Literary studies: general books

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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 >>

Inca Garcilaso De La Vega: Literary Genealogies of an Indigenous Intellectual in Nineteenth-Century Peru

Inca Garcilaso De La Vega: Literary Genealogies of an...

Author: Thomas Ward
ISBN: 9781496244376
Format: Hardback
$162.00

A thorough examination of four Peruvian intellectuals who found inspiration in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's work...  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

Ensayos para docentes exploran la amplia obra de Benito Pérez Galdós, abarcando novelas, cuentos, teatro y periodismo....  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 >>

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History...

Author: Günter Leypoldt (Professor of American Studies, Professor of American Studies, University of Heidelberg)
ISBN: 9780197815113
Format: Hardback
$245.95

Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between...  Read More >>

The Long Rise of the British Novel, 1660–1800

The Long Rise of the British Novel, 1660–1800

Author: Nicholas Hudson (Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia)
ISBN: 9780198987369
Format: Hardback
$191.95

A rethinking of the evolution of the British novel that departs from dominant narratives and argues for an importantly...  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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Disappearance and Candor in Contemporary Women’s Writing

Disappearance and Candor in Contemporary Women’s Writing...

Author: Lane Glisson
ISBN: 9781666950519
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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Contemporary Arabic Literature and Migration: New Poetics and Perspectives

Contemporary Arabic Literature and Migration: New Poetics...

Author: Annamaria Bianco ,  Baian Rayhanova
ISBN: 9780755652549
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Explores various aspects of Arabic literature of migration published over the past three decades, focusing on the...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Bowen in Context

Elizabeth Bowen in Context

Author: Allan Hepburn (McGill University, Montréal)
ISBN: 9781009536004
Format: Hardback
$232.88

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Canada and the Spanish Civil War: An Anthology

Canada and the Spanish Civil War: An Anthology

Author: Bart Vautour ,  Emily Robins Sharpe
ISBN: 9780776644943
Format: Paperback
$54.99

The Spanish Civil War (19361939) inspired an outpouring of responses among Canadian cultural producers. Yet, the...  Read More >>

Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume IV: Elia and The Last Essays of Elia

Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume IV:...

Author: Gregory Dart (Professor of English, Professor of English, University College London)
ISBN: 9780198882985
Format: Hardback
$482.95

This fourth volume of The Collected Works of Charles and Mary Lamb contains Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia,...  Read More >>

Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire

Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire

Author: Sharon N. Tran
ISBN: 9781517919863
Format: Paperback
$49.99

How the ""Asian girl"" is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian America Representations...  Read More >>

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales...

Author: Nancy Mason Bradbury (Smith College)
ISBN: 9780271096896
Format: Paperback
$72.99

""Situates Chaucer's proverbs in their premodern cultural and intellectual contexts, arguing that Chaucer places...  Read More >>

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry

Author: Adam Plunkett
ISBN: 9781250420336
Format: Paperback
$42.00

Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and...  Read More >>

Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire

Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire

Author: Sharon N. Tran
ISBN: 9781517919856
Format: Hardback
$270.00

How the ""Asian girl"" is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian America Representations...  Read More >>

Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan

Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan

Author: Ariel Stilerman
ISBN: 9780674303416
Format: Hardback
$86.95

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