Literature: history & criticism books

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The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture: Volume 1: Medieval Arthurian Literatures and Cultures

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture:...

Author: Raluca L. Radulescu (Bangor University, Wales) ,  Andrew Lynch (The University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781316516003
Format: Hardback
$362.25

The authoritative source for those wanting to explore the flourishing medieval world of Arthur from its very beginnings,...  Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture: Volume 2: Arthurian Literatures and Cultures: 1500 to the Present

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture:...

Author: Raluca L. Radulescu (Bangor University, Wales) ,  Andrew Lynch (The University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781316516010
Format: Hardback
$362.25

Charting the global spread of Arthuriana up to the present day, the second volume of this history foregrounds non-English...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Race and Anglophone Popular Culture

Shakespeare, Race and Anglophone Popular Culture

Author: Vanessa I. Corredera (Baylor University, USA) ,  L. Monique Pittman (Andrews University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350500570
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular...  Read More >>

Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand

Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand

Author: Fiona Sampson
ISBN: 9781529924336
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A long-overdue reappraisal of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social...  Read More >>

Materialist Romanticism: The Matter of the Marbles

Materialist Romanticism: The Matter of the Marbles

Author: Dewey W. Hall
ISBN: 9781793635587
Format: Hardback
$150.00

A study of nineteenth-century Romantic literary artifacts centering on the removal of Parthenon sculptures from...  Read More >>

Chance: A Tale in Two Parts

Chance: A Tale in Two Parts

Author: Joseph Conrad ,  Allan Simmons
ISBN: 9781009618243
Format: Hardback
$310.50

First published in 1914, Joseph Conrad's female-centred, uncharacteristically optimistic Chance represented a new...  Read More >>

Complicity and the Antebellum Moral Imagination

Complicity and the Antebellum Moral Imagination

Author: David A. Zimmerman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
ISBN: 9781009685511
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Will appeal to scholars, students, and general audiences interested in American history, religion, and reform before...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Trauma Theory

Shakespeare and Trauma Theory

Author: Kelsey Ridge (Alvernia University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350439108
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Kelsey Ridge provides a thorough overview of how we can use trauma theory to understand Shakespeare through its...  Read More >>

The Invention of the Darling: Poems

The Invention of the Darling: Poems

Author: Li-Young Lee
ISBN: 9781324123477
Format: Paperback
$29.95

Acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee offers a revelatory volume of ecstatic poems that search out divine voices in the silences...  Read More >>

Knot.: Holding Inherited Conflict Without Annihilation

Knot.: Holding Inherited Conflict Without Annihilation...

Author: Laurie S Sherman
ISBN: 9798295501739
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast: Mass Vernacular

American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast:...

Author: Allison R. Neal (Lecturer, Lecturer, Duke University)
ISBN: 9780197806135
Format: Hardback
$183.95

American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast situates American poetry within a world of global media to...  Read More >>

Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction

Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction...

Author: Amy De'Ath
ISBN: 9781503644847
Format: Paperback
$73.99

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped...  Read More >>

Books for Development: Canada in the Late Twentieth-Century World

Books for Development: Canada in the Late Twentieth-Century...

Author: Jody Mason
ISBN: 9780228027010
Format: Paperback
$80.21

Books for Development analyzes how governmental and non-governmental actors deployed books as instruments of development...  Read More >>

The Cabbage Seed's Colossal Secret

The Cabbage Seed's Colossal Secret

Author: Karen M. Greenwald ,  Alejandra Ruiz
ISBN: 9781668955154
Format: Hardback
$31.95

Inspired by the true story of Katie Stagliano, her forty-pound cabbage and the nonprofit Katie’s Krops  Read More >>

Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales of the 1980s

Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales of the 1980s

Author: Archie Goodwin ,  Michael Golden
ISBN: 9798875001390
Format: Hardback
$107.95

The latest volume in Fantagraphics' Lost Marvels series, collecting all eight issues of the long-out-of-print, tough-minded...  Read More >>

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea

Author: David Mence (Honorary Associate, School of Culture & Communication, Honorary Associate, School of Culture & Communication, University of Melbourne)
ISBN: 9780197811825
Format: Hardback
$183.95

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville...  Read More >>

Evening All Afternoon

Evening All Afternoon

Author: Anna Ziegler (Author)
ISBN: 9781350618763
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Anna Ziegler's remarkable new play: an introduction to another world where ghosts and dreams are as real as anything...  Read More >>

Atria: Poems

Atria: Poems

Author: D. S. Waldman
ISBN: 9781324097266
Format: Hardback
$46.95

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Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History...

Author: Günter Leypoldt (Professor of American Studies, Professor of American Studies, University of Heidelberg)
ISBN: 9780197815113
Format: Hardback
$245.95

Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between...  Read More >>

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