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  • Anne Killigrew

    Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 5

    by Patricia Hoffmann ...
    Series Book 2 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II
    During Anne Killigrew's lifetime (1660-1685) most of her known living relatives were connected to the court, yet very little is known about Anne herself. The twenty-five complete poems and five fragments that were collected and published by her father soon after her death probably represent only a portion of her output. They are reproduced here from the copy held in the Folger Shakespeare Library. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    Provocative Insights and Witty Observations on Society and Human Nature

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    In "All Things Considered," G. K. Chesterton offers a collection of essays that deftly blend humor, keen observation, and profound philosophical insight. The book showcases his distinctive literary style, characterized by its wit, paradox, and eloquent prose, vividly bringing to life the mundane aspects of everyday existence. With a discourse ranging from societal norms to personal introspection, ... Read more

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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

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  • Literature as Cultural Ecology

    Sustainable Texts

    by Professor Hubert Zapf ...
    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 the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Nostalgia

    When Are We Ever at Home?

    by Barbara Cassin ...
    Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault ...
    Winner, French Voices Grand PrizeNostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides an eloquent and sophisticated treatment of exile and of desire for a homeland, while showing how it has been possible for many to reimagine home in terms of language rather than territory.Moving from Homer’s and Virgil’s foundational ... Read more

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  • Castaway Tales

    From Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi

    by Christopher Palmer ...
    A wide-ranging and appreciative literary history of the castaway tale from Defoe to the presentEver since Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, the castaway story has survived and prospered, inspiring a multitude of writers of adventure fiction to imitate and adapt its mythic elements. In his brilliant critical study of this popular genre, Christopher Palmer traces the castaway tales' history and changes ... Read more

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  • The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace

    Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction

    by Professor Adam S. Miller ...
    Series series New Directions in Religion and Literature
    The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace is the first book to explore key religious themes - from boredom to addiction, and distraction – in the work of one of America's most celebrated contemporary novelists.In a series of short, topic-focussed chapters, the bookjoins a selection of key scenes from Wallace's novels Infinite Jest and The Pale King with clear explanations of how they contribute ... Read more

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  • The Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture

    by Nina Taunton ...
    Taking as its chronological starting-point the female body of late medieval devotional literature, the volume moves on to a consideration of the representation of gendered bodies in later literature. It then proceeds to examine sixteenth-century occupational orderings of the (male) body in education, the civil service and the army, and involves explorations into a variety of rituals for the ... Read more

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  • First-Person Anonymous

    Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830–1870

    by Alexis Easley ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    First-Person Anonymous revises previous histories of Victorian women's writing by examining the importance of both anonymous periodical journalism and signed book authorship in women’s literary careers. Alexis Easley demonstrates how women writers capitalized on the publishing conventions associated with signed and unsigned print media in order to create their own spaces of agency and meaning ... Read more

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  • A.C. Swinburne

    A Poet's Life

    by Ricky Rooksby ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was one of the literary sensations of the Victorian period. His iconoclastic poetry and prose challenged attitudes to sex, politics, religion and censorship. Not only writing some of the most original lyric poetry of the time and pioneering criticism, Swinburne became a cultural icon. In the 1860s his very name was a symbol of progressive forces emerging in a ... Read more

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  • Balzac, Grandville, and the Rise of Book Illustration

    by Keri Yousif ...
    Examining how the rise of book illustration affected the historic hegemony of the word, Keri Yousif explores the complex literary and artistic relationship between the novelist Honoré de Balzac and the illustrator J. J. Grandville during the French July Monarchy (1830-1848). Both collaborators and rivals, these towering figures struggled for dominance in the Parisian book trade at the height of ... Read more

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  • Recoding World Literature

    Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books

    by B. Venkat Mani ...
    Winner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language AssociationWinner, 2018 German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize in Germanistik and Cultural Studies.From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and ... Read more

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