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Book Banning in 21st-Century America

Book Banning in 21st-Century America
Author: Emily J. M. Knox (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) ISBN: 9781538195062 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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The Book Unbound: Material Cultures of Reading and Collecting, 1750–1850

The Book Unbound: Material Cultures of Reading and Collecting,...
Author: Luisa Calè (Birkbeck College, University of London) ISBN: 9781009599986 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Exploring Romantic-period works as open-ended collections of discrete book parts, prints, watercolours, manuscripts,... Read More >>

Translating His-stories

Translating His-stories
Author: Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte (University of Salamanca) ISBN: 9781009673174 Format: Hardback	$142.31
The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories... Read More >>

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830
Author: Jakub Lipski (Kazimierz Wielki University) ISBN: 9781009548212 Format: Hardback	$142.31
This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result... Read More >>

Race Class: Reading Mexican American Literature in the Era of Neoliberalism, 1981-1984

Race Class: Reading Mexican American Literature in the...
Author: José Antonio Arellano (United States Air Force Academy) ISBN: 9781009532938 Format: Hardback	$142.31
Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in... Read More >>

Writing Herstory through Ancient Greek Letters: Representations of Women in Fictional Epistolography

Writing Herstory through Ancient Greek Letters: Representations...
Author: Antonios Pontoropoulos (Swedish Institute in Rome, Italy) ISBN: 9781350401754 Format: Hardback	$170.00
The first comprehensive feminist reading of ancient Greek fictional letter collections. Read More >>

An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

An A-Z of Beatrix Potter
Author: Dr Penny Bradshaw (Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Cumbria, UK) ISBN: 9781350453357 Format: Hardback	$100.00
A lively way into the works of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, this book provides fresh understanding... Read More >>

The Rise of Rhythm Studies: Mediating Dimension, Discipline, and Scale

The Rise of Rhythm Studies: Mediating Dimension, Discipline,...
Author: Professor or Dr. Mark Lussier (Arizona State University, USA) , Dr. or Prof. Richard C. Sha (American University, Washington D.C., USA) ISBN: 9798765125281 Format: Hardback	$180.00
Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection shows how transformative the study of rhythm can be across the humanities... Read More >>

The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World

The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René...
Author: Dr Benoît Chantre (Mimetic Research Association, France) , Professor Paul Dumouchel (University of Québec-Montréal, Canada) ISBN: 9781350532878 Format: Hardback	$170.00
A one-of-a-kind overview of the lasting impact of mimetic theory and the extent of its interdisciplinary applications,... Read More >>

Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth

Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics...
Author: Nick Katsiadas , Carl Sell ISBN: 9781666971484 Format: Hardback	$180.00
This collection demonstrates how to achieve more comprehensive scholarship on J. R. R. Tolkien, connecting Tolkien... Read More >>

Blurring the Boundaries of Religion and Popular Culture: Implicit Theology, Secular Spirituality, and Speculative Fiction

Blurring the Boundaries of Religion and Popular Culture:...
Author: Karen Trimble Alliaume , Maryellen Davis Collett ISBN: 9781666934854 Format: Hardback	$160.00
Employing theoretical lenses of implicit theology and secular spirituality, this book blurs the boundaries between... Read More >>

The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany, 1750-1900

The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany,...
Author: Professor Mary Helen Dupree (Georgetown University, USA) ISBN: 9798765158265 Format: Hardback	$160.00
Examines the practice of literary declamation in German literature and its place alongside print culture in the... Read More >>

Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma

Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma
Author: Tamara Hundorova , Tanya Savchynska ISBN: 9798897831166 Format: Hardback	$125.00
This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first... Read More >>

Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History

Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe,...
Author: Gayle Rogers , Svetlana Smolenskaya ISBN: 9798887199825 Format: Hardback	$60.00
В своей книге Гейл Роджерс реконструирует межкультурные связи двух ключевых модернистских движений — британского... Read More >>

Narrative in Ovid's Amores: Comics Theory, Elegy, and Segmentary Narrative

Narrative in Ovid's Amores: Comics Theory, Elegy, and...
Author: Natalie Swain (Acadia University, Canada) ISBN: 9781350407244 Format: Hardback	$170.00
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Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing

Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing
Author: Professor Karin Kukkonen (Professor in Comparative Literature, University of Oslo, Norway) ISBN: 9781350522664 Format: Hardback	$170.00
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Fictions of Radical Life Extension: Living Forever from the Fin de Siècle to the First World War

Fictions of Radical Life Extension: Living Forever from...
Author: James Aaron Green (University of Vienna, Austria) ISBN: 9781350374713 Format: Hardback	$170.00
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Martha Graham's Greek Myth-Based Dances and Her Collaboration with Isamu Noguchi

Martha Graham's Greek Myth-Based Dances and Her Collaboration...
Author: Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College, USA) ISBN: 9781350160163 Format: Hardback	$170.00
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American Objectivist Poetry Across the 20th Century

American Objectivist Poetry Across the 20th Century...
Author: Xavier Kalck (University of Lille, France) ISBN: 9781350419476 Format: Hardback	$180.00
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Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Black Feminism: Desire as Power

Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Black Feminism:...
Author: Professor Chielozona Eze (Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research professor of African and African American literary and cultural studies, Northeastern Illinois University, USA) ISBN: 9781350405677 Format: Hardback	$170.00
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The Death Drive: Philosophy, Literature, Theory

The Death Drive: Philosophy, Literature, Theory
Author: Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo (Texas A&M University-Victoria, USA) , Professor Paul Allen Miller (Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, USA) ISBN: 9781350465671 Format: Hardback	$170.00
The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary... Read More >>

Pseudo-Seneca: Hercules on Oeta

Pseudo-Seneca: Hercules on Oeta
Author: Dr George W. M. Harrison (Carleton University, Canada) , Thomas Harrison (University of St Andrews UK) ISBN: 9781350205659 Format: Hardback	$140.00
An accessible introduction to the Roman tragedy Hercules on Oeta with chapters on its contexts, key themes and reception.... Read More >>

The Bonkbuster: Women's Popular Reading in the Long 1980s

The Bonkbuster: Women's Popular Reading in the Long...
Author: Dr. or Prof. Amy Burge (University of Birmingham, UK) , Dr. Jodi McAlister (Deakin University, Australia) ISBN: 9798765121702 Format: Hardback	$180.00
Offers a dedicated and detailed theorization and genre study of the ""bonkbuster,"" a phenomenally popular genre... Read More >>

Classicizing Shakespeare: Jean-François Ducis and the First European Adaptations

Classicizing Shakespeare: Jean-François Ducis and the...
Author: Michèle Willems (University of Rouen, France) , Professor Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK) ISBN: 9781350337824 Format: Hardback	$170.00
This book explores the nature and wide-ranging impact of the work of Jean-François Ducis, the first adaptor of Hamlet... Read More >>

Angels, Demons, and Demigods: An Encyclopedia of Supernatural Beings in Story and on Screen

Angels, Demons, and Demigods: An Encyclopedia of Supernatural...
Author: David A. Salomon (Christopher Newport University, USA) , Kelly A. O'Connor-Salomon (Christopher Newport University, USA) ISBN: 9781440874413 Format: Hardback	$150.00
This encyclopedia examines famous and influential depictions of angels, demons, and demigods in film, television,... Read More >>

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