Literary studies: general books

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The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean

The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure...

Author: Kim Hall
ISBN: 9781512827866
Format: Hardback
$150.00

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Herodotus: Histories Book VII

Herodotus: Histories Book VII

Author: Chris Carey (University College London) ,  Herodotus
ISBN: 9780521474153
Format: Hardback
$409.20

Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus' Histories. It brings together many of the work's themes and contains the...  Read More >>

Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature

Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature

Author: Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware, USA) ,  Leith Douglas Morton (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
ISBN: 9781032821528
Format: Hardback
$483.00

This new 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive survey of...  Read More >>

The Nine Lives of Annie Besant: The Astonishing Story of a Victorian Rebel

The Nine Lives of Annie Besant: The Astonishing Story...

Author: Clare Paterson
ISBN: 9781803997360
Format: Hardback
$54.99

The sensational story of a Victorian superwoman  Read More >>

Composite Selves: Subjecthood in the German Novel, 1700–1795

Composite Selves: Subjecthood in the German Novel, 1700–1795...

Author: Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge (Associate Professor of German, University of Tennessee)
ISBN: 9780198979814
Format: Hardback
$182.95

Composite Selves tells a new story about the German novel in the eighteenth century, engaging with and challenging...  Read More >>

Touching Spaces in Textures: Affective Humor and Dialogism in Contemporary Literature

Touching Spaces in Textures: Affective Humor and Dialogism...

Author: Mariam Popal
ISBN: 9783837672619
Format: Paperback
$99.95

What makes us pensive, feel pleasure and pain at the same time? What are we touched by in (humorous) instances of...  Read More >>

Beyond the Original: Translation as Experiment

Beyond the Original: Translation as Experiment

Author: Marilia Johnk
ISBN: 9783837671254
Format: Paperback
$90.95

Can DeepL and ChatGPT translate Shakespeare? How can we venture beyond conventional translation, exploring its experimental...  Read More >>

Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work

Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of...

Author: Kristin Grogan
ISBN: 9780231219648
Format: Paperback
$59.95

In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan argues that modernist poetry was deeply shaped by ordinary labor and the people...  Read More >>

George Orwell: A Reader's Guide: Or, 'Who Is Big Brother?' and Other Puzzles

George Orwell: A Reader's Guide: Or, 'Who Is Big Brother?'...

Author: D. J. Taylor
ISBN: 9780300284232
Format: Paperback
$24.95

A spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays An intellectual...  Read More >>

Health and the Art of Living: Illness Narratives in Early Medieval Chinese Literature

Health and the Art of Living: Illness Narratives in...

Author: Antje Richter
ISBN: 9780674299986
Format: Hardback
$86.95

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Modernism: A Literature in Crisis

Modernism: A Literature in Crisis

Author: Terry Eagleton
ISBN: 9780300284379
Format: Hardback
$34.95

An engaging, approachable introduction to literary modernism Modernism represented an astonishing outbreak of...  Read More >>

Fearmongering in Greek and Roman Literature and Beyond

Fearmongering in Greek and Roman Literature and Beyond...

Author: Priscilla Gontijo Leite ,  Ian Worthington
ISBN: 9781032544335
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume provides, for the first time, a focused study of scare tactics and fearmongering in a broad range of...  Read More >>

Caribbean Futurism and Beyond: Conversations with Writers of Folklore, Fantasy, Science, and Speculative Fiction

Caribbean Futurism and Beyond: Conversations with Writers...

Author: Jarrel De Matas
ISBN: 9781032733081
Format: Hardback
$305.00

It is a tripartite combination of interviews with writers of the speculative fiction, genre, literary and cultural...  Read More >>

Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age

Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming...

Author: Karl Berglund (Uppsala University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781350358409
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Showing how audiobooks affect literary culture, this book provides new insights into reader behaviour, effects of...  Read More >>

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