Literature: history & criticism books

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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 >>

Evening All Afternoon

Evening All Afternoon

Author: Anna Ziegler (Author)
ISBN: 9781350618763
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Anna Ziegler's remarkable new play: an introduction to another world where ghosts and dreams are as real as anything...  Read More >>

The Cabbage Seed's Colossal Secret

The Cabbage Seed's Colossal Secret

Author: Karen M. Greenwald ,  Alejandra Ruiz
ISBN: 9781668955154
Format: Hardback
$31.95

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Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales of the 1980s

Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales of the 1980s

Author: Archie Goodwin ,  Michael Golden
ISBN: 9798875001390
Format: Hardback
$107.95

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Lucian, Volume II: The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted. The Tragic Zeus. The Rooster. Prometheus. Icaromenippus. Timon. Charon. Sale of Lives

Lucian, Volume II: The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted....

Author: Lucian ,  Professor Peter Thonemann
ISBN: 9780674997714
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly...  Read More >>

Atria: Poems

Atria: Poems

Author: D. S. Waldman
ISBN: 9781324097266
Format: Hardback
$46.95

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Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I–II. Hippias. Dionysus. Heracles. On Amber. The Fly. Nigrinus. Demonax. On the Hall. Encomium of the Fatherland. The Long-Lived. True Stories I–II. Slander. Lawsuit of the Consonants. Symposium

Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I–II. Hippias. Dionysus....

Author: Lucian ,  Professor Peter Thonemann
ISBN: 9780674997707
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel

The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel

Author: Julie A. Buckler (Professor, Professor, Harvard University) ,  Justin Weir (Professor, Professor, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780197520857
Format: Hardback
$419.95

The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian...  Read More >>

The Last Picture

The Last Picture

Author: Catherine Dyson
ISBN: 9781350623002
Format: Paperback
$22.99

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Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Author: Robert Calder
ISBN: 9780299346249
Format: Paperback
$57.99

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Influential LGBTQ+ Works of the Nineteenth Century: Walt Whitman, Theodore Winthrop, J. S. Lefanu, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, Oscar Wilde, Edward Carpenter

Influential LGBTQ+ Works of the Nineteenth Century:...

Author: Various ,  Theodore Winthrop
ISBN: 9780486855455
Format: Paperback
$26.99

This Dover original anthology explores how six authors, including Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde, represented the...  Read More >>

Gestuary

Gestuary

Author: Sylvie Kandé ,  Nancy Naomi Carlson
ISBN: 9781803096087
Format: Paperback
$34.95

A richly imagined, physically charged poetry collection in which history, myth, and protest are transformed into...  Read More >>

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-Reform China and Postcolonial Literature

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-Reform China and Postcolonial...

Author: Yawen Li
ISBN: 9783032081308
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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In the Forest

In the Forest

Author: Edna O'Brien
ISBN: 9780571397495
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A young mother, her infant son and a Catholic priest are all murdered by a delusional young man.  Read More >>

The Island: W. H. Auden and the Last of Englishness

The Island: W. H. Auden and the Last of Englishness...

Author: Nicholas Jenkins
ISBN: 9780571239023
Format: Paperback
$45.00

A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development...  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
$64.69

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

Molière in Context

Molière in Context

Author: Jan Clarke (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781108717489
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics,...  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context

Tom Stoppard in Context

Author: David Kornhaber (University of Texas, Austin) ,  James N. Loehlin (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9781108413046
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England

Author: Jonathan Baldo (University of Rochester, New York) ,  Isabel Karremann (University of Zurich)
ISBN: 9781009048330
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies,...  Read More >>

Percy Shelley for Our Times

Percy Shelley for Our Times

Author: Omar F. Miranda (University of San Francisco) ,  Kate Singer (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781009206495
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Two centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings still resonate with pressing societal issues. This collection...  Read More >>

Sweetmeats

Sweetmeats

Author: Karim Khan
ISBN: 9781350603356
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Two South Asian elders meet each other in a Type 2 diabetes workshop but find themselves navigating the sparks of...  Read More >>

Life Before You

Life Before You

Author: Eva Hudson
ISBN: 9781350634275
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Life Before You, a fierce and unflinching new play by Eva Hudson, lays bare the fault lines between mothers and...  Read More >>

The Human Voice

The Human Voice

Author: Darren Murphy (Author)
ISBN: 9781350631946
Format: Paperback
$21.99

The Human Voice by Darren Murphy is a radical reimagining of Jean Cocteau’s classic play La Voix Humaine.  Read More >>

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