Literature: history & criticism books

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The Cut Up

The Cut Up

Author: Louise Welsh
ISBN: 9781838859862
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The keenly anticipated third Rilke thriller exploring the dark underbelly of contemporary Glasgow, from the Award-winning...  Read More >>

Return

Return

Author: Raharimanana Raharimanana ,  Allison M. Charette
ISBN: 9781803094953
Format: Hardback
$44.95

A powerful testament to writing as an act of beauty and rebellion that speaks truth and condemns violent legacies...  Read More >>

Arson

Arson

Author: Laura Freudenthaler ,  Tess Lewis
ISBN: 9781803095615
Format: Hardback
$41.95

Set against the backdrop of escalating environmental collapse, this novel is a timely exploration of the terrifying...  Read More >>

Catullus: Selected Poems

Catullus: Selected Poems

Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus ,  Stephen Mitchell
ISBN: 9780300285475
Format: Paperback
$26.95

A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries...  Read More >>

Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms

Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms

Author: Jessica Brantley
ISBN: 9781512828665
Format: Paperback
$92.99

In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript...  Read More >>

Imagining Health: Medicine, Social Protest, and Modern American Literature

Imagining Health: Medicine, Social Protest, and Modern...

Author: Ira Halpern
ISBN: 9781625349118
Format: Paperback
$61.60

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Hyakunin’shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan

Hyakunin’shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo...

Author: Joshua S. Mostow
ISBN: 9780824898052
Format: Paperback
$73.92

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Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale

Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development...

Author: Kimberly J. Lau ,  Anne E. Duggan
ISBN: 9780814351536
Format: Hardback
$220.00

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The Story's not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives

The Story's not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood...

Author: Victoria Aarons ,  Leela Corman
ISBN: 9780814349120
Format: Hardback
$215.00

The diverse forms and structures of graphic narratives discussed in this volume by a range of international scholars...  Read More >>

East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press

East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press...

Author: Vivi Lachs ,  Barry Smerin
ISBN: 9780814351352
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Detailed historical context, biographies of each writer, and evocative illustrations support this meaningful collection...  Read More >>

Imagining Health: Medicine, Social Protest, and Modern American Literature

Imagining Health: Medicine, Social Protest, and Modern...

Author: Ira Halpern
ISBN: 9781625349125
Format: Hardback
$185.90

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Reader Bot: What Happens When AI Reads and Why It Matters

Reader Bot: What Happens When AI Reads and Why It Matters...

Author: Naomi S. Baron
ISBN: 9781503643949
Format: Hardback
$57.99

What happens to human reading when AI bots can do it for us? Explosive developments in artificial intelligence...  Read More >>

West of the Ghetto: Jewish Women, Old San Francisco, and American Literary Culture

West of the Ghetto: Jewish Women, Old San Francisco,...

Author: Lori Harrison-Kahan
ISBN: 9780814352311
Format: Hardback
$224.00

With incisive purpose and clear-eyed nuance, West of the Ghetto showcases Jewish women writers' vital and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

2025

2025

Author: Lutz Hagestedt ,  Julia Martens
ISBN: 9783111636283
Format: Hardback
$64.32

Das Kempowski-Jahrbuch versammelt nicht nur aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu jeweils einem bestimmten Thema, sondern...  Read More >>

Team Up: How Collaboration Powers Superhero Comics

Team Up: How Collaboration Powers Superhero Comics

Author: Marie Sartain
ISBN: 9781496860989
Format: Paperback
$69.99

How collaboration between creators, editors, artists, and fans drives the creation, evolution, and enduring impact...  Read More >>

The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

Author: Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine ,  Conor Bracken
ISBN: 9780813954714
Format: Paperback
$56.99

A collection of works by one of twentieth-century Morocco’s greatest writers Appearing for the first time in...  Read More >>

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast: Gender and Animality in Modernist Hebrew Fiction

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast: Gender and Animality...

Author: Naama Harel
ISBN: 9781978841727
Format: Paperback
$74.80

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Poeticality: In Refusal of Settler Life

Poeticality: In Refusal of Settler Life

Author: Jeffrey Sacks
ISBN: 9781531512330
Format: Paperback
$80.99

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Reading Better States: Utopian Method and Environmental Harm in the Global South

Reading Better States: Utopian Method and Environmental...

Author: Rebecca Oh
ISBN: 9781531512651
Format: Paperback
$73.99

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The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare

The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer...

Author: Holly A. Crocker
ISBN: 9781512829679
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late-medieval and early-modern English poets thought about the material...  Read More >>

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