Literary studies: general books

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There is No Humor in Heaven: Mark Twain and Religious Liberalism

There is No Humor in Heaven: Mark Twain and Religious...

Author: Dwayne E. Eutsey
ISBN: 9780826223265
Format: Hardback
$145.20

More than a century after his death in 1910, Mark Twain remains a lightning rod for controversy. Especially in matters...  Read More >>

How Genre Governs Creation in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas

How Genre Governs Creation in the Medieval Icelandic...

Author: Yoav Tirosh
ISBN: 9783031899744
Format: Hardback
$118.77

How Genre Governs Creation in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas applies theoretical observations on the workings of genre...  Read More >>

Transcendent Woman: Margaret Fuller's Art and Achievement

Transcendent Woman: Margaret Fuller's Art and Achievement...

Author: David M. Robinson
ISBN: 9781625348791
Format: Hardback
$174.90

Journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women’s rights advocate, Margaret Fuller was America’s first major female...  Read More >>

Emerson's Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy

Emerson's Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson...

Author: Kate Culkin
ISBN: 9781625348777
Format: Hardback
$174.90

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Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word

Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood)...

Author: Megan C. Reynolds
ISBN: 9780063415287
Format: Hardback
$59.99

""A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language""--...  Read More >>

Mapping the World at the Dawn of the British Empire: A Traveller's Guide

Mapping the World at the Dawn of the British Empire:...

Author: Matthew Dimmock (Professor of Early Modern Studies, University of Sussex) ,  Andrew Hadfield (Professor of English, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9780198942511
Format: Hardback
$58.95

A compact and informative guide to the ways in which the changing world of the early seventeenth century was understood...  Read More >>

Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature...

Author: Matthew Rebhorn (James Madison University, Virginia)
ISBN: 9781009527729
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Nineteenth-century American Literature often features bodies that seem to have minds of their own. This book recovers...  Read More >>

Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444–1886: Volume 1

Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444–1886: Volume 1...

Author: Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez (Carnegie Mellon University) ,  Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela (King's College London)
ISBN: 9781009313995
Format: Hardback
$258.75

This book will appeal to readers seeking diverse perspectives and untold stories. It uncovers ignored and forgotten...  Read More >>

Bernard Shaw and Noël Coward: Conversation Pieces

Bernard Shaw and Noël Coward: Conversation Pieces

Author: Christopher Wixson
ISBN: 9783031902901
Format: Hardback
$369.57

mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font:...  Read More >>

Reading Jaume Roig’s Espill: Misogyny, Religion, and Readers’ Annotations in Early Modern Print

Reading Jaume Roig’s Espill: Misogyny, Religion, and...

Author: Professor Jean Dangler
ISBN: 9781855664166
Format: Hardback
$219.94

What lessons did readers take from the Espill (The Mirror)?  Read More >>

Conduct Literature and the Politics of the Stage Controversy: 1689–1728

Conduct Literature and the Politics of the Stage Controversy:...

Author: Chih-Hsin Huang
ISBN: 9781837651191
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Examines the struggle between factions debating the morality and impact on public behaviour of the theatre following...  Read More >>

Conversations with Rick Veitch

Conversations with Rick Veitch

Author: Brannon Costello
ISBN: 9781496857811
Format: Paperback
$57.99

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Firefly in a Box: An Anthology of Soviet Kid Lit

Firefly in a Box: An Anthology of Soviet Kid Lit

Author: Anna Krushelnitskaya ,  Dmitri Manin
ISBN: 9781496856586
Format: Paperback
$69.99

An in-depth exploration of popular Russian-language Soviet children's texts and illustrations  Read More >>

Comics of the Anthropocene: Graphic Narrative at the End of Nature

Comics of the Anthropocene: Graphic Narrative at the...

Author: José Alaniz
ISBN: 9781496857736
Format: Paperback
$69.99

The first full-length monograph to explore how US comics artists have depicted environmental destruction, mass extinctions,...  Read More >>

Justice and Righteousness in the Old Testament: Reflecting on Slavery in the Hebrew Bible

Justice and Righteousness in the Old Testament: Reflecting...

Author: Ulrich Berges
ISBN: 9783119147217
Format: Hardback
$261.33

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Silvae: Lateinisch - Deutsch

Silvae: Lateinisch - Deutsch

Author: Statius ,  Gottfried Kreuz
ISBN: 9783110631388
Format: Hardback
$203.25

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The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America

The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in...

Author: Jesse Zuba
ISBN: 9780691271118
Format: Paperback
$54.99

""We have many poets of the First Book,"" the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense...  Read More >>

The Narration of China (Part 2): Medieval and Early Modern China, Expanding Horizons

The Narration of China (Part 2): Medieval and Early...

Author: Chen Zhi
ISBN: 9789004722408
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Part Two of the Festschrift in honor of William H. Nienhauser’s 80th birthday features twelve papers that explore...  Read More >>

The Single Life: Unpatriarchal Manhoods in English Renaissance Literature

The Single Life: Unpatriarchal Manhoods in English Renaissance...

Author: Jordan Windholz
ISBN: 9780817362133
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Exploring the varied roles of bachelors during the Renaissance  Read More >>

A Hundred Years of Bibliotherapy: Healing through Books

A Hundred Years of Bibliotherapy: Healing through Books...

Author: Siobhan Campbell ,  Sara Haslam
ISBN: 9781032749297
Format: Hardback
$305.00

WWI gave new and vital impetus to the ancient idea that books could heal. This collection provides a targeted survey...  Read More >>

The Portrait of a Lady

The Portrait of a Lady

Author: Henry James ,  Michael Anesko (Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9781009655699
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The Cambridge Edition of The Portrait of a Lady (1881) offers the most authoritative and most comprehensively annotated...  Read More >>

Images of Women in Medieval Texts and Literature: Misogyny and Praise from Tertullian to Chaucer

Images of Women in Medieval Texts and Literature: Misogyny...

Author: Pedro Carlos Louzada Fonseca
ISBN: 9781032841564
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Employing a critical and analytical method, this volume takes an innovative approach to existing anthologies of...  Read More >>

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