Literary studies: general books

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Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio System

Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary...

Author: Jordan Brower (University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9781009419208
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This book charts the Hollywood studio system's genesis, international dominance, and self-understood demise by way...  Read More >>

Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry

Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry...

Author: David Streitfeld
ISBN: 9780063234888
Format: Hardback
$55.00

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

Author: Kate Hext (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781316516690
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Multi-scalar Poetics

Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Multi-scalar...

Author: Liliane Campos (Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Institut Universitaire de France)
ISBN: 9781009699419
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

The Wisdom of Charlotte Brontë: Thoughts Gathered from Her Novels

The Wisdom of Charlotte Brontë: Thoughts Gathered from...

Author: Charlotte Brontë ,  Grace Milne Rae
ISBN: 9781851246748
Format: Hardback
$19.99

This inspirational book is a delightful gift for readers and fans of Charlotte Bronte's novels.  Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality...

Author: Alberto Sosa-Cabanas ,  Jossianna Arroyo
ISBN: 9781978846258
Format: Paperback
$74.80

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

Dialogue in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, c. 1400–1680

Dialogue in Late Medieval and Early Modern England,...

Author: Cathy Shrank (Professor of Tudor and Renaissance Literature, University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9780198944973
Format: Hardback
$282.95

This book is the first sustained study of the role and function of dialogue in late medieval and early modern England,...  Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality...

Author: Alberto Sosa-Cabanas ,  Jossianna Arroyo
ISBN: 9781978846265
Format: Hardback
$224.40

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

Kleine deutsche Literaturgeschichte: erzählt an 20 Gedichten

Kleine deutsche Literaturgeschichte: erzählt an 20 Gedichten...

Author: Hans-Georg Müller
ISBN: 9783746061375
Format: Paperback
$78.94

Die deutsche Literaturgeschichte ist nicht einfach eine Aneinanderreihung von mehr oder weniger zufälligen Ereignissen....  Read More >>

Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian Memoirs

Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian...

Author: Martina Horáková
ISBN: 9781839990571
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals-writers, historians,...  Read More >>

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira...

Author: Sandra Sousa
ISBN: 9781839998102
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de S Nogueira examines the life and journalism of Maria Teresa de S Nogueira,...  Read More >>

Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea

Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha...

Author: Stephen C. E. Hopkins (Assistant Professor)
ISBN: 9781526175038
Format: Hardback
$194.99

A groundbreaking comparative study of the weird apocryphal hells found in the vernaculars of medieval Ireland, England,...  Read More >>

Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism

Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism

Author: Rita Filanti
ISBN: 9781526177063
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This study of Voltairine de Cleyre's transnational anarchism focuses on her work as pedagogue and translator to...  Read More >>

Ellis Parker Butler on the Fine Art of Writing Humor

Ellis Parker Butler on the Fine Art of Writing Humor...

Author: Ellis Parker Butler
ISBN: 9781434458841
Format: Paperback
$18.45

Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was the author of more than 2,000 stories and essays, as well as 30 books. He remains...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness

Author: Leslie C. Dunn ,  Avi Mendelson
ISBN: 9783032088963
Format: Hardback
$336.35

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern...  Read More >>

The True Colors of Feeling Brown: Racialized Affect and the Poetics of Space in Latina Narratives

The True Colors of Feeling Brown: Racialized Affect...

Author: Natalia Villanueva-Nieves
ISBN: 9783032194336
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book examines the transnational dynamics that shape Latina affect narrative from the 1990s through the twenty-first...  Read More >>

Halleck's New English Literature (Cram Edition)

Halleck's New English Literature (Cram Edition)

Author: Reuben Post Halleck
ISBN: 9781026112021
Format: Paperback
$84.35

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Halleck's New English Literature pairs the complete original text with carefully...  Read More >>

English Literature: Modern (Cram Edition)

English Literature: Modern (Cram Edition)

Author: G H (George Herbert) Mair
ISBN: 9781026112526
Format: Paperback
$60.59

This XpressRead Cram Edition of English Literature: Modern pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared...  Read More >>

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence: The Works of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Notes, Supplements (Cram Edition)

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt...

Author: Cornelius Tacitus ,  Arthur Murphy
ISBN: 9781026115190
Format: Paperback
$55.31

This XpressRead Cram Edition of A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence pairs the complete...  Read More >>

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens (Cram Edition)

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles...

Author: G K Chesterton
ISBN: 9781026119396
Format: Paperback
$60.59

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens pairs the complete...  Read More >>

Words of Witness: The Fiction of Elie Wiesel

Words of Witness: The Fiction of Elie Wiesel

Author: Léonard Rosmarin
ISBN: 9781771617567
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Delve into the profound spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel through this comprehensive study of his fiction. From the...  Read More >>

Encountering Primo Levi: Reading and Teaching Trauma Narratives

Encountering Primo Levi: Reading and Teaching Trauma...

Author: Cheryl Chaffin
ISBN: 9783032068965
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Primo Levi’s development as a writer was expressed through multiple literary genres and an increasing awareness...  Read More >>

The World of Jean Cocteau: Beautiful, Elusive, Uninhabitable

The World of Jean Cocteau: Beautiful, Elusive, Uninhabitable...

Author: James Jackson
ISBN: 9783032202987
Format: Hardback
$284.60

W.H. Auden once remarked that the complete œuvre of Jean Cocteau could fill a warehouse. Over the course of his...  Read More >>

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