Literary studies: general books

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Violence and the Brontës: Language, Reception, Afterlives

Violence and the Brontës: Language, Reception, Afterlives...

Author: Sophie Franklin (DOROTHY MSCA COFUND Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Dublin)
ISBN: 9781399523004
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Explores the role of violence in relation to Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte's literary productions, receptions...  Read More >>

Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England

Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early...

Author: Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
ISBN: 9780691272016
Format: Hardback
$180.00

A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Will: A Reexamination of Late Modern German Philosophy

The Philosophy of Will: A Reexamination of Late Modern...

Author: Anthony K. Jensen (Providence College, USA)
ISBN: 9781032973517
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book argues that the history of 19th-century German philosophy has neglected a crucial narrative: the philosophy...  Read More >>

Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale

Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development...

Author: Kimberly J. Lau ,  Anne E. Duggan
ISBN: 9780814351536
Format: Hardback
$220.00

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East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press

East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press...

Author: Vivi Lachs ,  Barry Smerin
ISBN: 9780814351352
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Medieval Media: Bodies, Networks, Chaucer

Medieval Media: Bodies, Networks, Chaucer

Author: Ingrid Nelson
ISBN: 9781512828108
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Traces the development of media concepts across scientific, legal, and devotional knowledge domains to offer a coherent...  Read More >>

To Absent Friends: Eudora Welty's Correspondence with Frank Lyell

To Absent Friends: Eudora Welty's Correspondence with...

Author: Julia Eichelberger
ISBN: 9781496858993
Format: Hardback
$87.99

A thoughtful compilation that chronicles a nearly fifty-year friendship with the renowned Mississippi writer  Read More >>

Learning to Talk Shop: Mercantile Mischief and Popular Pedagogy in Premodern England

Learning to Talk Shop: Mercantile Mischief and Popular...

Author: Susan E. Phillips
ISBN: 9781512826975
Format: Hardback
$150.00

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The Dean Disordered: Jonathan Swift and Humoral Medicine

The Dean Disordered: Jonathan Swift and Humoral Medicine...

Author: Paul William Child
ISBN: 9780813953328
Format: Hardback
$277.00

Understanding Jonathan Swift's medical and literary life The Dean Disordered bridges biography and literary...  Read More >>

Acting Heightened Text: The Basics

Acting Heightened Text: The Basics

Author: Catherine Weidner
ISBN: 9781032695303
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Acting Heightened Text: The Basics offers a foundational understanding of heightened text in drama, fused with a...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Middle English Lyrics

An Introduction to Middle English Lyrics

Author: William A. Quinn
ISBN: 9780813079431
Format: Hardback
$208.00

This book provides an overview of the literary genre of Middle English lyrics, anonymous short poems that were composed...  Read More >>

The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture: Cultures of Automation

The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture:...

Author: Kate Foster ,  Molly Crozier
ISBN: 9781032895871
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book argues that thought experiments in literature demonstrate how fears and hopes around automation may have...  Read More >>

HERODOTUS, SPARTA and AUSTERITY

HERODOTUS, SPARTA and AUSTERITY

Author: Anton Powell ,  Stephen Hodkinson
ISBN: 9781914535444
Format: Hardback
$217.80

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Linked Verse in Medieval Japan: History, Commentary, Performance

Linked Verse in Medieval Japan: History, Commentary,...

Author: H. Mack Horton
ISBN: 9780231191142
Format: Hardback
$149.95

This book is the most comprehensive work in English on premodern Japanese linked verse (renga).  Read More >>

The Middle English 'Castle of Love' and Robert Grosseteste's Anglo-Norman Original, 'Le Chasteau d'amour'

The Middle English 'Castle of Love' and Robert Grosseteste's...

Author: Dana M Symons
ISBN: 9781580446969
Format: Hardback
$287.76

This new edition of the Middle English Castle of Love includes a French text of Le chasteau d'amour, Robert Grosseteste's...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Survey 78: Shakespeare and Communities

Shakespeare Survey 78: Shakespeare and Communities

Author: Emma Smith (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009647571
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. The theme for Volume 78 is 'Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Autobiographical Comics and Graphic Novels: Philosophical and Psychoanalytical Reflections on the Autographic Gesture

Autobiographical Comics and Graphic Novels: Philosophical...

Author: Mathijs Peters ,  Yasco Horsman
ISBN: 9783031922565
Format: Hardback
$118.77

The ideas of these authors, as well as Paul de Man’s and Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s analyses of subject-constitution,...  Read More >>

Novel Friendships and Community in Cervantes’s “Don Quixote”

Novel Friendships and Community in Cervantes’s “Don...

Author: Marsha S. Collins
ISBN: 9781032983226
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Novel Friendships analyzes Don Quixote through the critical lens of friendship studies. This book ties amity to...  Read More >>

Literary and Artistic Japan behind the Iron Curtain

Literary and Artistic Japan behind the Iron Curtain...

Author: Irina Holca ,  George T. Sipos
ISBN: 9781041019275
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book examines the public perception, scholarly reception, and critical analysis of Japan through translations...  Read More >>

Yuan Zhen’s New Music Bureau Poetry: Music and Ritual as Means of Governance

Yuan Zhen’s New Music Bureau Poetry: Music and Ritual...

Author: Mei Ah Tan
ISBN: 9781032738789
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book is the first comprehensive study of Yuan Zhen’s (779–831) twelve New Music Bureau poems in comparison...  Read More >>

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