Literature: history & criticism books

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Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes, and Iconoclastic Essays

Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes,...

Author: David Brin
ISBN: 9798337205830
Format: Paperback
$47.99

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The Book of Harlan

The Book of Harlan

Author: Bernice L. McFadden
ISBN: 9781636142838
Format: Paperback
$31.95

This 10-year anniversary edition of Bernice L. McFadden's NAACP Image Award-winning classic explores the Holocaust...  Read More >>

Girl Trouble

Girl Trouble

Author: Diana Whitney
ISBN: 9781960327192
Format: Paperback
$29.95

Combining extensive research into sexual violence with the author's personal experiences as a feminist activist,...  Read More >>

The Poetry of Disaster: Chernobyl, Katrina, and the Anthropocene

The Poetry of Disaster: Chernobyl, Katrina, and the...

Author: Claire Cox
ISBN: 9783032165541
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Recent news images of disastrous floods, fires and earthquakes vividly show we live in an unstable world. This book...  Read More >>

The Sound of the Past: Echoes and Incantations in Eliot, H.D., and Woolf

The Sound of the Past: Echoes and Incantations in Eliot,...

Author: Susan McCabe ,  Steven Minas
ISBN: 9798261600060
Format: Paperback
$192.72

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Zadie Smith: New perspectives

Zadie Smith: New perspectives

Author: Nurten Birlik ,  Noémi Albert
ISBN: 9781526177742
Format: Hardback
$206.99

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England

Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist...

Author: Matthew Ritger
ISBN: 9781512828993
Format: Hardback
$150.00

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

Canzoniere: A New Translation

Canzoniere: A New Translation

Author: Petrarch ,  A.M. Juster
ISBN: 9781324096498
Format: Hardback
$44.95

The iconic Renaissance songbook–an inspiration to love poets since the fourteenth century–in an elegant, fluid and...  Read More >>

A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938

A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish...

Author: Aya Elyada
ISBN: 9781503645998
Format: Hardback
$173.00

This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking...  Read More >>

The Atlas Creator Collection No. 3: Bill Everett Vol. 1: One Head Too Many!' and Other Weird Horror Stories

The Atlas Creator Collection No. 3: Bill Everett Vol....

Author: Bill Everett ,  Michael J. Vassallo
ISBN: 9798875001413
Format: Hardback
$124.95

The latest volume in our new Fantagraphics Atlas Creator Collection focuses on the feverishly imaginative Bill Everett's...  Read More >>

Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life

Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life

Author: Mary Helen Washington
ISBN: 9780300253856
Format: Hardback
$39.95

An elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women's experiences across the African diaspora...  Read More >>

Malawian Resistance Literature

Malawian Resistance Literature

Author: Dike Okoro
ISBN: 9783032129598
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the...  Read More >>

Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga

Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga

Author: Julia Titus ,  David Racker
ISBN: 9783032139993
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga examines the relationship between music and literary works within...  Read More >>

Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours

Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours

Author: William D. Paden
ISBN: 9780813079585
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Challenging the belief that medieval marriages were loveless, this book analyzes troubadour poetry and historical...  Read More >>

Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions

Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other...

Author: José A. de la Garza Valenzuela
ISBN: 9781477333525
Format: Hardback
$243.00

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

The Bad Poor: Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit

The Bad Poor: Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit...

Author: Mitch Ploskonka ,  Scott Romine
ISBN: 9780807185889
Format: Hardback
$104.00

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Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures

Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures

Author: Hannah McCann (University of Melbourne, Australia) ,  Whitney Monaghan (Monash University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350415300
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The definitive introduction to Queer Theory for anyone looking to understand its key terms, concepts, debates, and...  Read More >>

Language and Literacy in Transition: Reimagining Inclusion and Educational Futures in a Global Context

Language and Literacy in Transition: Reimagining Inclusion...

Author: Elena Domínguez Romero ,  Jelena Bobkina
ISBN: 9783032169037
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This Open Access book addresses the critical gap in current literacy education by integrating multimodal literacies...  Read More >>

Heinz Strunk: Literatur - Hörspiel - Film

Heinz Strunk: Literatur - Hörspiel - Film

Author: Andreas Seidler ,  Stefan Born
ISBN: 9783111407364
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Die Reihe Gegenwartsliteratur - Autoren und Debatten präsentiert konzise Auseinandersetzungen mit vorwiegend deutschsprachiger...  Read More >>

Working-Class Women Writing CLASS

Working-Class Women Writing CLASS

Author: Sue Petty
ISBN: 9781739329846
Format: Paperback
$55.41

A historical sociopolitical analysis of working-class women's writing.  Read More >>

Monster Relics in Medieval English Literature

Monster Relics in Medieval English Literature

Author: Christopher Lee Pipkin
ISBN: 9781476696294
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Monster relics make for good stories. When a hero in medieval literature brings a monster's head, hand, or weapon...  Read More >>

Poetic Grief: Form and Remembrance After National Socialism

Poetic Grief: Form and Remembrance After National Socialism...

Author: Simone Stirner
ISBN: 9781531514129
Format: Paperback
$80.99

A comparative account of post-Holocaust poetry, showing the relation between poetic form and the affective experience...  Read More >>

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