Literature: history & criticism books

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Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early Modern English Stage

Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early...

Author: Pavneet Aulakh (Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Vanderbilt University) ,  James Kearney (Professor of English, University of California - Santa Barbara)
ISBN: 9781399520836
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Attends to the early modern stage as a platform for the creation and interrogation of knowledge and knowledge production,...  Read More >>

Masculinity, Coloniality, and the US-Mexico Border in Literature and Political Culture: Violent Borders and Gender Orders

Masculinity, Coloniality, and the US-Mexico Border in...

Author: Joshua D. Martin
ISBN: 9781666966442
Format: Hardback
$160.00

A look into how Anglo masculinities weaponize forms of violence to bolster U.S. interests and expand borders, establishing...  Read More >>

Buen vivir y giro ecoterritorial en las literaturas de América Latina

Buen vivir y giro ecoterritorial en las literaturas...

Author: Ángel Esteban ,  Jesús Montoya Juárez
ISBN: 9783631941980
Format: Paperback
$240.11

El compromiso ecológico es, hoy día, una necesidad incuestionable, y el ""Buen vivir"", o ""Vivir bien"", una utopía,...  Read More >>

Tales of Virillia: The Last Light

Tales of Virillia: The Last Light

Author: N R Ashworth
ISBN: 9781970853773
Format: Hardback
$65.97

She wakes to a map she doesn't remember drawing... and a life she can't recall living. In Tales of Virillia:...  Read More >>

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell: Their Lives, Friendship and Writings

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell: Their Lives,...

Author: Susan Dunne
ISBN: 9781036135096
Format: Hardback
$80.00

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell shared one of the most remarkable literary friendships of the 19th century,...  Read More >>

The Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John Newlove, 1963-2003

The Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John...

Author: J.A. Weingarten ,  Lorna Crozier
ISBN: 9781771126847
Format: Paperback
$84.70

The Weather and the Words depicts the poet John Newlove's life. Newlove's letters are a record not just of one person's...  Read More >>

Refuting Antisemitism: Dismantling the Stereotypes, Canards, and Tropes of Jew Hatred

Refuting Antisemitism: Dismantling the Stereotypes,...

Author: Jeremy Havardi
ISBN: 9781680533903
Format: Hardback
$74.80

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By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory on the Grammatika Vases

By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory...

Author: Maria Nasioula
ISBN: 9780674303300
Format: Paperback
$34.95

By Heart or From the Scroll studies six grammatika vases depicting scenes from the Odyssey, offering new insights...  Read More >>

Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Author: Jesse Molesworth
ISBN: 9781503646377
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas:...  Read More >>

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and...

Author: Chad Benito Infante
ISBN: 9781517919887
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred...  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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Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Author: Meredith L. Goldsmith ,  Emily J. Orlando
ISBN: 9780813081373
Format: Paperback
$56.10

Exploring Edith Wharton's engagement with global issues in her life and writing Hailed for her remarkable social...  Read More >>

Chekhov, The Anxious Playwright: His Four Great Plays in Their Cultural Context

Chekhov, The Anxious Playwright: His Four Great Plays...

Author: Jim Curtis
ISBN: 9781032581101
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines Chekhov's four major plays, analyzing how his non-aristocratic background influenced his literary...  Read More >>

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Author: Johanna Winant
ISBN: 9780231217477
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Bringing together modern poetry’s aesthetic experimentation and modern philosophy’s attention to the problem of...  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 >>

Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature, History, and Family

Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature,...

Author: Lindsay Diehl
ISBN: 9781771127288
Format: Paperback
$74.80

Examining a range of Chinese Canadian literature, this book incorporates elements of the author's own family story-her...  Read More >>

Saints, Sinners, and Clickers

Saints, Sinners, and Clickers

Author: Matthew J DiStefano ,  Lauren Cibene
ISBN: 9781964252643
Format: Paperback
$52.77

In a world where survival is brutal and morality is blurred, Saints, Sinners, and Clickers delves into the haunting,...  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 >>

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 >>

Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Author: Jesse Molesworth
ISBN: 9781503643567
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas:...  Read More >>

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