Literary studies: general books

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Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces
Author: Laini Kavaloski ISBN: 9781978830981 Format: Paperback	$61.60
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Malawian Resistance Literature

Malawian Resistance Literature
Author: Dike Okoro ISBN: 9783032129598 Format: Hardback	$284.60
This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the... Read More >>

The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills: The Lives and Afterlives of a Seventeenth-Century Printer

The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills: The Lives and Afterlives...
Author: Michael Durrant ISBN: 9781526129390 Format: Hardback	$183.99
This compelling book offers a fresh and insightful contribution to the interrelated fields of book history and literary... Read More >>

Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature

Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature...
Author: Daniel Dufournaud (Assistant Professor, University of Macau) ISBN: 9781399554466 Format: Hardback	$200.00
Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature. Read More >>

Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds: Finding Descartes on the Early Modern Stage

Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds: Finding Descartes...
Author: Nathan Pensky (Adjunct Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University) ISBN: 9781399556965 Format: Hardback	$219.00
Reassesses Cartesian subjectivity as an important critical lens for the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.... Read More >>

Hispanic Coetzee: World Literature Beyond the Anglosphere

Hispanic Coetzee: World Literature Beyond the Anglosphere...
Author: Cristóbal Pérez Barra (Independent scholar) ISBN: 9781399547116 Format: Hardback	$200.00
Examines the connections between J. M. Coetzee's work and Hispanic literatures and cultures, especially in the Southern... Read More >>

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives, 1850s to 1930s

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives,...
Author: Louise Benson James (Postdoctoral Fellow in English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium) ISBN: 9781399523080 Format: Hardback	$200.00
Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature. Read More >>

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...
Author: Theodore Martin ISBN: 9780231211802 Format: Hardback	$232.95
Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in... Read More >>

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces
Author: Laini Kavaloski ISBN: 9781978830998 Format: Hardback	$224.40
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Frederick Douglass's Newspapers: Black Organizing and the Press for Freedom

Frederick Douglass's Newspapers: Black Organizing and...
Author: Benjamin Fagan ISBN: 9781512829235 Format: Hardback	$116.00
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Galicia As a Literary Idea: Jewish Eastern Europe in the Writings of Joseph Roth and Soma Morgenstern

Galicia As a Literary Idea: Jewish Eastern Europe in...
Author: Kata Gellen ISBN: 9781487528898 Format: Hardback	$170.00
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Victorian Darknesses: Body, Mind, and Place

Victorian Darknesses: Body, Mind, and Place
Author: Norbert Lennartz , Jacqueline F. Kolditz ISBN: 9783032120779 Format: Hardback	$362.22
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Ulysses in Critical Perspective

Ulysses in Critical Perspective
Author: Michael Patrick Gillespie , A. Nicholas Fargnoli ISBN: 9780813081458 Format: Paperback	$52.80
In this survey of foundational theory on James Joyce's Ulysses, seasoned Joyceans introduce the methodologies that... Read More >>

Hip-Hop and American Culture

Hip-Hop and American Culture
Author: Rob Turner (University of Exeter) ISBN: 9781009714761 Format: Paperback	$80.21
Bringing together nineteen essays from leading specialists in poetics and American music, this collection offers... Read More >>

Inventing Immortality: Heterodoxy and Histories of the Soul in Early Enlightenment England

Inventing Immortality: Heterodoxy and Histories of the...
Author: Michelle Pfeffer (Calleva Postdoctoral Research Associate, Calleva Postdoctoral Research Associate, Magdalen College, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780198989202 Format: Hardback	$246.95
Around 1700, England saw a heated public debate about the soul's immortality. Two unlikely figures--a lawyer and... Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s...
Author: Emma Mason (University of Warwick) ISBN: 9781009292894 Format: Hardback	$219.94
The 1810s are often overlooked as a transitional time between Romantic and Victorian literature and culture. The... Read More >>

Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric 1300–1579

Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric...
Author: Amanda Holton (Lecturer in English, Lecturer in English, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780192873545 Format: Hardback	$202.95
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes

The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle ISBN: 9780785848790 Format: Hardback	$35.00
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The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the...
Author: Joseph Boone ISBN: 9780231222204 Format: Paperback	$74.95
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Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated by Langston Hughes

Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated...
Author: Ricardo Wilson II ISBN: 9780691268415 Format: Hardback	$47.99
A landmark book-the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen... Read More >>

Before World Literature: The Trickster Tales of Al-Ḥarīrī in an Age of Commentary

Before World Literature: The Trickster Tales of Al-Ḥarīrī...
Author: Matthew L. Keegan ISBN: 9781512828870 Format: Hardback	$116.00
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The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the...
Author: Joseph Boone ISBN: 9780231222198 Format: Hardback	$298.95
Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers... Read More >>

Comic Belles Lettres: Genealogies of Humor and Satire in Anglo-American Literature, 1711–1856

Comic Belles Lettres: Genealogies of Humor and Satire...
Author: James E. Caron , Judith Yaross Lee ISBN: 9780807186121 Format: Hardback	$127.00
Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American... Read More >>

Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction, 1913–1941

Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction,...
Author: James Reichert ISBN: 9798880700547 Format: Paperback	$79.20
Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as... Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete...
Author: Fabian Alfie ISBN: 9780268210595 Format: Paperback	$104.00
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