Literature: history & criticism books

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Sweet Repetition

Sweet Repetition

Author: Cynthia Cruz
ISBN: 9780226843766
Format: Paperback
$29.95

Poetry that centers its movement on repetition—orbiting, unwinding, and returning. Integrating Lacanian and Freudian...  Read More >>

A World of Possibilities: The Legacy of 'The Undivine Comedy'

A World of Possibilities: The Legacy of 'The Undivine...

Author: Kristina M Olson
ISBN: 9783965581074
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Published in 1992, Teodolinda Barolini's The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante was a clarion call for a paradigmatic...  Read More >>

Herman Charles Bosman and the Depth of Humorous Storytelling: Light Fiction and Existential Grace

Herman Charles Bosman and the Depth of Humorous Storytelling:...

Author: Jeremy Barris
ISBN: 9783032005175
Format: Hardback
$100.29

mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"">The book sets its argument in the context of a discussion of the depth of fiction in...  Read More >>

Hindsight: Poems

Hindsight: Poems

Author: Rosanna Warren (University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9781324116950
Format: Hardback
$44.95

A meditation on damage, aging, and injustice from a poet whose work “live[s] in a realm of classical purity” (Anthony...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse...

Author: Juliana Chow
ISBN: 9781108964920
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and...  Read More >>

Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature

Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Mary Grace Albanese (SUNY Binghamton)
ISBN: 9781009314213
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This book re-evaluates traditional narratives of 19th-century modernity by placing Black women at the center of...  Read More >>

Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era

Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era...

Author: Ryan M. Brooks
ISBN: 9781009011198
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the...  Read More >>

Poetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America

Poetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America...

Author: Justin Parks (University of Tromso)
ISBN: 9781009347785
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Furnishing a novel take on the poetry of the 1930s within the context of the cultural history of the Depression,...  Read More >>

Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the...

Author: Sarah E. Chinn (Hunter College, City University of New York)
ISBN: 9781009442701
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels

Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels

Author: Dale M. Bauer (University of Illinois)
ISBN: 9781108707930
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This book shows how serials deployed the repetition of plots and the traumas representing the sources of women's...  Read More >>

Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos: The Literature and Culture of U.S. Transiency 1890–1940

Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos: The Literature and Culture...

Author: Owen Clayton (University of Lincoln)
ISBN: 9781009348089
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This book frames transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts...  Read More >>

Raconter les troubadours: L'invention du poète au Moyen Âge

Raconter les troubadours: L'invention du poète au Moyen...

Author: Jean-Charles Huchet
ISBN: 9782336570471
Format: Paperback
$89.63

Au milieu du XIIIe siècle, on s'est mis à raconter en langue d'oc les troubadours. On leur a inventé une vie (vida)...  Read More >>

Le métissage dans la littérature mondiale au XXe siècle

Le métissage dans la littérature mondiale au XXe siècle...

Author: Giovanni Pampanini
ISBN: 9782336569901
Format: Paperback
$86.54

Le livre porte sur la littérature mondiale du XXe siècle et repose sur une hypothèse simple s'il est vrai qu'au...  Read More >>

Life Uncharted

Life Uncharted

Author: Brandon Karl Hoffmann
ISBN: 9798232799977
Format: Paperback
$13.17

Life Uncharted by Brandon Karl Hoffmann takes you on an intimate exploration of the human experience-from the tender...  Read More >>

The Banned Book Of Adam And Eve

The Banned Book Of Adam And Eve

Author: Nox Lee
ISBN: 9798232826970
Format: Paperback
$34.29

The story of Adam and Eve has been told countless times - but what has been left unsaid? The Banned Book of Adam...  Read More >>

Metaphor, Making and Mysticism: Radical Re-Imaginings in Language and Art

Metaphor, Making and Mysticism: Radical Re-Imaginings...

Author: Sheila Gallagher ,  Louise Nelstrop
ISBN: 9781032169477
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume focuses on the interplay between metaphor, making and mysticism, and sheds new light on the power of...  Read More >>

The Line of Beauty

The Line of Beauty

Author: Alan Hollinghurst ,  Jack Holden
ISBN: 9781350603073
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Jack Holden's striking hot new adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning novel about desire and the...  Read More >>

89 Words followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem

89 Words followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem

Author: Milan Kundera
ISBN: 9780571393237
Format: Hardback
$26.99

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Ask of Old Paths: Medieval Virtues and Vices for a Whole and Holy Life

Ask of Old Paths: Medieval Virtues and Vices for a Whole...

Author: Grace Hamman ,  Jessica Hooten Wilson
ISBN: 9780310167204
Format: Hardback
$44.99

The virtues and vices of medieval literature can sound historically complicated or dried out. But perhaps the saints...  Read More >>

Hope on the Border: Immigration, Incarceration, and the Power of Poetry

Hope on the Border: Immigration, Incarceration, and...

Author: Seth Michelson
ISBN: 9781640658394
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Much Ado About Cooking: Delicious Shakespearean Feasts for Every Occasion

Much Ado About Cooking: Delicious Shakespearean Feasts...

Author: Sam Bilton
ISBN: 9781035427680
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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American Modernism and the Cartographic Imagination

American Modernism and the Cartographic Imagination...

Author: Aaron Nyerges (University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781009515337
Format: Hardback
$316.80

This book is for university teachers and students of modern American literature. By focusing on literature's relationship...  Read More >>

A History of the Bloomsbury Group

A History of the Bloomsbury Group

Author: Derek Ryan (University of Kent)
ISBN: 9781009423663
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This landmark publication offers an expansive, detailed, and varied history of the Bloomsbury group's aesthetic,...  Read More >>

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