Literature: history & criticism books

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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
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Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain

Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain
Author: Bill Angus , 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf: Nature, Modernity and the Politics of Space

Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf: Nature, Modernity...
Author: Karina Jakubowicz (Adjunct Professor, department of English, Florida State University) ISBN: 9781474494533 Format: Hardback	$200.00
Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens.... 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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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
Shows how Shakespeare reveals the world we inhabit neither as objectively nor subjectively given but as always bringing... 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
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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
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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 >>

What's Ailing You?: The Skin-Deep Legacy of Trauma and Survival

What's Ailing You?: The Skin-Deep Legacy of Trauma and...
Author: Erica Simpson ISBN: 9798317827908 Format: Paperback	$39.99
What's Ailing You? is an examination of the wounds Black families carry, the ones rooted in history, reinforced... 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 >>

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
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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 >>

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
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The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume I: The Renaissance

The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume I: The Renaissance...
Author: Hilary Fraser (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, Birkbeck, University of London) ISBN: 9780198746300 Format: Hardback	$482.95
This is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It contains the text of Walter Pater's... Read More >>

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

William Godwin: A Biographical Study
Author: George Woodcock ISBN: 9780921689485 Format: Paperback	$52.77
""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian... Read More >>

Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions

Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions
Author: Lucy Hughes-Hallett ISBN: 9780008781323 Format: Paperback	$27.99
'Brilliant and discursive' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times 'Hughes-Hallett's exemplary reappraisal … throws... Read More >>

La comtesse Antoinette Drohojowska: Écrivaine catholique au service de la jeunesse (1822-1890)

La comtesse Antoinette Drohojowska: Écrivaine catholique...
Author: Odon Abbal ISBN: 9782336581606 Format: Paperback	$50.19
Écrivaine catholique prolifique et moraliste, soutenue par les autorités religieuses, la comtesse Antoinette Joséphine... Read More >>

红楼梦示图札记

红楼梦示图札记...
Author: Jiarong Qiu ISBN: 9781683728146 Format: Paperback	$97.65
用图文与札记，带你轻松走进《红楼梦》的繁华与悲梦。 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: 9781531513832 Format: Hardback	$254.00
Shows how Shakespeare reveals the world we inhabit neither as objectively nor subjectively given but as always bringing... 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: 9781531514037 Format: Hardback	$243.00
Tells the global story of the cinematograph while modeling a film scholarship committed to transnational analysis... Read More >>

Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov

Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov
Author: Jacques Ranciere , Steven Corcoran ISBN: 9781509567348 Format: Hardback	$72.95
Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to... Read More >>

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