Literary studies: general books

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Study Guide: The Broken Ladder by Keith Payne (SuperSummary)

Study Guide: The Broken Ladder by Keith Payne (SuperSummary)...

Author: Supersummary
ISBN: 9781679168154
Format: Paperback
$31.55

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and the Reformation: Remembering the Sacred Landscape

Jane Austen and the Reformation: Remembering the Sacred...

Author: Roger Emerson Moore (Vanderbilt University)
ISBN: 9781138104495
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Jane Austen's England was littered with remnants of medieval religion. From her schooling in the gatehouse of Reading...  Read More >>

The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton: Volume I

The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton: Volume I

Author: Ross Nelson ,  Marie Mulvey-Roberts
ISBN: 9781138762701
Format: Hardback
$378.00

This is the first volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period...  Read More >>

The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton: Volume II

The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton: Volume II

Author: Ross Nelson ,  Marie Mulvey-Roberts
ISBN: 9781138762718
Format: Hardback
$378.00

This is the second volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period...  Read More >>

The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton: Volume III

The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton: Volume III...

Author: Ross Nelson ,  Marie Mulvey-Roberts
ISBN: 9781138762725
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This is the third volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period...  Read More >>

Moderatus

Moderatus

Author: John Simons
ISBN: 9781138727397
Format: Paperback
$71.99

As well as containing the text of ""Moderatus"" the volume also includes notes and an introduction and background...  Read More >>

The Dark Landscape of Modern Fiction

The Dark Landscape of Modern Fiction

Author: Patrick Reilly
ISBN: 9781138715301
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Dante's vision of hell is a very public place where suffering is on open display. A key character, Vanni Fucci,...  Read More >>

Vernacular Literature and Current Affairs in the Early Sixteenth Century: France, England and Scotland

Vernacular Literature and Current Affairs in the Early...

Author: Jennifer Britnell ,  Richard Britnell
ISBN: 9781138719590
Format: Paperback
$71.99

This title was first published in 2000:  The printed writings of the most important authors of the sixteenth century...  Read More >>

Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama

Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama

Author: Lynn Forest-Hill
ISBN: 9781138718692
Format: Paperback
$50.99

A study of ""bad"" language in the late Middle Ages. It demonstrates how, in mediaeval mystery and morality plays,...  Read More >>

A Poetics of Jesus: The Search for Christ Through Writing in the Nineteenth Century

A Poetics of Jesus: The Search for Christ Through Writing...

Author: Jeffrey F. Keuss
ISBN: 9781138733220
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This study argues for a reading of key texts in the 19th century as an exercise in developing what the author has...  Read More >>

George Eliot and Schiller: Intertextuality and Cross-Cultural Discourse

George Eliot and Schiller: Intertextuality and Cross-Cultural...

Author: Deborah Guth
ISBN: 9781138724228
Format: Paperback
$71.99

An exploration of the substantial evidence for the importance of Friedrich Schiller's thought on George Eliot's...  Read More >>

The Life and Times of Thomas Stukeley (c.1525-78)

The Life and Times of Thomas Stukeley (c.1525-78)

Author: Juan E. Tazón
ISBN: 9781138709430
Format: Paperback
$71.99

This book was published in 2003. Thomas Stukeley was one of the most colourful characters of the Elizabethan age,...  Read More >>

Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story

Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story

Author: Martin Worthington
ISBN: 9781138388925
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the lens of a pivotal passage...  Read More >>

Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916–1958

Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary...

Author: Yurou Zhong
ISBN: 9780231192620
Format: Hardback
$173.95

For nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. In Chinese Grammatology, Yurou...  Read More >>

Late Ruskin: New Contexts: New Contexts

Late Ruskin: New Contexts: New Contexts

Author: Francis O'Gorman
ISBN: 9781138635449
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Readers of Victorian non-fictional prose were encouraged to believe that John Ruskin had died in 1860. Not literally,...  Read More >>

The Art of Suffering and the Impact of Seventeenth-century Anti-Providential Thought

The Art of Suffering and the Impact of Seventeenth-century...

Author: Ann Thompson
ISBN: 9781138719002
Format: Paperback
$67.99

The meaning attributed to suffering by 16th- and 17th-century divines changed during the 17th century. Ann Thompson...  Read More >>

A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture

A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the...

Author: Joseph Packer (Central Michigan University) ,  Ethan Stoneman (Hillsdale College)
ISBN: 9780271082363
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Examines case studies of popular culture as pessimistic rhetorical artifacts, and how non-traditional modes of argumentation...  Read More >>

Postdramatic Tragedies

Postdramatic Tragedies

Author: Emma Cole (Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Classics, Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Classics, University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780198817680
Format: Hardback
$236.00

Postdramatic Tragedies explores the history of classical tragedy within postdramatic theatre from 1995 to 2015,...  Read More >>

Seneca: Agamemnon: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Seneca: Agamemnon: Edited with Introduction, Translation,...

Author: A. J. Boyle (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Southern California)
ISBN: 9780198810827
Format: Hardback
$307.00

Despite ancient Roman fascination with the tragic myth of Mycenae's 'king of kings', Seneca's Agamemnon is the only...  Read More >>

Thomas Murners 'Aeneis'-Ubersetzung (1515): Lateinisch-Deutsche Edition Und Untersuchungen

Thomas Murners 'Aeneis'-Ubersetzung (1515): Lateinisch-Deutsche...

Author: Julia Frick
ISBN: 9783954903511
Format: Hardback
$784.08

Die erste deutsche Ubersetzung von Vergils 'Aeneis' uberhaupt ist die des Franziskaners, promovierten Theologen,...  Read More >>

Wild Wales: The People Language & Scenery With An Introduction By Theodore Watts-Dunton

Wild Wales: The People Language & Scenery With An Introduction...

Author: George Borrow ,  Theodore Watts-Dunton
ISBN: 9789389539080
Format: Paperback
$36.22

Wild Wales: The People Language & Scenery With An Introduction By Theodore Watts-Dunton This book is a result of...  Read More >>

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