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Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds: Finding Descartes on the Early Modern Stage

Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds: Finding Descartes...
Author: Nathan Pensky (Adjunct Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University) ISBN: 9781399556965 Format: Hardback	$219.00
Reassesses Cartesian subjectivity as an important critical lens for the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.... Read More >>

Hispanic Coetzee: World Literature Beyond the Anglosphere

Hispanic Coetzee: World Literature Beyond the Anglosphere...
Author: Cristóbal Pérez Barra (Independent scholar) ISBN: 9781399547116 Format: Hardback	$200.00
Examines the connections between J. M. Coetzee's work and Hispanic literatures and cultures, especially in the Southern... Read More >>

Black Arts, Black Muslims: Islam in the Black Freedom Struggle

Black Arts, Black Muslims: Islam in the Black Freedom...
Author: Ellen McLarney ISBN: 9780231219419 Format: Hardback	$215.95
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Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and...
Author: Rongbin Han ISBN: 9780231220545 Format: Hardback	$232.95
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Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan: Punjabi Language Movements After Independence

Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan: Punjabi Language...
Author: Julien Columeau ISBN: 9780231219815 Format: Hardback	$232.95
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Translating the Nonhuman: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Translating

Translating the Nonhuman: What Science Fiction Can Teach...
Author: Professor Douglas Robinson (Chair Professor English, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) ISBN: 9798765112809 Format: Paperback	$49.99
Extends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation,... Read More >>

Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre: A Politics of Hope/lessness

Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre: A Politics...
Author: Dr Tom Drayton (University of East London, UK) , Mark Taylor-Batty (University of Leeds UK) ISBN: 9781350286467 Format: Paperback	$59.99
The first study to focus on how current aesthetic and methodological shifts in contemporary performance practices... Read More >>

The Postcolonial Volk

The Postcolonial Volk
Author: Benjamin Zachariah ISBN: 9781509562633 Format: Hardback	$41.95
Postcolonial theory and its bedfellow, decolonial theory, are the most flourishing products of academia in recent... 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: 9781643366487 Format: Paperback	$80.99
Leading scholars take stock of McCarthy's final novels, illuminating the arc of his career, influence, and legacy... Read More >>

Bibliophobia: A Memoir

Bibliophobia: A Memoir
Author: Sarah Chihaya ISBN: 9780593594742 Format: Paperback	$47.52
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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: 9781644534137 Format: Hardback	$369.60
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: 9781644534168 Format: Hardback	$330.00
Drawing on literature, legal texts, and archival materials from the Italian Renaissance, The Ambassador and the... Read More >>

The Literary Taylor Swift: Songwriting and Intertextuality

The Literary Taylor Swift: Songwriting and Intertextuality...
Author: Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol (Professor, Trinity University, USA) , Anastasia Klimchynskaya (Postdoctoral Fellow, Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois, USA) ISBN: 9798765104552 Format: Paperback	$44.99
Studies Taylor Swift's lyrics in relation to the ""literary,"" expanding the critical discourse surrounding Swift... Read More >>

The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming

The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming...
Author: Angela Pelster ISBN: 9781639551231 Format: Paperback	$34.99
From the celebrated author of Limber, a luminous collection of essays about crisis, hope, and the decision to resist... Read More >>

Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

Teaching the Arthurian Tradition
Author: Dorsey Armstrong , Arielle C. McKee ISBN: 9781603297189 Format: Hardback	$231.00
Scholarly essays examine the enduring allure of Arthurian legends—from medieval texts to modern adaptations across... Read More >>

Reading with Jane Austen

Reading with Jane Austen
Author: Elaine Bander ISBN: 9781684485864 Format: Hardback	$396.00
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Critical Insights: the Things They Carried

Critical Insights: the Things They Carried
Author: Salem Press ISBN: 9798891794429 Format: Hardback	$346.50
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Rabelais and the Social Order: An Essay in Cognitive Criticism

Rabelais and the Social Order: An Essay in Cognitive...
Author: Neil Kenny (Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of French, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780198987246 Format: Hardback	$282.95
This book explores the fiction of the French writer François Rabelais (d. 1553) and its engagement with the seemingly... Read More >>

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 >>

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