Literary studies: general books

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Chance: A Tale in Two Parts

Chance: A Tale in Two Parts

Author: Joseph Conrad ,  Allan Simmons
ISBN: 9781009618243
Format: Hardback
$310.50

First published in 1914, Joseph Conrad's female-centred, uncharacteristically optimistic Chance represented a new...  Read More >>

American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast: Mass Vernacular

American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast:...

Author: Allison R. Neal (Lecturer, Lecturer, Duke University)
ISBN: 9780197806135
Format: Hardback
$183.95

American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast situates American poetry within a world of global media to...  Read More >>

Books for Development: Canada in the Late Twentieth-Century World

Books for Development: Canada in the Late Twentieth-Century...

Author: Jody Mason
ISBN: 9780228027010
Format: Paperback
$80.21

Books for Development analyzes how governmental and non-governmental actors deployed books as instruments of development...  Read More >>

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea

Author: David Mence (Honorary Associate, School of Culture & Communication, Honorary Associate, School of Culture & Communication, University of Melbourne)
ISBN: 9780197811825
Format: Hardback
$183.95

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville...  Read More >>

Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I–II. Hippias. Dionysus. Heracles. On Amber. The Fly. Nigrinus. Demonax. On the Hall. Encomium of the Fatherland. The Long-Lived. True Stories I–II. Slander. Lawsuit of the Consonants. Symposium

Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I–II. Hippias. Dionysus....

Author: Lucian ,  Professor Peter Thonemann
ISBN: 9780674997707
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly...  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 Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel

The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel

Author: Julie A. Buckler (Professor, Professor, Harvard University) ,  Justin Weir (Professor, Professor, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780197520857
Format: Hardback
$419.95

The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian...  Read More >>

The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time

The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time

Author: Shaj Mathew (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Hunter College, City University of New York)
ISBN: 9780197819043
Format: Hardback
$183.95

It is generally understood that the modern colonial encounter warped the experience of time in the postcolonial...  Read More >>

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Author: Robert Calder
ISBN: 9780299346249
Format: Paperback
$57.99

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The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-Reform China and Postcolonial Literature

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-Reform China and Postcolonial...

Author: Yawen Li
ISBN: 9783032081308
Format: Hardback
$343.17

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural...  Read More >>

The Island: W. H. Auden and the Last of Englishness

The Island: W. H. Auden and the Last of Englishness...

Author: Nicholas Jenkins
ISBN: 9780571239023
Format: Paperback
$45.00

A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature...

Author: Caroline Edwards (Birkbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9781009690508
Format: Paperback
$64.69

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

Molière in Context

Molière in Context

Author: Jan Clarke (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781108717489
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics,...  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context

Tom Stoppard in Context

Author: David Kornhaber (University of Texas, Austin) ,  James N. Loehlin (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9781108413046
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England

Author: Jonathan Baldo (University of Rochester, New York) ,  Isabel Karremann (University of Zurich)
ISBN: 9781009048330
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies,...  Read More >>

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