Literary studies: general books

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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 >>

Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s...

Author: Guy Cuthbertson
ISBN: 9780300266375
Format: Hardback
$41.95

A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, tracing its life over the last century  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 >>

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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Derek Mahon: A Retrospective

Derek Mahon: A Retrospective

Author: Nicholas Grene ,  Tom Walker
ISBN: 9781805966838
Format: Paperback
$131.97

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Rereading Chenjerai Hove: Rupture and Suture in Zimbabwean Literature

Rereading Chenjerai Hove: Rupture and Suture in Zimbabwean...

Author: Muchativugwa Liberty Hove
ISBN: 9781041239918
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book assesses the life and works of leading Zimbabwean poet and novelist, Chenjerai Hove. Proposing a reading...  Read More >>

Ecomaterial Ambivalence in South and Southeast Asian Literary, Philosophical, and Cultural Narratives

Ecomaterial Ambivalence in South and Southeast Asian...

Author: Chitra Sankaran
ISBN: 9781032597713
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This volume provides a timely contribution to the ongoing conversation on the agency of matter in environmental...  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 >>

The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd: Volume Two

The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd: Volume Two

Author: Sir Brian Vickers, FBA ,  Dr Darren Freebury-Jones
ISBN: 9781843846956
Format: Hardback
$633.60

First, complete, integrated corpus of this major Elizabethan writer and first critical edition of his collected...  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 >>

Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis Tusculanarum Disputationum)

Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis...

Author: Robert A. Kaster (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780198891925
Format: Hardback
$94.95

This is the first new edition of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations in over forty years. Robert A. Kaster draws on an...  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

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After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal

After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal

Author: Merlin Holland
ISBN: 9798889661764
Format: Hardback
$89.76

The definitive study of the rise and fall of Oscar Wilde after his death, written by Wilde's only grandson  Read More >>

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