Literary studies: general books

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The Epistle of Othea to Hector; or, The Boke of Knyghthode (Cram Edition)

The Epistle of Othea to Hector; or, The Boke of Knyghthode...

Author: De Pisan Christine ,  George F (George Frederic) Warner
ISBN: 9781026141557
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Epistle of Othea to Hector; or, The boke of knyghthode pairs the complete original...  Read More >>

History of English Literature: Volume 1 (of 3) (Cram Edition)

History of English Literature: Volume 1 (of 3) (Cram...

Author: Hippolyte Taine ,  J Scott (John Scott) Clark
ISBN: 9781026141847
Format: Paperback
$89.63

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History of English Literature: Volume II (Cram Edition)

History of English Literature: Volume II (Cram Edition)...

Author: Hippolyte Taine ,  Henri Van Laun
ISBN: 9781026141892
Format: Paperback
$97.55

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The Plays of Roswitha (Cram Edition)

The Plays of Roswitha (Cram Edition)

Author: Hrotsvitha ,  Francis Aidan Gasquet
ISBN: 9781026141038
Format: Paperback
$60.59

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Virgil (Cram Edition)

Virgil (Cram Edition)

Author: W Lucas (William Lucas) Collins
ISBN: 9781026141120
Format: Paperback
$55.31

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Virgil pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials,...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

Author: Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University, Boston) ,  Kristina Huang (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
ISBN: 9781009280648
Format: Hardback
$207.00

One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>

Cleophilus’ De coetu poetarum and Iustus Lipsius’ Somnium: Dreaming of the Literary Tradition

Cleophilus’ De coetu poetarum and Iustus Lipsius’ Somnium:...

Author: Dr. Gesine Manuwald (Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature, University College London, UK) ,  Dr Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle (University of Basel, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781350468740
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first modern editions and annotated English translations of two Latin texts important in literary history.  Read More >>

Henry James and the Question of Living

Henry James and the Question of Living

Author: Dr. Patrick Jones (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9798765141359
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Examines Henry James’s career-spanning interest in what it means to ""live,"" placing him in dialogue with the cutting-edge...  Read More >>

Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction: Gender, Race, and Genre

Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction: Gender,...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Ruth Maxey (University of Nottingham, UK) ,  Dr. Daniel Robert King (University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9798765125236
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Inspired by the career of Judie Newman, a genuinely ground-breaking scholar in the fields of U.S. and postcolonial...  Read More >>

The Music and Literacy Connection

The Music and Literacy Connection

Author: Dee Hansen ,  Elaine Bernstorf
ISBN: 9798765149836
Format: Hardback
$140.00

The primary source of in-depth information on music learning, literacy, and reading.  Read More >>

Edward II

Edward II

Author: Christopher Marlowe ,  Dr. Jeffrey Masten (Northwestern Univeristy, USA)
ISBN: 9781408133460
Format: Hardback
$180.00

An annotated edition of Marlowe's much-studied drama of pasion and politics which gives students a wealth of contextual...  Read More >>

The Latin Poems of Christian Wedsted: A Moravian in 18th-Century Pennsylvania

The Latin Poems of Christian Wedsted: A Moravian in...

Author: Aaron Palmore (Loyola University Maryland, USA) ,  Gesine Manuwald (University College London UK)
ISBN: 9781350261440
Format: Hardback
$180.00

An edition, with translation and commentary, of the transatlantic Latin poetry of Christian Wedsted (1727-1757)....  Read More >>

Narrating Nuclear Disaster: Literary Form after Chornobyl and Fukushima

Narrating Nuclear Disaster: Literary Form after Chornobyl...

Author: Hannah Klaubert (Linköping University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781350526457
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Examining literature in the aftermath of Chornobyl and Fukushima, this book considers literary genres and forms...  Read More >>

Petrarch’s Africa and Its Afterlives: Race, Nation, and Empire

Petrarch’s Africa and Its Afterlives: Race, Nation,...

Author: Samuel Agbamu (University of Reading, UK)
ISBN: 9781350330795
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first in-depth study to explore the unexamined afterlives of Petrarch’s 1347 Neo-Latin epic of the Second Punic...  Read More >>

Terence: Eunuchus

Terence: Eunuchus

Author: Dr. Gesine Manuwald (Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature, University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350344051
Format: Hardback
$140.00

An introduction to Terence’s Eunuchus, a dramaturgically complex play addressing questions of behaviour still relevant...  Read More >>

Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s...

Author: Guy Cuthbertson
ISBN: 9780300266375
Format: Hardback
$41.95

A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, tracing its life over the last century  Read More >>

Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis Tusculanarum Disputationum)

Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis...

Author: Robert A. Kaster (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780198891925
Format: Hardback
$94.95

This is the first new edition of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations in over forty years. Robert A. Kaster draws on an...  Read More >>

Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader: Lay Piety and Literature in Late Medieval England

Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader: Lay Piety and Literature...

Author: Spencer Strub
ISBN: 9781512829389
Format: Hardback
$150.00

An investigation into how the emotional language in texts intended for solitary women became the foundation for...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts

Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal...

Author: Sean Keilen
ISBN: 9780691272634
Format: Hardback
$39.99

What Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and change. Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Artistic Freedom and Author Responsibility: Legal Dimensions of Political Literature

Artistic Freedom and Author Responsibility: Legal Dimensions...

Author: Alexandra Juster
ISBN: 9783032235497
Format: Hardback
$527.97

In an era marked by global crises, political polarization, and contested truths, literature has re-emerged as a...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

Author: Kate Hext (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009015967
Format: Paperback
$64.69

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System

Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary...

Author: Jordan Brower (University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9781009419208
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This book charts the Hollywood studio system's genesis, international dominance, and self-understood demise by way...  Read More >>

Paper Intimacies in the Early Modern Lyric

Paper Intimacies in the Early Modern Lyric

Author: Dianne Mitchell
ISBN: 9781512829402
Format: Hardback
$150.00

An exploration of how everyday Renaissance practices of folding, sending, archiving, and arranging manuscript poetry...  Read More >>

Public Acoustics: The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime Literature

Public Acoustics: The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime...

Author: Ellen R. Welch
ISBN: 9781512829471
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Explores how Ancien Régime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphors The salons, cafés,...  Read More >>

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