Literary studies: general books

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The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel

The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel

Author: Julie A. Buckler (Professor, Professor, Harvard University) ,  Justin Weir (Professor, Professor, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780197520857
Format: Hardback
$419.95

The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian...  Read More >>

Environment, Society, and The Compleat Angler

Environment, Society, and The Compleat Angler

Author: Marjorie Swann (Ottawa University)
ISBN: 9780271095202
Format: Paperback
$86.99

""Analyzes the environmental and social complexities of Izaak Walton's famous fishing treatise The Compleat Angler....  Read More >>

Entertaining Ambiguities: Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral Performances in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Entertaining Ambiguities: Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral...

Author: Ralph J. Hexter
ISBN: 9781512828542
Format: Hardback
$173.00

Entertaining Ambiguities explores the intersections of male-male sexual activities, subcultures, and coded language...  Read More >>

Greek and Latin Literature: A Comparative Study

Greek and Latin Literature: A Comparative Study

Author: John Higginbotham
ISBN: 9781032774046
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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The Roman Stage: A Short History of Latin Drama in the Time of the Republic

The Roman Stage: A Short History of Latin Drama in the...

Author: W. Beare
ISBN: 9781032772776
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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Modernism’s Queer Parents: Parenthood in Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust

Modernism’s Queer Parents: Parenthood in Thomas Mann,...

Author: Anchit Sathi
ISBN: 9781041121855
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume offers the first critical examination of how societal pressures compelling individuals towards parenthood...  Read More >>

Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination

Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination

Author: Justin Gilbert
ISBN: 9781041030096
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination explores the centrality of familiar motifs associated with Gothic literature...  Read More >>

Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe's Edges

Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe's Edges...

Author: Debarati Sanyal
ISBN: 9781531512125
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Examining Europe’s borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal,...  Read More >>

Hyperglossia and the Novel: The Production of (Non) Space

Hyperglossia and the Novel: The Production of (Non)...

Author: Elidio La Torre Lagares
ISBN: 9781032976228
Format: Hardback
$294.00

A radical theorization of hyperglossia as a post-narrative condition, it explores how language, identity, and space...  Read More >>

The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

Author: Michael DC Drout
ISBN: 9781324093886
Format: Hardback
$57.95

A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire...  Read More >>

A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early Modern England

A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early...

Author: Indira Ghose
ISBN: 9780691269993
Format: Hardback
$180.00

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civility Is civility merely a matter of reinforcing...  Read More >>

The Gothic in Times of Crisis

The Gothic in Times of Crisis

Author: John Whatley
ISBN: 9781526191724
Format: Hardback
$206.99

An exploration of new Gothic, old Gothic, and their intersection with the crises of our own times. This text shows...  Read More >>

The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description, the Imaginary and the Form of Environment

The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description,...

Author: David Rodriguez (Adjunct Assistant Professor in English, Hofstra University)
ISBN: 9781399522939
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Develops a new theory of literary imagination for the Anthropocene by analysing descriptions of the environment...  Read More >>

Writing Europe in Renaissance France: Travels in Reality and Imagination

Writing Europe in Renaissance France: Travels in Reality...

Author: Niall Oddy (Associate Lecturer, The Open University)
ISBN: 9781399522625
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Offers a national approach to the issue of Europe as a geographical, political, cultural and ideological signifier...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology

The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology...

Author: Alex Goody (Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature & Culture, Oxford Brookes University) ,  Ian Whittington (Associate Professor of English, University of Mississippi)
ISBN: 9781399557092
Format: Paperback
$79.99

The first comprehensive reference book to define and delineate the intersections of modernism and technology.  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the Arts

The Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the Arts...

Author: Maureen McCue (former Senior Lecturer in nineteenth-century British Literature, Bangor University) ,  Sophie Thomas (Professor of English, Toronto Metropolitan University)
ISBN: 9781399557115
Format: Paperback
$89.99

The only volume to comprehensively bring together developments from different disciplines that address the complex...  Read More >>

Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation

Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work...

Author: David James (Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780198985914
Format: Paperback
$58.95

Discrepant Solace studies some of the most challenging works of late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction...  Read More >>

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