Literature: history & criticism books

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The Historical Poem: On the Lives and Afterlives of Romantic Literary Criticism

The Historical Poem: On the Lives and Afterlives of...

Author: Joel Childers
ISBN: 9781503636682
Format: Hardback
$173.00

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story...  Read More >>

A History of Romance Novels: From Trembling Innocents to Hunky Werewolves

A History of Romance Novels: From Trembling Innocents...

Author: Dale DeBakcsy
ISBN: 9781036122812
Format: Hardback
$69.99

When you pick up the latest Emily Henry novel, or settle in for an evening with the newest volume of your favorite...  Read More >>

The US-Mexico Borderlands in Contemporary Horror: Crossing the Boundary

The US-Mexico Borderlands in Contemporary Horror: Crossing...

Author: Anna Marta Marini (Teaching Assistant, Universidad de Alcalá)
ISBN: 9781399524643
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines US-Mexico borderland representations in horror films, TV series and comics.  Read More >>

Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds: Finding Descartes on the Early Modern Stage

Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds: Finding Descartes...

Author: Nathan Pensky (Adjunct Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University)
ISBN: 9781399556965
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Reassesses Cartesian subjectivity as an important critical lens for the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries....  Read More >>

Hispanic Coetzee: World Literature Beyond the Anglosphere

Hispanic Coetzee: World Literature Beyond the Anglosphere...

Author: Cristóbal Pérez Barra (Independent scholar)
ISBN: 9781399547116
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines the connections between J. M. Coetzee's work and Hispanic literatures and cultures, especially in the Southern...  Read More >>

Black Arts, Black Muslims: Islam in the Black Freedom Struggle

Black Arts, Black Muslims: Islam in the Black Freedom...

Author: Ellen McLarney
ISBN: 9780231219419
Format: Hardback
$215.95

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Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and...

Author: Rongbin Han
ISBN: 9780231220545
Format: Hardback
$232.95

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Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan: Punjabi Language Movements After Independence

Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan: Punjabi Language...

Author: Julien Columeau
ISBN: 9780231219815
Format: Hardback
$232.95

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Translating the Nonhuman: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Translating

Translating the Nonhuman: What Science Fiction Can Teach...

Author: Professor Douglas Robinson (Chair Professor English, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9798765112809
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Extends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation,...  Read More >>

Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre: A Politics of Hope/lessness

Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre: A Politics...

Author: Dr Tom Drayton (University of East London, UK) ,  Mark Taylor-Batty (University of Leeds UK)
ISBN: 9781350286467
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The first study to focus on how current aesthetic and methodological shifts in contemporary performance practices...  Read More >>

The Postcolonial Volk

The Postcolonial Volk

Author: Benjamin Zachariah
ISBN: 9781509562633
Format: Hardback
$41.95

Postcolonial theory and its bedfellow, decolonial theory, are the most flourishing products of academia in recent...  Read More >>

New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy: Encountering the Passenger and Stella Maris

New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy: Encountering the...

Author: Jonathan Elmore ,  Rick Elmore
ISBN: 9781643366487
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Leading scholars take stock of McCarthy's final novels, illuminating the arc of his career, influence, and legacy...  Read More >>

Liberties Journal of Culture & Politics: Spring 2026

Liberties Journal of Culture & Politics: Spring 2026...

Author: Michael Grunwald ,  Assaf Sharon
ISBN: 9798992201024
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Liberties features the world’s sharpest minds for readers who are determined to stay curious. The result is a collection...  Read More >>

Bibliophobia: A Memoir

Bibliophobia: A Memoir

Author: Sarah Chihaya
ISBN: 9780593594742
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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Quixotic Authority: The Female Quixote and the Woman Writer, Lennox to Austen

Quixotic Authority: The Female Quixote and the Woman...

Author: Jodi L. Wyett
ISBN: 9781644534137
Format: Hardback
$369.60

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The Ambassador and the Courtesan: Political Bodies in Renaissance Italy

The Ambassador and the Courtesan: Political Bodies in...

Author: Paola De Santo
ISBN: 9781644534168
Format: Hardback
$330.00

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The Literary Taylor Swift: Songwriting and Intertextuality

The Literary Taylor Swift: Songwriting and Intertextuality...

Author: Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol (Professor, Trinity University, USA) ,  Anastasia Klimchynskaya (Postdoctoral Fellow, Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois, USA)
ISBN: 9798765104552
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Studies Taylor Swift's lyrics in relation to the ""literary,"" expanding the critical discourse surrounding Swift...  Read More >>

Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

Author: Dorsey Armstrong ,  Arielle C. McKee
ISBN: 9781603297189
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Scholarly essays examine the enduring allure of Arthurian legends—from medieval texts to modern adaptations across...  Read More >>

Reading with Jane Austen

Reading with Jane Austen

Author: Elaine Bander
ISBN: 9781684485864
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Reading with Jane Austen rereads Austen's novels within the context of the rich Georgian literary culture that she...  Read More >>

Critical Insights: the Things They Carried

Critical Insights: the Things They Carried

Author: Salem Press
ISBN: 9798891794429
Format: Hardback
$346.50

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Rabelais and the Social Order: An Essay in Cognitive Criticism

Rabelais and the Social Order: An Essay in Cognitive...

Author: Neil Kenny (Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of French, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198987246
Format: Hardback
$282.95

This book explores the fiction of the French writer François Rabelais (d. 1553) and its engagement with the seemingly...  Read More >>

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time Travel

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time...

Author: Edward Royston
ISBN: 9780814259825
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

Get a Clue: How to Plot, Write, and Sell Your MG or YA Mystery

Get a Clue: How to Plot, Write, and Sell Your MG or...

Author: Fleur Bradley
ISBN: 9798993730707
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Get a Clue is a handbook for writing a MG or YA mystery.  Read More >>

Catastrophe Pedagogy: Writing, Disaffection, and the Wounded Student

Catastrophe Pedagogy: Writing, Disaffection, and the...

Author: Edward J. Comstock
ISBN: 9783032202635
Format: Hardback
$118.77

As writing and language teachers, we recognize the difference immediately; an event has occurred, and a new subject...  Read More >>

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