Literary studies: general books

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The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

Author: Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University, Boston) ,  Kristina Huang (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
ISBN: 9781009280648
Format: Hardback
$207.00

One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>

The Uncanny as a Method in Contemporary Irish Literature

The Uncanny as a Method in Contemporary Irish Literature...

Author: Beatrice Masi
ISBN: 9781041155928
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This volume examines how post-Celtic Tiger Irish literature responds to overlapping economic and environmental crises...  Read More >>

Murder in Motion: A Sociological Analysis of the City, Transit, and Identity in the Modernist and Postmodernist Thriller

Murder in Motion: A Sociological Analysis of the City,...

Author: Michael Mirabile
ISBN: 9781032789330
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book examines the fictional category of thriller through the lens of city life using exegetical tools drawn...  Read More >>

Granville Bantock and the Orchestral Refiguring of Literature

Granville Bantock and the Orchestral Refiguring of Literature...

Author: Michael Allis
ISBN: 9781837651740
Format: Hardback
$501.60

Illuminates Bantock's experimentation with musical structure to create effective representations of literature,...  Read More >>

Transnational Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Infrastructures, Literatures, Applications

Transnational Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First...

Author: Roslyn Joy Irving (University Of Liverpool, Uk; Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany; Xjtlu, China) ,  Rachael Sumner (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)
ISBN: 9781041099901
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Transnational Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Infrastructures, Literatures, Applications concerns...  Read More >>

Critical Failures: Modern Japan and the Possibility of Reading Otherwise

Critical Failures: Modern Japan and the Possibility...

Author: Miyabi Goto
ISBN: 9781501785665
Format: Hardback
$335.00

""In Critical Failures, Miyabi Goto examines the rise of hihyåo, a practice of critical reading, in Japan's Meiji...  Read More >>

Unsettling Narratives: Folklore’s Textual Geographies

Unsettling Narratives: Folklore’s Textual Geographies...

Author: James Thurgill
ISBN: 9781837723638
Format: Hardback
$185.00

This book takes a literary geographical approach to the study of folklore, exploring the complex relationships between...  Read More >>

Ottoman Mobilities in the Global Nineteenth Century

Ottoman Mobilities in the Global Nineteenth Century...

Author: Belgin Turan Özkaya ,  Sibel Zandi-Sayek
ISBN: 9783111548302
Format: Hardback
$343.17

How did Ottoman individuals and objects interact within the wider nineteenth-century world? The eleven essays from...  Read More >>

Critical Posthumanist Readings of Contemporary Screen Reimaginings of Lewis Carroll’s Alice: Becoming Alice

Critical Posthumanist Readings of Contemporary Screen...

Author: Irene Stoukou
ISBN: 9781041163305
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This groundbreaking study examines how Carroll's Victorian masterpieces and six major screen adaptations (1966-2016)...  Read More >>

Pope’s War with the Dunces: Mapping the Public in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain

Pope’s War with the Dunces: Mapping the Public in Early...

Author: Ileana Baird
ISBN: 9781041173557
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book examines Alexander Pope’s Dunciad, focusing on the role played by cultural periphery (what Pope called...  Read More >>

Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader: Lay Piety and Literature in Late Medieval England

Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader: Lay Piety and Literature...

Author: Spencer Strub
ISBN: 9781512829389
Format: Hardback
$150.00

An investigation into how the emotional language in texts intended for solitary women became the foundation for...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts

Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal...

Author: Sean Keilen
ISBN: 9780691272634
Format: Hardback
$44.99

What Love's Labor's Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and change Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Sufism in Contemporary Fiction in English: From the Secular to the Sacred

Sufism in Contemporary Fiction in English: From the...

Author: Billy Gray
ISBN: 9783032204530
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This is the first full-length study to explore how contemporary, Western manifestations of Sufism are represented...  Read More >>

The Italian; or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents: Volume 6

The Italian; or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents:...

Author: Ann Radcliffe ,  Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781108837828
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, this volume presents the first fully annotated edition...  Read More >>

Literatur – Geltung – Recht: Rhetorische Perspektiven auf Streit um die Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert

Literatur – Geltung – Recht: Rhetorische Perspektiven...

Author: Gesine Heger
ISBN: 9783662729885
Format: Paperback
$211.17

Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über rhetorische Strategien, in zentralen literarischen Streitigkeiten des 18....  Read More >>

Penny Dreadfuls: The Circulation Patterns of a Victorian Popular Genre

Penny Dreadfuls: The Circulation Patterns of a Victorian...

Author: Manon Burz-Labrande
ISBN: 9781839996306
Format: Paperback
$41.98

This book is a study of the impact of nineteenth-century popular literature on its contemporary society as well...  Read More >>

Eyes of the Sky

Eyes of the Sky

Author: Kyle Shernuk ,  Syaman Rapongan
ISBN: 9780231211710
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging

Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of...

Author: Umasankar Patra
ISBN: 9781032909103
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belongingargues that this negotiation takes place in and through...  Read More >>

Mezukak Shivatayim: Studies in Jewish Life and Literature in Honor of Bernard Septimus

Mezukak Shivatayim: Studies in Jewish Life and Literature...

Author: Edward Breuer ,  Elisha Russ-Fishbane
ISBN: 9780674303324
Format: Hardback
$113.95

The essays in Mezukak Shivatayim pay tribute to Bernard Septimus’s writing and teaching, covering rabbinic culture,...  Read More >>

Eyes of the Sky

Eyes of the Sky

Author: Kyle Shernuk ,  Syaman Rapongan
ISBN: 9780231211703
Format: Hardback
$165.95

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

Author: Kate Hext (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009015967
Format: Paperback
$64.69

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

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Critique of a Sermon and Other Letters: Crisis sobre un sermón, Carta de sor Filotea (by Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz), Respuesta a sor Filotea

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Critique of a Sermon and...

Author: Alice Brooke
ISBN: 9781805965770
Format: Paperback
$153.09

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Out of this World: Gnostic Encounters in Modern French Literature and Thought

Out of this World: Gnostic Encounters in Modern French...

Author: Bruno Chaouat
ISBN: 9781805965763
Format: Paperback
$118.77

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