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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 >>

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 >>

Women and Cultures of Portraiture in the British Literary Renaissance

Women and Cultures of Portraiture in the British Literary...
Author: Yasmin Arshad (Independent Scholar, USA) , Chris Laoutaris (University of Birmingham, UK) ISBN: 9781350320703 Format: Hardback	$200.00
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The Oxford Handbook of Allegory

The Oxford Handbook of Allegory
Author: David Parry (Tutorial Fellow and Director of Studies in English Regent's Park College, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780192894359 Format: Hardback	$355.95
A Handbook on allegory, as both a literary genre and a means of interpretation. The Handbook reflects the diversity... 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: 9781643366272 Format: Hardback	$266.00
Leading scholars take stock of McCarthy's final novels, illuminating the arc of his career, influence, and legacy... Read More >>

Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture

Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature...
Author: Julia C. Obert ISBN: 9781805966852 Format: Hardback	$369.60
Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This book examines joy... Read More >>

The Avant-Garde after Bolaño: Literature and Affects in Latin America

The Avant-Garde after Bolaño: Literature and Affects...
Author: Rodrigo López Martínez ISBN: 9781805966401 Format: Hardback	$396.00
The Avant-Garde after Bolaño: Literature and Affects in Latin America studies how the paradigmatic impact of the... Read More >>

Bergson in Mexican Literature and Film: A Century of the Mobile Aesthetic Image

Bergson in Mexican Literature and Film: A Century of...
Author: Sheldon Penn ISBN: 9781805965428 Format: Hardback	$422.40
This is the first book-length analysis of the influence of Henri Bergson’s philosophy in Mexican literature and... Read More >>

New Medieval Literatures 26

New Medieval Literatures 26
Author: Philip Knox , Caroline Batten ISBN: 9781843847922 Format: Hardback	$316.80
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The Corporate Forms of Antebellum US Literature

The Corporate Forms of Antebellum US Literature
Author: Peter Jaros (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Franklin & Marshall College) ISBN: 9780198996514 Format: Hardback	$218.95
How did nineteenth-century writers contend with corporations, and how can their work inform our own confrontations... Read More >>

The Lama Who Flew: and Other Tales from My Village

The Lama Who Flew: and Other Tales from My Village
Author: Sange Dorjee Thongdok ISBN: 9781803095776 Format: Paperback	$34.95
Step into the fireside glow of a Himalayan village, where the supernatural feels ordinary and every story is a spell... Read More >>

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955
Author: Stephen O'Neill ISBN: 9781836244813 Format: Hardback	$310.50
Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 is the first study of the impact of partition on the culture of Ireland.... Read More >>

This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë

This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë
Author: Deborah Lutz ISBN: 9781399417082 Format: Hardback	$44.99
The first comprehensive biography of Emily Brontë in over two decades. Read More >>

Human: Babylonian Reflections on Labor

Human: Babylonian Reflections on Labor
Author: Sophus Helle ISBN: 9780226848990 Format: Paperback	$36.95
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Critical Prison Theory and Literature: Palimpsest

Critical Prison Theory and Literature: Palimpsest
Author: Noe Martinez , Sarah Higinbotham ISBN: 9781032612263 Format: Paperback	$108.65
This volume puts stories and theory about prison in conversation, following five metaphors through mass incarceration:... Read More >>

Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare’s Plays

Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare’s Plays
Author: Alicia Andrzejewski ISBN: 9781032218656 Format: Paperback	$108.65
This book addresses an absence in queer readings of Shakespeare’s work: the pregnant body. Through discussions of... Read More >>

Into the Fog: Sherlock Holmes' London

Into the Fog: Sherlock Holmes' London
Author: Ron Tinner , Steve Shanabruch ISBN: 9781068523403 Format: Sheet map	$32.95
In which we lead readers through the capital as Holmes and Watson knew it - a city of gaslight, theatres, grand... 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: 9780814216132 Format: Hardback	$343.07
The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings... Read More >>

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum...
Author: Allison S. Curseen ISBN: 9781469694207 Format: Paperback	$86.99
Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure... Read More >>

On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy

On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy
Author: Robert Pinsky ISBN: 9780691278254 Format: Paperback	$39.99
Two important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate now combined in a... Read More >>

Black Literature, Social Justice, and the Environment: Toward a Slave Ship Ecology

Black Literature, Social Justice, and the Environment:...
Author: Diana Leong ISBN: 9783032192875 Format: Hardback	$343.17
This book theorizes the slave ship as a unique site for the imaginative and material convergence of abolitionism... Read More >>

Critical Prison Theory and Literature: Palimpsest

Critical Prison Theory and Literature: Palimpsest
Author: Noe Martinez , Sarah Higinbotham ISBN: 9781032612287 Format: Hardback	$401.06
This volume puts stories and theory about prison in conversation, following five metaphors through mass incarceration:... Read More >>

Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare’s Plays

Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare’s Plays
Author: Alicia Andrzejewski ISBN: 9781032218649 Format: Hardback	$401.06
This book addresses an absence in queer readings of Shakespeare’s work: the pregnant body. Through discussions of... Read More >>

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