Literary studies: general books

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From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies’ Home Journal to Vogue this diverse...  Read More >>

Beci Carver's Modernism's Whims asks: what is it that 'whim' names? - what manner of simultaneously playful and...  Read More >>

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This volume provides translations of significant passages in the fourteenth-century Franciscan Nicholas of Lyra's...  Read More >>

Examines the significance of the Faustian pact in international law  Read More >>

A wide-ranging intellectual history of the life, death, and afterlife of the Critical Legal Studies Movement  Read More >>

Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature  Read More >>

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic...  Read More >>

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

Uncovers how historical novels rewrite the history of the Korean War  Read More >>

Presents an image of Victorian life-especially womens' lives-that uniquely and surprisingly anticipates our own...  Read More >>

Extends the body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover contemporary texts, new media and texts from other cultures...  Read More >>

Refines our understanding of Virginia Woolf as a politically engaged writer  Read More >>

Demonstrates how the career of Britain's first major Black actor, Ira Aldridge, transformed a range of dramatic...  Read More >>

The first curatorial studies volume to engage with the concept of 'the future'.  Read More >>

This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the...  Read More >>

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A thorough examination of four Peruvian intellectuals who found inspiration in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's work...  Read More >>

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

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