Literature: history & criticism books

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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 >>

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 >>

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

Author: Jimmy Packham (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781009433754
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been...  Read More >>

Seamus Heaney and Catholicism

Seamus Heaney and Catholicism

Author: Gary Wade (University of Notre Dame, Australia)
ISBN: 9781009541336
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The book explores how Catholicism operates in Seamus Heaney's poetry at the level of a felt sense. It is written...  Read More >>

In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation

In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation

Author: Mona Baker (Manchester Univeristy, UK) ,  Henry Jones
ISBN: 9781032569413
Format: Paperback
$73.99

In Other Words, the definitive translation coursebook for three decades, offers practical guidance based on linguistic...  Read More >>

Modern Hungarian Culture and the Classics

Modern Hungarian Culture and the Classics

Author: Dr Péter Hajdu (Shenzhen University, China)
ISBN: 9781350258167
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A comprehensive study of the classical influence on Hungarian culture in the 19th and 20th century, exploring issues...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth

Author: Dr. Aimee Pozorski (Central Connecticut State University, USA) ,  Dr. Maren Scheurer (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
ISBN: 9781501380280
Format: Paperback
$79.99

""The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship...  Read More >>

Resistance and the Sermon in American Literature: The Cultural Work of Literary Preaching from Emerson to Morrison

Resistance and the Sermon in American Literature: The...

Author: Matthew Smalley (Associate Professor, Denison University)
ISBN: 9781350400252
Format: Paperback
$59.99

With seemingly obsessive regularity, American authors, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, evoke the...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy in 20th-Century Italian Literature: Translations by Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad

Greek Tragedy in 20th-Century Italian Literature: Translations...

Author: Dr Caterina Paoli (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781350186484
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of...  Read More >>

Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland: An Anthology of Medieval Irish Texts and Interpretations

Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland: An Anthology...

Author: Michael Clarke (University of Galway, Ireland) ,  Erich Poppe (University of Marburg, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350333314
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Through an extensive series of extracts and accompanying interpretative and contextual essays, this open access...  Read More >>

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