Literary studies: general books

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Driving Lessons: A Road Trip Through American Travel Literature

Driving Lessons: A Road Trip Through American Travel...

Author: Christopher B. Strain
ISBN: 9780817361990
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Weaves the author's own four-month cross-country sojourn in a VW van with thoughts on travel narratives across the...  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 >>

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

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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 >>

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 >>

Theaters of Translation: Cosmopolitan Vernaculars in Shakespeare's England

Theaters of Translation: Cosmopolitan Vernaculars in...

Author: Andrew S. Keener
ISBN: 9780817322328
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Explores the profound influence of multilingual dictionaries, dialogues, and grammars on English Renaissance playwrights...  Read More >>

New Readings of Elizabeth Von Arnim: The Unexpected Modernist

New Readings of Elizabeth Von Arnim: The Unexpected...

Author: Jennifer Shepherd ,  Noreen O'Connor
ISBN: 9781399531412
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Establishes Elizabeth von Arnim as an important figure in literary modernism.  Read More >>

Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Culture

Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Culture...

Author: Alice Equestri
ISBN: 9781399546348
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Explores how conceptions of intellectual disability shaped or were shaped by culture and society in England, Europe...  Read More >>

The Picture Gallery (Niga?Rista?N): A Persian Moral Miscellany

The Picture Gallery (Niga?Rista?N): A Persian Moral...

Author: Mu?i?n al-Di?n Mu?i?ni? Juvaini? ,  Gregory Maxwell Bruce
ISBN: 9781474492553
Format: Hardback
$368.00

The first English translation of Nigaristan: a major work of Persian literature.  Read More >>

Islam and Contemporary European Literature

Islam and Contemporary European Literature

Author: Carool Kersten
ISBN: 9781474492676
Format: Hardback
$230.00

Examines the use of Islamic referents and themes in literary writings by European authors.  Read More >>

The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature and Digital Humanities

The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature...

Author: Paul Barrett ,  Sarah Roger
ISBN: 9781032331256
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature and Digital Humanities is a guide to the debates, concepts,...  Read More >>

Early America and the Modern Imagination: Rewriting the Past in the Present

Early America and the Modern Imagination: Rewriting...

Author: Patrick M. Erben ,  Rebecca L. Harrison
ISBN: 9781399536172
Format: Hardback
$230.00

Analyses the pervasive use of early American themes in contemporary culture, including literature, television series,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in Tongues

Shakespeare in Tongues

Author: Kathryn Vomero Santos
ISBN: 9781032274508
Format: Hardback
$242.00

Shakespeare in Tongues interrogates the popular conflation of “the language of Shakespeare” with English by examining...  Read More >>

On Translation

On Translation

Author: Xu Jun
ISBN: 9781032913803
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book presents a fresh perspective on translation, exploring it as a complex process of cultural exchange involving...  Read More >>

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