Literature: history & criticism books

421118 books were found.

Shakespeare’s Strong Women: The Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness of His Fiercest Female Characters

Shakespeare’s Strong Women: The Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness...

Author: Royal Shakespeare Company
ISBN: 9780008809409
Format: Hardback
$32.99

'If I be waspish, best beware my sting'  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Notebook: The Life, Times and Works of William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Notebook: The Life, Times and Works of...

Author: Sophie Collins
ISBN: 9781837051502
Format: Hardback
$39.99

An immersive account of William Shakespeare’s life and legacy presented in a lavishly illustrated journal-style...  Read More >>

Consolations: Timeless Wisdom from the Ancient World for Every Day

Consolations: Timeless Wisdom from the Ancient World...

Author: Irene Vallejo ,  Charlotte Whittle
ISBN: 9781399745659
Format: Hardback
$55.00

Timeless wisdom from the ancient world to dip into every day - from internationally bestselling classicist Irene...  Read More >>

Movement, Text, Performance

Movement, Text, Performance

Author: Paul Allain (University of Kent )
ISBN: 9781009684286
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element argues that movement, overseen by a movement director, is vital for theatre-making. It can support...  Read More >>

Poetry and Opinion

Poetry and Opinion

Author: Vidyan Ravinthiran (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9781009549059
Format: Hardback
$142.31

 Read More >>

Great Literary Sisters

Great Literary Sisters

Author: Janet Phillips
ISBN: 9781851246212
Format: Hardback
$34.99

An exploration and insightful analysis of sisters in literature and their depiction in three centuries of the novel....  Read More >>

Rogues, Widows and Orphans: Mischief and Misadventures in the World of Books

Rogues, Widows and Orphans: Mischief and Misadventures...

Author: Rebecca Lee
ISBN: 9781805221180
Format: Hardback
$42.99

An entertaining romp through bookish mishaps, exposing all the weird, wow! and wtf? moments that the literary world...  Read More >>

The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard

The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J....

Author: Christopher Priest ,  Nina Allan
ISBN: 9781399417495
Format: Hardback
$49.99

This book is about J. G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel.  Read More >>

Walking Shadow: Love, Loss and Shakespeare

Walking Shadow: Love, Loss and Shakespeare

Author: Greg Doran
ISBN: 9781526694379
Format: Hardback
$50.00

 Read More >>

Katha Samratanka Kabya Manasa

Katha Samratanka Kabya Manasa

Author: Alekh Chandra Padhiary
ISBN: 9781645608585
Format: Paperback
$42.24

ବ୍ୟାସକବି ରୂପେ ପରିଚିତ କବି ଫକୀରମୋହନ ସେନାପତିଙ୍କ ଗଳ୍ପ ଓ ଉପନ୍ୟାସକୁ ଯେତିକି ଆଲୋଚନା ଓ ସମୀକ୍ଷା କରାଯାଇଛି ତାଙ୍କର କାବ୍ୟକବିତାକୁ...  Read More >>

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen...

Author: Caroline Bicks
ISBN: 9781399744522
Format: Paperback
$34.99

 Read More >>

Faith in the Furnace of Doubt: Dana Gioia's Visionary Poetics

Faith in the Furnace of Doubt: Dana Gioia's Visionary...

Author: Joshua Hren
ISBN: 9780813239910
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Dana Gioia’s characters and verses cry from the depths, their faith tried—and purified—in the furnace of doubt....  Read More >>

Adrift on the Earth: Caribbean Romanticism and Geopoetics

Adrift on the Earth: Caribbean Romanticism and Geopoetics...

Author: Kir Kuiken
ISBN: 9781503646827
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to...  Read More >>

Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas

Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas...

Author: Emily Gowers
ISBN: 9780691257457
Format: Paperback
$54.99

 Read More >>

There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories

There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories

Author: Brad Watson ,  Joy Williams
ISBN: 9781324123378
Format: Paperback
$32.95

A posthumous collection of beloved and never-before-read stories from a titan of contemporary Southern fiction  Read More >>

Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions

Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other...

Author: José A. de la Garza Valenzuela
ISBN: 9781477333532
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings

Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings

Author: Sebastian D. G. Knowles ,  Geert Lernout
ISBN: 9780813081311
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Through a wide variety of essays on language, history, politics, and culture in the works of James Joyce, this book...  Read More >>

Potternomics: Why Wizards Still Live in the Dark Ages and Other Economic Curiosities in the World of Harry Potter

Potternomics: Why Wizards Still Live in the Dark Ages...

Author: J Brian O'Roark
ISBN: 9781592116874
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Magic can’t fix bad economics—discover why the wizarding world is still stuck in the Dark Ages! Discover the Shocking...  Read More >>

Food and Culture: Readings through Fictions, Memoirs and Histories

Food and Culture: Readings through Fictions, Memoirs...

Author: Gigy J. Alex
ISBN: 9781803747811
Format: Paperback
$116.44

 Read More >>

Love and Death in the American Novel

Love and Death in the American Novel

Author: Leslie Fiedler
ISBN: 9781681379692
Format: Paperback
$55.00

""No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say."" Washington Post...  Read More >>

Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in US Culture

Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in US Culture...

Author: Katharine Mershon
ISBN: 9780231206976
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Katharine Mershon examines the unacknowledged religious underpinnings of stories about dogs, revealing deeply rooted...  Read More >>

""The Ambiguity of the Hypotheses"": Four Landmarks Within the Tangles, Networks, and Knots of Gadda's Pasticciaccio

""The Ambiguity of the Hypotheses"": Four Landmarks...

Author: Adria Bernardi
ISBN: 9781599542522
Format: Paperback
$42.24

It's a tangle. It is a big tangle of a novel. A series of knots within knots within knots within knots. Long, winding,...  Read More >>

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List