Literature: history & criticism books

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Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions

Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions

Author: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
ISBN: 9780008781323
Format: Paperback
$27.99

'Brilliant and discursive' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times 'Hughes-Hallett's exemplary reappraisal … throws...  Read More >>

All Is But Fantasy

All Is But Fantasy

Author: Whitney White
ISBN: 9781350639287
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A ground-breaking theatrical event of two high-energy gig-theatre performances that revisit the stories of four...  Read More >>

Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of War

Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of...

Author: Theodore Hughes (Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780231186070
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in...  Read More >>

Macao, Macaoness, Macanese: Literary Translation and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Macao

Macao, Macaoness, Macanese: Literary Translation and...

Author: Tenglong Wan
ISBN: 9789819566105
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book offers a comprehensive, in-depth study of literary translation in Macao, examining how translation mediates...  Read More >>

The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare

The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer...

Author: Holly A. Crocker
ISBN: 9781512829679
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late-medieval and early-modern English poets thought about the material...  Read More >>

Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James

Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience...

Author: Jane F. Thrailkill
ISBN: 9781512829624
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This collective study of the James siblings--Alice, William, and Henry--lights up their shared intellectual project:...  Read More >>

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and...

Author: Renée Bergland
ISBN: 9780691235301
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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The Book Lover's Guide to Rome

The Book Lover's Guide to Rome

Author: Andrew Edwards ,  Suzanne Edwards
ISBN: 9781036105174
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Discover the Rome that has inspired writers for centuries, from the Classical era to the present day. Walk in the...  Read More >>

The Craft of Living: Journals, 1935-1950

The Craft of Living: Journals, 1935-1950

Author: Cesare Pavese ,  Iuri Moscardi
ISBN: 9781487560508
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Through his journals (19351950), Cesare Pavese opens a door into his life as one of Italy's most influential writers....  Read More >>

Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of War

Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of...

Author: Theodore Hughes (Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780231186063
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in...  Read More >>

Top Gs Like Me

Top Gs Like Me

Author: Samson Hawkins
ISBN: 9781350640344
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Top Gs Like Me dives headfirst into the influence of online culture, the pull of toxic masculinity, and the search...  Read More >>

An Ark

An Ark

Author: Simon Stephens (Author)
ISBN: 9781350632431
Format: Paperback
$22.99

In An Ark, the first play created for mixed reality, four actors guide you through a deeply personal exploration...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Gods & Deities - Greek & Roman Mythology: An Illustrated Guide of Pantheons, Titans, Olympian Gods and Heroes from Ancient Worlds.

Encyclopedia of Gods & Deities - Greek & Roman Mythology:...

Author: Ziggy Quinete ,  Igor Nabukov
ISBN: 9786598943752
Format: Paperback
$102.83

This book is an Encyclopedia of Gods and Deities, featuring creation stories, pantheons, and sacred myths from Ancient...  Read More >>

Arthur Miller’s New York: Visions of the City

Arthur Miller’s New York: Visions of the City

Author: Stephen Marino (Formerly of St Francis College, Brooklyn, USA)
ISBN: 9781350524750
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the...  Read More >>

I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History, Vol. 3 (novel)

I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History, Vol....

Author: Izumi Okido ,  Jyun Hayase
ISBN: 9798855407150
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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Speculative Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Speculative Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology...

Author: Benjamin Warner (Towson University, USA) ,  Professor Ron Tanner (Professor Emeritus, Loyola University, USA, Loyola University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350408494
Format: Paperback
$49.99

An accessible and wide-ranging all-in-one craft guide and anthology to the mode of speculative fiction writing,...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook to D. H. Lawrence

The Bloomsbury Handbook to D. H. Lawrence

Author: Annalise Grice
ISBN: 9781350253735
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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