Literature: history & criticism books

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Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain

Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists...

Author: Kristin Bluemel
ISBN: 9781517914769
Format: Hardback
$270.00

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Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition

Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition...

Author: Samuele Collu
ISBN: 9781478029519
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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The Sound of the Past: Echoes and Incantations in Eliot, H.D., and Woolf

The Sound of the Past: Echoes and Incantations in Eliot,...

Author: Susan McCabe ,  Steven Minas
ISBN: 9798881903763
Format: Hardback
$295.68

'The Sound of the Past' collects nine essays on the topic of Modernism and its relationship to past histories, literatures,...  Read More >>

Holocaust and Hope: Literature, Testimony, Media

Holocaust and Hope: Literature, Testimony, Media

Author: Geoffrey Hartman ,  Kevis Goodman
ISBN: 9781531512200
Format: Hardback
$254.00

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Sulpicia: A Woman's Voice from Ancient Rome

Sulpicia: A Woman's Voice from Ancient Rome

Author: Giulio Celotto (University of Virginia) ,  Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780198972662
Format: Hardback
$199.95

This volume aims to explore and highlight aspects of the work of Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia. Topics include Sulpicia's...  Read More >>

The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of ""The Magic Mountain""

The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making...

Author: Morten Høi Jensen
ISBN: 9780300233742
Format: Hardback
$45.95

The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos...  Read More >>

The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death

The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing...

Author: Joanna Stalnaker
ISBN: 9780300181340
Format: Hardback
$61.95

A moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical...  Read More >>

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You A Better Writer

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You A Better...

Author: Gary Alan McBride
ISBN: 9798999659804
Format: Hardback
$113.49

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Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction

Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction...

Author: Amy De'Ath
ISBN: 9781503643840
Format: Hardback
$300.00

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the wayour lives are shaped...  Read More >>

The Atlas Comics Library No. 8: Snafu

The Atlas Comics Library No. 8: Snafu

Author: Stan Lee ,  John Severin
ISBN: 9798875001086
Format: Hardback
$65.95

Marvel in a Mad mode! The complete 1955 Snafu magazine collected for the first time, featuring satire by John and...  Read More >>

Into the Weeds

Into the Weeds

Author: Lydia Davis
ISBN: 9780300279740
Format: Hardback
$26.95

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood...

Author: Lauren Rule Maxwell
ISBN: 9781603297219
Format: Hardback
$208.00

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Illusive Materialisms: The Pleasures of Femininity in Eighteenth-Century France

Illusive Materialisms: The Pleasures of Femininity in...

Author: Natania Meeker
ISBN: 9781531512569
Format: Hardback
$289.00

Examining a strain of feminine speculative thought that resonates with contemporary efforts to recenter pleasure....  Read More >>

The Horror Theory Reader

The Horror Theory Reader

Author: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
ISBN: 9781517917814
Format: Hardback
$270.00

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Essays in Later Ancient Philosophy

Essays in Later Ancient Philosophy

Author: Michael Frede (sometime Professor of the History of Philosophy, sometime Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of Oxford) ,  George Boys-Stones (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780198889328
Format: Hardback
$296.95

This is a collection of seminal papers by the late Michael Frede on an important period in philosophical history,...  Read More >>

My Mad Scientist

My Mad Scientist

Author: Kyli Brown
ISBN: 9798893249781
Format: Paperback
$42.21

In the shadows of Victorian London, Alice Lumsley's life has been a sequence of entrapment and despair. Committed...  Read More >>

The Italian Renaissance: A Cultural History

The Italian Renaissance: A Cultural History

Author: Virginia Cox (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009474245
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In this study,...  Read More >>

Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales, 1400-1700

Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and...

Author: Dr Mary Bateman
ISBN: 9781843847700
Format: Paperback
$69.84

The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales.  Read More >>

Brainsluts

Brainsluts

Author: Dan Bishop
ISBN: 9781350639249
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Five Sundays. Five strangers. One mystery drug. What could go wrong?  Read More >>

Southern Women, Southern Landscapes: Cultural Reflections on the Garden, 1870-1970

Southern Women, Southern Landscapes: Cultural Reflections...

Author: Judith W. Page ,  Elise L. Smith
ISBN: 9781496860323
Format: Hardback
$205.70

An examination of the lives, gardens, writing, and artwork of Southern women who found inspiration and identity...  Read More >>

Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots: Black History in Contemporary Graphic Narrative

Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots: Black History in Contemporary...

Author: Daniel Stein
ISBN: 9781496860583
Format: Hardback
$205.70

A revelation of the powerful circuit between Black history and modern comics by African American creators  Read More >>

Heart Sick (Discreet Cover)

Heart Sick (Discreet Cover)

Author: Monica James
ISBN: 9781764477352
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Piano has always been my one true love. So when the music stops, I do whatever I can to hear it again. But...  Read More >>

Love Sick (Discreet Cover)

Love Sick (Discreet Cover)

Author: Monica James
ISBN: 9781764477369
Format: Paperback
$92.40

All I want is revenge. But I'm afraid it will destroy me because I'm not a monster. Or maybe I am. And...  Read More >>

How and Why Do Courts Cite?: Intertextual References in the Decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and the Supreme Court of Canada

How and Why Do Courts Cite?: Intertextual References...

Author: Joy Steigler-Herms
ISBN: 9783662719336
Format: Paperback
$263.97

Court decisions can neither be made nor drafted without references to other texts; citations are omnipresent in...  Read More >>

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