Literary studies: general books

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Festivals in Latin Literature: The Poetics of Celebration

Festivals in Latin Literature: The Poetics of Celebration...

Author: Anke Walter (, University of Zurich, as Professor in Classics/Lateinische Philologie)
ISBN: 9780198931454
Format: Hardback
$228.95

Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days...  Read More >>

Translating Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Translating Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries:...

Author: Alison E Martin ,  Susan Pickford
ISBN: 9781032972305
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book explores translation’s role in shaping the knowledge-sharing processes that were and are seminal to scientific...  Read More >>

Greco-Roman Waters: A Sourcebook

Greco-Roman Waters: A Sourcebook

Author: Georgia L. Irby
ISBN: 9781032569314
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery...  Read More >>

Leo Tolstoy: The Power of Dissent

Leo Tolstoy: The Power of Dissent

Author: Ani Kokobobo
ISBN: 9798887197326
Format: Hardback
$270.00

The Tolstoy that emerges from this volume is a thinker who resists easy answers, explores contradictions, and seeks...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett and Ecology

Samuel Beckett and Ecology

Author: Trish McTighe (Queen's University Belfast, UK) ,  Céline Thobois-Gupta (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350366022
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This is the first full-length book to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work through contemporary ecological thinking,...  Read More >>

Felix Guattari and the Ancients: Theatrical Dialogues in Early Philosophy

Felix Guattari and the Ancients: Theatrical Dialogues...

Author: Gary Genosko (University of Ontario, Canada) ,  Dr Carlos A. Segovia (Saint Louis University Missouri, Spain)
ISBN: 9781350468894
Format: Hardback
$130.00

New translation of a key primary text by philosopher and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, with insightful commentaries...  Read More >>

Irrational Together: The Social Forces That Invisibly Shape Our Economic Behavior

Irrational Together: The Social Forces That Invisibly...

Author: Adam S. Hayes
ISBN: 9780226839295
Format: Hardback
$190.95

A must-read that reshapes how we think about the social underpinnings of our financial choices. In Irrational...  Read More >>

Last Impressions: Jane Austen's Endings

Last Impressions: Jane Austen's Endings

Author: Theresa M. Kenney
ISBN: 9781487559878
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Last Impressions critically examines the conclusions of Jane Austen's novels, uncovering intricate patterns and...  Read More >>

Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism: From Russia, with Squalor

Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism: From Russia, with...

Author: Keru Cai (Lecturer in Chinese Studies, School of Modern Languages, Lecturer in Chinese Studies, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews)
ISBN: 9780198947059
Format: Hardback
$202.95

Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism shows how early twentieth-century Chinese writers drew upon Russian realist fiction...  Read More >>

Ineffable Bodies: Heroism on the Early Modern Stage

Ineffable Bodies: Heroism on the Early Modern Stage...

Author: Christine Sukic
ISBN: 9781032817996
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Aquatic Environments: Literary Hydropolitics in Latin America

Aquatic Environments: Literary Hydropolitics in Latin...

Author: Bieke Willem ,  Rebecca Seewald
ISBN: 9783837675078
Format: Paperback
$80.95

Insights into the rich tradition of Latin American literature set in aquatic environments.  Read More >>

Pomponius Mela: Geography of the World: Translation and Commentary

Pomponius Mela: Geography of the World: Translation...

Author: Georgia Irby
ISBN: 9781836243397
Format: Hardback
$323.44

This volume offers a fresh translation and the first English-language commentary of Pomponius Mela, an Iberian intellectual...  Read More >>

The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VI: Dramatis Personæ

The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VI: Dramatis...

Author: Robert Inglesfield (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Formerly Birkbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9780198127918
Format: Hardback
$405.95

First published in 1864, Dramatis Personæ is the second of the two great collections of Robert Browning's middle...  Read More >>

Translating Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Translating Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries:...

Author: Alison E Martin ,  Susan Pickford
ISBN: 9781032861050
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores translation’s role in shaping the knowledge-sharing processes that were and are seminal to scientific...  Read More >>

The Global Distribution of Popular Narrative in the Nineteenth Century: Forms of Circulation and Circulation of Forms

The Global Distribution of Popular Narrative in the...

Author: Graham Law
ISBN: 9781032852225
Format: Hardback
$112.00

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Last Impressions: Jane Austen's Endings

Last Impressions: Jane Austen's Endings

Author: Theresa M. Kenney
ISBN: 9781487559861
Format: Hardback
$145.00

Last Impressions critically examines the conclusions of Jane Austen's novels, uncovering intricate patterns and...  Read More >>

Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics

Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature:...

Author: Ari Friedlander (Associate Professor of English, University of Mississippi)
ISBN: 9780198967040
Format: Paperback
$58.95

Discusses the way that the figure of the rogue persistently conflates sexual and social deviance, and argues that...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English

The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in...

Author: Matthew Stratton
ISBN: 9781032430232
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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Forensic Storytelling and the Literary Roots of Early Modern Feminism: ReSisters

Forensic Storytelling and the Literary Roots of Early...

Author: Barbara Abrams
ISBN: 9781032632728
Format: Paperback
$46.99

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