Literature: history & criticism books

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J.R.R. Tolkien and G.B. Smith: With Wind in our Ears

J.R.R. Tolkien and G.B. Smith: With Wind in our Ears...

Author: Giuseppe Pezzini
ISBN: 9783032001979
Format: Hardback
$310.47

The volume explores this relationship from biographical, literary, and philosophical perspectives, focusing on the...  Read More >>

Settling Debt: Antislavery and Colonial Crisis

Settling Debt: Antislavery and Colonial Crisis

Author: Cameron Seglias
ISBN: 9781501786518
Format: Hardback
$335.00

Settling Debt overturns the familiar tale of early antislavery as a pure moral triumph by revealing its uneasy ties...  Read More >>

Exploring the Intersection of Creative Writing and Creative Arts in Asia: Converging Horizons

Exploring the Intersection of Creative Writing and Creative...

Author: Rebecca Mo-Ling Leung
ISBN: 9789819524877
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This book unveils the latest trends and developments in Asian creative writing, serving as a vital resource for...  Read More >>

Sufism in Contemporary Fiction in English: From the Secular to the Sacred

Sufism in Contemporary Fiction in English: From the...

Author: Billy Gray
ISBN: 9783032204530
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This is the first full-length study to explore how contemporary, Western manifestations of Sufism are represented...  Read More >>

Medieval Icelandic Bodies in ""Tristram Ok Ísodd""

Medieval Icelandic Bodies in ""Tristram Ok Ísodd""

Author: Karen Lurkhur
ISBN: 9780935995305
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Medieval Icelandic Bodies in ""Tristram ok Ísodd"" examines the depiction of the bodies of the two main characters...  Read More >>

The Christmas Ghost Book

The Christmas Ghost Book

Author: Patrick Mullany
ISBN: 9798235921283
Format: Paperback
$47.49

Christmas was once the season of ghosts. Before it became a festival of bright shop windows, cheerful music, and...  Read More >>

Deserters: A Novel

Deserters: A Novel

Author: Jerry Gabriel
ISBN: 9781968209049
Format: Paperback
$36.95

An immersive adventure story set during the American Civil War follows four travelers as they escape toward the...  Read More >>

Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific

Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific...

Author: Edlie Wong (University of Maryland, College Park)
ISBN: 9781009644334
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element centers the 'Black Pacific' as a generative site for comparative and intersectional methodologies and...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

Author: Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University, Boston) ,  Kristina Huang (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
ISBN: 9781009280648
Format: Hardback
$207.00

One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>

The Classical Reception and Impact of Wonder Woman in Comics and Film

The Classical Reception and Impact of Wonder Woman in...

Author: Amanda Potter (University of Liverpool, UK) ,  Natalie Swain (Acadia University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350439368
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Provides a wide range of scholarly approaches to the superhero character of Wonder Woman across comic books and...  Read More >>

Cleophilus’ De coetu poetarum and Iustus Lipsius’ Somnium: Dreaming of the Literary Tradition

Cleophilus’ De coetu poetarum and Iustus Lipsius’ Somnium:...

Author: Dr. Gesine Manuwald (Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature, University College London, UK) ,  Dr Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle (University of Basel, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781350468740
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first modern editions and annotated English translations of two Latin texts important in literary history.  Read More >>

Henry James and the Question of Living

Henry James and the Question of Living

Author: Dr. Patrick Jones (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9798765141359
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Examines Henry James’s career-spanning interest in what it means to ""live,"" placing him in dialogue with the cutting-edge...  Read More >>

Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction: Gender, Race, and Genre

Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction: Gender,...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Ruth Maxey (University of Nottingham, UK) ,  Dr. Daniel Robert King (University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9798765125236
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Inspired by the career of Judie Newman, a genuinely ground-breaking scholar in the fields of U.S. and postcolonial...  Read More >>

The Music and Literacy Connection

The Music and Literacy Connection

Author: Dee Hansen ,  Elaine Bernstorf
ISBN: 9798765149836
Format: Hardback
$140.00

The primary source of in-depth information on music learning, literacy, and reading.  Read More >>

Edward II

Edward II

Author: Christopher Marlowe ,  Dr. Jeffrey Masten (Northwestern Univeristy, USA)
ISBN: 9781408133460
Format: Hardback
$180.00

An annotated edition of Marlowe's much-studied drama of pasion and politics which gives students a wealth of contextual...  Read More >>

The Latin Poems of Christian Wedsted: A Moravian in 18th-Century Pennsylvania

The Latin Poems of Christian Wedsted: A Moravian in...

Author: Aaron Palmore (Loyola University Maryland, USA) ,  Gesine Manuwald (University College London UK)
ISBN: 9781350261440
Format: Hardback
$180.00

An edition, with translation and commentary, of the transatlantic Latin poetry of Christian Wedsted (1727-1757)....  Read More >>

Writing Black Panther: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Representation Struggles

Writing Black Panther: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Representation...

Author: Howard Rambsy, II (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA)
ISBN: 9798765150962
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Examines contemporary African American artistic production through the lens of Coates's groundbreaking entry into...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Theatre Phyllida Lloyd

Shakespeare in the Theatre Phyllida Lloyd

Author: Professor Elizabeth Schafer (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) ,  David Bullen (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350106345
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This book examines Phyllida Lloyd’s revolutionary and transformative Shakespeare productions, contextualizing her...  Read More >>

Narrating Nuclear Disaster: Literary Form after Chornobyl and Fukushima

Narrating Nuclear Disaster: Literary Form after Chornobyl...

Author: Hannah Klaubert (Linköping University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781350526457
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Examining literature in the aftermath of Chornobyl and Fukushima, this book considers literary genres and forms...  Read More >>

Freud Explained: Psychoanalysis from Vienna to Exile

Freud Explained: Psychoanalysis from Vienna to Exile...

Author: Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck, University of London) ,  Esther Rashkin (University of Utah USA)
ISBN: 9798216372004
Format: Hardback
$120.00

An engaging biographical introduction to Sigmund Freud, contextualizing his theoretical development within the vibrant...  Read More >>

Petrarch’s Africa and Its Afterlives: Race, Nation, and Empire

Petrarch’s Africa and Its Afterlives: Race, Nation,...

Author: Samuel Agbamu (University of Reading, UK)
ISBN: 9781350330795
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first in-depth study to explore the unexamined afterlives of Petrarch’s 1347 Neo-Latin epic of the Second Punic...  Read More >>

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