Literary studies: general books

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Sappho and Her Influence

Sappho and Her Influence

Author: David M (David Moore) Robinson
ISBN: 9781023493888
Format: Hardback
$81.71

Explore the enduring influence of Sappho, the celebrated lyric poet of ancient Greece, with ""Sappho and her Influence""...  Read More >>

Virgil

Virgil

Author: W Lucas (William Lucas) Collins
ISBN: 9781023440219
Format: Hardback
$81.71

Explore the life and legacy of Virgil, Rome's epic poet, in William Lucas Collins' insightful biography. This volume...  Read More >>

The Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes

The Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected in Eighteen...

Author: John Dryden ,  Walter Scott
ISBN: 9781023402668
Format: Hardback
$102.83

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

The Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes

The Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected in Eighteen...

Author: John Dryden ,  Walter Scott
ISBN: 9781023401005
Format: Hardback
$97.55

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

Law and Literature: A Study Based on Traditional Chinese Drama

Law and Literature: A Study Based on Traditional Chinese...

Author: Zhu Suli
ISBN: 9781041009443
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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Islam and Papal Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: The Afterlives of a Popular Polemic

Islam and Papal Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern...

Author: Kate Waggoner Karchner
ISBN: 9781032472676
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Analysing the thirty-four surviving manuscript copies, this book studies the way the text was transcribed, the notes...  Read More >>

Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction...

Author: Anita Loos ,  Cari Beauchamp
ISBN: 9780520419285
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Anita Loos (1888-1981) was one of Hollywood's most respected and prolific screenwriters, as well as an acclaimed...  Read More >>

The Letters of Dr Charles Burney: Volume IV: 1800-1806

The Letters of Dr Charles Burney: Volume IV: 1800-1806...

Author: Stewart Cooke (Retired English and American Literature teacher, Dawson College; Adjunct Professor, McGill University; Associate Director, Burney Centre, McGill University)
ISBN: 9780198739647
Format: Hardback
$482.95

This second volume of the Letters of Dr Charles Burney covers the years 1800-1806. During this period, Burney retired...  Read More >>

Chaucer from Prentice to Poet: The Metaphor of Love in Dream Visions and Troilus and Criseyde

Chaucer from Prentice to Poet: The Metaphor of Love...

Author: Edward I. Condren
ISBN: 9780813080796
Format: Paperback
$64.99

While covering all the major work produced by Geoffrey Chaucer in his pre-Canterbury Tales career, this book seeks...  Read More >>

Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture

Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture

Author: M. Genevieve West
ISBN: 9780813081083
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Taking a close look at Zora Neale Hurston's historical and literary contexts, this book investigates why Hurston's...  Read More >>

Poetry, Sound, and the Matter of Prosody, 1800–2000

Poetry, Sound, and the Matter of Prosody, 1800–2000...

Author: Peter Miller (Reed College)
ISBN: 9780198937180
Format: Hardback
$177.95

This volume examines prosodic innovation, reframing prosodic analysis as a form of media theory. Peter Miller considers...  Read More >>

The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England...

Author: Erica Weaver (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9780198922094
Format: Hardback
$177.95

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices...  Read More >>

Twelve Stories by American Women

Twelve Stories by American Women

Author: Arielle Zibrak ,  Arielle Zibrak
ISBN: 9780143138174
Format: Paperback
$39.99

""A collection of twelve essential short stories by iconic American women writers that introduces a more diverse...  Read More >>

Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s ""Iliad"" in the Fight for a Dying World

Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s ""Iliad"" in the...

Author: Edith Hall
ISBN: 9780300275582
Format: Hardback
$39.95

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Reading Ann Rule: Landmarks in True Crime

Reading Ann Rule: Landmarks in True Crime

Author: Charlotte Barnes
ISBN: 9783031857751
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book studies the works of Ann Rule, aiming to shed light on her literary career as a largely uncelebrated True...  Read More >>

Handbook of Universal Literature

Handbook of Universal Literature

Author: Anne C Lynch (Anne Charlotte Botta
ISBN: 9781022931374
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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National Epics

National Epics

Author: Kate Milner Rabb
ISBN: 9781022925489
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

Laxdæla Saga

Laxdæla Saga

Author: Muriel A C Press
ISBN: 9781022931657
Format: Hardback
$86.99

Reprint of an 1899 edition published by J.M. Dent, London.  Read More >>

Plato and Platonism

Plato and Platonism

Author: Walter Pater
ISBN: 9781022924505
Format: Hardback
$84.35

""By Platonism,"" the author clarifies, ""is meant not Neo-Platonism of any kind, but the leading principles of...  Read More >>

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt...

Author: Cornelius Tacitus ,  Arthur Murphy
ISBN: 9781023017589
Format: Hardback
$81.71

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

Homer and His Age

Homer and His Age

Author: Andrew Lang
ISBN: 9781022921467
Format: Hardback
$86.99

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to...  Read More >>

Authors of Greece

Authors of Greece

Author: T W (Thomas Wallace) Lumb
ISBN: 9781022927957
Format: Hardback
$84.35

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A History of English Literature

A History of English Literature

Author: Robert Huntington Fletcher
ISBN: 9781023121767
Format: Hardback
$89.63

The outline discussion of literary qualities which follows is intended to help in the formation of intelligent and...  Read More >>

Reassessing Murder, She Wrote: The Afterlives of a Popular Culture Phenomenon

Reassessing Murder, She Wrote: The Afterlives of a Popular...

Author: Eva Burke (Trinity College, Dublin) ,  Jennifer Schnabel (Clarion University, PA)
ISBN: 9781032572635
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book provides a critical overview of the cultural impact of the Murder, She Wrote TV series and it’s paratextual...  Read More >>

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