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The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies

The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies
Author: Laura Wright (Professor of English, Western Carolina University) , Emelia Quinn (Assistant Professor of World Literatures & Environmental Humanities, University of Amsterdam) ISBN: 9781399557085 Format: Paperback	$67.99
Provides a scholarly overview of the field of vegan literary studies, traversing the relationship between literature... Read More >>

Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation

Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work...
Author: David James (Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Birmingham) ISBN: 9780198985914 Format: Paperback	$58.95
Discrepant Solace studies some of the most challenging works of late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction... Read More >>

The Reconstruction Diary of Frances Anne Rollin: A Critical Edition

The Reconstruction Diary of Frances Anne Rollin: A Critical...
Author: Frances Anne Rollin , Jennifer Putzi ISBN: 9781469690025 Format: Paperback	$60.50
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Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode...
Author: Michelle Anya Anjirbag , Anne E. Duggan ISBN: 9780814351086 Format: Paperback	$85.99
Through close film analysis, applied critical theory, and social analysis of the Disney corporation, Anjirbag unearths... Read More >>

Boom and Chains: A Yiddish Novel Set in Israel/Palestine

Boom and Chains: A Yiddish Novel Set in Israel/Palestine...
Author: Hanan Ayalti , Adi Mahalel ISBN: 9780814351802 Format: Paperback	$80.99
The novel raises important questions around the development of discourse about Israel/Palestine, socialist Zionism... Read More >>

Engaged Visuality: The Italian and Belgian Visual Poetry Phenomenon in the 1960s and 1970s

Engaged Visuality: The Italian and Belgian Visual Poetry...
Author: Maria Elena Minuto , Jan De Vree ISBN: 9783689241209 Format: Hardback	$220.00
Im Kontext der gesellschaftlichen Unruhen vom Mai 1968, der feministischen Revolte und dem Vietnamkrieg entfalteten... Read More >>

Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production

Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production...
Author: Cristina E. Pardo Porto , Oscar A. Pérez ISBN: 9781683405535 Format: Hardback	$253.00
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Eine grauere Sprache

Eine grauere Sprache
Author: Jana Maria Weiß ISBN: 9783112225400 Format: Hardback	$78.62
An Zweisprachigkeit in der Dichtung glaube ich nicht. Wie kommt der multilinguale Autor Paul Celan zu solch einer... Read More >>

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 17: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 17: Edited with Introduction,...
Author: Angeliki-Nektaria Roumpou (Academy of Athens) ISBN: 9780198865902 Format: Hardback	$339.95
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Resonant Utterances: James Joyce and the Transmission of Voices

Resonant Utterances: James Joyce and the Transmission...
Author: Joshua Elwer ISBN: 9783119142083 Format: Hardback	$71.47
The main question confronted in this book is why James Joyce’s characters so often repeat the words of other characters.... Read More >>

Osbern Bokenham, Lives of the Saints, Volume III

Osbern Bokenham, Lives of the Saints, Volume III
Author: Simon Horobin (Professor English Language and Literature, Professor English Language and Literature, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780198934073 Format: Hardback	$138.95
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John Keats and the Perils of Posterity

John Keats and the Perils of Posterity
Author: Nicholas Roe (Wardlaw Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews) ISBN: 9780198946076 Format: Hardback	$70.95
An original account of the successive posthumous phases of Keats's fame and reputation, beginning with his death... 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
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Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature

Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature...
Author: Alanna Skuse ISBN: 9783032045645 Format: Hardback	$158.37
This open access book offers the first full study of the phenomenon of self-wounding as it is represented in early... Read More >>

The Reconstruction Diary of Frances Anne Rollin: A Critical Edition

The Reconstruction Diary of Frances Anne Rollin: A Critical...
Author: Frances Anne Rollin , Jennifer Putzi ISBN: 9781469690018 Format: Hardback	$229.00
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Repoliticizing the Word Through Poetry and Preaching: Early Black Christian Women's Lives Matter

Repoliticizing the Word Through Poetry and Preaching:...
Author: April C. E. Langley , Melba Joyce Boyd ISBN: 9780814349908 Format: Hardback	$215.00
This timely examination of early Black Christian women and their writing reminds us of the importance of retrieving... Read More >>

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode...
Author: Michelle Anya Anjirbag , Anne E. Duggan ISBN: 9780814351093 Format: Hardback	$224.00
Through close film analysis, applied critical theory, and social analysis of the Disney corporation, Anjirbag unearths... Read More >>

Boom and Chains: A Yiddish Novel Set in Israel/Palestine

Boom and Chains: A Yiddish Novel Set in Israel/Palestine...
Author: Hanan Ayalti , Adi Mahalel ISBN: 9780814351796 Format: Hardback	$220.00
The novel raises important questions around the development of discourse about Israel/Palestine, socialist Zionism... Read More >>

Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature

Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature
Author: Lola Boorman (Lecturer in American Literature and Culture, University of York) ISBN: 9781399547543 Format: Hardback	$219.00
Explores the intersection of American literature and language politics through the curiously understudied subject... Read More >>

Metaphors We Read By: Rethinking Literary Experience and Interpretation

Metaphors We Read By: Rethinking Literary Experience...
Author: Lucas Thompson (Lecturer in the Department of English & Writing, University of Sydney) ISBN: 9781399546188 Format: Hardback	$200.00
An experiment in reading and interpretation, which shows how different interpretive metaphors transform our experience... Read More >>

Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry

Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry
Author: Elin Käck (Senior Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Society, Linköping University) ISBN: 9781399536134 Format: Hardback	$200.00
Examines how twentieth-century American poets' European travel shaped the terrain of modern American poetry. Read More >>

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender...
Author: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike (Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the 2025-2026 Wayne O. McCready Emerging Fellow, University of Calgary) ISBN: 9781399538091 Format: Hardback	$200.00
Reveals how Nigerian writers redefine masculinity to challenge social norms and affirm relationalities. Read More >>

Close Reading as Attentional Practice

Close Reading as Attentional Practice
Author: Marion Thain (Professor of Culture and Technology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh) , Ewan Jones (Associate Professor of English, University of Cambridge) ISBN: 9781399521116 Format: Hardback	$200.00
The first cross-historical study of the relationship between methods of close reading and discourses on attention.... Read More >>

Auteur-Publishers: Small Press Practices as Avant-Garde Writing

Auteur-Publishers: Small Press Practices as Avant-Garde...
Author: Craig J. Saper (Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture, University of Maryland) ISBN: 9781474454728 Format: Hardback	$200.00
An examination of the way in which small presses expanded authorship to include publishing practices as forms of... Read More >>

Poetry at Your Best: Choosing the Right Ingredients to Make Delicious Poems

Poetry at Your Best: Choosing the Right Ingredients...
Author: Jessica Joy Renshaw ISBN: 9781646456604 Format: Paperback	$47.49
Discover your creative connection to God and find joy in expressing your soul. Have you ever longed to express... Read More >>

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