Literary studies: general books

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Commentary on Plotinus

Commentary on Plotinus

Author: Marsilio Ficino ,  Stephen Gersh
ISBN: 9780674303218
Format: Hardback
$61.95

Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 1: Ennead I contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and first translation...  Read More >>

Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women

Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About...

Author: Sarah Ruden
ISBN: 9781324075905
Format: Hardback
$49.95

A bracing feminist chronicle of the history of the West told through seven texts, exposing where our most virulent...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press,...

Author: David Finkelstein (Cultural Historian)
ISBN: 9781474424899
Format: Paperback
$140.00

This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  Read More >>

Katherine Mansfield and London

Katherine Mansfield and London

Author: Aime Gasston ,  Gerri Kimber
ISBN: 9781399539173
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation 1640–1800

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press,...

Author: Nicholas Brownlees (Professor of English Language, University of Florence, Italy)
ISBN: 9781474499187
Format: Paperback
$140.00

Comprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain...  Read More >>

Forms of Materiality in James Joyce's Fiction

Forms of Materiality in James Joyce's Fiction

Author: Alberto Tondello (Lecturer in the English Department, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781399547413
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Explores the depiction and treatment of inanimate matter in James Joyce's oeuvre.  Read More >>

Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the Female Demonic

Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the...

Author: Orianne Smith (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
ISBN: 9781009650021
Format: Hardback
$245.81

From its recurring appearances in Gothic poetry and prose to the menacing images of Fuseli and Blake, Orianne Smith...  Read More >>

Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe: Themes and Devices

Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe: Themes...

Author: Gavriel Shapiro
ISBN: 9781680535907
Format: Hardback
$187.00

Delve into a creative universe built on faith as the cornerstone of ethics, where moral dilemmas and cruelty intertwine...  Read More >>

Modern Japanese Writers and Kanshi: Exophonic Literary Performance and the Shifting Sinosphere

Modern Japanese Writers and Kanshi: Exophonic Literary...

Author: Christopher T. Keaveney
ISBN: 9781680535860
Format: Hardback
$149.60

Japanese writers' engagement with kanshi unveils a journey from the Meiji era's mastery of Literary Sinitic poetry...  Read More >>

Artificial Fiction: Imagining Literary Possibility Beyond the Human

Artificial Fiction: Imagining Literary Possibility Beyond...

Author: David P. Rando (Professor of English, Trinity University, Texas)
ISBN: 9781399558839
Format: Hardback
$195.00

Imagines great artificial fiction that represents the world in creatively nonhuman ways while challenging how we...  Read More >>

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman...

Author: Maijastina Kahlos (Senior Research Fellow, University of Helsinki)
ISBN: 9781399514446
Format: Hardback
$219.00

In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it...  Read More >>

Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov

Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov

Author: Jacques Ranciere ,  Steven Corcoran
ISBN: 9781509567355
Format: Paperback
$20.95

Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to...  Read More >>

Immersion: The Experience of Literary Reading

Immersion: The Experience of Literary Reading

Author: Naomi Adam ,  Jessica Norledge (Assistant Professor in Stylistics, University of Nottingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781399549561
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Brings together researchers from across the world to explore the creation, effect, craft, and effect of a feeling...  Read More >>

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death

Author: Jessica Barr
ISBN: 9780268210946
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about...  Read More >>

Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf: Nature, Modernity and the Politics of Space

Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf: Nature, Modernity...

Author: Karina Jakubowicz (Adjunct Professor, department of English, Florida State University)
ISBN: 9781474494533
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens....  Read More >>

The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume I: The Renaissance

The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume I: The Renaissance...

Author: Hilary Fraser (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, Birkbeck, University of London)
ISBN: 9780198746300
Format: Hardback
$482.95

This is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It contains the text of Walter Pater's...  Read More >>

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

Author: George Woodcock
ISBN: 9780921689485
Format: Paperback
$52.77

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov

Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov

Author: Jacques Ranciere ,  Steven Corcoran
ISBN: 9781509567348
Format: Hardback
$72.95

Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to...  Read More >>

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