Literature: history & criticism books

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Girlhood and Adolescence in the Twenty-First-Century Southern Novel

Girlhood and Adolescence in the Twenty-First-Century...

Author: Shirley A. Stave
ISBN: 9781496862082
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Bale After Bale: How Cotton Defined the Twentieth-Century South

Bale After Bale: How Cotton Defined the Twentieth-Century...

Author: David A. Davis ,  Robert Jackson
ISBN: 9780813954745
Format: Paperback
$80.99

From the cotton boll to the Cotton Bowl in modern American culture There are few places on earth as thoroughly...  Read More >>

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum...

Author: Allison S. Curseen
ISBN: 9781469694207
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  Read More >>

Mary Edwards Bryan: Her Early Life and Works

Mary Edwards Bryan: Her Early Life and Works

Author: Canter Brown, Jr. ,  Larry Eugene Rivers
ISBN: 9780813081670
Format: Paperback
$64.99

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Hemingway's Art of Revision: The Making of the Short Fiction

Hemingway's Art of Revision: The Making of the Short...

Author: John Beall
ISBN: 9780807182253
Format: Paperback
$56.10

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Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell: Their Lives, Friendship and Writings

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell: Their Lives,...

Author: Susan Dunne
ISBN: 9781036135096
Format: Hardback
$80.00

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell shared one of the most remarkable literary friendships of the 19th century,...  Read More >>

Not Everything Unfolds As Anticipated: Selections from Yi Kyubo’s Tongguk Yi Sangguk Chip

Not Everything Unfolds As Anticipated: Selections from...

Author: Remco E. Breuker ,  Robert E. Buswell
ISBN: 9798880701902
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Yi Kyubo (1168–1241) was the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Not Everything Unfolds as...  Read More >>

Buen vivir y giro ecoterritorial en las literaturas de América Latina

Buen vivir y giro ecoterritorial en las literaturas...

Author: Ángel Esteban ,  Jesús Montoya Juárez
ISBN: 9783631941980
Format: Paperback
$157.84

El compromiso ecológico es, hoy día, una necesidad incuestionable, y el ""Buen vivir"", o ""Vivir bien"", una utopía,...  Read More >>

The Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John Newlove, 1963-2003

The Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John...

Author: J.A. Weingarten ,  Lorna Crozier
ISBN: 9781771126847
Format: Paperback
$84.70

The Weather and the Words depicts the poet John Newlove's life. Newlove's letters are a record not just of one person's...  Read More >>

Refuting Antisemitism: Dismantling the Stereotypes, Canards, and Tropes of Jew Hatred

Refuting Antisemitism: Dismantling the Stereotypes,...

Author: Jeremy Havardi
ISBN: 9781680533903
Format: Hardback
$74.80

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By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory on the Grammatika Vases

By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory...

Author: Maria Nasioula
ISBN: 9780674303300
Format: Paperback
$34.95

By Heart or From the Scroll studies six grammatika vases depicting scenes from the Odyssey, offering new insights...  Read More >>

Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Author: Jesse Molesworth
ISBN: 9781503646377
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas:...  Read More >>

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and...

Author: Chad Benito Infante
ISBN: 9781517919887
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred...  Read More >>

The Royal House of Savoy: Unifiers of Italy

The Royal House of Savoy: Unifiers of Italy

Author: Gino Neil Lupini ,  Emanuele Filiberto
ISBN: 9781680536034
Format: Hardback
$187.00

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Chekhov, The Anxious Playwright: His Four Great Plays in Their Cultural Context

Chekhov, The Anxious Playwright: His Four Great Plays...

Author: Jim Curtis
ISBN: 9781032581101
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines Chekhov's four major plays, analyzing how his non-aristocratic background influenced his literary...  Read More >>

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Author: Johanna Winant
ISBN: 9780231217477
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Bringing together modern poetry’s aesthetic experimentation and modern philosophy’s attention to the problem of...  Read More >>

Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature, History, and Family

Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature,...

Author: Lindsay Diehl
ISBN: 9781771127288
Format: Paperback
$74.80

Examining a range of Chinese Canadian literature, this book incorporates elements of the author's own family story-her...  Read More >>

Saints, Sinners, and Clickers

Saints, Sinners, and Clickers

Author: Matthew J DiStefano ,  Lauren Cibene
ISBN: 9781964252643
Format: Paperback
$52.77

In a world where survival is brutal and morality is blurred, Saints, Sinners, and Clickers delves into the haunting,...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete...

Author: Fabian Alfie
ISBN: 9780268210588
Format: Hardback
$289.00

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Author: Meredith L. Goldsmith ,  Emily J. Orlando
ISBN: 9780813081373
Format: Paperback
$56.10

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Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and...

Author: Hadley Suter
ISBN: 9780813955117
Format: Hardback
$266.00

How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there...  Read More >>

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