Literary studies: general books

316414 books were found.

Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy: The Feminist Critique of Commercial Modernity

Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy: The Feminist...

Author: Catherine Packham (University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781009395816
Format: Paperback
$59.49

A compelling new account of Wollstonecraft as critic of commercial modernity. Through her major works, Wollstonecraft...  Read More >>

Sacred Geographies in Victorian Literature: Protestant and Catholic Refigurings of the Bible and Christian Tradition

Sacred Geographies in Victorian Literature: Protestant...

Author: Keith Hanley
ISBN: 9783031751844
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Intended for a primary readership of academics and researchers in the field of Victorian Literature, Religious Studies...  Read More >>

Whiteness and American Literature

Whiteness and American Literature

Author: Jolene Hubbs (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)
ISBN: 9781009522793
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book brings together essays by leading scholars in the field to explore the diverse ways that whiteness has...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett and Medicine

Samuel Beckett and Medicine

Author: Ulrika Maude (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781108840736
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Offers the first sustained analysis of Beckett's abiding interest in medicine and its impact on the form and content...  Read More >>

Bare Ruined Choirs: Sacred Spaces in Four Early Modern Plays

Bare Ruined Choirs: Sacred Spaces in Four Early Modern...

Author: Lisa Hopkins
ISBN: 9781839995118
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The book discusses the demarcation of secular and sacred territory in early modern English drama. It focuses primarily...  Read More >>

Theaters of Translation: Cosmopolitan Vernaculars in Shakespeare's England

Theaters of Translation: Cosmopolitan Vernaculars in...

Author: Andrew S. Keener
ISBN: 9780817362041
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Shakespeare in Tongues

Shakespeare in Tongues

Author: Kathryn Vomero Santos
ISBN: 9781032274492
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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Hemingway's Attic: Hell and Glory in Cuba and the Writing of The Old Man and the Sea

Hemingway's Attic: Hell and Glory in Cuba and the Writing...

Author: William Hazelgrove
ISBN: 9781493076611
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Hemingway's Attic offers a fresh perspective on Ernest Hemingway's life in Cuba from 1950 to 1952, shining a new...  Read More >>

Teaching Migration in Literature, Film, and Media

Teaching Migration in Literature, Film, and Media

Author: Masha Salazkina ,  Yumna Siddiqi
ISBN: 9781603296908
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Essays on how to teach one of the most important issues of our time People migrate to seek opportunities, to unite...  Read More >>

The Gifts of Reading for the Next Generation: essays on nurturing a passion for reading

The Gifts of Reading for the Next Generation: essays...

Author: Jennie Orchard
ISBN: 9781761380976
Format: Hardback
$35.00

Inspired by Robert Macfarlane and curated by Jennie Orchard, an anthology of essays about the joys of giving books...  Read More >>

Double Lyric: Divisiveness and Communal Creativity in Recent English Poetry

Double Lyric: Divisiveness and Communal Creativity in...

Author: Merle E. Brown
ISBN: 9781041069195
Format: Hardback
$147.00

Originally published posthumously in 1980, this book centres on 5 British poets – Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin,...  Read More >>

The Teaching of George Eliot

The Teaching of George Eliot

Author: William Myers
ISBN: 9781041071501
Format: Hardback
$126.00

George Eliot thought of herself as a teacher, as did her contemporaries. Their view that her writing was a deliberate...  Read More >>

The Doctor Looks at Literature: Psychological Studies of Life and Letters

The Doctor Looks at Literature: Psychological Studies...

Author: Joseph Collins
ISBN: 9781041064084
Format: Hardback
$221.00

First published in 1923, the original blurb reads: “This series of studies by a distinguished neurologist and psychiatrist,...  Read More >>

Evelyn Waugh and the Problem of Evil

Evelyn Waugh and the Problem of Evil

Author: William Myers
ISBN: 9781041079620
Format: Hardback
$58.99

Originally published in 1991, this elegantly written book offers new readers a useful approach to the work of Evelyn...  Read More >>

Locomotion in Literature: The Railway in Danish Literature

Locomotion in Literature: The Railway in Danish Literature...

Author: Martin Zerlang (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781041015789
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The invention of the locomotive changed landscapes, cityscapes, social relations, sensibilities prophesied by Hans...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Fernando Pessoa

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Fernando Pessoa...

Author: Paulo de Medeiros ,  Jerónimo Pizarro
ISBN: 9781603296816
Format: Paperback
$74.80

Essays on teaching a major Portuguese writer The writings of Fernando Pessoa, one of Portugal's most renowned authors,...  Read More >>

Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale

Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development...

Author: Kimberly J. Lau ,  Anne E. Duggan
ISBN: 9780814341346
Format: Paperback
$70.40

A transformative lens revealing the historical racial context that profoundly influenced European fairy tales. Engaging...  Read More >>

State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature

State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature...

Author: Dan Sperrin
ISBN: 9780691195582
Format: Hardback
$79.99

A history of political satire in English literature from its Roman foundations to the present day Satire is a...  Read More >>

Understanding Hunter S. Thompson

Understanding Hunter S. Thompson

Author: Kevin J. Hayes
ISBN: 9781643365701
Format: Paperback
$44.00

An insightful guide to the life and literary career of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005)...  Read More >>

The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus

The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus

Author: Melanie Racette-Campbell
ISBN: 9780299343545
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Masculinity in both the Republic and the Empire are well studied subjects, but by shining a light on the precise...  Read More >>

Ramesh Panigrahi: Eka Akalana

Ramesh Panigrahi: Eka Akalana

Author: Arya Kumari Pragyan Paramita
ISBN: 9781645607090
Format: Paperback
$47.52

ନାଟ୍ୟକାର ପାଣିଗ୍ରାହୀଙ୍କର ନାଟ୍ୟରୀତିକୁ ସାମଗ୍ରିକ ଭାବରେ ଅନୁସରଣ କରି ତାଙ୍କ ନାଟ୍ୟ କଳାର ମହତ୍ତ୍ୱ ପ୍ରତିପାଦନ କରିବା ହେଉଛି ଗବେଷଣାର...  Read More >>

A Description of Acquaintance: The Letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein, 1927-1930

A Description of Acquaintance: The Letters of Laura...

Author: Logan Esdale ,  Jane Malcolm
ISBN: 9780826368058
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Gertrude Stein and Laura Riding enjoyed a fascinating if brief three-year friendship via correspondence between...  Read More >>

Beckett'S Co-Authors: Rewriting Waiting for Godot

Beckett'S Co-Authors: Rewriting Waiting for Godot

Author: S. E. Gontarski
ISBN: 9781399529334
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Closely examines the original stagings of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and the point at which theatrical collaboration...  Read More >>

Envisioning Voice and the Aphasic Ears: Of Sanskrit Reflective Traditions Today

Envisioning Voice and the Aphasic Ears: Of Sanskrit...

Author: Dr D Venkat Rao (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India)
ISBN: 9789361318405
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The book attempts to configure the distinctive and enduring reflective ethos of Sanskrit traditions – an ethos which...  Read More >>

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