Literature: history & criticism books

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The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the...

Author: Joseph Boone
ISBN: 9780231222198
Format: Hardback
$298.95

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Making Common Sense: On the Construction of the Obvious from Antiquity to AI

Making Common Sense: On the Construction of the Obvious...

Author: Michael North
ISBN: 9781503646186
Format: Hardback
$277.00

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly...  Read More >>

knightfall

knightfall

Author: Rohan Phadnis
ISBN: 9798295583568
Format: Paperback
$36.93

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Another Spring: and Other Plays

Another Spring: and Other Plays

Author: Yasmine Beverly Rana ,  Yasmine Beverly Rana
ISBN: 9781803095790
Format: Paperback
$41.95

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Comic Belles Lettres: Genealogies of Humor and Satire in Anglo-American Literature, 1711–1856

Comic Belles Lettres: Genealogies of Humor and Satire...

Author: James E. Caron ,  Judith Yaross Lee
ISBN: 9780807186121
Format: Hardback
$127.00

Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American...  Read More >>

Short Story Index, 2025 Annual Cumulation

Short Story Index, 2025 Annual Cumulation

Author: HW Wilson
ISBN: 9798891796980
Format: Paperback
$551.10

A meticulously curated reference aid streamlines the exploration of vital contemporary literature through rigorous...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete...

Author: Fabian Alfie
ISBN: 9780268210595
Format: Paperback
$104.00

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

Noigandres: Poetry Made New in Brazil

Noigandres: Poetry Made New in Brazil

Author: Antonio Sergio Bessa
ISBN: 9781531513689
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Explores a key moment in Brazilian modernism, supplemented with primary texts by Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari,...  Read More >>

Get It While It's Hot: Gas Station, Roadside, and Convenience Cuisine in the U.S. South

Get It While It's Hot: Gas Station, Roadside, and Convenience...

Author: Constance Bailey ,  Shelley Ingram
ISBN: 9780807186206
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Get It While It's Hot brings together scholars, food writers, influencers, and even a CEO to discuss the phenomenon...  Read More >>

Dramaturgas Chilenas: Plays by Chilean Female Writers in the Early 21st Century

Dramaturgas Chilenas: Plays by Chilean Female Writers...

Author: Coca Duarte (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile School of Theatre, Santiago, Chile) ,  Anne García-Romero (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)
ISBN: 9781350549296
Format: Paperback
$49.99

A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

Queer Forms and Pronouns: Gender Nonconformity in Anglophone Literature

Queer Forms and Pronouns: Gender Nonconformity in Anglophone...

Author: Lena Mattheis (Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, University of Surrey)
ISBN: 9780198974116
Format: Hardback
$191.95

In Queer Forms and Pronouns, author Lena Mattheis explores gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in Anglophone literature...  Read More >>

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Author: Yuanfei Wang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) ,  Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009272353
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

Lady Church in the Christian Imagination: From Early Christianity to Early Modernity

Lady Church in the Christian Imagination: From Early...

Author: Lora Walsh (University of Arkansas)
ISBN: 9781009766289
Format: Paperback
$82.80

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives

Shakespeare’s First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives...

Author: Matthias Bauer (University of Tübingen, Germany) ,  Angelika Zirker (University of Tübingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350436404
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Examines the reasons why the Folio came into being in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, and how the now...  Read More >>

Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing: Race and Narrative Innovation

Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's...

Author: Professor Sheldon George (University of Massachusetts, Boston) ,  Professor Jean Wyatt (Occidental College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350383517
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Explores the stylistic and formal inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers from Britain, the United States,...  Read More >>

New Global Realism: Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel

New Global Realism: Thinking Totality in the Contemporary...

Author: Gabriele Lazzari (University of Surrey, UK) ,  Bryan Cheyette
ISBN: 9781350385719
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent...  Read More >>

Freudians and Schadenfreudians: Loving and Hating Psychoanalysis

Freudians and Schadenfreudians: Loving and Hating Psychoanalysis...

Author: Jeffrey Berman (University of Albany, USA)
ISBN: 9781350471870
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Focusing on ten key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents...  Read More >>

Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis

Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of...

Author: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University, Sweden) ,  Richard Kerridge (Bath Spa University UK)
ISBN: 9781350401181
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening...  Read More >>

Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction: Redefining the Philosopher in Multi-cultural Contexts

Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction: Redefining the...

Author: Professor Anway Mukhopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) ,  Professor Saptarshi Mallick (University of Graz, Austria and Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, University of North Bengal, India)
ISBN: 9798765100929
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This cross-cultural study explores and redefines what philosophy, philosophizing, and philosophers are through the...  Read More >>

Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind

Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind

Author: Dr. David LaRocca (Cornell University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765111086
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A critical assessment by leading scholars on the relationship between music and the life’s work of Stanley Cavell....  Read More >>

Prosaic Times: Time as Subject in Wordsworth, Richardson, Flaubert, and Melville

Prosaic Times: Time as Subject in Wordsworth, Richardson,...

Author: Dr. John Park (New College of Florida, USA)
ISBN: 9798765108710
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Analyzing the stylistic innovations most characteristic in pivotal works of literary realism, Prosaic Times shows...  Read More >>

Reading #Instapoetry: A Poetics of Instagram

Reading #Instapoetry: A Poetics of Instagram

Author: James Mackay (European University Cyprus, Cyprus) ,  JuEunhae Knox (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9798765105528
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The first collection to engage with “Instapoetry,” this book explores the aesthetics and ideologies of the 21st...  Read More >>

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