Literature: history & criticism books

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Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater

Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early...

Author: Katherine Schaap Williams
ISBN: 9781501786846
Format: Paperback
$87.99

""This book analyzes physical disability in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English plays by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

Introducing the Medieval Bear

Introducing the Medieval Bear

Author: Karen Sullivan
ISBN: 9781837723751
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Since the Middle Ages, bearshave mostfrequentlybeen seenas objects. For many centuries, Europeans regarded bears...  Read More >>

Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020: The State, the Citizen, and the Sovereign Ideal

Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020: The...

Author: Professor Matthew J. Christensen
ISBN: 9781847013958
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Providing a survey of Anglophone African detective fiction, from the late 1940s to the present day, this study traces...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell

The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell

Author: Elizabeth Ludlow ,  Rebecca Styler
ISBN: 9781032611129
Format: Hardback
$685.69

This volume addresses Gaskell’s works, networks, contexts, and legacies. Contributors draw on ecocriticism, queer...  Read More >>

Cynefin: Wisdom from a thousand years of Welsh nature poetry

Cynefin: Wisdom from a thousand years of Welsh nature...

Author: Carwyn Graves
ISBN: 9781837600663
Format: Hardback
$44.99

Reimagine our relationship withthe natural worldthroughthe Welsh poetic tradition At a time of biodiversity lossand...  Read More >>

Write That Love Story: A Wedding Celebrant's Guide To Creating Compelling Narrative

Write That Love Story: A Wedding Celebrant's Guide To...

Author: Veronika Sophia Robinson
ISBN: 9781738532483
Format: Paperback
$55.41

A Wedding Celebrant's Guide to writing great love stories.  Read More >>

Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left

Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and...

Author: Alan Wald
ISBN: 9798888907887
Format: Paperback
$89.99

More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state...  Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality...

Author: Alberto Sosa-Cabanas ,  Jossianna Arroyo
ISBN: 9781978846258
Format: Paperback
$74.80

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

¿Invisibles? Trans-identidades en la España contemporánea

¿Invisibles? Trans-identidades en la España contemporánea...

Author: Ana M Corbalán
ISBN: 9798261600015
Format: Paperback
$227.04

'¿Invisibles? Trans-identidades en la España contemporánea' analiza la experiencia, corporeidad, identidad y representación...  Read More >>

Women and Resistance in the ""Annals"" of Tacitus

Women and Resistance in the ""Annals"" of Tacitus

Author: Caitlin C. Gillespie
ISBN: 9781501786150
Format: Hardback
$116.00

Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship...  Read More >>

Heine-Jahrbuch 2025

Heine-Jahrbuch 2025

Author: Sabine Brenner-Wilczek
ISBN: 9783662723265
Format: Paperback
$65.97

2025 erscheint der 64. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs.  Read More >>

Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire

Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire

Author: Sharon N. Tran
ISBN: 9781517919863
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Islands and Insularity in the Post-East German Novel: Public and Private Worlds

Islands and Insularity in the Post-East German Novel:...

Author: Dr Janice Shersby
ISBN: 9781640142435
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Pathbreaking study of recent novels by former East German authors that contribute, by employing tropes of retreat...  Read More >>

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Nineteenth-Century America: Discourse and Criticism

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Nineteenth-Century America:...

Author: Emeritus Professor Herbert Rowland
ISBN: 9781640142053
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Surveys the considerable nineteenth-century American discourse on and response to the writings of the German dramatist,...  Read More >>

Masculine Births: Milton, Women, and the Law

Masculine Births: Milton, Women, and the Law

Author: Lynne Greenberg ,  Lynne Ann Greenberg
ISBN: 9780810149847
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Masculine Births is a groundbreaking and interdisciplinary study of John Milton's works about women and early modern...  Read More >>

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Author: Robert Calder
ISBN: 9780299346249
Format: Paperback
$57.99

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Gestuary

Gestuary

Author: Sylvie Kandé ,  Nancy Naomi Carlson
ISBN: 9781803096087
Format: Paperback
$34.95

A richly imagined, physically charged poetry collection in which history, myth, and protest are transformed into...  Read More >>

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-Reform China and Postcolonial Literature

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-Reform China and Postcolonial...

Author: Yawen Li
ISBN: 9783032081308
Format: Hardback
$343.17

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural...  Read More >>

The Art of Stating the Obvious

The Art of Stating the Obvious

Author: Reg Henry
ISBN: 9798892288040
Format: Paperback
$42.21

There is no such thing as a people's philosopher but Duffer O'Grady set out to be one. From his earliest years,...  Read More >>

Passionsstundenlieder Zwischen Liturgie Und Meditation: Deutschsprachige Übertragungen Von 'Patris Sapientia' Und 'Matutino Tempore' (1350-1600)

Passionsstundenlieder Zwischen Liturgie Und Meditation:...

Author: Pavlina Kulagina
ISBN: 9783111508610
Format: Hardback
$335.25

This interdisciplinary series explores the relationship between liturgy and the vernacular in the Middle Ages and...  Read More >>

Alice Munro: A Literary Companion

Alice Munro: A Literary Companion

Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
ISBN: 9781476699820
Format: Paperback
$158.27

Author Alice Munro (1931-2024) solved one of the conundrums of science--how to quantify what happens in human interaction....  Read More >>

Things My Grandmother Said: Poems

Things My Grandmother Said: Poems

Author: Amit Majmudar
ISBN: 9780593803165
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Poems inspired by the strong women in award-winning poet Amit Majmudar's life, celebrating the influence and energy...  Read More >>

Ansāb Al-Asrāf

Ansāb Al-Asrāf

Author: Aḥmad Ibn Yaḥyā Al-Balāḏurī ,  Mohammad Al-Hujairi
ISBN: 9783111717388
Format: Hardback
$456.69

Ansāb al-Asrāf is a genealogical encyclopedia of the Arab-Islamic state. This volume contains biographies of the...  Read More >>

'Heidi' Und Mehr: Neue Studien Zu Johanna Spyris Werken

'Heidi' Und Mehr: Neue Studien Zu Johanna Spyris Werken...

Author: Sonja Klimek ,  Martina Wernli
ISBN: 9783111366432
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Johanna Spyris (1827-1901) Heidi-Stoff hat zweifellos Eingang in das kulturelle Gedächtnis gefunden - ausgehend...  Read More >>

Gendered and Cultural Paradoxes in Trans-themed Children’s Literature

Gendered and Cultural Paradoxes in Trans-themed Children’s...

Author: Dena Attar
ISBN: 9781041194439
Format: Paperback
$108.65

This groundbreaking volume delves into a diverse selection of trans-themed children’s and adolescent literature...  Read More >>

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