Literary studies: general books

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Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity

Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature:...

Author: Ben Moore (Assistant Professor in English Literature, University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9781399508490
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Rethinks the relationship between architecture, literature and (in)visibility in the nineteenth-century city  Read More >>

Romantic Women’s Writing and Sexual Transgression

Romantic Women’s Writing and Sexual Transgression

Author: Kathryn Ready (Professor of English, University of Winnipeg) ,  David Sigler (Professor of English, University of Calgary)
ISBN: 9781399507639
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Demonstrates how women's writing formed a crucial, if underappreciated, part of the history of sexuality in the...  Read More >>

Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee

Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction...

Author: Paweł Wojtas (Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw)
ISBN: 9781399522588
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A comprehensive study of the representations of disability and illness in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee  Read More >>

The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description, the Imaginary and the Form of Environment

The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description,...

Author: David Rodriguez (Adjunct Assistant Professor in English, Hofstra University)
ISBN: 9781399522939
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Develops a new theory of literary imagination for the Anthropocene by analysing descriptions of the environment...  Read More >>

Writing Europe in Renaissance France: Travels in Reality and Imagination

Writing Europe in Renaissance France: Travels in Reality...

Author: Niall Oddy (Associate Lecturer, The Open University)
ISBN: 9781399522625
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Offers a national approach to the issue of Europe as a geographical, political, cultural and ideological signifier...  Read More >>

Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press, 1855–1901

Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems...

Author: Ayendy Bonifacio (Assistant Professor of English, University of Toledo)
ISBN: 9781399523509
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Provides paratextual readings of Anglophone and Hispanophone poems about celebrities, panics, pandemics and colonisation...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology

The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology...

Author: Alex Goody (Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature & Culture, Oxford Brookes University) ,  Ian Whittington (Associate Professor of English, University of Mississippi)
ISBN: 9781399557092
Format: Paperback
$79.99

The first comprehensive reference book to define and delineate the intersections of modernism and technology.  Read More >>

Situating Shakespeare Pedagogy in US Higher Education: Social Justice and Institutional Contexts

Situating Shakespeare Pedagogy in US Higher Education:...

Author: Marissa Greenberg (Associate Professor of English, University of New Mexico) ,  Elizabeth Williamson (Faculty Member and Academic Dean, The Evergreen State College)
ISBN: 9781399516655
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Moves away from offering a single methodology or approach to social justice teaching, providing practical models...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the Arts

The Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the Arts...

Author: Maureen McCue (former Senior Lecturer in nineteenth-century British Literature, Bangor University) ,  Sophie Thomas (Professor of English, Toronto Metropolitan University)
ISBN: 9781399557115
Format: Paperback
$89.99

The only volume to comprehensively bring together developments from different disciplines that address the complex...  Read More >>

The Gothic in Times of Crisis

The Gothic in Times of Crisis

Author: John Whatley
ISBN: 9781526191724
Format: Hardback
$206.99

An exploration of new Gothic, old Gothic, and their intersection with the crises of our own times. This text shows...  Read More >>

Hyperglossia and the Novel: The Production of (Non) Space

Hyperglossia and the Novel: The Production of (Non)...

Author: Elidio La Torre Lagares
ISBN: 9781032976228
Format: Hardback
$294.00

A radical theorization of hyperglossia as a post-narrative condition, it explores how language, identity, and space...  Read More >>

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode...

Author: Michelle Anya Anjirbag ,  Anne E. Duggan
ISBN: 9780814351086
Format: Paperback
$85.99

Through close film analysis, applied critical theory, and social analysis of the Disney corporation, Anjirbag unearths...  Read More >>

Engaged Visuality: The Italian and Belgian Visual Poetry Phenomenon in the 1960s and 1970s

Engaged Visuality: The Italian and Belgian Visual Poetry...

Author: Maria Elena Minuto ,  Jan De Vree
ISBN: 9783689241209
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Im Kontext der gesellschaftlichen Unruhen vom Mai 1968, der feministischen Revolte und dem Vietnamkrieg entfalteten...  Read More >>

Resonant Utterances: James Joyce and the Transmission of Voices

Resonant Utterances: James Joyce and the Transmission...

Author: Joshua Elwer
ISBN: 9783119142083
Format: Hardback
$71.47

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Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature

Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature...

Author: Alanna Skuse
ISBN: 9783032045645
Format: Hardback
$158.37

This open access book offers the first full study of the phenomenon of self-wounding as it is represented in early...  Read More >>

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode...

Author: Michelle Anya Anjirbag ,  Anne E. Duggan
ISBN: 9780814351093
Format: Hardback
$224.00

Through close film analysis, applied critical theory, and social analysis of the Disney corporation, Anjirbag unearths...  Read More >>

Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature

Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature

Author: Lola Boorman (Lecturer in American Literature and Culture, University of York)
ISBN: 9781399547543
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Explores the intersection of American literature and language politics through the curiously understudied subject...  Read More >>

Metaphors We Read By: Rethinking Literary Experience and Interpretation

Metaphors We Read By: Rethinking Literary Experience...

Author: Lucas Thompson (Lecturer in the Department of English & Writing, University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781399546188
Format: Hardback
$200.00

An experiment in reading and interpretation, which shows how different interpretive metaphors transform our experience...  Read More >>

Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry

Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry

Author: Elin Käck (Senior Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Society, Linköping University)
ISBN: 9781399536134
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines how twentieth-century American poets' European travel shaped the terrain of modern American poetry.  Read More >>

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender...

Author: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike (Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the 2025-2026 Wayne O. McCready Emerging Fellow, University of Calgary)
ISBN: 9781399538091
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Reveals how Nigerian writers redefine masculinity to challenge social norms and affirm relationalities.  Read More >>

Close Reading as Attentional Practice

Close Reading as Attentional Practice

Author: Marion Thain (Professor of Culture and Technology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh) ,  Ewan Jones (Associate Professor of English, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781399521116
Format: Hardback
$200.00

The first cross-historical study of the relationship between methods of close reading and discourses on attention....  Read More >>

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