Literature: history & criticism books

418419 books were found.

The Vineyard: A Poem

The Vineyard: A Poem

Author: Jonathan Galassi
ISBN: 9780593803790
Format: Hardback
$60.00

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Delusions

Delusions

Author: Cazzie David
ISBN: 9781250357632
Format: Hardback
$50.00

Beginning with her 29th birthday and ending with her 30th, Cazzie tries to mature in the span of one year. Along...  Read More >>

Commentary on Plotinus

Commentary on Plotinus

Author: Marsilio Ficino ,  Stephen Gersh
ISBN: 9780674303218
Format: Hardback
$61.95

Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 1: Ennead I contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and first translation...  Read More >>

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 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 >>

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 >>

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

Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to...  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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