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Shakespeare’s First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives

Shakespeare’s First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives...
Author: Matthias Bauer (University of Tübingen, Germany) , Angelika Zirker (University of Tübingen, Germany) ISBN: 9781350436404 Format: Paperback	$59.99
Examines the reasons why the Folio came into being in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, and how the now... Read More >>

Reading Length in Fantasy Fiction

Reading Length in Fantasy Fiction
Author: Dr Matthew Oliver (Professor of English, Campbellsville University, USA) ISBN: 9781350502215 Format: Hardback	$170.00
Reframing debates surrounding long narratives to explore their impact, this book develops a critical vocabulary... Read More >>

Hemingway's Spanish Table: A Culinary Journey in 60+ Recipes

Hemingway's Spanish Table: A Culinary Journey in 60+...
Author: Howie Southworth ISBN: 9798886742909 Format: Hardback	$49.99
Hemingway’s Spanish Table takes you on a culinary journey through Spain with 60 authentic recipes inspired by Hemingway’s... Read More >>

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History...
Author: Günter Leypoldt (Professor of American Studies, Professor of American Studies, University of Heidelberg) ISBN: 9780197815113 Format: Hardback	$245.95
Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between... Read More >>

The Long Rise of the British Novel, 1660–1800

The Long Rise of the British Novel, 1660–1800
Author: Nicholas Hudson (Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia) ISBN: 9780198987369 Format: Hardback	$191.95
A rethinking of the evolution of the British novel that departs from dominant narratives and argues for an importantly... Read More >>

Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on TikTok

Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on...
Author: Oliver James ISBN: 9781454959403 Format: Hardback	$45.00
Oliver James went viral on TikTok after he shared five simple words: “What's up? I can't read.” Thus began a journey... Read More >>

Disappearance and Candor in Contemporary Women’s Writing

Disappearance and Candor in Contemporary Women’s Writing...
Author: Lane Glisson ISBN: 9781666950519 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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Jaja's African Hair Braiding

Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Author: Jocelyn Bioh ISBN: 9781350645813 Format: Paperback	$21.99
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Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume IV: Essays of Elia and The Last Essays of Elia

Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume IV:...
Author: Gregory Dart (Professor of English, Professor of English, University College London) ISBN: 9780198882985 Format: Hardback	$482.95
This fourth volume of The Collected Works of Charles and Mary Lamb contains Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia,... Read More >>

Hineni - In Sarah's Tent

Hineni - In Sarah's Tent
Author: Laurie S Sherman ISBN: 9798295620584 Format: Paperback	$29.01
HINENI is not a performance. It is a rite. Rooted in Jewish tradition and feminist ritual practice, HINENI:... Read More >>

Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans

Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans...
Author: Dan Turello ISBN: 9780231220163 Format: Paperback	$41.95
Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture,... Read More >>

Canada and the Spanish Civil War: An Anthology

Canada and the Spanish Civil War: An Anthology
Author: Bart Vautour , Emily Robins Sharpe ISBN: 9780776644943 Format: Paperback	$54.99
The Spanish Civil War (19361939) inspired an outpouring of responses among Canadian cultural producers. Yet, the... Read More >>

Shakespeare's borrowed feathers: How early modern playwrights shaped the world's greatest writer

Shakespeare's borrowed feathers: How early modern playwrights...
Author: Darren Freebury-Jones ISBN: 9781526177346 Format: Paperback	$32.99
This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights... Read More >>

Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction

Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons...
Author: Justin L. Mann ISBN: 9781478033264 Format: Paperback	$66.99
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British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical

British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical
Author: Megan Peiser (Oakland University) ISBN: 9781421454078 Format: Paperback	$135.00
How did book reviews shape the fate of novels and their authors during the height of women's literary influence?... Read More >>

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales...
Author: Nancy Mason Bradbury (Smith College) ISBN: 9780271096896 Format: Paperback	$72.99
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The Sign of the Swan: How French Symbolist Poetry Re-envisions Reality

The Sign of the Swan: How French Symbolist Poetry Re-envisions...
Author: William Franke ISBN: 9781839999321 Format: Paperback	$41.98
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Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction

Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons...
Author: Justin L. Mann ISBN: 9781478029816 Format: Hardback	$277.00
Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,... Read More >>

A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own
Author: Virginia Woolf , Katha Pollitt ISBN: 9781250418005 Format: Paperback	$32.99
Virginia Woolf’s beloved classic, with a new foreword. Read More >>

Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl

Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl
Author: Mandy-Suzanne Wong , Yuka Igarashi ISBN: 9781644453735 Format: Paperback	$34.99
Seventeen ingenious essays devoted to snails’ and aquatic invertebrates’ uncanny ways of living. Mollusks’ innermost... Read More >>

Hineni - In Sarah's Tent

Hineni - In Sarah's Tent
Author: Laurie S Sherman ISBN: 9798295634222 Format: Hardback	$55.41
HINENI is not a performance. It is a rite. Rooted in Jewish tradition and feminist ritual practice, HINENI:... Read More >>

Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans

Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans...
Author: Dan Turello ISBN: 9780231220156 Format: Hardback	$165.95
Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture,... Read More >>

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry
Author: Adam Plunkett ISBN: 9781250420336 Format: Paperback	$42.00
Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and... Read More >>

Beckett and Broadcasting: On Works by Samuel Beckett for and in Radio and Television

Beckett and Broadcasting: On Works by Samuel Beckett...
Author: Clas Zilliacus , Galina Kiryushina ISBN: 9781839996542 Format: Hardback	$160.00
Beckett and Broadcasting pioneered the study of Beckett and the media in 1976. Originally a doctoral dissertation... Read More >>

Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan

Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan
Author: Ariel Stilerman ISBN: 9780674303416 Format: Hardback	$86.95
In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan, Ariel Stilerman examines the transformation of classical Japanese... Read More >>

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