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The Indian Ocean and the Historical Imagination in Afro-Asian Fiction

The Indian Ocean and the Historical Imagination in Afro-Asian...
Author: Kritish Rajbhandari (Reed College, Oregon) ISBN: 9781009627757 Format: Hardback	$245.81
As one among few studies of Indian Ocean literature, this book will benefit scholars and students in humanistic... Read More >>

William James and Literary Studies

William James and Literary Studies
Author: Kate Stanley (University of Western Ontario) , Kristen Case (The Monson Seminar) ISBN: 9781009688635 Format: Hardback	$232.88
Demonstrates William James's role in the history of Anglo-American literary production and the practice of literary... Read More >>

Banning Books in America: Not a How-to

Banning Books in America: Not a How-to
Author: Samuel Cohen (University of Missouri, USA) ISBN: 9798765138076 Format: Hardback	$36.99
Professors, high school teachers, novelists, anti-censorship advocates, and librarians confront and examine the... Read More >>

African Literature in Transition: Volume 5: Genres of African Literature, 1900–2020

African Literature in Transition: Volume 5: Genres of...
Author: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) ISBN: 9781009694643 Format: Hardback	$232.88
Offers literary histories and analyses of different genres in African literature and verbal arts. The genres covered... Read More >>

Forest Ecology and Fantasy Fiction: Morris, Tolkien, Le Guin

Forest Ecology and Fantasy Fiction: Morris, Tolkien,...
Author: Dion Dobrzynski (Bath Spa University, UK) ISBN: 9781350547575 Format: Hardback	$170.00
Examining three of the most influential writers of the modern fantasy tradition, this book looks at how they engage... Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature

The Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature
Author: Rebecca Duncan (Linnaeus University) , Rebekah Cumpsty (Weber State University) ISBN: 9781009382588 Format: Hardback	$207.00
Before gothic villains stalked industrialising Britain, spectres were haunting British plantations in the 'New World'.... Read More >>

Weeping Eyes: Seeing and Feeling in the Sentimental Tradition

Weeping Eyes: Seeing and Feeling in the Sentimental...
Author: Megan Nash (University of Auckland) ISBN: 9781009661751 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Academic discourse on eyes has focused overwhelmingly on their visual function. Weeping Eyes turns instead to their... Read More >>

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 >>

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
An accurate and poetic translation of Paul Claudel’s Cinq Grandes Odes (1907), with detailed commentary introducing... 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 >>

Festival Shakespeares: Networking Performance Across Europe

Festival Shakespeares: Networking Performance Across...
Author: Rowena Hawkins (Independent Researcher) ISBN: 9781350511385 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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Literary Advice, British Fiction 1880-1914 and the Birth of the Creative Writing Industry

Literary Advice, British Fiction 1880-1914 and the Birth...
Author: Dr Paul Vlitos (Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Surrey, UK) ISBN: 9781350266209 Format: Hardback	$170.00
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Lynda Barry: A Critical Guide

Lynda Barry: A Critical Guide
Author: Dr Maaheen Ahmed (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Ghent University, Belgium) , Chris Gavaler (Washington and Lee University USA) ISBN: 9781350453685 Format: Hardback	$130.00
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The Theatre of Laura Wade

The Theatre of Laura Wade
Author: Henry Bell (University of the West of Scotland) , Sophie Bush (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) ISBN: 9781350282100 Format: Hardback	$170.00
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Arthur Miller’s New York: Visions of the City

Arthur Miller’s New York: Visions of the City
Author: Stephen Marino (Formerly of St Francis College, Brooklyn, USA) ISBN: 9781350524767 Format: Hardback	$140.00
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Mirrors in Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama: Power, Gender and the Magic of the Theatre

Mirrors in Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama:...
Author: Valentina Finger (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.) ISBN: 9781350535008 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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Shakespeare, Race and Anglophone Popular Culture

Shakespeare, Race and Anglophone Popular Culture
Author: Vanessa I. Corredera (Baylor University, USA) , L. Monique Pittman (Andrews University, USA) ISBN: 9781350500570 Format: Hardback	$160.00
This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular... Read More >>

Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature

Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian...
Author: Zakir Hussain , Ghulam Rabani ISBN: 9781666973167 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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Pushkin's Heroines and the Life-Art Connection: Freedom in a Female Frame

Pushkin's Heroines and the Life-Art Connection: Freedom...
Author: Amanda F. Murphy (Nazarbayev University) ISBN: 9781666928648 Format: Hardback	$180.00
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Materialist Romanticism: The Matter of the Marbles

Materialist Romanticism: The Matter of the Marbles
Author: Dewey W. Hall ISBN: 9781793635587 Format: Hardback	$150.00
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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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Blubber

Blubber
Author: N/A Katie Greenall ISBN: 9781350632202 Format: Paperback	$19.99
Join Katie and Body on their quest traversing forgiveness, beauty and whales as they ask: what does care look like... Read More >>

Rock of Pages: The Literary Tradition of 1980s Heavy Metal

Rock of Pages: The Literary Tradition of 1980s Heavy...
Author: Jesse Kavadlo (Maryville University of St. Louis, USA) ISBN: 9798765140819 Format: Hardback	$180.00
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On Morrison

On Morrison
Author: Namwali Serpell ISBN: 9781784746438 Format: Hardback	$55.00
The essential companion to Toni Morrison's work, written by Namwali Serpell, 'one of the most innovative and intelligent... Read More >>

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