Literary studies: general books

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Friendship and Otherness in Lucian’s ›Toxaris‹: A Literary Commentary

Friendship and Otherness in Lucian’s ›Toxaris‹: A Literary...

Author: Laura Bottenberg
ISBN: 9783111625591
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Lucian's Toxaris consists of a dialogue between a Greek and a Scythian, who each take turns telling stories of exemplary...  Read More >>

Metaphors of the Ancient World: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Ancient Sources

Metaphors of the Ancient World: Conceptual Metaphor...

Author: Fabian Horn
ISBN: 9783111631929
Format: Hardback
$283.33

This edited volume brings together contributions from the fields of Ancient Greek and Latin Philology that apply...  Read More >>

The Comedy of Errors: The New Oxford Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Ian Burrows (Fellow of Clare College, Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780192869036
Format: Paperback
$16.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Comedy of Errors provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Johnson

The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Johnson

Author: Robert DeMaria (Vassar College, New York) ,  Daniel Hitchens (independent)
ISBN: 9781009534536
Format: Paperback
$62.07

A full but concise introduction to Samuel Johnson's life and works, providing an invaluable survey of his writings...  Read More >>

Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688–1830

Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688–1830

Author: Leith Davis (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)
ISBN: 9781108986618
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element explores the Jacobitism, focusing on multi-media representations and multi-lingual productions. It...  Read More >>

The Epic: A Very Short Introduction

The Epic: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Anthony Welch ,  David Stifel
ISBN: 9798228528758
Format: Audio
$121.31

The epic is an ancient and universal form of artistic expression. Storytellers around the globe have long told of...  Read More >>

The Epic: A Very Short Introduction

The Epic: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Anthony Welch ,  David Stifel
ISBN: 9798228528741
Format: Audio
$95.01

The epic is an ancient and universal form of artistic expression. Storytellers around the globe have long told of...  Read More >>

Armorial Des Chevaliers de la Table Ronde

Armorial Des Chevaliers de la Table Ronde

Author: Stephanie Wittwer
ISBN: 9782406160885
Format: Hardback
$227.04

Armorial des chevaliers de la Table Ronde presents the coat of arms of one hundred and seventy-four Arthurian knights...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing...

Author: Claire Emilie Martin ,  Clorinda Donato
ISBN: 9783031404962
Format: Paperback
$646.85

This handbook explores the rich and as yet understudied field of women’s writing during the nation-building years...  Read More >>

La era de la negatividad

La era de la negatividad

Author: Patricio de Leon
ISBN: 9798317295462
Format: Paperback
$21.09

En ""La Era de la Negatividad"" Patricio explora cómo la humanidad ha entrado en un periodo de profundo cuestionamiento...  Read More >>

Asexuality in Young Adult Fiction

Asexuality in Young Adult Fiction

Author: Noah O'Connor (Deakin University )
ISBN: 9781009582735
Format: Paperback
$36.22

The Asexual Exile trope positions asexual characters outside of society by portraying them as loners, inhuman, or...  Read More >>

Narratives of Precarious Migrancy in the Global South

Narratives of Precarious Migrancy in the Global South...

Author: Gigi Adair ,  Carly McLaughlin
ISBN: 9781032156361
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume sets out to challenge and expand Anglophone literary migration studies in the global North with a two-fold...  Read More >>

Cymbeline: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Cymbeline: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Kim Gilchrist (Lecturer in English Literature, Lecturer in English Literature, Cardiff University)
ISBN: 9780192882868
Format: Paperback
$16.95

A new edition of Shakespeare's Cymbeline, a tale of homicidal jealousy and villainous plots.  Read More >>

Julius Caesar: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Julius Caesar: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Brandi K. Adams (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Arizona State University)
ISBN: 9780192872661
Format: Paperback
$16.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of Julius Caesar provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War

The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust...

Author: Shay A. Pilnik
ISBN: 9781626710931
Format: Paperback
$118.77

The Nazis and their collaborators buried over 100,000 victims at Babyn Yar, a ravine in modern-day Ukraine. Most...  Read More >>

Richard II: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Richard II: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Hailey Bachrach (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Roehampton University)
ISBN: 9780198881964
Format: Paperback
$16.95

A new edition of Shakespeare's dramatic retelling of the deposition of Richard II.  Read More >>

Titus Andronicus: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Harry R. McCarthy (Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780198875055
Format: Paperback
$16.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of Titus Andronicus provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a Group of Women Set out to Change the World

A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a Group of Women Set out...

Author: Jane Cholmeley
ISBN: 9780008651077
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Writing Early Modern Loneliness

Writing Early Modern Loneliness

Author: Hannah Yip ,  Thomas Clifton
ISBN: 9783031550515
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This interdisciplinary collection of ten essays is the first to redefine historical conceptions of “loneliness”...  Read More >>

King Henry VIII; or All is True: The New Oxford Shakespeare

King Henry VIII; or All is True: The New Oxford Shakespeare...

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Laura Jayne Wright (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Newcastle University)
ISBN: 9780198872023
Format: Paperback
$16.95

All is True is Shakespeare's retelling of one of the most defining periods in English history, the marriage and...  Read More >>

First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas

First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of...

Author: Zac Zimmer
ISBN: 9780810148185
Format: Paperback
$95.04

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The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell

The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell

Author: Waddell
ISBN: 9780198860693
Format: Hardback
$371.95

This book offers a comprehensive view of Orwell's thought and writing via forty-eight chapters written by an international...  Read More >>

Wessex Tales

Wessex Tales

Author: Thomas Hardy ,  N. H. Reeve
ISBN: 9781107091054
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Hardy's first collection of short stories, Wessex Tales contains some of his most famous narratives. This edition...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Johnson

The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Johnson

Author: Robert DeMaria (Vassar College, New York) ,  Daniel Hitchens (independent)
ISBN: 9781009534567
Format: Hardback
$194.06

A full but concise introduction to Samuel Johnson's life and works, providing an invaluable survey of his writings...  Read More >>

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