Literary studies: general books

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The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture: Volume 1: Medieval Arthurian Literatures and Cultures

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture:...

Author: Raluca L. Radulescu (Bangor University, Wales) ,  Andrew Lynch (The University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781316516003
Format: Hardback
$362.25

The authoritative source for those wanting to explore the flourishing medieval world of Arthur from its very beginnings,...  Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture: Volume 2: Arthurian Literatures and Cultures: 1500 to the Present

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture:...

Author: Raluca L. Radulescu (Bangor University, Wales) ,  Andrew Lynch (The University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781316516010
Format: Hardback
$362.25

Charting the global spread of Arthuriana up to the present day, the second volume of this history foregrounds non-English...  Read More >>

On Morrison

On Morrison

Author: Namwali Serpell
ISBN: 9781784746438
Format: Hardback
$55.00

The essential companion to Toni Morrison's work, written by Namwali Serpell, 'one of the most innovative and intelligent...  Read More >>

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality...

Author: Muhsin J. al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York)
ISBN: 9781009584579
Format: Hardback
$232.88

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

Ballad Business: Selling Early Modern Theatre

Ballad Business: Selling Early Modern Theatre

Author: Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781107179677
Format: Hardback
$284.63

In this first-ever account of the broadsheet ballads sold outside playhouses, Tiffany Stern reveals how ballads...  Read More >>

Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand

Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand

Author: Fiona Sampson
ISBN: 9781529924336
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature

Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature

Author: Stacey McDowell (University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9781009380423
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing...  Read More >>

The Indian Ocean and the Historical Imagination in Afro-Asian Fiction

The Indian Ocean and the Historical Imagination in Afro-Asian...

Author: Kritish Rajbhandari (Reed College, Oregon)
ISBN: 9781009627757
Format: Hardback
$245.81

As one among few studies of Indian Ocean literature, this book will benefit scholars and students in humanistic...  Read More >>

Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature

Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian...

Author: Zakir Hussain ,  Ghulam Rabani
ISBN: 9781666973167
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Materialist Romanticism: The Matter of the Marbles

Materialist Romanticism: The Matter of the Marbles

Author: Dewey W. Hall
ISBN: 9781793635587
Format: Hardback
$150.00

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William James and Literary Studies

William James and Literary Studies

Author: Kate Stanley (University of Western Ontario) ,  Kristen Case (The Monson Seminar)
ISBN: 9781009688635
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Demonstrates William James's role in the history of Anglo-American literary production and the practice of literary...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures

The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures...

Author: Xiaofan Amy Li (University College, London)
ISBN: 9781009670227
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Arguing against the reductive understanding of risk as negative possibility, this book shows how risk is a necessary...  Read More >>

Insects and the Enlightenment: Human-Arthropod Entanglement in the British Eighteenth Century

Insects and the Enlightenment: Human-Arthropod Entanglement...

Author: Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace (Boston College, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781009692670
Format: Hardback
$245.81

What was the role of insects in defining the human during the British eighteenth century? Through close ecocritical...  Read More >>

Books for Development: Canada in the Late Twentieth-Century World

Books for Development: Canada in the Late Twentieth-Century...

Author: Jody Mason
ISBN: 9780228027010
Format: Paperback
$80.21

Books for Development analyzes how governmental and non-governmental actors deployed books as instruments of development...  Read More >>

American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast: Mass Vernacular

American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast:...

Author: Allison R. Neal (Lecturer, Lecturer, Duke University)
ISBN: 9780197806135
Format: Hardback
$183.95

American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast situates American poetry within a world of global media to...  Read More >>

Lucian, Volume II: The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted. The Tragic Zeus. The Rooster. Prometheus. Icaromenippus. Timon. Charon. Sale of Lives

Lucian, Volume II: The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted....

Author: Lucian ,  Professor Peter Thonemann
ISBN: 9780674997714
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly...  Read More >>

Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I–II. Hippias. Dionysus. Heracles. On Amber. The Fly. Nigrinus. Demonax. On the Hall. Encomium of the Fatherland. The Long-Lived. True Stories I–II. Slander. Lawsuit of the Consonants. Symposium

Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I–II. Hippias. Dionysus....

Author: Lucian ,  Professor Peter Thonemann
ISBN: 9780674997707
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly...  Read More >>

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History...

Author: Günter Leypoldt (Professor of American Studies, Professor of American Studies, University of Heidelberg)
ISBN: 9780197815113
Format: Hardback
$245.95

Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between...  Read More >>

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