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An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

An A-Z of Beatrix Potter
Author: Dr Penny Bradshaw (Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Cumbria, UK) ISBN: 9781350453340 Format: Paperback	$34.99
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Death in Venice and Other Stories

Death in Venice and Other Stories
Author: Thomas Mann , Nicola Luckhurst ISBN: 9780198850076 Format: Paperback	$20.95
This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912,... Read More >>

Book Banning in 21st-Century America

Book Banning in 21st-Century America
Author: Emily J. M. Knox (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) ISBN: 9781538195079 Format: Paperback	$59.99
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Translating His-stories

Translating His-stories
Author: Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte (University of Salamanca) ISBN: 9781009673167 Format: Paperback	$46.58
The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories... Read More >>

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish...
Author: Guy Woodward (Research Associate in the Department of English Studies, Research Associate in the Department of English Studies, Durham University) ISBN: 9780198973423 Format: Hardback	$218.95
Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing is the first dedicated study of British and Irish... Read More >>

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830
Author: Jakub Lipski (Kazimierz Wielki University) ISBN: 9781009435079 Format: Paperback	$46.58
This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result... Read More >>

Race Class: Reading Mexican American Literature in the Era of Neoliberalism, 1981-1984

Race Class: Reading Mexican American Literature in the...
Author: José Antonio Arellano (United States Air Force Academy) ISBN: 9781009429542 Format: Paperback	$46.58
Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in... Read More >>

The American Scene

The American Scene
Author: Henry James , Peter Collister ISBN: 9781108454933 Format: Paperback	$77.60
A cultural and social critique of early-twentieth-century America, addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and... Read More >>

The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama: Volume 1, Art

The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama:...
Author: Henry James , Peter Collister ISBN: 9781316505687 Format: Paperback	$77.60
Henry James was a leading commentator on the art of his time. Readers of this complete collection of his nonfictional... Read More >>

The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama: Volume 2, Drama

The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama:...
Author: Henry James , Peter Collister ISBN: 9781316505694 Format: Paperback	$77.60
Henry James is a highly readable commentator on the theatre and performance practices of his time. Readers of this... Read More >>

The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Climate, Retreat and Revolution

The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Climate,...
Author: David Sergeant (University of Plymouth) ISBN: 9781009279925 Format: Paperback	$64.66
This book shows how novels and films set in the near future can shed light both on our failures of imagination before... Read More >>

The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire

The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire
Author: Anne Washburn (Author) ISBN: 9781350625198 Format: Paperback	$21.99
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Arboreal Modernism and the Woodcut Book

Arboreal Modernism and the Woodcut Book
Author: Olivia Badoi ISBN: 9783032108159 Format: Hardback	$343.17
This book reveals how modernist artists across Europe and the United States turned to trees and wooden materials... Read More >>

Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma

Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma
Author: Tamara Hundorova , Tanya Savchynska ISBN: 9798897831340 Format: Paperback	$52.99
This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first... Read More >>

Le préfet Doué Pascal ou l'improbable destin du fils de Bangolo: Une histoire authentique d'un haut fonctionnaire ivoirien

Le préfet Doué Pascal ou l'improbable destin du fils...
Author: Gnonsea Doué ISBN: 9782336561004 Format: Paperback	$67.74
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Friends of a Kind

Friends of a Kind
Author: Matthew Mills Stevenson ISBN: 9781738497089 Format: Paperback	$51.75
A journey of discovery as the author, Matthew Mills Stevenson, affectionately known as the Cycling Historian, investigates... Read More >>

Herodotus: Histories Book VII

Herodotus: Histories Book VII
Author: Chris Carey (University College London) , Herodotus ISBN: 9780521474153 Format: Hardback	$409.20
Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus' Histories. It brings together many of the work's themes and contains the... Read More >>

Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays

Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays
Author: Kent Lehnhof (Chapman University, California) ISBN: 9781009613873 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Combining sound studies and contemporary philosophy, this study reveals the ethical potency of the sound of the... Read More >>

A Hundred Flowers: How Literature Shaped Maoism

A Hundred Flowers: How Literature Shaped Maoism
Author: Dayton Lekner (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) ISBN: 9781009600538 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Drawing on archival, published, and literary sources, Dayton Lekner tells the story of the Hundred Flowers campaign... Read More >>

Book Banning in 21st-Century America

Book Banning in 21st-Century America
Author: Emily J. M. Knox (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) ISBN: 9781538195062 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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The Book Unbound: Material Cultures of Reading and Collecting, 1750–1850

The Book Unbound: Material Cultures of Reading and Collecting,...
Author: Luisa Calè (Birkbeck College, University of London) ISBN: 9781009599986 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Exploring Romantic-period works as open-ended collections of discrete book parts, prints, watercolours, manuscripts,... Read More >>

Translating His-stories

Translating His-stories
Author: Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte (University of Salamanca) ISBN: 9781009673174 Format: Hardback	$142.31
The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories... Read More >>

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830
Author: Jakub Lipski (Kazimierz Wielki University) ISBN: 9781009548212 Format: Hardback	$142.31
This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result... Read More >>

Race Class: Reading Mexican American Literature in the Era of Neoliberalism, 1981-1984

Race Class: Reading Mexican American Literature in the...
Author: José Antonio Arellano (United States Air Force Academy) ISBN: 9781009532938 Format: Hardback	$142.31
Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in... Read More >>

Angels, Demons, and Demigods: An Encyclopedia of Supernatural Beings in Story and on Screen

Angels, Demons, and Demigods: An Encyclopedia of Supernatural...
Author: David A. Salomon (Christopher Newport University, USA) , Kelly A. O'Connor-Salomon (Christopher Newport University, USA) ISBN: 9781440874413 Format: Hardback	$150.00
This encyclopedia examines famous and influential depictions of angels, demons, and demigods in film, television,... Read More >>

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