Literary studies: general books

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Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books

Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books

Author: Lisa Fletcher (University of Tasmania) ,  Elizabeth Leane (University of Tasmania)
ISBN: 9781108738538
Format: Paperback
$32.32

From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable...  Read More >>

As the Dust of the Earth – The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine

As the Dust of the Earth – The Literature of Abandonment...

Author: H Murav
ISBN: 9780253068798
Format: Hardback
$186.99

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Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition

Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance...

Author: Marc Dollinger ,  Ilana Kaufman
ISBN: 9781479826889
Format: Hardback
$210.00

"""Black Power, Jewish Politics expands with this revised edition that includes the controversial new preface, an...  Read More >>

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies...

Author: D. Berton Emerson
ISBN: 9781469678399
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Examines an eclectic group of literary texts that have rarely, if ever, been considered representative of ‘the nation’...  Read More >>

Beyond Hostile Islands: The Pacific War in American and New Zealand Fiction Writing

Beyond Hostile Islands: The Pacific War in American...

Author: Daniel McKay ,  Patrick Porter
ISBN: 9781531505158
Format: Hardback
$216.99

Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured...  Read More >>

Epimodernism: Six Memos for Literature Today

Epimodernism: Six Memos for Literature Today

Author: Emmanuel Bouju
ISBN: 9783031099267
Format: Paperback
$343.17

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Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature, 1870–1940

Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature, 1870–1940...

Author: Regina Martin (Denison University, Ohio)
ISBN: 9781009474368
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Interpreting modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis, this book expands the definition of finance capital...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American...

Author: John D. Kerkering (Loyola University, Chicago)
ISBN: 9781108841894
Format: Hardback
$194.06

This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed,...  Read More >>

Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy's Catholic Critique of American Enlightenment

Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy's Catholic Critique...

Author: D. Marcel DeCoste
ISBN: 9780807181539
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Confirms the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament to the spiritual and ethical outlook of the...  Read More >>

Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament: An Anthology

Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament:...

Author: Victor H. Mair ,  Zhenjun Zhang (St. Lawrence University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350337213
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions...  Read More >>

Dante's Divine Comedy: A Reading Guide

Dante's Divine Comedy: A Reading Guide

Author: K. P. Clarke (University of York)
ISBN: 9781009400824
Format: Paperback
$67.25

This essential guide to reading Dante reveals the originality and power of the language of the Divine Comedy. It...  Read More >>

The Inner Adventure: Conversations with Louis Calaferte

The Inner Adventure: Conversations with Louis Calaferte...

Author: Jean-Pierre Pauty ,  Willard Wood
ISBN: 9780810160668
Format: Hardback
$131.87

This work comprises interviews with the writer Louis Calaferte. In it, he reveals the creative process and philosophies...  Read More >>

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long...

Author: Sandra Tomc
ISBN: 9780472074891
Format: Hardback
$211.20

In the late nineteenth century, the United States was known internationally as a place full of gaudiness and glitter....  Read More >>

Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History

Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History

Author: William Bryan Jones, Jr.
ISBN: 9781476688329
Format: Hardback
$127.60

In its expanded third edition, this definitive work on Classics Illustrated explores the enduring series of comic...  Read More >>

Looking at Persians

Looking at Persians

Author: David Stuttard (Independent Scholar, UK) ,  Aeschylus
ISBN: 9781350227965
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Aeschylus’ Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece’s victory...  Read More >>

The Cambridge History of the British Essay

The Cambridge History of the British Essay

Author: Denise Gigante (Stanford University, California) ,  Jason Childs
ISBN: 9781316516508
Format: Hardback
$336.38

This book provides multiple perspectives on a key form of public discourse, addressing the essay's postcolonial...  Read More >>

Teaching Film from the People's Republic of China

Teaching Film from the People's Republic of China

Author: Zhuoyi Wang ,  Emily Wilcox
ISBN: 9781603296311
Format: Hardback
$160.60

Essays for teaching Chinese film, history, and society. This volume brings a diverse range of voices - from anthropology,...  Read More >>

Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature

Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature...

Author: Nalini Iyer ,  Pallavi Rastogi
ISBN: 9781603296373
Format: Hardback
$160.60

Encouraging a deep engagement with works whose personal, political, and cultural insights are specific to South...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship

The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship...

Author: Daniel Fisher-Livne ,  Michelle May-Curry
ISBN: 9781032163390
Format: Hardback
$431.00

Across humanities disciplines, public scholarship brings academics and community members and organizations together...  Read More >>

Understanding Barbara Kingsolver

Understanding Barbara Kingsolver

Author: Ian Tan
ISBN: 9781643364766
Format: Hardback
$303.57

A modern understanding of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver’s fiction.  Read More >>

Street, Text, and Representation in African American Literature: Urban Writing/Dwelling

Street, Text, and Representation in African American...

Author: Mattius Rischard
ISBN: 9781032457147
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Comprehensive and comparative, this volume investigates African American street novelists from the Chicago Black...  Read More >>

Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama

Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican...

Author: Jon D. Rossini
ISBN: 9780472076727
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Explores the work of a unique group of playwrights - Puerto Rican dramatists writing in the United States - who...  Read More >>

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Volume II: The Mid-Nineteenth Century

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British...

Author: Peter Garratt ,  Giles Whiteley
ISBN: 9781032548678
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This is the second volume in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature...  Read More >>

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Volume I: Literature and Philosophy of the Romantic Period

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British...

Author: Monika Class ,  Cian Duffy
ISBN: 9781032548661
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This is the first volume in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature...  Read More >>

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