Literature: history & criticism books

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Eve

Eve

Author: Charles Peguy ,  Curran Kathleen Sweeney
ISBN: 9781587312106
Format: Paperback
$49.95

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The House Is (not) a Prison: On the Queerness of Architecture

The House Is (not) a Prison: On the Queerness of Architecture...

Author: Colin Ripley
ISBN: 9781988111612
Format: Paperback
$90.56

Where is sexuality, especially queer sexuality, in architecture? The House Is (Not) a Prison approaches this question...  Read More >>

Correspondance Générale 1828

Correspondance Générale 1828

Author: Cecil P Courtney ,  Paul Rowe
ISBN: 9783111631394
Format: Hardback
$522.69

This volume brings together letters written by and to Benjamin Constant during 1828.  Read More >>

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: 9781644534120
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Quixotic Authority reveals how deeply absorbed reading was inextricable from and essential to British women's professional...  Read More >>

The Ambassador and the Courtesan: Political Bodies in Renaissance Italy

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

Author: Paola De Santo
ISBN: 9781644534151
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Drawing on literature, legal texts, and archival materials from the Italian Renaissance, The Ambassador and the...  Read More >>

Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

Author: Dorsey Armstrong ,  Arielle C. McKee
ISBN: 9781603297196
Format: Paperback
$92.99

King Arthur legends spark enduring debates about leadership, love, and community, weaving medieval texts with modern...  Read More >>

Reading with Jane Austen

Reading with Jane Austen

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

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

Ibsen Apocalypse: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller's Six-Hundred-Year Mission to Raise the Ghosts of Modernity

Ibsen Apocalypse: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller's Six-Hundred-Year...

Author: Andrew Friedman ,  Andrew Lane Friedman
ISBN: 9798899480232
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Ibsen Apocalypse historicizes the twenty-first century's most audacious theater work to trace the legacies of modernism's...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Kitchen

Shakespeare in the Kitchen

Author: Marissa Nicosia
ISBN: 9781032043999
Format: Hardback
$323.44

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The Rural World of the Song Dynasty in Lu You’s Verses

The Rural World of the Song Dynasty in Lu You’s Verses...

Author: Bao Weimin
ISBN: 9781032916880
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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The Idea in Fiction

The Idea in Fiction

Author: H.W. Leggett
ISBN: 9781041326120
Format: Hardback
$388.12

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Writers and Politics: A Partisan Review Reader

Writers and Politics: A Partisan Review Reader

Author: Edith Kurzweil ,  William Philips
ISBN: 9781041311034
Format: Hardback
$297.56

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Vocabulario y enseñanza del español

Vocabulario y enseñanza del español

Author: Anna Rufat ,  Francisco Jiménez Calderón
ISBN: 9781138227354
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Vocabulario y enseñanza del español delves into the nature and acquisition of vocabulary, its relevance to linguistic...  Read More >>

Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature

Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature...

Author: Daniel Dufournaud (Assistant Professor, University of Macau)
ISBN: 9781399554466
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.  Read More >>

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives, 1850s to 1930s

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives,...

Author: Louise Benson James (Postdoctoral Fellow in English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781399523080
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211802
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition

I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern...

Author: Yair Mintzker
ISBN: 9780691272702
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of ""the...  Read More >>

The dreadful name of Henry Hills: The lives and afterlives of a seventeenth-century printer

The dreadful name of Henry Hills: The lives and afterlives...

Author: Michael Durrant
ISBN: 9781526129390
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This compelling book offers a fresh and insightful contribution to the interrelated fields of book history and literary...  Read More >>

Frederick Douglass's Newspapers: Black Organizing and the Press for Freedom

Frederick Douglass's Newspapers: Black Organizing and...

Author: Benjamin Fagan
ISBN: 9781512829235
Format: Hardback
$116.00

The first book to focus on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass and their impact on Black organizing A robust...  Read More >>

The Greatest Story Ever Retold: Envisioning Jesus Narratives from Gospels to Film

The Greatest Story Ever Retold: Envisioning Jesus Narratives...

Author: John Anthony Dunne ,  Jeannine K. Brown
ISBN: 9781540967145
Format: Paperback
$73.89

Two New Testament scholars explore the ways the Jesus story has been told and retold from the earliest Gospel writings...  Read More >>

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 >>

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