Literary studies: general books

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Ulysses in Critical Perspective

Ulysses in Critical Perspective
Author: Michael Patrick Gillespie , A. Nicholas Fargnoli ISBN: 9780813081458 Format: Paperback	$52.80
In this survey of foundational theory on James Joyce's Ulysses, seasoned Joyceans introduce the methodologies that... Read More >>

Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture

Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture
Author: Benjamin A. Saltzman ISBN: 9780226847214 Format: Hardback	$190.95
A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look... Read More >>

Hip-Hop and American Culture

Hip-Hop and American Culture
Author: Rob Turner (University of Exeter) ISBN: 9781009714761 Format: Paperback	$80.21
Bringing together nineteen essays from leading specialists in poetics and American music, this collection offers... Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s...
Author: Emma Mason (University of Warwick) ISBN: 9781009292894 Format: Hardback	$219.94
The 1810s are often overlooked as a transitional time between Romantic and Victorian literature and culture. The... Read More >>

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle ISBN: 9780785848790 Format: Hardback	$35.00
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Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric 1300–1579

Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric...
Author: Amanda Holton (Lecturer in English, Lecturer in English, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780192873545 Format: Hardback	$202.95
This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather... Read More >>

The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume V: Divorce Tracts

The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume V: Divorce...
Author: Sharon Achinstein (Sir William Osler Professor of English, Sir William Osler Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University) ISBN: 9780199234493 Format: Hardback	$417.95
The four prose tracts Milton published from 1643 to 1645 on divorce constitute an underappreciated body of work... Read More >>

Inventing Immortality: Heterodoxy and Histories of the Soul in Early Enlightenment England

Inventing Immortality: Heterodoxy and Histories of the...
Author: Michelle Pfeffer (Calleva Postdoctoral Research Associate, Calleva Postdoctoral Research Associate, Magdalen College, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780198989202 Format: Hardback	$246.95
Around 1700, England saw a heated public debate about the soul's immortality. Two unlikely figures--a lawyer and... Read More >>

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the...
Author: Joseph Boone ISBN: 9780231222204 Format: Paperback	$74.95
Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers... Read More >>

Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated by Langston Hughes

Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated...
Author: Ricardo Wilson II ISBN: 9780691268415 Format: Hardback	$47.99
A landmark book-the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen... Read More >>

Before World Literature: The Trickster Tales of Al-Ḥarīrī in an Age of Commentary

Before World Literature: The Trickster Tales of Al-Ḥarīrī...
Author: Matthew L. Keegan ISBN: 9781512828870 Format: Hardback	$116.00
An account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, a twelfth-century... Read More >>

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the...
Author: Joseph Boone ISBN: 9780231222198 Format: Hardback	$298.95
Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers... Read More >>

Comic Belles Lettres: Genealogies of Humor and Satire in Anglo-American Literature, 1711–1856

Comic Belles Lettres: Genealogies of Humor and Satire...
Author: James E. Caron , Judith Yaross Lee ISBN: 9780807186121 Format: Hardback	$127.00
Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American... Read More >>

Lady Church in the Christian Imagination: From Early Christianity to Early Modernity

Lady Church in the Christian Imagination: From Early...
Author: Lora Walsh (University of Arkansas) ISBN: 9781009766289 Format: Paperback	$82.80
How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?... Read More >>

Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing: Race and Narrative Innovation

Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's...
Author: Professor Sheldon George (University of Massachusetts, Boston) , Professor Jean Wyatt (Occidental College, USA) ISBN: 9781350383517 Format: Paperback	$59.99
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New Global Realism: Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel

New Global Realism: Thinking Totality in the Contemporary...
Author: Gabriele Lazzari (University of Surrey, UK) , Bryan Cheyette ISBN: 9781350385719 Format: Paperback	$59.99
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Prosaic Times: Time as Subject in Wordsworth, Richardson, Flaubert, and Melville

Prosaic Times: Time as Subject in Wordsworth, Richardson,...
Author: Dr. John Park (New College of Florida, USA) ISBN: 9798765108710 Format: Paperback	$59.99
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Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature
Author: Yuanfei Wang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) , Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania) ISBN: 9781009272353 Format: Paperback	$46.58
Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes... Read More >>

Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England

Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist...
Author: Matthew Ritger ISBN: 9781512828993 Format: Hardback	$150.00
The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,... Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Benito Pérez Galdós

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Benito Pérez Galdós...
Author: Liana Ewald , David R. George ISBN: 9781603297240 Format: Hardback	$208.00
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Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis

Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of...
Author: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University, Sweden) , Richard Kerridge (Bath Spa University UK) ISBN: 9781350401181 Format: Paperback	$59.99
Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening... Read More >>

Lady Church in the Christian Imagination: From Early Christianity to Early Modernity

Lady Church in the Christian Imagination: From Early...
Author: Lora Walsh (University of Arkansas) ISBN: 9781009766258 Format: Hardback	$245.81
How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?... Read More >>

Pilgrim Myths in American Fiction, 1820-1920

Pilgrim Myths in American Fiction, 1820-1920
Author: Kari Holloway Miller ISBN: 9781666956689 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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Fantastic Creatures in Italian Literature: From the Age of Dante to Modernity

Fantastic Creatures in Italian Literature: From the...
Author: Giulia M. Cipriani , Paolo Rigo ISBN: 9781666956740 Format: Hardback	$150.00
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Reading Length in Fantasy Fiction

Reading Length in Fantasy Fiction
Author: Dr Matthew Oliver (Professor of English, Campbellsville University, USA) ISBN: 9781350502215 Format: Hardback	$170.00
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