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Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women

Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About...
Author: Sarah Ruden ISBN: 9781324075905 Format: Hardback	$49.95
A bracing feminist chronicle of the history of the West told through seven texts, exposing where our most virulent... Read More >>

Katherine Mansfield and London

Katherine Mansfield and London
Author: Aime Gasston , Gerri Kimber ISBN: 9781399539173 Format: Paperback	$44.99
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Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain

Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain
Author: Bill Angus (Senior Lecturer in English, Massey University) , Lisa Hopkins (Professor Emerita of English, Sheffield Hallam University) ISBN: 9781399534499 Format: Paperback	$57.99
Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain Read More >>

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 3: Competition and Disruption, 1900-2017

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press,...
Author: Martin Conboy (Professor of Journalism History and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Sheffield) , Adrian Bingham (Professor of Modern British History, University of Sheffield) ISBN: 9781474424936 Format: Paperback	$140.00
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Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch

Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally...
Author: Luke O'Sullivan (Career Development Fellow in Early Modern French, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9781399522977 Format: Paperback	$44.99
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The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945–1965

The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945–1965...
Author: Michael Kalisch (Lecturer in 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature, University of Bristol) ISBN: 9781399526876 Format: Paperback	$44.99
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Gibran Khalil Gibran as Arab World Literature


Author: Ghazouane Arslane (Lecturer in the Department of English, Larbi Tebessi University) ISBN: 9781399504690 Format: Paperback	$57.99
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The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press,...
Author: David Finkelstein (Cultural Historian) ISBN: 9781474424899 Format: Paperback	$140.00
This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history... Read More >>

Wildness: Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American Theology

Wildness: Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American...
Author: Lydia Willsky-Ciollo ISBN: 9780268210748 Format: Hardback	$80.99
In and through his experience of nature, Henry David Thoreau imagined and developed a distinctly American theology... Read More >>

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation 1640–1800

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press,...
Author: Nicholas Brownlees (Professor of English Language, University of Florence, Italy) ISBN: 9781474499187 Format: Paperback	$140.00
Comprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain... Read More >>

Lyn Hejinian, The Proposition: Uncollected Early Poems 1963–1983

Lyn Hejinian, The Proposition: Uncollected Early Poems...
Author: Lyn Hejinian (Professor in the Department of English, University of California, Berkeley) , Georgina Colby (Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Westminster) ISBN: 9781399557764 Format: Paperback	$57.99
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Forms of Materiality in James Joyce's Fiction

Forms of Materiality in James Joyce's Fiction
Author: Alberto Tondello (Lecturer in the English Department, University of Edinburgh) ISBN: 9781399547413 Format: Hardback	$200.00
Explores the depiction and treatment of inanimate matter in James Joyce's oeuvre. Read More >>

Cinema Before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers

Cinema Before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière...
Author: Michael Allan ISBN: 9781531514044 Format: Paperback	$69.99
Tells the global story of the cinematograph while modeling a film scholarship committed to transnational analysis... Read More >>

The Antic Root: Shakespeare, Autopoiesis, and the Creation of the World

The Antic Root: Shakespeare, Autopoiesis, and the Creation...
Author: Christopher Pye ISBN: 9781531513849 Format: Paperback	$73.99
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Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the Female Demonic

Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the...
Author: Orianne Smith (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) ISBN: 9781009650021 Format: Hardback	$245.81
From its recurring appearances in Gothic poetry and prose to the menacing images of Fuseli and Blake, Orianne Smith... Read More >>

Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe: Themes and Devices

Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe: Themes...
Author: Gavriel Shapiro ISBN: 9781680535907 Format: Hardback	$187.00
Delve into a creative universe built on faith as the cornerstone of ethics, where moral dilemmas and cruelty intertwine... Read More >>

Modern Japanese Writers and Kanshi: Exophonic Literary Performance and the Shifting Sinosphere

Modern Japanese Writers and Kanshi: Exophonic Literary...
Author: Christopher T. Keaveney ISBN: 9781680535860 Format: Hardback	$149.60
Japanese writers' engagement with kanshi unveils a journey from the Meiji era's mastery of Literary Sinitic poetry... Read More >>

The Enclosures of Free Verse: Racializing Poetic Form in the Modernist Era

The Enclosures of Free Verse: Racializing Poetic Form...
Author: Erin Joyce Kappeler ISBN: 9781469693057 Format: Hardback	$277.00
Throughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter,... Read More >>

Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov

Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov
Author: Jacques Ranciere , Steven Corcoran ISBN: 9781509567355 Format: Paperback	$20.95
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Every Day a Celebration: Selected Poems

Every Day a Celebration: Selected Poems
Author: K. S. Nisar Ahmed , Roopa Pai ISBN: 9781803095738 Format: Paperback	$44.95
A poetic journey through five decades of Karnataka's history, this collection brings K. S. Nisar Ahmed's timeless... Read More >>

A Contextual Guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: History, Myth, Gender

A Contextual Guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra:...
Author: Jyotsna G. Singh (Professor Emerita in the Department of English, Michigan State University) , Daniel Vitkus (Professor and Rebeca Hickel Endowed Chair in Elizabethan Literature, University of California, San Diego) ISBN: 9781474494267 Format: Hardback	$230.00
This contextual guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra highlights the ways in which the play was shaped by... Read More >>

Immersion: The Experience of Literary Reading

Immersion: The Experience of Literary Reading
Author: Naomi Adam , Jessica Norledge (Assistant Professor in Stylistics, University of Nottingham, UK) ISBN: 9781399549561 Format: Hardback	$219.00
Brings together researchers from across the world to explore the creation, effect, craft, and effect of a feeling... Read More >>

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death
Author: Jessica Barr ISBN: 9780268210946 Format: Hardback	$150.00
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Artificial Fiction: Imagining Literary Possibility Beyond the Human

Artificial Fiction: Imagining Literary Possibility Beyond...
Author: David P. Rando (Professor of English, Trinity University, Texas) ISBN: 9781399558839 Format: Hardback	$195.00
Imagines great artificial fiction that represents the world in creatively nonhuman ways while challenging how we... Read More >>

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman...
Author: Maijastina Kahlos (Senior Research Fellow, University of Helsinki) ISBN: 9781399514446 Format: Hardback	$219.00
In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it... Read More >>

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