Literature: history & criticism books

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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen...

Author: Caroline Bicks
ISBN: 9781399744522
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey

Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey

Author: Lillian E. Doherty
ISBN: 9781603297103
Format: Paperback
$87.99

A lively guide for educators reinterpreting an ancient epic through modern lenses. It examines memorable figures...  Read More >>

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen...

Author: Caroline Bicks
ISBN: 9781399744515
Format: Hardback
$69.99

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The poetry of suicide: Lessons in grief from the lives and deaths of poets

The poetry of suicide: Lessons in grief from the lives...

Author: J. T. Welsch
ISBN: 9781526191991
Format: Hardback
$69.99

Interweaving stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, J. T....  Read More >>

Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts: Gendered narratives of encounter

Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts: Gendered narratives...

Author: Claudia Capancioni ,  Julia Kuehn
ISBN: 9781526184429
Format: Hardback
$206.99

This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus and the Writing of History in the Greco-Roman World

Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus and the Writing...

Author: John Marincola (Leon Golden Professor Emeritus of Classics, Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780198979180
Format: Hardback
$246.95

This volume explores Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus within the traditions of Greek literary and rhetorical...  Read More >>

New Directions in the Ghost Story, Volume I

New Directions in the Ghost Story, Volume I

Author: Henry Bartholomew ,  Joan Passey
ISBN: 9783032104793
Format: Hardback
$362.22

This book provides an exciting and informed overview of new, emerging, and radical approaches to the long ghost...  Read More >>

Exploring Reproduction and Gender in Contemporary Feminist Speculative Fiction: Mothers Out of this World

Exploring Reproduction and Gender in Contemporary Feminist...

Author: Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen ,  Sara Martín
ISBN: 9783032126320
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This volume presents the work of a group of international academics on the topic of reproduction and motherhood...  Read More >>

Firewing

Firewing

Author: David A Pearson
ISBN: 9781350654747
Format: Paperback
$21.99

The debut play by INSPIRE graduate David Pearson, Firewing is a striking new play about connection, artistry and...  Read More >>

The Delirium Archive

The Delirium Archive

Author: Shane Mac an Bhaird
ISBN: 9781350654808
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Ireland and Hungary, 1840-1905: Transnational Politics and Literature

Ireland and Hungary, 1840-1905: Transnational Politics...

Author: Michael McAteer
ISBN: 9783032147349
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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The Future Is Fiction: A Cultural History of Intergenerational Justice

The Future Is Fiction: A Cultural History of Intergenerational...

Author: Stacey Margolis (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Utah)
ISBN: 9780197839584
Format: Hardback
$194.95

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world...  Read More >>

Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe

Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and...

Author: Julie Stone Peters (H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780197903957
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition...  Read More >>

Into the Badlands: America and its Crime Writers

Into the Badlands: America and its Crime Writers

Author: John L Williams
ISBN: 9780857306265
Format: Paperback
$36.99

An instant cult classic that remains deeply relevant today: both an incisive and funny travelogue and a revealing...  Read More >>

Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literary Cultures

Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literary...

Author: Oliver Scheiding (University of Mainz, Germany)
ISBN: 9781119825166
Format: Paperback
$53.95

Explores the intersections of print, writing, and media in early American literary cultures Print Technologies...  Read More >>

Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology

Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology...

Author: Elizabeth D. Gruber
ISBN: 9783032181541
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology examines five female-authored novelizations of The Tempest,...  Read More >>

Please Please Me

Please Please Me

Author: Tom Wright
ISBN: 9781350641488
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Please Please Me is the electrifying story of The Beatles’ meteoric rise and the hidden struggles of their beloved...  Read More >>

Disability and Rurality in American Literature: Ecosomatic Pastoralism

Disability and Rurality in American Literature: Ecosomatic...

Author: Matthew J. C. Cella
ISBN: 9781666965124
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An exploration of the relationships between American rurality, conceptions of wellness and civic “fitness,” and...  Read More >>

Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval English Literature

Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval...

Author: Caleb D. Molstad
ISBN: 9781666979701
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An examination of vernacular authors' expression of religious experience and theology through metaphors of food...  Read More >>

Japanese Forms in American Poetry: Beyond Haiku

Japanese Forms in American Poetry: Beyond Haiku

Author: Ce Rosenow
ISBN: 9781666964226
Format: Hardback
$130.00

An analysis of haiku-related poetic forms that traces their histories and analyzes current trends, while arguing...  Read More >>

Violence and Rebellion in Contemporary French Women’s Autofiction: “We Stand up and We Split”

Violence and Rebellion in Contemporary French Women’s...

Author: Michèle Bacholle
ISBN: 9781666926965
Format: Hardback
$180.00

A close look into systemic violence against women in French society through various forms of rebellion, both real...  Read More >>

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