Literary studies: general books

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Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and...

Author: Chad Benito Infante
ISBN: 9781517919887
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred...  Read More >>

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Author: Meredith L. Goldsmith ,  Emily J. Orlando
ISBN: 9780813081373
Format: Paperback
$56.10

Exploring Edith Wharton's engagement with global issues in her life and writing Hailed for her remarkable social...  Read More >>

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Author: Johanna Winant
ISBN: 9780231217477
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Bringing together modern poetry’s aesthetic experimentation and modern philosophy’s attention to the problem of...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete...

Author: Fabian Alfie
ISBN: 9780268210588
Format: Hardback
$289.00

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

Exploring Reproduction and Gender in Contemporary Feminist Speculative Fiction: Mothers Out of this World

Exploring Reproduction and Gender in Contemporary Feminist...

Author: Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen ,  Sara Martín
ISBN: 9783032126320
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This volume presents the work of a group of international academics on the topic of reproduction and motherhood...  Read More >>

Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Author: Jesse Molesworth
ISBN: 9781503643567
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas:...  Read More >>

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and...

Author: Chad Benito Infante
ISBN: 9781517919870
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred...  Read More >>

Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe: Themes and Devices

Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe: Themes...

Author: Gavriel Shapiro
ISBN: 9781680535907
Format: Hardback
$187.00

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Voices Under Fire: Quiet Defiances Add Up (Short Stories)

Voices Under Fire: Quiet Defiances Add Up (Short Stories)...

Author: Douglas Daleel
ISBN: 9781970853858
Format: Paperback
$39.57

They don't begin as heroes. They begin as people trying to get through an ordinary day - students, teachers, parents...  Read More >>

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Author: Johanna Winant
ISBN: 9780231217460
Format: Hardback
$215.95

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Beowulf: An Epic Enigma Book I

Beowulf: An Epic Enigma Book I

Author: Chris Vinsonhaler
ISBN: 9798991469326
Format: Paperback
$79.17

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Laurence Sterne and his Readers in Early Soviet Russia: The Secret Order of Shandeans

Laurence Sterne and his Readers in Early Soviet Russia:...

Author: Peter Budrin (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Comparative Literature, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London)
ISBN: 9780198941743
Format: Hardback
$218.95

This volume explores the early Soviet reception of Laurence Sterne. By reconstructing individual readerly encounters...  Read More >>

Voices Under Fire: Quiet Defiances Add Up (Short Stories)

Voices Under Fire: Quiet Defiances Add Up (Short Stories)...

Author: Douglas Daleel
ISBN: 9781970853865
Format: Hardback
$58.05

They don't begin as heroes. They begin as people trying to get through an ordinary day - students, teachers, parents...  Read More >>

The Trinity Homilies: A Corrected Edition of the Early Middle English Sermon-Collection in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B. 14. 52

The Trinity Homilies: A Corrected Edition of the Early...

Author: Bella Millett (Professor emeritus, Professor emeritus, University of Southampton)
ISBN: 9780198972754
Format: Hardback
$153.95

This is a new edition of an important collection of Middle English sermons, the 'Trinity Homilies', copied towards...  Read More >>

El gesto y la razón. La teoría de los medios de Simón Rodríguez

El gesto y la razón. La teoría de los medios de Simón...

Author: Juan Pablo Lupi
ISBN: 9781966932192
Format: Hardback
$236.54

Simón Rodríguez (1769-1854), mentor de Simón Bolívar, desarrolló en su obra un proyecto pedagógico y político para...  Read More >>

Ireland and Hungary, 1840-1905: Transnational Politics and Literature

Ireland and Hungary, 1840-1905: Transnational Politics...

Author: Michael McAteer
ISBN: 9783032147349
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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World-Making Narratives: Contemporary African Women's Writing

World-Making Narratives: Contemporary African Women's...

Author: Alessandra Di Pietro
ISBN: 9783032144126
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book sets out to investigate how contemporary African women writers are challenging traditional...  Read More >>

Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph

Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph

Author: Katherine West Scheil (University of Minnesota)
ISBN: 9781009611084
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Anne Shakespeare's grave is commemorated with a brass plaque that has an English section of basic biographical information,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Strong Women: The Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness of His Fiercest Female Characters

Shakespeare’s Strong Women: The Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness...

Author: Royal Shakespeare Company
ISBN: 9780008809409
Format: Hardback
$32.99

'If I be waspish, best beware my sting'  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Notebook: The Life, Times and Works of William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Notebook: The Life, Times and Works of...

Author: Sophie Collins
ISBN: 9781837051502
Format: Hardback
$39.99

An immersive account of William Shakespeare’s life and legacy presented in a lavishly illustrated journal-style...  Read More >>

Great Literary Sisters

Great Literary Sisters

Author: Janet Phillips
ISBN: 9781851246212
Format: Hardback
$34.99

An exploration and insightful analysis of sisters in literature and their depiction in three centuries of the novel....  Read More >>

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen...

Author: Caroline Bicks
ISBN: 9781399744522
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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