Literature: history & criticism books

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Faulkner’s Fashion: Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing

Faulkner’s Fashion: Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing...

Author: Professor Christopher Rieger (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9798765103951
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""The first book-length study of clothing and dress across William Faulkner's novels and short stories""--  Read More >>

An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars

An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars...

Author: Stephen Harrison (Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford, UK) ,  Dr. Gesine Manuwald (Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature, University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350379459
Format: Paperback
$61.99

A collection of Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c.1490 to 1750, which...  Read More >>

Redemptive Hybridism in Post-Postmodern Writing

Redemptive Hybridism in Post-Postmodern Writing

Author: Dr. Tasha Haines (Independent Scholar, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781501394546
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""From Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond, 'redemptive hybridism' - a new way of reading texts full...  Read More >>

The ""German Illusion"": Germany and Jewish-German Motifs in Hélène Cixous’s Late Work

The ""German Illusion"": Germany and Jewish-German Motifs...

Author: Professor or Dr. Olivier Morel (University of Notre Dame, USA) ,  Prof Imke Meyer (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
ISBN: 9798765107386
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Examines Jewish-German “tropes” in Hélène Cixous’s oeuvre and life and their impact on her work as a feminist, poet,...  Read More >>

Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience: Late Victorian Speculative Fiction

Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience: Late Victorian Speculative...

Author: Michael Kramp
ISBN: 9781032232980
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience explores the disturbing sustainability of white male supremacy.  Read More >>

Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds: Mental Health in Victorian Literature

Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds: Mental Health in...

Author: Mathilde Vialard
ISBN: 9781032058641
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds investigates how the Victorians dealt with questions of mental health by examining...  Read More >>

Dante and Polish Writers: From Romanticism to the Present

Dante and Polish Writers: From Romanticism to the Present...

Author: Andrea Ceccherelli
ISBN: 9781032367262
Format: Paperback
$90.99

It explores the phenomenon of Polish Danteism from a hermeneutic perspective.The essays examine a series of “encounters”...  Read More >>

Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction: Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture

Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction:...

Author: Andrew Nyongesa (Murang'A University Of Technology)
ISBN: 9781032577623
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Pertinent modernist tenets such as bureaucracy, the nation state, rationality and dualism are at the heart of racism,...  Read More >>

Critical Perspectives on Max Porter

Critical Perspectives on Max Porter

Author: David Rudrum ,  Paweł Wojtas
ISBN: 9781032662398
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Max Porter is amongst the most exciting British writers of the twenty-first century; this book is the first study...  Read More >>

Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean: Hopeful Futures

Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the...

Author: Elena Igartuburu García
ISBN: 9781032447780
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book analyzes the emergence of Chinese diasporic literature and art in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the...  Read More >>

A Companion

A Companion

Author: Richard Meier
ISBN: 9798891060159
Format: Paperback
$39.99

In this new collection of poem-essays, poetRichard Meier continues his inquiry into daily writings (first presented...  Read More >>

Star Wars: Tales From the Vault: I Racconti Perduti

Star Wars: Tales From the Vault: I Racconti Perduti...

Author: Riccardo de Col
ISBN: 9798288164866
Format: Paperback
$78.25

Un libro che esplora i racconti dimenticati di Star Wars, passando dall'Era dell'Alta Repubblica a quella della...  Read More >>

Mi divina Comedia

Mi divina Comedia

Author: Renato Tarabusi
ISBN: 9791224015086
Format: Paperback
$46.36

Este libro fue escrito por el autor, en la edición original italiana, en el año 2021: año conmemorativo del 700...  Read More >>

Vali Dakhani and the Early Rekhtah Networks: Sharing Poetry’s Pleasures

Vali Dakhani and the Early Rekhtah Networks: Sharing...

Author: Heidi Pauwels ,  Purnima Dhavan (University of Washington, USA)
ISBN: 9780755650057
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book reexamines the emergence of Urdu as a literary and poetic language in the 18th century, at the time called...  Read More >>

August Wilson in Context

August Wilson in Context

Author: Khalid Y. Long (Howard University, Washington DC) ,  Isaiah Matthew Wooden (Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009363211
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The authoritative guide to the singular career and artistic legacy of one of America's most celebrated playwrights,...  Read More >>

Valencian Folktales, Volume 3: Enric Valor

Valencian Folktales, Volume 3: Enric Valor

Author: Paul Scott Derrick ,  Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor
ISBN: 9781032864716
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Tragedy as a Travelling Form: Itineraries from Thespis to Today

Tragedy as a Travelling Form: Itineraries from Thespis...

Author: Dr Philipp Lammers (University of Konstanz, Germany) ,  Prof. Dr. Juliane Vogel (University of Konstanz, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350466364
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Covering a broad historical spectrum from Greek Antiquity to the 21st century, this open access book asks how tragedy's...  Read More >>

In The Theater of Love: Rediscovering the Exceptional Shakespeare

In The Theater of Love: Rediscovering the Exceptional...

Author: Thomas P Brackshaw
ISBN: 9781736752289
Format: Paperback
$44.75

In The Theater of Love doesn't assume any familiarity with Shakespeare's plays, Elizabethan history, Renaissance...  Read More >>

Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction: The Ekphrastic Novel

Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction: The Ekphrastic...

Author: Sofie Behluli (Advanced Postdoctoral Researcher, English Department, University of Bern)
ISBN: 9780198954484
Format: Hardback
$182.95

Since 2010, a number of Anglo-American novels on visual art have been published and critically acclaimed. Dr Behluli...  Read More >>

A Shoddy Detective and the Art of Deception

A Shoddy Detective and the Art of Deception

Author: Mitch Donaldson ,  Becky Bartram
ISBN: 9781350587168
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Automobility and the Anthropocene: The Car as Post-Human

Automobility and the Anthropocene: The Car as Post-Human...

Author: Gordon M. Sayre (University of Oregon)
ISBN: 9781009526746
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element traces the evolution of cars from horsecars, carriages, and bicycles, and the influence of Henry Ford...  Read More >>

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