Literature: history & criticism books

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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 >>

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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