Literary studies: general books

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The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

Author: Kate Hext (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009015967
Format: Paperback
$64.69

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System

Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary...

Author: Jordan Brower (University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9781009419208
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This book charts the Hollywood studio system's genesis, international dominance, and self-understood demise by way...  Read More >>

Paper Intimacies in the Early Modern Lyric

Paper Intimacies in the Early Modern Lyric

Author: Dianne Mitchell
ISBN: 9781512829402
Format: Hardback
$150.00

An exploration of how everyday Renaissance practices of folding, sending, archiving, and arranging manuscript poetry...  Read More >>

Public Acoustics: The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime Literature

Public Acoustics: The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime...

Author: Ellen R. Welch
ISBN: 9781512829471
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Explores how Ancien Régime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphors The salons, cafés,...  Read More >>

Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

Author: Dorsey Armstrong ,  Arielle C. McKee
ISBN: 9781603297196
Format: Paperback
$92.99

King Arthur legends spark enduring debates about leadership, love, and community, weaving medieval texts with modern...  Read More >>

Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry

Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry...

Author: David Streitfeld
ISBN: 9780063234888
Format: Hardback
$55.00

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

Author: Kate Hext (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781316516690
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Multi-scalar Poetics

Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Multi-scalar...

Author: Liliane Campos (Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Institut Universitaire de France)
ISBN: 9781009699419
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

The Wisdom of Charlotte Brontë: Thoughts Gathered from Her Novels

The Wisdom of Charlotte Brontë: Thoughts Gathered from...

Author: Charlotte Brontë ,  Grace Milne Rae
ISBN: 9781851246748
Format: Hardback
$19.99

This inspirational book is a delightful gift for readers and fans of Charlotte Bronte's novels.  Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality...

Author: Alberto Sosa-Cabanas ,  Jossianna Arroyo
ISBN: 9781978846258
Format: Paperback
$74.80

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

Dialogue in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, c. 1400–1680

Dialogue in Late Medieval and Early Modern England,...

Author: Cathy Shrank (Professor of Tudor and Renaissance Literature, University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9780198944973
Format: Hardback
$282.95

This book is the first sustained study of the role and function of dialogue in late medieval and early modern England,...  Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality...

Author: Alberto Sosa-Cabanas ,  Jossianna Arroyo
ISBN: 9781978846265
Format: Hardback
$224.40

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian Memoirs

Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian...

Author: Martina Horáková
ISBN: 9781839990571
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals-writers, historians,...  Read More >>

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira...

Author: Sandra Sousa
ISBN: 9781839998102
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de S Nogueira examines the life and journalism of Maria Teresa de S Nogueira,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness

Author: Leslie C. Dunn ,  Avi Mendelson
ISBN: 9783032088963
Format: Hardback
$336.35

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern...  Read More >>

The True Colors of Feeling Brown: Racialized Affect and the Poetics of Space in Latina Narratives

The True Colors of Feeling Brown: Racialized Affect...

Author: Natalia Villanueva-Nieves
ISBN: 9783032194336
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book examines the transnational dynamics that shape Latina affect narrative from the 1990s through the twenty-first...  Read More >>

Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea

Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha...

Author: Stephen C. E. Hopkins (Assistant Professor)
ISBN: 9781526175038
Format: Hardback
$194.99

A groundbreaking comparative study of the weird apocryphal hells found in the vernaculars of medieval Ireland, England,...  Read More >>

Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism

Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism

Author: Rita Filanti
ISBN: 9781526177063
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This study of Voltairine de Cleyre's transnational anarchism focuses on her work as pedagogue and translator to...  Read More >>

Words of Witness: The Fiction of Elie Wiesel

Words of Witness: The Fiction of Elie Wiesel

Author: Léonard Rosmarin
ISBN: 9781771617567
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Delve into the profound spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel through this comprehensive study of his fiction. From the...  Read More >>

Encountering Primo Levi: Reading and Teaching Trauma Narratives

Encountering Primo Levi: Reading and Teaching Trauma...

Author: Cheryl Chaffin
ISBN: 9783032068965
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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""Stanzas on the Stars and Sunspots"" by Vincenzo Figliucci: Advancing Galileo’s Discoveries in Early Modern Italy

""Stanzas on the Stars and Sunspots"" by Vincenzo Figliucci:...

Author: Beatrice Fazio
ISBN: 9783032158871
Format: Hardback
$90.54

This book offers the first critical edition and English translation of Vincenzo Figliucci’s Stanze sopra le stelle...  Read More >>

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