Literature: history & criticism books

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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 >>

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 >>

Reading with Jane Austen

Reading with Jane Austen

Author: Elaine Bander
ISBN: 9781684485857
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Maggie Humm – Snapshots: Autobiography, Virginia Woolf, Writing and the Visual

Maggie Humm – Snapshots: Autobiography, Virginia Woolf,...

Author: Maggie Humm (Emeritus Professor, University of East London)
ISBN: 9781399560979
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Brings together Maggie Humm's pioneering work on feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf, film and visual cultures....  Read More >>

The Climate Crossroads: Literature’s Encounter with a Planet on Fire

The Climate Crossroads: Literature’s Encounter with...

Author: Rajat Chaudhuri
ISBN: 9789369520091
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A writer-activist explores the hidden dynamics between planet, politics, and stories as literature bears witness...  Read More >>

Allen Ginsberg in Context

Allen Ginsberg in Context

Author: Erik Mortenson (Lake Michigan College)
ISBN: 9781009525589
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Provides both scholars and interested readers the context necessary to understand how Allen Ginsberg's life and...  Read More >>

Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the Female Demonic

Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the...

Author: Orianne Smith (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
ISBN: 9781009650021
Format: Hardback
$245.81

From its recurring appearances in Gothic poetry and prose to the menacing images of Fuseli and Blake, Orianne Smith...  Read More >>

Filial Lines: Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, and Comics Form

Filial Lines: Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, and Comics...

Author: Emmy Waldman (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781009548830
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This book considers the significance of the filial relationship to the graphic narrative oeuvres of Art Spiegelman...  Read More >>

Katherine Mansfield and London

Katherine Mansfield and London

Author: Aime Gasston ,  Gerri Kimber
ISBN: 9781399539173
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press,...

Author: David Finkelstein (Cultural Historian)
ISBN: 9781474424899
Format: Paperback
$140.00

This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  Read More >>

Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain

Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain

Author: Bill Angus ,  Lisa Hopkins (Professor Emerita of English, Sheffield Hallam University)
ISBN: 9781399534499
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain  Read More >>

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

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

Exploring Edith Wharton's engagement with global issues in her life and writing Hailed for her remarkable social...  Read More >>

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life Without Meaning

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life Without Meaning...

Author: Benjamin Paloff
ISBN: 9780810148635
Format: Hardback
$264.00

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Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings

Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings

Author: Sebastian D. G. Knowles ,  Geert Lernout
ISBN: 9780813081311
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Through a wide variety of essays on language, history, politics, and culture in the works of James Joyce, this book...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation 1640–1800

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press,...

Author: Nicholas Brownlees (Professor of English Language, University of Florence, Italy)
ISBN: 9781474499187
Format: Paperback
$140.00

Comprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain...  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

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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 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 >>

Die Römische Liebeselegie: Eine Einführung

Die Römische Liebeselegie: Eine Einführung

Author: Niklas Holzberg
ISBN: 9783112229019
Format: Paperback
$73.89

Die Einführung behandelt die von den vier augusteischen Dichtern Gallus, Tibull, Properz und Ovid gewählte Sonderform...  Read More >>

Martial Und Das Antike Epigramm: Eine Einführung

Martial Und Das Antike Epigramm: Eine Einführung

Author: Niklas Holzberg
ISBN: 9783112229040
Format: Paperback
$73.89

Der römische Dichter Martial, Klassiker des antiken Epigramms, wurde bis in die 1980er Jahre nicht literaturwissenschaftlich...  Read More >>

Der Antike Roman: Eine Einführung

Der Antike Roman: Eine Einführung

Author: Niklas Holzberg
ISBN: 9783112228982
Format: Paperback
$73.89

Die griechischen Romane des Chariton, Xenophon von Ephesos, Achilleus Tatios, Longos und Heliodor sowie die römischen...  Read More >>

Die Antike Fabel: Eine Einführung

Die Antike Fabel: Eine Einführung

Author: Niklas Holzberg
ISBN: 9783112229071
Format: Paperback
$73.89

Im Gegensatz zu den Neuphilologien zeigte die Altphilologie bis in die jüngste Zeit wenig Interesse an den griechischen...  Read More >>

Cinema Before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers

Cinema Before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière...

Author: Michael Allan
ISBN: 9781531514044
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Tells the global story of the cinematograph while modeling a film scholarship committed to transnational analysis...  Read More >>

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