Literary studies: general books

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Islam as Imagined in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Literature

Islam as Imagined in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century...

Author: Clinton Bennett
ISBN: 9781032383217
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Aimed at a non-specialist readership, this survey of early modern English literature examines how writers represented...  Read More >>

Literature, Education, and Society: Bridging the Gap

Literature, Education, and Society: Bridging the Gap...

Author: Charles F. Altieri
ISBN: 9781032393179
Format: Paperback
$35.99

Literature, Education, and Society argues that we must defend our differences from those practical disciplines by...  Read More >>

Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton

Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton

Author: Brian Russell Graham
ISBN: 9781032379197
Format: Paperback
$35.99

Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on...  Read More >>

Rilke’s Hands: An Essay on Gentleness

Rilke’s Hands: An Essay on Gentleness

Author: Harold Schweizer
ISBN: 9781032385099
Format: Paperback
$35.99

This is a book of meditative reading with an aim to experience and to examine gentleness, how it shapes and pervades...  Read More >>

The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter Grass

The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter...

Author: Alex Donovan Cole
ISBN: 9781032386140
Format: Paperback
$77.99

I argue for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public...  Read More >>

Interrelationships Between Sport and the Arts

Interrelationships Between Sport and the Arts

Author: Jonathan Long (Leeds Beckett University, UK) ,  Doug Sandle (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032350400
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book is a significant new contribution to understanding both sports and the arts, not just in their separate...  Read More >>

Fantastic Histories: Medieval Fairy Narratives and the Limits of Wonder

Fantastic Histories: Medieval Fairy Narratives and the...

Author: Victoria Flood (Senior Lecturer)
ISBN: 9781526164148
Format: Hardback
$194.99

Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century...  Read More >>

Conceiving Bodies: Reproduction in Early Medieval English Medicine

Conceiving Bodies: Reproduction in Early Medieval English...

Author: Dana Oswald
ISBN: 9781526176882
Format: Hardback
$194.99

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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: 9780231215046
Format: Hardback
$182.95

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

Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800–1400

Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800–1400

Author: Christian Raffensperger (Wittenberg University, USA) ,  Erin Thomas Dailey
ISBN: 9781032332871
Format: Paperback
$73.99

This volume provides a collection of ‘imagined lives’—individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy,...  Read More >>

Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics

Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics

Author: Heike Härting ,  Heather Meek
ISBN: 9781032431635
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Resistant Reproductions: Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and Film

Resistant Reproductions: Pregnancy and Abortion in British...

Author: Fran Bigman
ISBN: 9780367416201
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies

Author: Karen Crawley ,  Thomas Giddens (St Mary's University College, Twickenham, UK)
ISBN: 9780367506957
Format: Hardback
$431.00

This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the cutting-edge field of cultural legal studies.  Read More >>

In Fielding`s Wake

In Fielding`s Wake

Author: Jeremy Black
ISBN: 9781587314292
Format: Hardback
$140.95

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Sensation Fiction and Modernity: The Meanings of Ambivalence in Mid-Victorian Britain

Sensation Fiction and Modernity: The Meanings of Ambivalence...

Author: James Aaron Green
ISBN: 9783031498336
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. More fundamentally, it...  Read More >>

We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump

We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from...

Author: Douglas Dowland
ISBN: 9780813950846
Format: Paperback
$77.88

When Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that...  Read More >>

Hyperobject Reading, Scale Variance, and American Fiction in the Anthropocene

Hyperobject Reading, Scale Variance, and American Fiction...

Author: Chingshun J. Sheu
ISBN: 9783031256417
Format: Paperback
$343.17

2024 Ming Chuan University Research Award This book proposes a model of reading called hyperobject reading that...  Read More >>

Julian of Norwich and the Problem of Evil

Julian of Norwich and the Problem of Evil

Author: Richard Norton
ISBN: 9780718896157
Format: Paperback
$53.69

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Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 13: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 13: Edited with Introduction,...

Author: Dr C. M. van der Keur (Independent scholar)
ISBN: 9780192884787
Format: Hardback
$341.95

This volume presents the first full-scale literary and linguistic analysis of the entire Punica 13. It includes...  Read More >>

Restorations of Empire in Africa: Ancient Rome and Modern Italy's African Colonies

Restorations of Empire in Africa: Ancient Rome and Modern...

Author: Samuel Agbamu (Lecturer in Classics, Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading)
ISBN: 9780192848499
Format: Hardback
$191.95

The first full-length study of how Italian colonialism in Africa used the history of Roman imperialism on the continent...  Read More >>

Suryavamshi: The Sun Kings of Rajasthan

Suryavamshi: The Sun Kings of Rajasthan

Author: Abanindranath Tagore ,  Sandipan Deb
ISBN: 9789353456436
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Epic in their sweep, universal in their essence, the stories are timeless. Suryavamshi is a translation and adaptation...  Read More >>

Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film

Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in...

Author: Christopher Hanscom
ISBN: 9780231208499
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Christopher P. Hanscom questions common understandings of political art by examining four figures central to recent...  Read More >>

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