Literary studies: general books

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Hemingway and Bimini: The Birth of Sport Fishing at the End of the World

Hemingway and Bimini: The Birth of Sport Fishing at...

Author: Ashley Oliphant ,  Eva Wilhelm
ISBN: 9798228613454
Format: Audio
$121.31

Follow Ernest Hemingway's exploits on the Bahamian island of Bimini from 1935 to 1937, the very moment in time when...  Read More >>

The Nine Lives of Annie Besant: The Astonishing Story of a Victorian Rebel

The Nine Lives of Annie Besant: The Astonishing Story...

Author: Clare Paterson
ISBN: 9781803997360
Format: Hardback
$54.99

The sensational story of a Victorian superwoman  Read More >>

George Orwell: A Reader's Guide: Or, 'Who Is Big Brother?' and Other Puzzles

George Orwell: A Reader's Guide: Or, 'Who Is Big Brother?'...

Author: D. J. Taylor
ISBN: 9780300284232
Format: Paperback
$24.95

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Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work

Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of...

Author: Kristin Grogan
ISBN: 9780231219648
Format: Paperback
$59.95

In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan argues that modernist poetry was deeply shaped by ordinary labor and the people...  Read More >>

Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for Our Warmer World

Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for Our Warmer World...

Author: Lowell Duckert
ISBN: 9781517913588
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Exploring the frozen past to rethink our warming future Do we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell...  Read More >>

Tamarin

Tamarin

Author: Priya Hein (Pontas Agency)
ISBN: 9781911648932
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Following the international success of her debut Riambel, Hein's heart-wrenching new novel reveals the violence...  Read More >>

Ancient Latin Epics in Girolamo Vida’s Christiad

Ancient Latin Epics in Girolamo Vida’s Christiad

Author: Stefano Cianciosi
ISBN: 9789004738669
Format: Hardback
$380.16

This study challenges the traditional view of Girolamo Vida’s Christiad as a purely Virgilian poem, revealing that...  Read More >>

Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work

Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of...

Author: Kristin Grogan
ISBN: 9780231219631
Format: Hardback
$240.95

In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan argues that modernist poetry was deeply shaped by ordinary labor and the people...  Read More >>

Modernism: A Literature in Crisis

Modernism: A Literature in Crisis

Author: Terry Eagleton
ISBN: 9780300284379
Format: Hardback
$34.95

An engaging, approachable introduction to literary modernism Modernism represented an astonishing outbreak of...  Read More >>

Crime, Justice, and Defoe: Law Enforcement Reported and Imagined in Eighteenth-Century England

Crime, Justice, and Defoe: Law Enforcement Reported...

Author: Jeanne Clegg
ISBN: 9789004734494
Format: Hardback
$314.16

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Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for Our Warmer World

Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for Our Warmer World...

Author: Lowell Duckert
ISBN: 9781517913571
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Exploring the frozen past to rethink our warming future Do we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell...  Read More >>

Dialogues in the Dark: Interpreting “Heavenly Questions” across Two Millennia

Dialogues in the Dark: Interpreting “Heavenly Questions”...

Author: Nicholas Morrow Williams
ISBN: 9780674299993
Format: Hardback
$113.95

Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the...  Read More >>

Health and the Art of Living: Illness Narratives in Early Medieval Chinese Literature

Health and the Art of Living: Illness Narratives in...

Author: Antje Richter
ISBN: 9780674299986
Format: Hardback
$86.95

Health and the Art of Living offers reflections on health and illness in early medieval Chinese literature (ca....  Read More >>

ALT  42: Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics

ALT 42: Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics...

Author: Ernest N Emenyonu (Author) ,  Ernest N Emenyonu (Author)
ISBN: 9781847014153
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Examines the state of African poetry today, the enduring influence of Africa's pioneer poets, today's new generation...  Read More >>

Fearmongering in Greek and Roman Literature and Beyond

Fearmongering in Greek and Roman Literature and Beyond...

Author: Priscilla Gontijo Leite ,  Ian Worthington
ISBN: 9781032544335
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume provides, for the first time, a focused study of scare tactics and fearmongering in a broad range of...  Read More >>

Parmenides & Translation: Figures of Motion, Figures of Being

Parmenides & Translation: Figures of Motion, Figures...

Author: D.M. Spitzer
ISBN: 9781636677750
Format: Hardback
$237.47

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Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect: Online Reading Communities of the New Nigerian Novel

Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect: Online Reading...

Author: Hannah Pardey
ISBN: 9781836245568
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Offering a reproducible method for exploring new forms of postcolonial reader engagement that strengthens the postcolonial...  Read More >>

Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s – 1960s

Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in...

Author: Stephanie Newell (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781847013835
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first...  Read More >>

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion of the Works of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion...

Author: Rebecca Parks
ISBN: 9781535886536
Format: Hardback
$1570.80

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Caribbean Futurism and Beyond: Conversations with Writers of Folklore, Fantasy, Science, and Speculative Fiction

Caribbean Futurism and Beyond: Conversations with Writers...

Author: Jarrel De Matas
ISBN: 9781032733081
Format: Hardback
$305.00

It is a tripartite combination of interviews with writers of the speculative fiction, genre, literary and cultural...  Read More >>

Vikram Seth’s Poetics of Pastiche

Vikram Seth’s Poetics of Pastiche

Author: Mélanie Heydari
ISBN: 9783031672316
Format: Paperback
$284.60

It provides scholars and students insight into the key features of Seth’s work and uncovers a consistent authorial...  Read More >>

Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism

Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism

Author: Jess Shollenberger
ISBN: 9780814215975
Format: Hardback
$184.67

The first book to examine a queer aesthetic of the ordinary in literary modernism, challenging the notion that queerness...  Read More >>

Non-Conforming Women in Neoliberal Cities: Re-thinking Empowerment in Contemporary Diaspora Fiction and Film

Non-Conforming Women in Neoliberal Cities: Re-thinking...

Author: Shrimoyee Chattopadhyay
ISBN: 9781041038818
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book investigates the complex role space and movement play in the representation of South Asian diasporic communities...  Read More >>

Crip Authority: Disability and the Art of Consolation in the Renaissance

Crip Authority: Disability and the Art of Consolation...

Author: Elizabeth Bearden
ISBN: 9780472077618
Format: Hardback
$237.60

How Renaissance writers and artists with disabilities engaged with consolatory literature to relate to their lived...  Read More >>

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