Literature: history & criticism books

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The Ritz of the Bayou: The New Orleans Adventures of a Young Novelist Covering the Trials of the Governor of Louisiana, with digressions on smoldering nightclubs, jazz-crazed bars, and other aspects of life in the tropic zone

The Ritz of the Bayou: The New Orleans Adventures of...
Author: Nancy Lemann , James Wolcott ISBN: 9798885740708 Format: Hardback	$47.99
In this ""unjustly neglected"" masterpiece, Nancy Lemann gives an atmospheric account of the New Orleans trial of... Read More >>

Shakespeare's Effeminacy: Essences of the Plays and Poems

Shakespeare's Effeminacy: Essences of the Plays and...
Author: Sky Gilbert ISBN: 9781915115805 Format: Hardback	$192.59
This radical new work of cultural history is not concerned with the effeminacy of Shakespeare the man, but with... Read More >>

Richard Wagner's Political Ecology

Richard Wagner's Political Ecology
Author: Kirsten S. Paige ISBN: 9780226843537 Format: Hardback	$82.95
A study of the deep history of the Wagnerian environmental imagination. Richard Wagner's operas are bursting with... Read More >>

A History of Goblins

A History of Goblins
Author: Matt King ISBN: 9783032010629 Format: Paperback	$64.66
This book examines the history of goblins from the Middle Ages to the present. It shows that goblins—whether interpreted... Read More >>

Exit Opera: Poems

Exit Opera: Poems
Author: Kim Addonizio ISBN: 9781324130659 Format: Paperback	$32.95
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Charlottesville: An American Story

Charlottesville: An American Story
Author: Deborah Baker ISBN: 9781644453872 Format: Paperback	$42.99
Now in paperback, the story of the torch march and rally that shocked the nation. Read More >>

Women’s Agency and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas

Women’s Agency and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas...
Author: Megan DeVirgilis , Sandra García Gutiérrez ISBN: 9781526176721 Format: Hardback	$206.99
This volume explores the relationship between women and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas through transhispanic... Read More >>

A Systemic Functional Grammar of Cantonese

A Systemic Functional Grammar of Cantonese
Author: Eden Sum-hung Li (Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) , Winnie Chor ISBN: 9780367415440 Format: Paperback	$141.00
A Systemic Functional Grammar of Cantonese adopts Systemic Functional Linguistics to describe the grammar of Cantonese,... Read More >>

Grotesque Anthropocene: Disfigured Environments Across Media

Grotesque Anthropocene: Disfigured Environments Across...
Author: Erik Erlanson , Nicolai Skiveren ISBN: 9783032093639 Format: Hardback	$116.41
This open access book explores the excesses, distortions and perverse effects that emerge when art and popular culture... Read More >>

The Web of Differing Versions: Where Africa Ends and America Begins

The Web of Differing Versions: Where Africa Ends and...
Author: Reid Gómez ISBN: 9781517919740 Format: Hardback	$270.00
A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation A bold, experimental intervention... Read More >>

The Origins of Ukrainian Gothic: History, Cultural Hauntings, and Political Imagination

The Origins of Ukrainian Gothic: History, Cultural Hauntings,...
Author: Svitlana (Lana) Krys ISBN: 9781049801650 Format: Hardback	$125.00
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Mentoring the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Mentoring the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Literature...
Author: Laura Blunsden ISBN: 9783032160140 Format: Hardback	$284.60
This book explores the eighteenth-century concept of “mentorship” in literary works, founded on voluntary, reciprocal... Read More >>

The Political Dimension of Myles na gCopaleen’s Cruiskeen Lawn

The Political Dimension of Myles na gCopaleen’s Cruiskeen...
Author: Germán Asensio Peral ISBN: 9783032187970 Format: Hardback	$284.60
This book meticulously analyzes Cruiskeen Lawn, a popular column published in The Irish Times by Irish writer Myles... Read More >>

Astell and Woolf

Astell and Woolf
Author: Shelagh Stephenson (playwright, UK) ISBN: 9781350646254 Format: Paperback	$21.99
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The Last Straight Woman: On Desiring Men

The Last Straight Woman: On Desiring Men
Author: Phoebe Maltz Bovy ISBN: 9780771013027 Format: Hardback	$60.00
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A Systemic Functional Grammar of Cantonese

A Systemic Functional Grammar of Cantonese
Author: Eden Sum-hung Li (Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) , Winnie Chor ISBN: 9780367415433 Format: Hardback	$305.00
A Systemic Functional Grammar of Cantonese adopts Systemic Functional Linguistics to describe the grammar of Cantonese,... Read More >>

Resistance in the ‘Oppressor’s Tongue’: English-Language Welsh Writers and Spanish-Language Catalan Writers

Resistance in the ‘Oppressor’s Tongue’: English-Language...
Author: Catriona Coutts ISBN: 9781837723423 Format: Paperback	$57.99
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Mansfield Park (The Norton Library)

Mansfield Park (The Norton Library)
Author: Jane Austen , Patricia A. Matthew ISBN: 9781324034551 Format: Paperback	$13.95
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Reading As Method

Reading As Method
Author: Oliver Simons ISBN: 9781501786723 Format: Paperback	$69.99
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Settling Debt: Antislavery and Colonial Crisis

Settling Debt: Antislavery and Colonial Crisis
Author: Cameron Seglias ISBN: 9781501786525 Format: Paperback	$80.99
Settling Debt overturns the familiar tale of early antislavery as a pure moral triumph by revealing its uneasy ties... Read More >>

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar
Author: William Shakespeare , Andrew James Hartley (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA) ISBN: 9781350110861 Format: Paperback	$19.99
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Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929)

Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All...
Author: Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson ISBN: 9781399426305 Format: Paperback	$32.99
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Selected Short Stories

Selected Short Stories
Author: Rabindranath Tagore , Sumit Chakrabarti (Presidency University) ISBN: 9780192865816 Format: Paperback	$25.95
A collection of new translations of short stories by Bengali poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941).... Read More >>

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
Author: Charles Ignatius Sancho , Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University - Boston) ISBN: 9780192869609 Format: Paperback	$23.95
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African provides an unequalled portrait of the everyday life of a Black... Read More >>

The Music and Literacy Connection

The Music and Literacy Connection
Author: Dee Hansen , Elaine Bernstorf ISBN: 9798765162330 Format: Paperback	$56.99
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