Literary studies: general books

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Jane Austen's Bookshelf: The women writers who shaped a legend

Jane Austen's Bookshelf: The women writers who shaped...

Author: Rebecca Romney
ISBN: 9781785124105
Format: Hardback
$64.69

Who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen? Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelves? Rare...  Read More >>

Witness Literature: Culture, Memory and Contested Truths

Witness Literature: Culture, Memory and Contested Truths...

Author: Professor Minoli Salgado (Professor of International Writing, Manchester Metropolitan Univeristy, UK)
ISBN: 9781350318854
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first study to explore witness literature from the Global South as it is presented across fiction, nonfiction,...  Read More >>

Faire théâtre contemporain des textes littéraires (XVIe-XIXe siècles): Regards croisés sur les pratiques au Québec et en Europe

Faire théâtre contemporain des textes littéraires (XVIe-XIXe...

Author: Charlène Deharbe ,  Hervé Guay
ISBN: 9789004688919
Format: Hardback
$372.24

Les classiques continuent de fasciner les artistes de la scène, qui ne cessent de s’interroger sur la manière dont...  Read More >>

Henry Fielding: Novelist and Magistrate

Henry Fielding: Novelist and Magistrate

Author: B.M. Jones
ISBN: 9781032977423
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Rebels

The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Rebels

Author: Brenda Ayres
ISBN: 9781032830629
Format: Hardback
$483.00

Although history records that the British nineteenth century was obsessed with order, conventionality, and conformity,...  Read More >>

Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope for Planetary Salvation

Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope...

Author: William Franke
ISBN: 9781032895857
Format: Hardback
$112.00

While Covid-19 focused attention on the hope of finding a techn(olog)ical solution, this book asks: Is there a different...  Read More >>

The Art of Witnessing: Documentary Art, Literature, Film and Theatre in Eastern Europe and the Baltics

The Art of Witnessing: Documentary Art, Literature,...

Author: Johanna Lindbladh ,  Anja Tippner
ISBN: 9789633866733
Format: Hardback
$331.20

The volume examines the documentary practices of film, theatre, and literature from the 1960s to the 2020s in Ukraine,...  Read More >>

Women’s Voices in Manga: Japanese Cultural and Historical Perspectives

Women’s Voices in Manga: Japanese Cultural and Historical...

Author: Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase ,  Masami Toku
ISBN: 9783031733291
Format: Hardback
$310.47

Women’s Voices in Manga investigates how manga reflect women's gender issues and social problems within the context...  Read More >>

New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century

New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century

Author: Sabrina Fuchs Abrams
ISBN: 9780271095721
Format: Paperback
$52.75

""Examines the work of pioneering female writers who used humor as an indirect form of social protest to challenge...  Read More >>

Inveterate Walkers, Literary Minds: Bengal’s Pilgrims and Their Himalayan Journeys

Inveterate Walkers, Literary Minds: Bengal’s Pilgrims...

Author: Anandarup Biswas
ISBN: 9781032751207
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Inveterate Walkers, Literary Minds makes visible the writings of Bengal’s travellers (mostly pilgrims) who went,...  Read More >>

Guilt and Finnegans Wake: From Original Sin to the Irredeemable Body

Guilt and Finnegans Wake: From Original Sin to the Irredeemable...

Author: Talia Abu
ISBN: 9780813079288
Format: Hardback
$208.00

Exploring the important themes of guilt and morality in James Joyce’s final work. Finnegans Wake, is notorious for...  Read More >>

Conversations with Ted Kooser

Conversations with Ted Kooser

Author: John Cusatis
ISBN: 9781496855565
Format: Paperback
$57.99

In twenty-one interviews spanning nearly half a century, this book chronicles the Nebraska writer’s rise from a...  Read More >>

Atravesados: Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature

Atravesados: Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature...

Author: Trevor Boffone ,  Cristina Herrera
ISBN: 9781496854490
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Shows how Latinx queer YA writers discard the """"same old story"""" and offer critical representations of queerness...  Read More >>

Original Copy: Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination in Nineteenth Century American Literature

Original Copy: Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination...

Author: Christa Holm Vogelius
ISBN: 9781625348456
Format: Hardback
$229.00

Focused on four major writers of the period—Wheatley, Fuller, Hawthorne, and Longfellow—Original Copy frames ekphrasis...  Read More >>

Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past

Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the...

Author: Hang Tu
ISBN: 9780674297579
Format: Hardback
$93.95

How does emotion shape public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic, Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical...  Read More >>

Subjectivity and Sexuality in Contemporary Chinese Feminist Writing: Representations of Transgressive Women

Subjectivity and Sexuality in Contemporary Chinese Feminist...

Author: Ruttapond Swanpitak
ISBN: 9789819791514
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book explores representations of female sexuality and subjectivity in contemporary Chinese fiction by three...  Read More >>

The Irish Bildungsroman

The Irish Bildungsroman

Author: Gregory Castle ,  Matthew L. Reznicek
ISBN: 9780815638544
Format: Paperback
$116.00

""This edited collection provides a comprehensive examination of the development of the Bildungsroman genre in Ireland...  Read More >>

Us According to Them: Stateside Portrayals of Puerto Ricans and Their Culture, 1898-2010

Us According to Them: Stateside Portrayals of Puerto...

Author: Ligia T. Domenech
ISBN: 9781496854612
Format: Paperback
$80.99

The acquisition of Puerto Rico as a colony in 1898 prompted the interest of many in the United States, who visited...  Read More >>

The Critical Life of Toni Morrison

The Critical Life of Toni Morrison

Author: Susan Neal Mayberry (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781640142138
Format: Paperback
$97.55

The first book to trace the critical reception of the great African American woman writer, attending not only to...  Read More >>

Gabriel García Márquez: Chroniqueur des enchantements et des réalités

Gabriel García Márquez: Chroniqueur des enchantements...

Author: Gew Sciences Humaines
ISBN: 9798227749222
Format: Paperback
$129.33

Le magicien du réalisme Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) est...  Read More >>

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations...

Author: Ifeoluwa Aboluwade ,  Serena Talento
ISBN: 9781032487809
Format: Hardback
$305.00

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies,...  Read More >>

No Judgment: Essays

No Judgment: Essays

Author: Lauren Oyler
ISBN: 9780063235366
Format: Paperback
$47.49

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