Literature: history & criticism books

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Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination

Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination

Author: Justin Gilbert
ISBN: 9781041030096
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination explores the centrality of familiar motifs associated with Gothic literature...  Read More >>

Eine grauere Sprache

Eine grauere Sprache

Author: Jana Maria Weiß
ISBN: 9783112225400
Format: Hardback
$78.62

An Zweisprachigkeit in der Dichtung glaube ich nicht. Wie kommt der multilinguale Autor Paul Celan zu solch einer...  Read More >>

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode...

Author: Michelle Anya Anjirbag ,  Anne E. Duggan
ISBN: 9780814351086
Format: Paperback
$85.99

Through close film analysis, applied critical theory, and social analysis of the Disney corporation, Anjirbag unearths...  Read More >>

Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness

Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness

Author: Jonathan Howard
ISBN: 9781478032618
Format: Paperback
$78.99

Jonathan Howard undertakes a black ecocritical study of the ""deep"" in African American literature to theorize...  Read More >>

Boom and Chains: A Yiddish Novel Set in Israel/Palestine

Boom and Chains: A Yiddish Novel Set in Israel/Palestine...

Author: Hanan Ayalti ,  Adi Mahalel
ISBN: 9780814351802
Format: Paperback
$80.99

The novel raises important questions around the development of discourse about Israel/Palestine, socialist Zionism...  Read More >>

Petroforms: Oil and the Shaping of Nigerian Aesthetics

Petroforms: Oil and the Shaping of Nigerian Aesthetics...

Author: Helen Kapstein
ISBN: 9781959000563
Format: Paperback
$48.40

Oil's nature, the fact that it is everywhere, unctuously oozing into every corner of everyday life, means that it...  Read More >>

Engaged Visuality: The Italian and Belgian Visual Poetry Phenomenon in the 1960s and 1970s

Engaged Visuality: The Italian and Belgian Visual Poetry...

Author: Maria Elena Minuto ,  Jan De Vree
ISBN: 9783689241209
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Im Kontext der gesellschaftlichen Unruhen vom Mai 1968, der feministischen Revolte und dem Vietnamkrieg entfalteten...  Read More >>

Metaphors We Read By: Rethinking Literary Experience and Interpretation

Metaphors We Read By: Rethinking Literary Experience...

Author: Lucas Thompson (Lecturer in the Department of English & Writing, University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781399546188
Format: Hardback
$200.00

An experiment in reading and interpretation, which shows how different interpretive metaphors transform our experience...  Read More >>

Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry

Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry

Author: Elin Käck (Senior Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Society, Linköping University)
ISBN: 9781399536134
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines how twentieth-century American poets' European travel shaped the terrain of modern American poetry.  Read More >>

Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness

Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness

Author: Jonathan Howard
ISBN: 9781478029281
Format: Hardback
$289.00

Jonathan Howard undertakes a black ecocritical study of the ""deep"" in African American literature to theorize...  Read More >>

Repoliticizing the Word Through Poetry and Preaching: Early Black Christian Women's Lives Matter

Repoliticizing the Word Through Poetry and Preaching:...

Author: April C. E. Langley ,  Melba Joyce Boyd
ISBN: 9780814349908
Format: Hardback
$215.00

This timely examination of early Black Christian women and their writing reminds us of the importance of retrieving...  Read More >>

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode...

Author: Michelle Anya Anjirbag ,  Anne E. Duggan
ISBN: 9780814351093
Format: Hardback
$224.00

Through close film analysis, applied critical theory, and social analysis of the Disney corporation, Anjirbag unearths...  Read More >>

Boom and Chains: A Yiddish Novel Set in Israel/Palestine

Boom and Chains: A Yiddish Novel Set in Israel/Palestine...

Author: Hanan Ayalti ,  Adi Mahalel
ISBN: 9780814351796
Format: Hardback
$220.00

The novel raises important questions around the development of discourse about Israel/Palestine, socialist Zionism...  Read More >>

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender...

Author: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike (Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the 2025-2026 Wayne O. McCready Emerging Fellow, University of Calgary)
ISBN: 9781399538091
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Reveals how Nigerian writers redefine masculinity to challenge social norms and affirm relationalities.  Read More >>

Close Reading as Attentional Practice

Close Reading as Attentional Practice

Author: Marion Thain (Professor of Culture and Technology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh) ,  Ewan Jones (Associate Professor of English, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781399521116
Format: Hardback
$200.00

The first cross-historical study of the relationship between methods of close reading and discourses on attention....  Read More >>

Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature

Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature

Author: Lola Boorman (Lecturer in American Literature and Culture, University of York)
ISBN: 9781399547543
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Explores the intersection of American literature and language politics through the curiously understudied subject...  Read More >>

Auteur-Publishers: Small Press Practices as Avant-Garde Writing

Auteur-Publishers: Small Press Practices as Avant-Garde...

Author: Craig J. Saper (Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture, University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9781474454728
Format: Hardback
$200.00

An examination of the way in which small presses expanded authorship to include publishing practices as forms of...  Read More >>

The Last Westerner

The Last Westerner

Author: Chilton Williamson, Jr.
ISBN: 9781587314483
Format: Paperback
$32.95

This is a tale of one man's road toward fulfillment that plays out in stages of encounters and abandonment instead...  Read More >>

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

Author: David Eldridge ,  John le Carré
ISBN: 9781350618305
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms

The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms

Author: Margarita Vaysman (Professor, Professor, University of Oxford) ,  Katherine A. Bowers (Professor, Professor, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
ISBN: 9780197610640
Format: Hardback
$419.95

Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across...  Read More >>

Notes from a Working-Class Playwright

Notes from a Working-Class Playwright

Author: Leo Butler
ISBN: 9781350429468
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Award-winning British playwright Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage and his extensive experience...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales

The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales

Author: Claudia Schwabe ,  Christa Jones
ISBN: 9781032517759
Format: Hardback
$483.00

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Imagine a Nation: Six Persian Poets in Search of a Homeland

Imagine a Nation: Six Persian Poets in Search of a Homeland...

Author: Hamid Dabashi
ISBN: 9780755655625
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A critical and theoretical interpretation of six major modern Persian poets and the idea of a homeland, by Hamid...  Read More >>

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