Literary studies: general books

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American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies...

Author: D. Berton Emerson
ISBN: 9781469678399
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Examines an eclectic group of literary texts that have rarely, if ever, been considered representative of ‘the nation’...  Read More >>

Beyond Hostile Islands: The Pacific War in American and New Zealand Fiction Writing

Beyond Hostile Islands: The Pacific War in American...

Author: Daniel McKay ,  Patrick Porter
ISBN: 9781531505158
Format: Hardback
$216.99

Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured...  Read More >>

Epimodernism: Six Memos for Literature Today

Epimodernism: Six Memos for Literature Today

Author: Emmanuel Bouju
ISBN: 9783031099267
Format: Paperback
$343.17

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The Medieval Pig

The Medieval Pig

Author: Dolly Jørgensen
ISBN: 9781837651429
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources.  Read More >>

The Letters of Emily Dickinson

The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Author: Emily Dickinson ,  Cristanne Miller
ISBN: 9780674982970
Format: Hardback
$82.95

The Letters of Emily Dickinson collects, redates, and recontextualizes all of the poet’s extant letters, including...  Read More >>

Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms of Proof

Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms...

Author: Michael Slater
ISBN: 9781032422718
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book uncovers the relation between figuration and science in the early modern world. It shows that changes...  Read More >>

The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan

The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval...

Author: Royall Tyler
ISBN: 9780231214667
Format: Hardback
$215.95

The three war tales translated in this book tell the story of the crucial decades surrounding the events chronicled...  Read More >>

Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature, 1870–1940

Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature, 1870–1940...

Author: Regina Martin (Denison University, Ohio)
ISBN: 9781009474368
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Interpreting modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis, this book expands the definition of finance capital...  Read More >>

Cormac McCarthy: An American Apocalypse

Cormac McCarthy: An American Apocalypse

Author: Markus Wierschem
ISBN: 9781611864823
Format: Paperback
$112.20

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The Poetics of Scale: From Apollinaire to Big Data

The Poetics of Scale: From Apollinaire to Big Data

Author: Conrad Steel
ISBN: 9781609389314
Format: Paperback
$244.20

Shows how the history of poetry - with its particular formal affordances, and the particular hopes and fears we...  Read More >>

A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris: Edited with Introduction and Commentary

A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris: Edited with Introduction...

Author: Victoria Rimell (Professor of Latin, Professor of Latin, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9780192894212
Format: Hardback
$341.95

A detailed philological and interpretative reading of Ovid's most neglected poem, the Remedia Amoris. In her immersive,...  Read More >>

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print...

Author: Michaël Roy ,  Susan Pickford
ISBN: 9780299338442
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources,...  Read More >>

D. H. Lawrence and Feminism

D. H. Lawrence and Feminism

Author: Hilary Simpson
ISBN: 9781032748955
Format: Hardback
$179.00

First published in 1982, D. H. Lawrence and Feminism discusses Lawrence’s works by examining it in relation to aspects...  Read More >>

The Inner Adventure: Conversations with Louis Calaferte

The Inner Adventure: Conversations with Louis Calaferte...

Author: Jean-Pierre Pauty ,  Willard Wood
ISBN: 9780810160668
Format: Hardback
$131.87

This work comprises interviews with the writer Louis Calaferte. In it, he reveals the creative process and philosophies...  Read More >>

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long...

Author: Sandra Tomc
ISBN: 9780472074891
Format: Hardback
$211.20

In the late nineteenth century, the United States was known internationally as a place full of gaudiness and glitter....  Read More >>

The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland

The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland

Author: Angela Youngman
ISBN: 9781526797155
Format: Paperback
$44.99

After reading The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland, you'll never see the original in quite the same light as before....  Read More >>

The Family of Love: By Lording Barry

The Family of Love: By Lording Barry

Author: Sophie Tomlinson
ISBN: 9781526178879
Format: Paperback
$45.99

The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations,...  Read More >>

Revolutionary Bodies: Homoeroticism and the Political Imagination in Irish Writing

Revolutionary Bodies: Homoeroticism and the Political...

Author: Michael G. Cronin
ISBN: 9781526178848
Format: Paperback
$45.99

An ambitious and wide-ranging study of the Irish gay novel, not merely in relation to a broader Irish political...  Read More >>

Ecogothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Phantoms, Fantasy and Uncanny Flowers

Ecogothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Phantoms,...

Author: Sue Edney
ISBN: 9781526178992
Format: Paperback
$45.99

Diverse ecoGothic interpretations of Victorian gardens and their reflections of human disturbance, using material...  Read More >>

The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species

The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species...

Author: Michael Bérubé
ISBN: 9780231215053
Format: Paperback
$42.95

Michael Bérubé explores the surprising insights of classic and contemporary works of SF that depict civilizational...  Read More >>

Retrieving the Crip Outsider: Representations of Disability in Literature and Culture

Retrieving the Crip Outsider: Representations of Disability...

Author: Someshwar Sati
ISBN: 9789356402881
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Why are abnormal figures at the heart of literary canon and what do they tell us about the society that writes and...  Read More >>

In Fielding′s Wake

In Fielding′s Wake

Author: Jeremy Black
ISBN: 9781587314285
Format: Paperback
$36.95

"In the second volume of The Weight of Words Series, Jeremy Black continues his efforts to present and preserve...  Read More >>

Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature

Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature...

Author: Curtis Runstedler
ISBN: 9783031266089
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century...  Read More >>

Creative Writing and the Experiences of Others: Strategies for Outsiders

Creative Writing and the Experiences of Others: Strategies...

Author: Nandita Dinesh
ISBN: 9781032688701
Format: Hardback
$103.00

In times that are rife with complex manifestations of identity politics, writing classrooms across the world are...  Read More >>

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