Literary studies: general books

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Violence and Rebellion in Contemporary French Women’s Autofiction: “We Stand up and We Split”

Violence and Rebellion in Contemporary French Women’s...

Author: Michèle Bacholle
ISBN: 9781666926965
Format: Hardback
$180.00

A close look into systemic violence against women in French society through various forms of rebellion, both real...  Read More >>

Romantic Citizenship and the Transatlantic World: Bordering on British

Romantic Citizenship and the Transatlantic World: Bordering...

Author: Alison Cotti-Lowell
ISBN: 9781666972986
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An examination of evolving ideas about British citizenship in Romantic fiction in the proto-bureaucratic conditions...  Read More >>

Disability in Contemporary American Poetry: Radical Accessibility

Disability in Contemporary American Poetry: Radical...

Author: Declan Gould (Temple University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350456457
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Looking at experimental disability poetry, this book shows how poets from the 1960s to the present develop disability-informed...  Read More >>

The Mabinogion Set: The Fractal Structure of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi

The Mabinogion Set: The Fractal Structure of the Four...

Author: Natalia I. Petrovskaia
ISBN: 9781837723355
Format: Paperback
$57.99

The Mabinogion Setis a book about the most famous of medieval Welsh stories: the Four Branches of the Mabinogi....  Read More >>

Post-Marxism, Representation, and Resistance in Tony Kushner's Political Plays

Post-Marxism, Representation, and Resistance in Tony...

Author: Arnab Ray
ISBN: 9781666979015
Format: Hardback
$160.00

A study of four plays by Tony Kushner that are most political and pertinent for our time  Read More >>

Introducing the Medieval Bear

Introducing the Medieval Bear

Author: Karen Sullivan
ISBN: 9781837723751
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Introducing the Medieval Bear examines how medieval people represented bears across virtually every written source...  Read More >>

Tree-Becoming: Gender, Race, and Trauma on Shakespeare's Stage

Tree-Becoming: Gender, Race, and Trauma on Shakespeare's...

Author: Shannon Kelley
ISBN: 9781501787294
Format: Hardback
$335.00

Trees abound in Shakespeare's plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters' identification...  Read More >>

Women and Resistance in the ""Annals"" of Tacitus

Women and Resistance in the ""Annals"" of Tacitus

Author: Caitlin C. Gillespie
ISBN: 9781501786150
Format: Hardback
$116.00

Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship...  Read More >>

Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left

Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and...

Author: Alan Wald
ISBN: 9798888907887
Format: Paperback
$89.99

More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state...  Read More >>

Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity

Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures...

Author: Alexander Fyfe
ISBN: 9780813954950
Format: Paperback
$80.99

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests...  Read More >>

Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives

Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone...

Author: Michelle Stork
ISBN: 9783032160560
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book analyzes contemporary Anglophone road narratives from a transcultural perspective. By bringing together...  Read More >>

Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity

Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures...

Author: Alexander Fyfe
ISBN: 9780813954943
Format: Hardback
$266.00

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests...  Read More >>

Repetition and Variation in Literature and Music

Repetition and Variation in Literature and Music

Author: Frieder von Ammon ,  Axel Englund
ISBN: 9789004755383
Format: Hardback
$343.20

The creation of meaningful and beautiful similarities as part of a pattern is a vital means humankind has developed...  Read More >>

The Romance of Real Life: A History of European Realism

The Romance of Real Life: A History of European Realism...

Author: Marshall Brown
ISBN: 9783112229477
Format: Hardback
$348.45

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Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman

Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman

Author: Malcolm Barnes
ISBN: 9781032999852
Format: Paperback
$77.60

First published in 1985, in this book Malcolm Barnes, the editor of Augustus Hare’s autobiography, tries to elucidate:...  Read More >>

John Bunyan: Allegory and Imagination

John Bunyan: Allegory and Imagination

Author: E. Beatrice Batson
ISBN: 9781032997483
Format: Paperback
$77.60

First published in 1984, John Bunyan: Allegory and Imagination is informed not only by an enthusiasm for Bunyan...  Read More >>

Henry Fielding: Novelist and Magistrate

Henry Fielding: Novelist and Magistrate

Author: B.M. Jones
ISBN: 9781032977430
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fielding’s prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate....  Read More >>

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Unstable Homes: Fatherhood and Travel in Gaskell’s Short Stories

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Unstable Homes: Fatherhood and Travel...

Author: Carolyn Lambert
ISBN: 9783032259721
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book examines apparently dichotomous aspects of Gaskell’s short stories: her failed fathers and her travel...  Read More >>

Imre: A Memorandum

Imre: A Memorandum

Author: Edward Prime-Stevenson ,  Zsolt Bojti (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University)
ISBN: 9780198884477
Format: Paperback
$18.95

Edward Prime-Stevenson's Imre: A Memorandum (1906), considered one of the first examples of the 'homosexual' novel,...  Read More >>

From Experimental Poetics to Creative Legacies: Language Poetry and its American Avant-Garde Aesthetics

From Experimental Poetics to Creative Legacies: Language...

Author: Amrita Sharma
ISBN: 9781041168782
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown

Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling...

Author: Mark A. Sanders
ISBN: 9780820381114
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Reading Brown’s three collections of poetry in light of their respective historical contexts, Sanders examines the...  Read More >>

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