Literary studies: general books

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Gender, Religion and Domesticity in the Novels of Rosa Nouchette Carey

Gender, Religion and Domesticity in the Novels of Rosa...

Author: Elaine Hartnell
ISBN: 9781138728547
Format: Paperback
$71.99

"A study of the work of Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1909), author of 41 ""domestic novels"". It assesses both her...  Read More >>

Orwell Reconsidered

Orwell Reconsidered

Author: Stephen Ingle
ISBN: 9780367344788
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Alexander Pope: The Evolution of a Poet

Alexander Pope: The Evolution of a Poet

Author: Netta Murray Goldsmith
ISBN: 9781138739642
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This title was first published in 2002: Making use of the growing body of research in recent years on the nature...  Read More >>

The Order and the Other: Young Adult Dystopian Literature and Science Fiction

The Order and the Other: Young Adult Dystopian Literature...

Author: Joseph W. Campbell
ISBN: 9781496824721
Format: Hardback
$205.70

Though texts within dystopian literature and science fiction may share similar settings, plot devices, and characters,...  Read More >>

Didactic Poetry of Greece, Rome and Beyond: Knowledge, Power, Tradition

Didactic Poetry of Greece, Rome and Beyond: Knowledge,...

Author: Lilah Grace Canevaro ,  Donncha O'Rourke
ISBN: 9781910589793
Format: Hardback
$163.90

The present volume approaches didactic poetry from different perspectives: the diachronic, mapping the development...  Read More >>

The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World

The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the...

Author: Ralph Bauer ,  Anna Brickhouse
ISBN: 9780813942544
Format: Hardback
$171.60

The Age of the Discovery of the Americas was concurrent with the Age of Discovery in science. Ralph Bauer explores...  Read More >>

Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War

Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War

Author: Harriet E. H. Earle
ISBN: 9781496825636
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Focusing on representations of conflict in American comics after the Vietnam War, Harriet Earle claims that the...  Read More >>

Jeff Smith: Conversations

Jeff Smith: Conversations

Author: Frederick Luis Aldama
ISBN: 9781496824790
Format: Hardback
$205.70

Jeff Smith (b. 1960) has made an indelible mark on the comics industry. This career-spanning collection of interviews,...  Read More >>

Connecting Histories: Francophone Caribbean Writers Interrogating Their Past

Connecting Histories: Francophone Caribbean Writers...

Author: Bonnie Thomas
ISBN: 9781496825674
Format: Paperback
$66.00

The contemporary authors from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti collected in this volume intertwine their personal...  Read More >>

Gothic for Girls: Misty and British Comics

Gothic for Girls: Misty and British Comics

Author: Julia Round ,  Mel Gibson
ISBN: 9781496824455
Format: Hardback
$205.70

Today fans still remember and love the British girls' comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities....  Read More >>

Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative Practice

Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative...

Author: Sarah Phillips Casteel ,  Heidi Kaufman
ISBN: 9780813943282
Format: Hardback
$171.60

The first essay collection to consider the Caribbean's relationship to Jewishness through a literary lens. Although...  Read More >>

The Dark Thread: From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales

The Dark Thread: From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales...

Author: John D. Lyons ,  Hervé-Thomas Campangne
ISBN: 9781644531624
Format: Hardback
$271.79

Examines a set of perennial narrative motifs centred on violence within the family as they have appeared in French,...  Read More >>

Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements

Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine...

Author: Alex Goody
ISBN: 9781349959600
Format: Hardback
$194.04

Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements explores how modernist women poets were inspired...  Read More >>

Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy

Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy

Author: Joe Lockard ,  A. Robert Lee
ISBN: 9780826360984
Format: Hardback
$140.80

Explores the wide-ranging oeuvre of this seminal author, examining Owens's work and his importance in literature...  Read More >>

Between the Psyche and the Polis: Refiguring History in Literature and Theory

Between the Psyche and the Polis: Refiguring History...

Author: Anne Whitehead ,  Michael Rossington
ISBN: 9781138727779
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Organized around key thinkers ranging from Freud and Marx to Derrida and Lacan, this volume of essays shows how...  Read More >>

Ecosophical Vision and Self-Realization in Margaret Atwood's Prose

Ecosophical Vision and Self-Realization in Margaret...

Author: Candy D’Cunha
ISBN: 9781680531824
Format: Hardback
$323.00

In this incisive interpretation of Margaret Atwood's prose, Candy D'Cunha argues that the novelist's ecosophical...  Read More >>

Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction: Palimpsests, Maps, and Fractals

Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction:...

Author: Claudia Nelson (Professor of English, Professor of English, Texas A&M University) ,  Anne Morey (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University)
ISBN: 9780198846031
Format: Hardback
$236.95

Drawing on a cognitive poetics approach to reception studies, this volume examines the use of spatial metaphors...  Read More >>

Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660-1820

Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious...

Author: Thomas Keymer (Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman University Professor of English, University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780198744498
Format: Hardback
$64.95

This volume explores literary censorship from 1660 to 1820 and examines the relationship between pervasive literary...  Read More >>

Modernism and Non-Translation

Modernism and Non-Translation

Author: Jason Harding (Professor in English Studies, Durham University) ,  John Nash (Associate Professor in English Studies, Durham University)
ISBN: 9780198821441
Format: Hardback
$155.95

A collection on the incorporation of untranslated fragments from other languages within modernist writing. It explores...  Read More >>

Walden, and Civil Disobedience

Walden, and Civil Disobedience

Author: Henry David Thoreau ,  Rupert Degas
ISBN: 9781094015026
Format: Audio
$105.57

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Walden, and Civil Disobedience

Walden, and Civil Disobedience

Author: Henry David Thoreau ,  Rupert Degas
ISBN: 9781094015033
Format: Audio
$105.57

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Ernest Hemingway on Writing

Ernest Hemingway on Writing

Author: Ernest Hemingway ,  Larry W Phillips
ISBN: 9781797103617
Format: Audio
$65.97

In his novels and stories, letters to editors, and interviews, Hemingway wrote and spoke often about writing. In...  Read More >>

Perceptions of Germany in British Travel Literature

Perceptions of Germany in British Travel Literature...

Author: Dimitrios Kassis
ISBN: 9781527542341
Format: Hardback
$263.87

As part of the “beaten track”, Germany did not conform to the Grand Tourist ideals of eighteenth-century British...  Read More >>

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