Literature: history & criticism books

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Pierre Herbart, son frère Léon, dit Loulou (1898-1949), dit Gontran de Jumièges et quelques autres

Pierre Herbart, son frère Léon, dit Loulou (1898-1949),...

Author: Alain Moreews
ISBN: 9782336573687
Format: Paperback
$83.90

C'est à Paris que l'écrivain Pierre Herbart (1903-1974), s'est formé professionnellement. Revenu d'un voyage au...  Read More >>

Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire: Orientalist Depictions of Arab Sexuality

Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic...

Author: Dr Feras Alkabani (University of Sussex, UK)
ISBN: 9780755655823
Format: Paperback
$59.99

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change...  Read More >>

Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy: Centennial Essays

Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy: Centennial Essays

Author: Linda Dryden (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) ,  Professor Robert Hampson, FEA FRSA (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350440883
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of...  Read More >>

Border Politics in Novels by European Women in Translation

Border Politics in Novels by European Women in Translation...

Author: Prof Pam Morris ,  Marie Mulvey-Roberts (University of the West of England)
ISBN: 9781350434097
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Is conflict inherent to the politics of borders? Recent global events, erupting from national, religious, class,...  Read More >>

Linguistic Labor and Literary Doulas: Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish Languages and Literatures

Linguistic Labor and Literary Doulas: Spanglish, Portuñol,...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Remy Attig (Bowling Green Statue University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765110997
Format: Paperback
$59.99

An examination of Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish literatures that builds on sociolinguistic understandings...  Read More >>

Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020

Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020...

Author: Professor or Dr. Oliver Haslam (Harlaxton College, University of Evansville, UK)
ISBN: 9798765109403
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English

The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English...

Author: Marian C. Bean
ISBN: 9781041240938
Format: Hardback
$232.85

First published in 1983, The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English tests theories of word order change...  Read More >>

Mythes et réalités de l'imaginaire colonial français au XIXe siècle

Mythes et réalités de l'imaginaire colonial français...

Author: Hédia Khadhar
ISBN: 9782336562803
Format: Paperback
$49.90

Cet ouvrage met sur le même plan Histoire et Littérature. La mise en perspective de l'histoire coloniale permet...  Read More >>

Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child

Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The...

Author: Kristine Moruzi (Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University)
ISBN: 9781399521369
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Uncovers the role of children's periodicals in the development of charitable ideals for children between 18401930...  Read More >>

On Fiction and Being a Good Animal

On Fiction and Being a Good Animal

Author: David P. Rando (Professor of English, Trinity University, Texas)
ISBN: 9781399538060
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books: A Suite in Four Voices

Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books: A Suite in...

Author: J.R. (Tim) Struthers ,  Ailsa Cox (Emerita Professor of Short Fiction, Edge Hill University)
ISBN: 9781399534536
Format: Paperback
$44.99

This engaging volume provides an authoritative assessment of the middle period in the career of the widely-read,...  Read More >>

Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence

Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence

Author: John Peters (University Distinguished Research Professor, University of North Texas)
ISBN: 9781399535861
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West

Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West

Author: William R. Handley
ISBN: 9780803288492
Format: Hardback
$229.00

Examining culture and history from the early nineteenth century to the present, Horizons of Catastrophe in the American...  Read More >>

Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons?: A Primitivist Phenomenology

Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference...

Author: Pilar Martinez Benedi ,  Ralph James Savarese (Grinnell College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350360907
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the “neural unconscious” and higher-order...  Read More >>

Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty

Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty...

Author: Malcolm Sen
ISBN: 9780815612070
Format: Hardback
$189.00

In Irish Anthropocene, Malcolm Sen traces the ways in which contemporary Irish literature is deeply engaged with...  Read More >>

The Book of Marys and Glaciers

The Book of Marys and Glaciers

Author: Carrie Olivia Adams
ISBN: 9781961209541
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Three sequences of poems engaging with deserts, consumerism, Alaskan ice, religious icons, and more. The poems...  Read More >>

Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature

Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature

Author: Kerry Manzo
ISBN: 9781611865578
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature explores how normative ideas of sex and gender have shaped the development...  Read More >>

Queer Possessions: Creative Criticism and Modern Irish Literature

Queer Possessions: Creative Criticism and Modern Irish...

Author: Patrick R. Mullen
ISBN: 9780815612131
Format: Hardback
$189.00

Too often, fleeting moments rooted in queer experience have appeared in popular fiction, only to be little remarked...  Read More >>

Animals, Speech and Reason in the Middle Ages

Animals, Speech and Reason in the Middle Ages

Author: Joseph R. Johnson (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
ISBN: 9781009638449
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This is the first book-length, interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between animals and the rational...  Read More >>

Mentoring the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Mentoring the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Literature...

Author: Laura Blunsden
ISBN: 9783032160140
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores the eighteenth-century concept of “mentorship” in literary works, founded on voluntary, reciprocal...  Read More >>

Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels

Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in...

Author: Donald M. Shaffer
ISBN: 9781496855978
Format: Hardback
$229.00

A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels  Read More >>

Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook

Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook...

Author: David B. Goldstein ,  Victoria Yeoman (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
ISBN: 9780367234621
Format: Hardback
$483.00

Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology devoted to food-related writing in Renaissance...  Read More >>

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