Literature: history & criticism books

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The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture: Development and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud

The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture:...

Author: Roisín Laing
ISBN: 9783031413810
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture – canonical literature, children’s...  Read More >>

States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic

States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic...

Author: Alice Kaplan ,  Laura Marris
ISBN: 9780226833309
Format: Paperback
$26.95

States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of...  Read More >>

The Rules of Logic

The Rules of Logic

Author: Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī ,  Tony Street
ISBN: 9781479880249
Format: Hardback
$64.99

A classic textbook on the study of logic In the Muslim East, logic was an integral part of the syllabus of schools...  Read More >>

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8:...

Author: Cyrus R. K. Patell (Professor of English, New York University) ,  Deborah Lindsay Williams (Clinical Professor of Liberal Studies, New York University)
ISBN: 9780192844729
Format: Hardback
$260.95

An overview of US fiction since 1940 that explores the history of literary forms, the history of narrative forms,...  Read More >>

S.S. Murder

S.S. Murder

Author: Q. Patrick ,  Curtis Evans
ISBN: 9781613165362
Format: Hardback
$42.95

It’s homicide on the high seas in this “A 1 mystery” by the Edgar Award–winning author Q. Patrick (Kirkus Reviews)....  Read More >>

Buster: A Dog: A Novella

Buster: A Dog: A Novella

Author: George Pelecanos
ISBN: 9781636141701
Format: Hardback
$32.95

EVER WONDER WHAT GOES ON IN THE MIND OF A DOG?Buster: A Dog is the story of one dog's lifelong journey, as told...  Read More >>

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Voice of the People

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century:...

Author: Stephen Knight
ISBN: 9781032739052
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast: Spaccio della bestia trionfante

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast: Spaccio della...

Author: Giordano Bruno ,  Hilary Gatti
ISBN: 9781487552015
Format: Paperback
$89.99

In this work of moral philosophy, Giordano Bruno condemns both the ancient and the modern worlds for filling their...  Read More >>

Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling

Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling

Author: Matthew Ward (Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780198894766
Format: Hardback
$170.95

Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer a compelling new reading...  Read More >>

Emotional Practice in Old English Literature

Emotional Practice in Old English Literature

Author: Dr Alice Jorgensen
ISBN: 9781843847052
Format: Hardback
$194.06

An examination of how emotions were practised and performed through Old English texts.  Read More >>

The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain

The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early...

Author: Seth Kimmel
ISBN: 9780226833170
Format: Hardback
$74.95

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Self-Concept in Foreign Language Learning: A Longitudinal Study of Japanese Language Learners

Self-Concept in Foreign Language Learning: A Longitudinal...

Author: Reiko Yoshida
ISBN: 9781032484839
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Unsaying the Commonplace: George MacDonald and the Critique of Victorian Convention

Unsaying the Commonplace: George MacDonald and the Critique...

Author: Daniel Gabelman ,  Amanda B Vernon
ISBN: 9781935688440
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Although he was a man rooted in and engaged with nineteenth-century British culture, George MacDonald was no friend...  Read More >>

Unsaying the Commonplace: George MacDonald and the Critique of Victorian Convention

Unsaying the Commonplace: George MacDonald and the Critique...

Author: Daniel Gabelman ,  Amanda B Vernon
ISBN: 9781935688532
Format: Hardback
$73.92

Although he was a man rooted in and engaged with nineteenth-century British culture, George MacDonald was no friend...  Read More >>

Persia in Early Modern English Drama, 1530–1699: The Imagined Empire

Persia in Early Modern English Drama, 1530–1699: The...

Author: Chloë Houston
ISBN: 9783031226205
Format: Paperback
$343.17

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Shakespeare and Nonhuman Intelligence

Shakespeare and Nonhuman Intelligence

Author: Heather Warren-Crow (Texas Tech University)
ISBN: 9781009202640
Format: Paperback
$43.99

According to the Infinite Monkey Theorem, an infinite number of typing monkeys will eventually generate the works...  Read More >>

My Belly: Exploring Why It’s So Hard for Women to Love Their Bodies

My Belly: Exploring Why It’s So Hard for Women to Love...

Author: Hilde Østby ,  Lucy Moffatt
ISBN: 9781778400001
Format: Paperback
$27.99

"""Originally published in Norwegian by Kagge Forlag as Mageboka: sju steg mot �a like kroppen din""--Title page...  Read More >>

Fundamentals of Literary Theory

Fundamentals of Literary Theory

Author: Klaus W. Hempfer
ISBN: 9783031474071
Format: Hardback
$316.77

Drawing on texts from Classical Antiquity to English, German, French, Spanish and Italian literature, the book brings...  Read More >>

Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher

Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost...

Author: Laura Beatty
ISBN: 9781838954383
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A strange, wild, brilliant personal journey - across land and through time - in which Laura Beatty travels back...  Read More >>

Words to the Wives: The Yiddish Press, Immigrant Women, and Jewish-American Identity

Words to the Wives: The Yiddish Press, Immigrant Women,...

Author: Shelby Shapiro
ISBN: 9783031499401
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Shapiro demonstrates how newspaper editors and publishers sought to shape identity in line with their own religious...  Read More >>

Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented

Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist...

Author: Christoph Ribbat
ISBN: 9781803710617
Format: Paperback
$51.62

This book about Kathrine Talbot (close friend of poet Elizabeth Bishop) fuses literary biography and concise accounts...  Read More >>

Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early United States

Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early United...

Author: Ben Bascom (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Ball State University)
ISBN: 9780197687505
Format: Hardback
$158.95

"Much of U.S. cultural production since the twentieth century has celebrated the figure of the singular individual,...  Read More >>

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