Literary studies: general books

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William Blake’s Mysticism: The Legacy of Prophetic Women

William Blake’s Mysticism: The Legacy of Prophetic Women...

Author: Jodie Marley
ISBN: 9783032038173
Format: Hardback
$369.57

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George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: A Critical Companion

George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: A Critical...

Author: Joseph Rex Young
ISBN: 9783032080226
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book provides a brief scholarly introduction to A Game of Thrones, the first volume of George R. R. Martin's...  Read More >>

Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives on Post-9/11 Literature, Film and Art

Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives...

Author: Muhammad Waqar Azeem
ISBN: 9783032081902
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book examines drone warfare – primarily understood now as an issue of technology, military strategy, and law...  Read More >>

Human-Animal Relations in the Indigenous Literatures of the Soviet North

Human-Animal Relations in the Indigenous Literatures...

Author: Eeva Kuikka
ISBN: 9783032084149
Format: Hardback
$158.37

This open access book examines how Indigenous authors from the Soviet North reflect the impact of Soviet settler...  Read More >>

New Humour and Masculinity at the Fin de Siècle

New Humour and Masculinity at the Fin de Siècle

Author: David A. Ibitson
ISBN: 9783032089724
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions...  Read More >>

Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas: A Narratological Study

Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas: A Narratological...

Author: Ármann Jakobsson
ISBN: 9783032111869
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval...  Read More >>

Predramatic Theatre: The Radicalism of Early British Performance

Predramatic Theatre: The Radicalism of Early British...

Author: Eleanor Rycroft ,  Greg Walker
ISBN: 9783032121288
Format: Hardback
$118.77

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Constructing Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century: Redefining World Literature

Constructing Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century:...

Author: Ying Xiong
ISBN: 9783032121844
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book examines how Chinese thinkers and writers drew on foreign literature between 1918 and 1958 in order to...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings

Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings

Author: Robert White (Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English, The University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781399516228
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays...  Read More >>

Shakespeare High and Low: Character, Audience, Career

Shakespeare High and Low: Character, Audience, Career...

Author: Jeffrey Knapp (Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9781399543705
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer.  Read More >>

Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas Overbury and the Jacobean Playhouse

Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas...

Author: Jackie Watson (Independent Scholar, PhD from Birbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9781474483384
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Analyses how the political career of Sir Thomas Overbury exposes the changing systems of power at the English court...  Read More >>

Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945–1979

Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945–1979

Author: Luke Roberts (Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry _x000D_, King’s College London_x000D_)
ISBN: 9781399519861
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Explores the relationship between radical poetry and radical politics from the formation of the welfare state to...  Read More >>

British Writers, Popular Literature and New Media Innovation, 1820–45

British Writers, Popular Literature and New Media Innovation,...

Author: Alexis Easley (Professor of English, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota)
ISBN: 9781399514019
Format: Paperback
$57.99

The first edited essay collection of its kind to focus on innovators and innovations in the mass-market press from...  Read More >>

Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture

Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture

Author: Frederick D. King (Assistant Professor for the Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University)
ISBN: 9781399525954
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Brings together queer theory and textual studies to revise our understanding of nineteenth-century print culture...  Read More >>

African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing

African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism...

Author: Katherine Hallemeier (Associate Professor in the Department of English, Oklahoma State University)
ISBN: 9781399516174
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Demonstrates how African literature grapples with the enforced optimism of US empire that circulates in postcolonial...  Read More >>

Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen

Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading...

Author: Harryette Mullen (Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles) ,  Georgina Colby (Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Westminster)
ISBN: 9781399533355
Format: Paperback
$57.99

The first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day  Read More >>

Dissident Gut: Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt

Dissident Gut: Technologies of Regularity, Politics...

Author: Jean Walton (Professor Emerita in the Department of English, University of Rhode Island)
ISBN: 9781399532938
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

Romanticism, Realism and the Lines of Mimesis

Romanticism, Realism and the Lines of Mimesis

Author: Polly Dickson (Assistant Professor in German, Durham University)
ISBN: 9781399506519
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Examines the role occupied by the senses and the self in approaches to literary mimesis in nineteenth-century European...  Read More >>

Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility

Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility...

Author: Joel Duncan
ISBN: 9780813954035
Format: Paperback
$80.99

""This book examines the writings and experimental film collaborations of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson,...  Read More >>

Hydropoetics: An Ecocritical Perspective on Human-Water Relationships in Eastern European Arts

Hydropoetics: An Ecocritical Perspective on Human-Water...

Author: Jana Rogoff ,  Susanne Frank
ISBN: 9783837673579
Format: Paperback
$90.95

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