Literary studies: general books

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Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas Overbury and the Jacobean Playhouse

Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas...

Author: Jackie Watson (Independent Scholar, PhD from Birbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9781474483384
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Analyses how the political career of Sir Thomas Overbury exposes the changing systems of power at the English court...  Read More >>

The Myth of George Eliot: How Marian Evans Invented the Victorian Novelist

The Myth of George Eliot: How Marian Evans Invented...

Author: Alessandra Grego
ISBN: 9781032551128
Format: Hardback
$375.19

“The Myth of George Eliot” shows how Marian Evans understood the power of collective stories to change society,...  Read More >>

Beyond Emancipation: Maroon Freedoms in US Literature, 1850–1862

Beyond Emancipation: Maroon Freedoms in US Literature,...

Author: Sean Gerrity
ISBN: 9798855802597
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Explores how African American literary representations of maroons in the decade leading up to the Civil War complicate...  Read More >>

Mary Barnard: Complete Poems and Selected Translations

Mary Barnard: Complete Poems and Selected Translations...

Author: Mary Barnard ,  Sarah Barnsley
ISBN: 9798855802658
Format: Paperback
$100.19

The most comprehensive collection of writing by award-winning US poet, renowned translator of Sappho, and trailblazing...  Read More >>

Absolute Fiction: Idealist Philosophy and British Literature

Absolute Fiction: Idealist Philosophy and British Literature...

Author: Justin Prystash (National Taiwan Normal University)
ISBN: 9798855802832
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Explores the coevolution of Absolute idealist philosophy and British fiction from the Romantic period forward.  Read More >>

Humour in Verse: An Anthology

Humour in Verse: An Anthology

Author: W. E. Slater
ISBN: 9781316601723
Format: Paperback
$71.25

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The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place

The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of...

Author: Arnab Dutta Roy ,  Paul Ugor
ISBN: 9781496242648
Format: Hardback
$141.90

Tracing the linkages between the postcolonial bildungsroman and spatial discourses, this volume emphasizes three...  Read More >>

J. M. Coetzee's Politics of Life and Late Modernism in the Contemporary Novel

J. M. Coetzee's Politics of Life and Late Modernism...

Author: Marc Farrant (Lecturer in English Literature, University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9781399507790
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Argues that J. M. Coetzee's works constitute a form of late modernism that situates life at the heart of questions...  Read More >>

Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility

Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility...

Author: Joel Duncan
ISBN: 9780813954035
Format: Paperback
$80.99

""This book examines the writings and experimental film collaborations of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson,...  Read More >>

Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf: Modernism, Media and Emotion

Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf:...

Author: Marit Grøtta (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Oslo)
ISBN: 9781399526999
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers  Read More >>

The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704–1894

The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing,...

Author: Louis Kirk McAuley (Associate Professor in the Department of English, Washington State University)
ISBN: 9781399527156
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Advances our understanding of the literary legacy of contemporary ecological crises to investigate the interfaces...  Read More >>

Literary History and Avant-Garde Poetics in the Antipodes: Languages of Invention

Literary History and Avant-Garde Poetics in the Antipodes:...

Author: A. J. Carruthers (Associate Professor in the English Department, Nanjing University)
ISBN: 9781399526838
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Examines Australian avant-garde poetry from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature...

Author: Caroline Edwards (Birkbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9781009690508
Format: Paperback
$56.90

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

Urdu ki baat - Part-3: (Urdu Talk, part-3, Essays)

Urdu ki baat - Part-3: (Urdu Talk, part-3, Essays)

Author: Mukarram Niyaz
ISBN: 9789369080328
Format: Paperback
$84.45

This book (part-3) explores the development of Urdu, emphasizing adaptation to societal and technological changes....  Read More >>

Urdu ki baat - Part-2: (Urdu Talk, Essays)

Urdu ki baat - Part-2: (Urdu Talk, Essays)

Author: Mukarram Niyaz
ISBN: 9789369081851
Format: Paperback
$73.89

This book explores the development of Urdu, emphasizing adaptation to societal and technological changes. It offers...  Read More >>

Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival

Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival

Author: Petra Johana Poncarová (Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781399501200
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores Derick Thomson's far-reaching influence on the 20th-century revival of Scottish Gaelic  Read More >>

Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction: 'Prism, Mirror, Lens'

Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction:...

Author: Amanda Dillon
ISBN: 9781836244868
Format: Hardback
$271.69

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Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film

Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence...

Author: Sarah Jilani (Lecturer in English, City, University of London)
ISBN: 9781399507295
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Discusses the ways in which post-independence novels and films understand the relationship between subjectivity...  Read More >>

Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel: From Telepathy to the Network Novel

Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British...

Author: Mark Taylor
ISBN: 9781399524490
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>

Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Author: Sara Crangle (Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781399524339
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed: Myth, Metonymy and the Unknowing Subject

Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed: Myth, Metonymy and the...

Author: Hamid Dabashi (Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9781399517959
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This is the story of Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed, an exploration of when and where ancient myths become metonymic...  Read More >>

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and...

Author: C. Ceyhun Arslan (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Koç University)
ISBN: 9781399525831
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Studies the intertwined manner in which Arabic and Turkish literatures took shape as national traditions.  Read More >>

Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Author: Sara Crangle (Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781399524292
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A uniquely comprehensive, groundbreaking two-volume study of Loy's relationship to the human body and soul.  Read More >>

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