Literary studies: general books

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A Global History of Literature and the Environment

A Global History of Literature and the Environment

Author: John Parham (University of Worcester) ,  Louise Westling (University of Oregon)
ISBN: 9781107500648
Format: Paperback
$82.77

This book is for an international audience concerned about environmental crisis. It shows how writers across the...  Read More >>

How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change

How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate...

Author: Dr Astrida Neimanis (University of Sydney, Australia) ,  Dr Jennifer Mae Hamilton (New York University, Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350467491
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Developing an innovative model for climate change mitigation and adaptation, this book translates feminist theory...  Read More >>

Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

Author: Professor Sarah D. Phillips (Indiana University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765132203
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era,...  Read More >>

The Path from Aulis: A Study of Aeschylus’ Oresteia

The Path from Aulis: A Study of Aeschylus’ Oresteia...

Author: Professor Richard Jenkyns
ISBN: 9781350534483
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A thought-provoking new assessment of this important Greek dramatic text by a major scholar.  Read More >>

An Ecopoetics of Agency: Writing with the Nonhuman in Modernist and Contemporary Poetry

An Ecopoetics of Agency: Writing with the Nonhuman in...

Author: Sarah Bouttier (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
ISBN: 9781350528369
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Establishing the existence of a category of poems from the Modernist and contemporary periods which give agency...  Read More >>

Evelyn Waugh's Exterior Modernism: Cinema, Satire, Comedy

Evelyn Waugh's Exterior Modernism: Cinema, Satire, Comedy...

Author: Yuexi Liu (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)
ISBN: 9781350551985
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first to systematically examine Waugh’s relationship with cinema in the context of modernism, this book examines...  Read More >>

J. M. Coetzee and Christianity

J. M. Coetzee and Christianity

Author: Alicia Broggi (Independent scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350500235
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book explores the nexus between religion and literature by examining central developments in J.M. Coetzee’s...  Read More >>

Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective

Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective...

Author: Kimberley Pager-­McClymont (University of Aberdeen’s Internation Study Centre) ,  Suzanne McClure (University of Liverpool)
ISBN: 9781009511360
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element adopts a holistic approach to the processing of colours in language and literature, weaving together...  Read More >>

Socialist Transnationality in Translation: Dutch-Language Literature in East Central Europe and the Balkans, 1945–1990

Socialist Transnationality in Translation: Dutch-Language...

Author: Professor or Dr. Wilken Engelbrecht (Univerzita Palackého, Krížkovského, Czech Republic) ,  Professor or Dr. Ton van Kalmthout (Center for the Arts in Society, Leiden University, Netherlands)
ISBN: 9798765113745
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The first study examining the translation and reception of Dutch literature in Eastern and Central Europe during...  Read More >>

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

Author: Isabelle Torrance (Assistant Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781350430426
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This intersectional study demonstrates for the first time how the lens of Graeco-Roman antiquity has informed Irish...  Read More >>

Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes

Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes

Author: Dr Eleanor Houghton (Historical costume consultant, writer and illustrator)
ISBN: 9781350514089
Format: Hardback
$50.00

A renowned Brontë scholar and dress historian’s innovative, richly illustrated biography explores Charlotte Brontë's...  Read More >>

Rethinking Feeling: On the Renegotiation of Emotions in German Novels at the Fin de Siècle

Rethinking Feeling: On the Renegotiation of Emotions...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Holly A. Yanacek (James Madison University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765158395
Format: Hardback
$200.00

An interdisciplinary study of the literary representation and exploration of emotions and moral values in German...  Read More >>

Agatha Christie's London: A Historical Guide to the Queen of Crime's Capital

Agatha Christie's London: A Historical Guide to the...

Author: Tina Hodgkinson
ISBN: 9781837050796
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Rediscover the capital through the eyes of the Queen of Crime  Read More >>

Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia

Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia

Author: Katherine Krauss (Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Kalamazoo College)
ISBN: 9780198926672
Format: Hardback
$234.95

This volume offers a new reading of Macrobius' place in late antique literary history with an exploration of the...  Read More >>

Universality and Utopia: The 20th Century Indigenista Peruvian Tradition

Universality and Utopia: The 20th Century Indigenista...

Author: Daniel Sacilotto
ISBN: 9781839998386
Format: Paperback
$50.00

This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenistaliterary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation...  Read More >>

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West...

Author: Jeanne-Marie Jackson
ISBN: 9780691271002
Format: Paperback
$54.99

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman...  Read More >>

The Ecstasy of Reproduction: Postmodernity and Its Contemporaneity

The Ecstasy of Reproduction: Postmodernity and Its Contemporaneity...

Author: Alberto Castelli
ISBN: 9781839998720
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The Ecstasy of Reproduction is a piercing analysis of contemporaneity which the author still terms postmodernity....  Read More >>

Imagining a New Natural History: Latin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene

Imagining a New Natural History: Latin American Cultural...

Author: Nicolás Campisi ,  Lucas Mertehikian
ISBN: 9781683405559
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Offering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions,...  Read More >>

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West...

Author: Jeanne-Marie Jackson
ISBN: 9780691270999
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman...  Read More >>

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