Literary studies: general books

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Shakespeare in the Kitchen

Shakespeare in the Kitchen

Author: Marissa Nicosia
ISBN: 9781032043951
Format: Paperback
$87.95

Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils...  Read More >>

In the Shade of the Pine: Artists, Writers, and Trees in America, 1825-1876

In the Shade of the Pine: Artists, Writers, and Trees...

Author: Christiana Payne
ISBN: 9781682262887
Format: Hardback
$139.00

In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of trees both as allies in the fight against...  Read More >>

Paper Intimacies in the Early Modern Lyric

Paper Intimacies in the Early Modern Lyric

Author: Dianne Mitchell
ISBN: 9781512829402
Format: Hardback
$150.00

An exploration of how everyday Renaissance practices of folding, sending, archiving, and arranging manuscript poetry...  Read More >>

Public Acoustics: The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime Literature

Public Acoustics: The Sound of Society in Ancien Régime...

Author: Ellen R. Welch
ISBN: 9781512829471
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Explores how Ancien Régime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphors The salons, cafés,...  Read More >>

New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy: Encountering the Passenger and Stella Maris

New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy: Encountering the...

Author: Jonathan Elmore ,  Rick Elmore
ISBN: 9781643366272
Format: Hardback
$266.00

Leading scholars take stock of McCarthy's final novels, illuminating the arc of his career, influence, and legacy...  Read More >>

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum...

Author: Allison S. Curseen
ISBN: 9781469694191
Format: Hardback
$229.00

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  Read More >>

So This Is What It Feels Like: Empathy in the Poetry of James Wright

So This Is What It Feels Like: Empathy in the Poetry...

Author: Adam Scheffler
ISBN: 9780807186084
Format: Hardback
$92.99

James Wright (1927–80) was considered one of the major poets of his era, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, even...  Read More >>

The Life of Richard Rolle: Together with an Edition of his English Lyrics

The Life of Richard Rolle: Together with an Edition...

Author: Frances M. M. Comper
ISBN: 9781041302636
Format: Hardback
$245.79

Richard Rolle, hermit of Hampole, is one of the least known yet most important English mystics. When this book was...  Read More >>

William Cobbett

William Cobbett

Author: James Sambrook
ISBN: 9781041300656
Format: Hardback
$191.45

Originally published in 1973 this book presents an account of Cobbett’s life and works, placing him in a wide cultural...  Read More >>

English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans: Its Background, Origins and Developments

English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans:...

Author: A.P. Rossiter
ISBN: 9781041314837
Format: Hardback
$388.12

First published in 1950, English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans is a detailed examination of representative...  Read More >>

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: The Doom of Empire

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: The Doom...

Author: Martin Green
ISBN: 9781041313618
Format: Hardback
$388.12

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century (1984) discusses 6 authors whom Dr Green saw as the most interesting...  Read More >>

Form and Style in Early English Literature

Form and Style in Early English Literature

Author: Pamela Gradon
ISBN: 9781041315148
Format: Hardback
$388.12

This book (1971) critically investigates the main literary genres and styles of Old and Middle English, illustrated...  Read More >>

In Between Keep Moving: A Pierre Joris Reader

In Between Keep Moving: A Pierre Joris Reader

Author: Pierre Joris ,  Ariel Resnikoff
ISBN: 9781940625812
Format: Paperback
$134.64

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American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211819
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

The New Modernist Novel: Criticism and the Task of Reading

The New Modernist Novel: Criticism and the Task of Reading...

Author: Elizabeth Pender (Teacher at the Centre for English Teaching, University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781474461498
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Considers relationships between modernist literature and literary criticism and argues that new modernist fiction...  Read More >>

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees: Metaphors and Metonyms that Construct the Homeric Odyssey

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees: Metaphors and Metonyms...

Author: Aldo Bottino
ISBN: 9780674303294
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better understand...  Read More >>

The Dreiser-Markham Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser and Kyra Markham, 1913-1944

The Dreiser-Markham Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore...

Author: Keith Newlin
ISBN: 9781906113391
Format: Paperback
$184.77

These letters between Theodore Dreiser, pioneer of literary realism, and the actress and artist Kyra Markham (born...  Read More >>

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Author: Richard Barlow (Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University) ,  Paul Fagan (Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Maynooth University)
ISBN: 9781399529440
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century

Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish...

Author: Sarah Sharp (Lecturer in Scottish Literature, University of Aberdeen)
ISBN: 9781474483421
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Examines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead  Read More >>

Ibrahim (Bassa), Cleopatra (Erst- Und Zweitfassung): Teilband 1: Text

Ibrahim (Bassa), Cleopatra (Erst- Und Zweitfassung):...

Author: Lothar Mundt ,  Daniel Casper Lohenstein
ISBN: 9783110203776
Format: Hardback
$1422.96

Der schlesische Dichter Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635-1683) gehört neben Gryphius zu den bedeutendsten Autoren...  Read More >>

Ibrahim (Bassa), Cleopatra (Erst- Und Zweitfassung): Teilband 2: Kommentar

Ibrahim (Bassa), Cleopatra (Erst- Und Zweitfassung):...

Author: Lothar Mundt ,  Daniel Casper Lohenstein
ISBN: 9783110204650
Format: Hardback
$752.40

Das Berliner Projekt ist die erste historisch-kritische, umfassend kommentierte Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Daniel...  Read More >>

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