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  • Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists

    Nineteenth Century Terrorism and The Secret Agent

    by David Mulry ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This booklooks at the inception, composition, and 1907 publication of The Secret Agent, one of Joseph Conrad’s most highly regarded political novels and a core text of literary modernism. David Mulry examines the development and revisions of the novel through the stages of the holograph manuscript, first as a short story, then as a serialized sensation fiction in Ridgway’s Militant Weekly for the ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

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  • The Long Life

    by Helen Small ...
    The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and J. M. Coetzee. Helen Small argues that if we want to understand ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • A Beckett Canon

    by Ruby Cohn ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus. A Beckett Canon by renowned theater scholar Ruby Cohn offers an invaluable guide to the entire corpus, commenting on ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Savage Reprisals

    Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks

    by Peter Gay ...
    A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions.Focusing on three literary masterpieces—Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901)—Peter Gay, a leading cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Notes on My Books

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Conrad's summaries, prefaces, and ruminations about his books. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language—a fact that is remarkable, as he did not learn to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a strong Polish accent). He became a naturalized ... Read more

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  • The Quest for Shakespeare

    The Peculiar History and Surprising Legacy of the New Shakspere Society

    by Jeffrey Kahan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book traces the formation and impact of the New Shakspere Society, created in 1873, which dedicated itself to solving the mysteries of Shakespeare’s authorship by way of science. This promise, however, was undermined not only by the antics of its director, Frederick J. Furnivall, but also by the inexactitudes of the tests. Jeffrey Kahan puzzles out how a society geared towards science quickly ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

    Edited by Emily Horton, Professor Philip Tew, Dr Leigh Wilson ...
    Series series The Decades Series
    How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction?Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the decade associated with Thatcherism frames the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Graham Swift, of Scottish novelists and new ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Byzantine Ecocriticism

    Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance

    by Adam J. Goldwyn ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare, Byzantine Ecocriticism exposes the attitudes and behaviors that justified human control over women, nature, and animals; the means by ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Novelist and the Archivist

    Fiction and History in Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed

    by C. Povolo ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In the 19th century, Alessandro Manzoni dedicated himself to writing the novel I promessi sposi that encouraged the Italian Risorgimento. This book traces how the renowned novelist was inspired by an event that occurred at the beginning of the 17th century, which he came to know about thanks to the secret collaboration of a Venetian archivist. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Conversions

    Gender and religious change in early modern Europe

    Edited by Simon Ditchfield, Helen Smith ...
    Conversions is the first collection to explicitly address the intersections between sexed identity and religious change in the two centuries following the Reformation. Chapters deal with topics as diverse as convent architecture and missionary enterprise, the replicability of print and the representation of race. Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history and art history, ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Greek Literature in the Byzantine Period

    Greek Literature

    Edited by Gregory Nagy ...
    Edited with an introduction by an internationally recognized scholar, this nine-volume set represents the most exhaustive collection of essential critical writings in the field, from studies of the classic works to the history of their reception. Bringing together the articles that have shaped modern classical studies, the set covers Greek literature in all its genres--including history, poetry, ... Read more

    $280.00 USD

  • Celebrating the Sacred in Ordinary Life

    James Joyce and the Renaissance Magus

    by Tom Absher ...
    Series Book 134 - Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
    This book is an introductory examination of the Hermetic tradition in the Renaissance and how James Joyce made use of certain of its salient features in his four works of fiction: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. This book makes a useful contribution to literary studies of Joyce’s work as well as introductory cultural studies of the Hermetic ... Read more

    $102.49 USD