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The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures

The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures...
Author: Xiaofan Amy Li (University College, London) ISBN: 9781009670227 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Arguing against the reductive understanding of risk as negative possibility, this book shows how risk is a necessary... Read More >>

Insects and the Enlightenment: Human-Arthropod Entanglement in the British Eighteenth Century

Insects and the Enlightenment: Human-Arthropod Entanglement...
Author: Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace (Boston College, Massachusetts) ISBN: 9781009692670 Format: Hardback	$245.81
What was the role of insects in defining the human during the British eighteenth century? Through close ecocritical... Read More >>

Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: The Monthly Magazine and Other Writings, 1789–1800

Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: The Monthly...
Author: Mark L. Kamrath , Professor Philip Barnard (University of Kansas, USA) ISBN: 9798216376897 Format: Hardback	$300.00
Presents authoritative, annotated versions of major stories and essays from three late eighteenth-century American... Read More >>

Paul Claudel’s “Five Great Odes”: A New Translation and Commentary

Paul Claudel’s “Five Great Odes”: A New Translation...
Author: Lauren Butler Bergier (Independent Scholar, USA) , Lauren Butler Bergier (Independent Scholar, USA) ISBN: 9781350434349 Format: Hardback	$170.00
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Shakespeare and Trauma Theory

Shakespeare and Trauma Theory
Author: Kelsey Ridge (Alvernia University, USA) ISBN: 9781350439108 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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The Invention of the Darling: Poems

The Invention of the Darling: Poems
Author: Li-Young Lee ISBN: 9781324123477 Format: Paperback	$29.95
Acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee offers a revelatory volume of ecstatic poems that search out divine voices in the silences... Read More >>

Books for Development: Canada in the Late Twentieth-Century World

Books for Development: Canada in the Late Twentieth-Century...
Author: Jody Mason ISBN: 9780228027010 Format: Paperback	$80.21
Books for Development analyzes how governmental and non-governmental actors deployed books as instruments of development... Read More >>

American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast: Mass Vernacular

American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast:...
Author: Allison R. Neal (Lecturer, Lecturer, Duke University) ISBN: 9780197806135 Format: Hardback	$183.95
American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast situates American poetry within a world of global media to... Read More >>

Heroes of the Gael: A History of Fionn and the Fianna

Heroes of the Gael: A History of Fionn and the Fianna...
Author: Professor Natasha Sumner ISBN: 9780691204734 Format: Hardback	$69.99
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The Cabbage Seed's Colossal Secret

The Cabbage Seed's Colossal Secret
Author: Karen M. Greenwald , Alejandra Ruiz ISBN: 9781668955154 Format: Hardback	$31.95
Inspired by the true story of Katie Stagliano, her forty-pound cabbage and the nonprofit Katie’s Krops Read More >>

Lucian, Volume II: The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted. The Tragic Zeus. The Rooster. Prometheus. Icaromenippus. Timon. Charon. Sale of Lives

Lucian, Volume II: The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted....
Author: Lucian , Professor Peter Thonemann ISBN: 9780674997714 Format: Hardback	$51.95
Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly... Read More >>

Atria: Poems

Atria: Poems
Author: D. S. Waldman ISBN: 9781324097266 Format: Hardback	$46.95
“A powerful debut, populated with lovers and painters and musicians and poets, all of it unified by D.S. Waldman’s... Read More >>

Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I–II. Hippias. Dionysus. Heracles. On Amber. The Fly. Nigrinus. Demonax. On the Hall. Encomium of the Fatherland. The Long-Lived. True Stories I–II. Slander. Lawsuit of the Consonants. Symposium

Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I–II. Hippias. Dionysus....
Author: Lucian , Professor Peter Thonemann ISBN: 9780674997707 Format: Hardback	$51.95
Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly... Read More >>

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History...
Author: Günter Leypoldt (Professor of American Studies, Professor of American Studies, University of Heidelberg) ISBN: 9780197815113 Format: Hardback	$245.95
Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between... Read More >>

Evening All Afternoon

Evening All Afternoon
Author: Anna Ziegler (Author) ISBN: 9781350618763 Format: Paperback	$21.99
Anna Ziegler's remarkable new play: an introduction to another world where ghosts and dreams are as real as anything... Read More >>

Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales of the 1980s

Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales of the 1980s
Author: Archie Goodwin , Michael Golden ISBN: 9798875001390 Format: Hardback	$107.95
The latest volume in Fantagraphics' Lost Marvels series, collecting all eight issues of the long-out-of-print, tough-minded... Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel

The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel
Author: Julie A. Buckler (Professor, Professor, Harvard University) , Justin Weir (Professor, Professor, Harvard University) ISBN: 9780197520857 Format: Hardback	$419.95
The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian... Read More >>

The Last Picture

The Last Picture
Author: Catherine Dyson ISBN: 9781350623002 Format: Paperback	$22.99
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Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema
Author: Robert Calder ISBN: 9780299346249 Format: Paperback	$57.99
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Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James

Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience...
Author: Jane F. Thrailkill ISBN: 9781512829624 Format: Paperback	$69.99
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Influential LGBTQ+ Works of the Nineteenth Century: Walt Whitman, Theodore Winthrop, J. S. Lefanu, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, Oscar Wilde, Edward Carpenter

Influential LGBTQ+ Works of the Nineteenth Century:...
Author: Various , Theodore Winthrop ISBN: 9780486855455 Format: Paperback	$26.99
This Dover original anthology explores how six authors, including Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde, represented the... Read More >>

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-Reform China and Postcolonial Literature

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-Reform China and Postcolonial...
Author: Yawen Li ISBN: 9783032081308 Format: Hardback	$343.17
The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural... Read More >>

Gestuary

Gestuary
Author: Sylvie Kandé , Nancy Naomi Carlson ISBN: 9781803096087 Format: Paperback	$34.95
A richly imagined, physically charged poetry collection in which history, myth, and protest are transformed into... Read More >>

In the Forest

In the Forest
Author: Edna O'Brien ISBN: 9780571397495 Format: Paperback	$24.99
A young mother, her infant son and a Catholic priest are all murdered by a delusional young man. Read More >>

The Island: W. H. Auden and the Last of Englishness

The Island: W. H. Auden and the Last of Englishness...
Author: Nicholas Jenkins ISBN: 9780571239023 Format: Paperback	$45.00
A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development... Read More >>

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