Literature: history & criticism books

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Frederick Douglass's Newspapers: Black Organizing and the Press for Freedom

Frederick Douglass's Newspapers: Black Organizing and...

Author: Benjamin Fagan
ISBN: 9781512829235
Format: Hardback
$116.00

The first book to focus on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass and their impact on Black organizing A robust...  Read More >>

Galicia As a Literary Idea: Jewish Eastern Europe in the Writings of Joseph Roth and Soma Morgenstern

Galicia As a Literary Idea: Jewish Eastern Europe in...

Author: Kata Gellen
ISBN: 9781487528898
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Galicia as a Literary Idea explores the relationship of Jewish tradition and modernity in literary works by Joseph...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete...

Author: Fabian Alfie
ISBN: 9780268210588
Format: Hardback
$289.00

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

Allen Ginsberg in Context

Allen Ginsberg in Context

Author: Erik Mortenson (Lake Michigan College)
ISBN: 9781009525589
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Provides both scholars and interested readers the context necessary to understand how Allen Ginsberg's life and...  Read More >>

Furious Harvests

Furious Harvests

Author: Alex Averbuch ,  Oksana Maksymchuk
ISBN: 9780674301054
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Furious Harvests, a collection of striking poetry by Alex Averbuch, explores existential questions that war raises:...  Read More >>

The dreadful name of Henry Hills: The lives and afterlives of a seventeenth-century printer

The dreadful name of Henry Hills: The lives and afterlives...

Author: Michael Durrant
ISBN: 9781526129390
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This compelling book offers a fresh and insightful contribution to the interrelated fields of book history and literary...  Read More >>

Race Literature: Women Contributors to the a.M.E. Church Review, 1884–1924

Race Literature: Women Contributors to the a.M.E. Church...

Author: Cynthia Lee Patterson
ISBN: 9781496861696
Format: Paperback
$69.99

A comprehensive study of Black women writers in the official journal of the African Methodist Episcopal Church  Read More >>

Black Arts, Black Muslims: Islam in the Black Freedom Struggle

Black Arts, Black Muslims: Islam in the Black Freedom...

Author: Ellen McLarney
ISBN: 9780231219419
Format: Hardback
$215.95

Ellen McLarney explores how writers in the Black Arts Movement identified with Islam as integral to the African...  Read More >>

The Royal House of Savoy: Unifiers of Italy

The Royal House of Savoy: Unifiers of Italy

Author: Gino Neil Lupini ,  Emanuele Filiberto
ISBN: 9781680536034
Format: Hardback
$187.00

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American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211802
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and...

Author: Rongbin Han
ISBN: 9780231220545
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Rongbin Han examines the production and consumption of online alt-history fiction in China, offering new insight...  Read More >>

Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan: Punjabi Language Movements After Independence

Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan: Punjabi Language...

Author: Julien Columeau
ISBN: 9780231219815
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Julien Columeau examines three movements for the defense and promotion of Punjabi formed between 1947 and 1960,...  Read More >>

Race Literature: Women Contributors to the a.M.E. Church Review, 1884–1924

Race Literature: Women Contributors to the a.M.E. Church...

Author: Cynthia Lee Patterson
ISBN: 9781496861689
Format: Hardback
$229.00

A comprehensive study of Black women writers in the official journal of the African Methodist Episcopal Church  Read More >>

Into the Fog: Sherlock Holmes' London

Into the Fog: Sherlock Holmes' London

Author: Ron Tinner ,  Steve Shanabruch
ISBN: 9781068523403
Format: Sheet map
$32.95

In which we lead readers through the capital as Holmes and Watson knew it - a city of gaslight, theatres, grand...  Read More >>

Two Appearances After the Resurrection

Two Appearances After the Resurrection

Author: Shane McCrae
ISBN: 9781632431721
Format: Paperback
$27.95

McCrae's latest collection considers the nature of perception and experiments with form and punctuation. This...  Read More >>

Tale of a Criminal Mind Gone Good

Tale of a Criminal Mind Gone Good

Author: Nathan Lefler
ISBN: 9781587318719
Format: Paperback
$16.95

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Ulysses in Critical Perspective

Ulysses in Critical Perspective

Author: Michael Patrick Gillespie ,  A. Nicholas Fargnoli
ISBN: 9780813081458
Format: Paperback
$52.80

In this survey of foundational theory on James Joyce's Ulysses, seasoned Joyceans introduce the methodologies that...  Read More >>

Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture

Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture

Author: Benjamin A. Saltzman
ISBN: 9780226847214
Format: Hardback
$190.95

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

Hip-Hop and American Culture

Hip-Hop and American Culture

Author: Rob Turner (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009714761
Format: Paperback
$80.21

Bringing together nineteen essays from leading specialists in poetics and American music, this collection offers...  Read More >>

Legend of the Far East's Savior, Vol. 1

Legend of the Far East's Savior, Vol. 1

Author: Haydn Trowell ,  hotokeyomo
ISBN: 9798855424362
Format: Paperback
$26.99

At the end of World War II, a demon-summoning ritual drastically altered the face of the earth. Now, a hundred years...  Read More >>

Hymn to Moray Eels

Hymn to Moray Eels

Author: Mireille Best ,  Stephanie Schechner
ISBN: 9781803095578
Format: Hardback
$41.95

In a rigid postwar institution where friendships burn bright and...  Read More >>

The Long March of Basic Trust: Chronicle of Emotions; Notebook 2

The Long March of Basic Trust: Chronicle of Emotions;...

Author: Alexander Kluge ,  Alexander Booth
ISBN: 9781803095479
Format: Hardback
$41.95

As past and future blur, this work from Alexander Kluge reveals the emotional and intellectual currents that drive...  Read More >>

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