: 9781602584532
Format: Paperback
$104.00

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Author: Laini Kavaloski
ISBN: 9781978830981
Format: Paperback
$61.60

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

Ulysses in Critical Perspective

Ulysses in Critical Perspective

Author: Michael Patrick Gillespie ,  A. Nicholas Fargnoli
ISBN: 9780813081458
Format: Paperback
$52.80

In this survey of foundational theory on James Joyce's Ulysses, seasoned Joyceans introduce the methodologies that...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete...

Author: Fabian Alfie
ISBN: 9780268210595
Format: Paperback
$104.00

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

The Internment Ordeal in a Post-Truth World: Contemporary Narratives of the Japanese American Incarceration

The Internment Ordeal in a Post-Truth World: Contemporary...

Author: Nicolangelo Becce
ISBN: 9783111349862
Format: Hardback
$303.57

The volume explores how contemporary representations of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War...  Read More >>

Interspecies Negotiations: Human-Wildlife Conflict in Indian Literature

Interspecies Negotiations: Human-Wildlife Conflict in...

Author: Susan Haris (BITS Pilani, India) ,  Anu Pande (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India)
ISBN: 9789361311840
Format: Hardback
$190.00

This edited volume explores the representation of human-wildlife conflict in Indian literary texts, and offers a...  Read More >>

I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition

I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern...

Author: Yair Mintzker
ISBN: 9780691272702
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of ""the...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Benito Pérez Galdós

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Benito Pérez Galdós...

Author: Liana Ewald ,  David R. George
ISBN: 9781603297240
Format: Hardback
$208.00

Ensayos para docentes exploran la amplia obra de Benito Pérez Galdós, abarcando novelas, cuentos, teatro y periodismo....  Read More >>

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives, 1850s to 1930s

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives,...

Author: Louise Benson James (Postdoctoral Fellow in English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781399523080
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>

Galicia As a Literary Idea: Jewish Eastern Europe in the Writings of Joseph Roth and Soma Morgenstern

Galicia As a Literary Idea: Jewish Eastern Europe in...

Author: Kata Gellen
ISBN: 9781487528898
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Galicia as a Literary Idea explores the relationship of Jewish tradition and modernity in literary works by Joseph...  Read More >>

Canonisation through Translation and Retranslation: Digital Humanities Analyses of the English Translations of Journey to the West

Canonisation through Translation and Retranslation:...

Author: Binhua Wang ,  Yuan Ping
ISBN: 9781032788555
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel

Author: Lucy Arnold
ISBN: 9781805967224
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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John Milton in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Visual Culture

John Milton in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Visual...

Author: Laura Fox Gill (University of Lincoln)
ISBN: 9781009665421
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Laura Fox Gill sheds new light on Milton's afterlives in a multimedia age, expanding our understanding of literary...  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 >>

Readings in the Cantos: Vol. 3

Readings in the Cantos: Vol. 3

Author: Richard Parker ,  Alexander Howard
ISBN: 9781638040286
Format: Hardback
$396.00

This volume offers clear readings of 21 Cantos from The Cantos of Ezra Pound in 20 essays written by eminent Poundians,...  Read More >>

The Occupatio by Odo of Cluny: Edition, Translation, and Commentary

The Occupatio by Odo of Cluny: Edition, Translation,...

Author: Christopher A Jones ,  Odo of Cluny
ISBN: 9782503615097
Format: Paperback
$446.16

A new edition and translation of a major Latin poem that blends Carolingian intellectualism with tenth-century ascetic...  Read More >>

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Author: Laini Kavaloski
ISBN: 9781978830998
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

Frederick Douglass's Newspapers: Black Organizing and the Press for Freedom

Frederick Douglass's Newspapers: Black Organizing and...

Author: Benjamin Fagan
ISBN: 9781512829235
Format: Hardback
$116.00

The first book to focus on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass and their impact on Black organizing A robust...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete...

Author: Fabian Alfie
ISBN: 9780268210588
Format: Hardback
$289.00

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

Mockingbird Grows Up: Re-Reading Harper Lee Since Watchman

Mockingbird Grows Up: Re-Reading Harper Lee Since Watchman...

Author: Michele Reutter ,  Jonathan S. Cullick
ISBN: 9798895271018
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Takes on the task of interpreting, contextualising, and deconstructing To Kill a Mockingbird in the wake of Go Set...  Read More >>

Plays 1676–1678: Volume 2, Plays 1676–1678

Plays 1676–1678: Volume 2, Plays 1676–1678

Author: Aphra Behn ,  Claire Bowditch (Loughborough University)
ISBN: 9781108471060
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Aphra Behn is renowned as the first professional woman writer in English. The plays in this volume, published and...  Read More >>

A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC: Volume 1, The Theatre Festivals of Athens: Documents with Translation and Commentary

A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300...

Author: Eric Csapo (University of Warwick) ,  Peter Wilson (University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9780521765527
Format: Hardback
$439.87

The first fully comprehensive historical study of the festivals of Dionysus in the city of Athens that hosted performances...  Read More >>

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