Literary studies: general books

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Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature and Art

Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature...

Author: John Muthyala (University of Southern Maine, USA)
ISBN: 9781350530454
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also...  Read More >>

The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular Theatre to Printed Book

The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular...

Author: Stephen Orgel (Stanford University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350561045
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

Reading Better States: Utopian Method and Environmental Harm in the Global South

Reading Better States: Utopian Method and Environmental...

Author: Rebecca Oh
ISBN: 9781531512644
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Reading Better States traces the persistence of desires for the postcolonial state in an era of environmental harms...  Read More >>

The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

Author: Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine ,  Conor Bracken
ISBN: 9780813954707
Format: Hardback
$231.00

A collection of works by one of twentieth-century Morocco’s greatest writers Appearing for the first time in...  Read More >>

Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels

Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in...

Author: Donald M. Shaffer
ISBN: 9781496855978
Format: Hardback
$229.00

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Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture

Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture...

Author: Timothy Heimlich (Duke University, North Carolina)
ISBN: 9781009618878
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This ambitious study argues that in the long eighteenth century the meanings of Britain and Britishness, once synonymous...  Read More >>

Lost Plots: Interpolated Tales and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Lost Plots: Interpolated Tales and the Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Katherine G. Charles (Washington College)
ISBN: 9781009588621
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Investigating the peculiar literary history of interpolated tales and the ways in which they persistently unnerve...  Read More >>

A History of Modern Hebrew Literature

A History of Modern Hebrew Literature

Author: Yaron Peleg (University of Cambridge) ,  Zehavit Zaslansky (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009667395
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A new history of modern Hebrew literature updated according to contemporary theories of literature, culture, identity,...  Read More >>

In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation

In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation

Author: Mona Baker (Manchester Univeristy, UK) ,  Henry Jones
ISBN: 9781032577586
Format: Hardback
$273.00

In Other Words, the definitive translation coursebook for three decades, offers practical guidance based on linguistic...  Read More >>

The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular Theatre to Printed Book

The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular...

Author: Stephen Orgel (Stanford University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350561052
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

Edith Wharton and German Culture

Edith Wharton and German Culture

Author: Maria Novella Mercuri
ISBN: 9781666926330
Format: Hardback
$160.00

A nuanced study of the profound impact of German culture, literature, and philosophy on Edith Wharton’s work and...  Read More >>

Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling

Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great...

Author: Ed Simon (Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9798765123225
Format: Hardback
$120.00

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

Weaving Words, Shaping Worlds: Intertextual Echoes and Reader Evaluation in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction

Weaving Words, Shaping Worlds: Intertextual Echoes and...

Author: Azka Khan
ISBN: 9781666953633
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An exploration of how Pakistani Anglophone novels engage with prior texts to shape meaning, reinforce themes, and...  Read More >>

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

Author: Jimmy Packham (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781009548205
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been...  Read More >>

Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature and Art

Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature...

Author: John Muthyala (University of Southern Maine, USA)
ISBN: 9781350530461
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also...  Read More >>

Anglophone Literature and the Fight Against Climate Change

Anglophone Literature and the Fight Against Climate...

Author: Matthias Stephan (Aarhus University, Denmark) ,  Richard Kerridge (Bath Spa University UK)
ISBN: 9781350420526
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Providing a methodology for identifying literary narratives of climate change, this book draws on historical narrative...  Read More >>

Pseudo-Seneca: Octavia

Pseudo-Seneca: Octavia

Author: Dr Erica M. Bexley (Assistant Professor of Classics, Durham University, UK) ,  Thomas Harrison (University of St Andrews UK)
ISBN: 9781350121843
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An introductory study of the Pseudo-Senecan Octavia, its main themes, historical context, and subsequent reception....  Read More >>

Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts: The Force of Character

Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance...

Author: Douglas S. Pfeiffer (Associate Professor of English,, Associate Professor of English,, Stony Brook University)
ISBN: 9780197901205
Format: Paperback
$77.63

Studying texts by Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Saint Jerome, George Gascoigne, and Fulke Greville, this volume explores...  Read More >>

Routledge Handbook of Energy Humanities

Routledge Handbook of Energy Humanities

Author: Graeme Macdonald (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Janet Stewart (Durham University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415439534
Format: Hardback
$347.00

This handbook consolidates the large and growing amount of knowledge and expertise in the field in the form of targeted...  Read More >>

Relics, Dreams, Voyages: World Baroque

Relics, Dreams, Voyages: World Baroque

Author: Peter Davidson
ISBN: 9781526195548
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the...  Read More >>

Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture

Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical...

Author: Allan Ingram ,  Helen Williams
ISBN: 9781526195425
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation...  Read More >>

Rochester and the Pursuit of Pleasure

Rochester and the Pursuit of Pleasure

Author: Larry D Carver
ISBN: 9781526195470
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester's poems, dramatic works, and letters in a...  Read More >>

Gothic Dreams and Nightmares

Gothic Dreams and Nightmares

Author: Carol Davison
ISBN: 9781526195388
Format: Paperback
$68.99

This interdisciplinary text combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close...  Read More >>

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