Literature: history & criticism books

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The Cut Up

The Cut Up

Author: Louise Welsh
ISBN: 9781838859862
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The keenly anticipated third Rilke thriller exploring the dark underbelly of contemporary Glasgow, from the Award-winning...  Read More >>

Imagining Health: Medicine, Social Protest, and Modern American Literature

Imagining Health: Medicine, Social Protest, and Modern...

Author: Ira Halpern
ISBN: 9781625349118
Format: Paperback
$61.60

A surprising look at how American writers envision a more equitable healthcare system In the United States,...  Read More >>

Late Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: Italian and English Mystics, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Beyond

Late Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: Italian...

Author: Stephanie Amsel
ISBN: 9783032072313
Format: Hardback
$343.17

Late Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: Italian and English Mystics brings together disparate feminist theoretical...  Read More >>

The Making of Hong Kong Shakespeare: Post-1997 Adaptations and Appropriations

The Making of Hong Kong Shakespeare: Post-1997 Adaptations...

Author: Miriam Leung-che Lau
ISBN: 9783032138231
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Adopting a cultural materialist reading in the post-colonial context of Hong Kong, this book examines post-1997...  Read More >>

Living with Nature in the Anthropobscene: Literature, Philosophy, and Political Ecology

Living with Nature in the Anthropobscene: Literature,...

Author: Rod Giblett
ISBN: 9783032128218
Format: Hardback
$369.57

The book brings together philosophy, ecoculture and political ecology in a creative, critical and timely manner...  Read More >>

Catullus: Selected Poems

Catullus: Selected Poems

Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus ,  Stephen Mitchell
ISBN: 9780300285475
Format: Paperback
$26.95

A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries...  Read More >>

Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books

Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private...

Author: Jason Camlot ,  J.A. Weingarten
ISBN: 9781771127141
Format: Paperback
$84.70

An edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in...  Read More >>

Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms

Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms

Author: Jessica Brantley
ISBN: 9781512828665
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Jacopo Passavanti: The Mirror of True Penitence

Jacopo Passavanti: The Mirror of True Penitence

Author: Michael Sherberg
ISBN: 9781487563134
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Jacopo Passavanti is a complete English translation of Jacopo Passavanti's summa on penitence that explores sin,...  Read More >>

What Makes Islamic Literature Islamic?: What Makes Islamic Literature Islamic?

What Makes Islamic Literature Islamic?: What Makes Islamic...

Author: Jamal J. Elias
ISBN: 9781512828696
Format: Hardback
$139.00

A collection of essays that examines literature in seven languages from across the Islamic world and explores the...  Read More >>

Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale

Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development...

Author: Kimberly J. Lau ,  Anne E. Duggan
ISBN: 9780814351536
Format: Hardback
$220.00

A transformative lens revealing the historical racial context that profoundly influenced European fairy tales. Engaging...  Read More >>

The Story's not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives

The Story's not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood...

Author: Victoria Aarons ,  Leela Corman
ISBN: 9780814349120
Format: Hardback
$215.00

The diverse forms and structures of graphic narratives discussed in this volume by a range of international scholars...  Read More >>

East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press

East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press...

Author: Vivi Lachs ,  Barry Smerin
ISBN: 9780814351352
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Detailed historical context, biographies of each writer, and evocative illustrations support this meaningful collection...  Read More >>

Philip Roth: Stung by Life

Philip Roth: Stung by Life

Author: Steven J. Zipperstein
ISBN: 9780300251555
Format: Hardback
$34.95

A landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life In this groundbreaking literary...  Read More >>

Imagining Health: Medicine, Social Protest, and Modern American Literature

Imagining Health: Medicine, Social Protest, and Modern...

Author: Ira Halpern
ISBN: 9781625349125
Format: Hardback
$185.90

A surprising look at how American writers envision a more equitable healthcare system In the United States,...  Read More >>

Reader Bot: What Happens When AI Reads and Why It Matters

Reader Bot: What Happens When AI Reads and Why It Matters...

Author: Naomi S. Baron
ISBN: 9781503643949
Format: Hardback
$57.99

What happens to human reading when AI bots can do it for us? Explosive developments in artificial intelligence...  Read More >>

2025

2025

Author: Lutz Hagestedt ,  Julia Martens
ISBN: 9783111636283
Format: Hardback
$64.32

Das Kempowski-Jahrbuch versammelt nicht nur aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu jeweils einem bestimmten Thema, sondern...  Read More >>

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast: Gender and Animality in Modernist Hebrew Fiction

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast: Gender and Animality...

Author: Naama Harel
ISBN: 9781978841727
Format: Paperback
$74.80

Jews, women, and animals have been notoriously considered in Western thought as antithetical to the “civilized,” and...  Read More >>

Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels

Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in...

Author: Donald M. Shaffer
ISBN: 9781496855985
Format: Paperback
$69.99

A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels  Read More >>

Team Up: How Collaboration Powers Superhero Comics

Team Up: How Collaboration Powers Superhero Comics

Author: Marie Sartain
ISBN: 9781496860989
Format: Paperback
$69.99

How collaboration between creators, editors, artists, and fans drives the creation, evolution, and enduring impact...  Read More >>

Reading Better States: Utopian Method and Environmental Harm in the Global South

Reading Better States: Utopian Method and Environmental...

Author: Rebecca Oh
ISBN: 9781531512651
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Reading Better States traces the persistence of desires for the postcolonial state in an era of environmental harms...  Read More >>

The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

Author: Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine ,  Conor Bracken
ISBN: 9780813954714
Format: Paperback
$56.99

A collection of works by one of twentieth-century Morocco’s greatest writers Appearing for the first time in...  Read More >>

Poeticality: In Refusal of Settler Life

Poeticality: In Refusal of Settler Life

Author: Jeffrey Sacks
ISBN: 9781531512330
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Showing how poetry and art articulate forms of life beyond settler colonialism.  Read More >>

Silent Catastrophes: Essays in Austrian Literature

Silent Catastrophes: Essays in Austrian Literature

Author: W. G. Sebald ,  Dr Jo Catling
ISBN: 9780141037028
Format: Paperback
$26.99

From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, a collection...  Read More >>

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