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  • Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture

    by Dr Anthony Lioi ...
    Series series Environmental Cultures
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Drawing on a wide range of examples from literature, comics, film, television and digital media, Nerd Ecology is the first substantial ecocritical study of nerd culture's engagement with environmental issues. Exploring such works as Star Trek, Tolkien's Lord of the ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

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  • Against World Literature

    On the Politics of Untranslatability

    by Emily Apter ...
    Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution.In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In the Name of the Mother

    Reflections on Writers and Empire

    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o ...
    Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of critical writing on African literature, politics and society have been highly significant. His best known critical work is Decolonising the Mind, which since publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced other writers, critics, scholars and students.These latest essays reflect Ngugi's continuing ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women

    The Hard Way Up

    by Florence s. Boos ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines the circumstances which enabled working-class women authors to publish their life stories, and places ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Beyond the Human-Animal Divide

    Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture

    Edited by Roman Bartosch, Dominik Ohrem ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume explores the potential of the concept of the creaturely for thinking and writing beyond the idea of a clear-cut human-animal divide, presenting innovative perspectives and narratives for an age which increasingly confronts us with the profound ecological, ethical and political challenges of a multispecies world. The text explores written work such as Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho and ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Temptation of Despair

    Tales of the 1940s

    by Werner Sollors ...
    In Germany, the years immediately following World War II call forward images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. The temptation of despair was hard to resist, and to contemporary observers the road toward democracy in the Western zones of occupation seemed rather uncertain. Drawing on a vast array of American, German, and other sources--diaries, ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art, 1793-1840

    by Maureen McCue ...
    Series series Studies in Art Historiography
    As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy, Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors, enabling them to forge often surprising connections between Italian art, the imagination and the period’s political, social and commercial realities. Dr ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Marie Madeleine Jodin 1741–1790

    Actress, Philosophe and Feminist

    by Felicia Gordon, P.N. Furbank ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The life story of Marie-Madeleine Jodin opens an exciting new perspective on the world of 18th-century women, European court theatres, and, most strikingly, entails the remarkable discovery of a previously unknown French feminist. In 1790, Jodin, a protégée of Denis Diderot and a former actress, published a treatise entitled Vues législatives pour les femmes (Legislative Views for Women), which ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Extravagant Postcolonialism

    Modernism and Modernity in Anglophone Fiction, 1958–1988

    by Brian T. May ...
    A reappreciation of the undertones of individualism refashioning modernism in select postcolonial worksBrian T. May argues that, contrary to widely held assumptions of postcolonial literary criticism, a distinctive subset of postcolonial novels significantly values and scrupulously explores a healthy individuality. These "extravagant" postcolonial works focus less on collective social reality than ... Read more

    $39.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mary Sidney Herbert

    Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 6

    by Gary F. Waller ...
    Series Book 1 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I
    Mary Sidney (1562-1620), Countess of Pembroke, was born into one of England’s most prominent literary and political families. She was fluent in at least three languages and was an accomplished translator and poet. Her two translations from the French, A Discourse of Life and Death, by Philippe de Mornay, and Antonius, a TragÅ“die, by Robert Garnier were published together in 1592 by William ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Politics and Genre in the Works of Elizabeth Hamilton, 1756–1816

    by Claire Grogan ...
    In the first book-length study of the well-respected and popular British writer Elizabeth Hamilton, Claire Grogan addresses a significant gap in scholarship that enlarges and complicates critical understanding of the Romantic woman writer. From 1797 to 1818, Hamilton published in a wide range of genres, including novels, satires, historical and educational treatises, and historical biography. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Place of God in Piers Plowman and Medieval Art

    by Mary Clemente Davlin ...
    Probing spatial questions about God posed by Piers Plowman, the author of this interdisciplinary study turns to pictorial evidence-the use of religious space and relationships within such space in English art of the same period. The Place of God in Piers Plowman and Medieval Art is not only a study of the sense of God and of the relationship between God and creatures in the great religious poem, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD