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  • James Joyce

    A Political Life

    by Frank Callanan ...
    A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writingsThe young James Joyce (1882–1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he took into his European exile a depth of political insight unrivalled among his fellow modernists. In this biography of Joyce in his youth and early exile, acclaimed Irish historian and biographer ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain

    Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain

    by Robert Spoo ...
    Series series Modernist Literature and Culture
    The names of James Joyce and Ezra Pound ring out in the annals of literary modernism, but few recognize the name of Samuel Roth. A brash, business-savvy entrepreneur, Roth made a name--and a profit--for himself as the founding editor and owner of magazines that published selections from foreign writings--especially the risque parts--without permission. When he reprinted segments of James Joyce's ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Modernism and the Law

    by Professor Robert Spoo ...
    Series series New Modernisms
    A 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleExploring critical legal issues and cases of the period-from Oscar Wilde's prosecution for gross indecency to legal bans on such publications as D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness, and James Joyce's Ulysses-Modernism and the Law is the first book to survey the legal contexts of transatlantic Anglo-American ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Kora & Ka

    Novella with "Mira-Mare"

    by Hilda Doolittle ...
    Series series New Directions Bibelot
    These two long stories by modernist master H.D. paint the wreckage of post-World War I Europe—both human and civilizational—in bright, vivid detail.Written by H. D. in 1930 and only published in a 100-copy edition for friends in 1934, Kora and Ka marked a new level of intensity in the poet's experiments with prose fiction. The two long stories contained in this volume, Kora and Ka and Mira-Mare, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Asphodel

    by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) ...
    "DESTROY," H.D. had pencilled across the title page of this autobiographical novel. Although the manuscript survived, it has remained unpublished since its completion in the 1920s. Regarded by many as one of the major poets of the modernist period, H.D. created in Asphodel a remarkable and readable experimental prose text, which in its manipulation of technique and voice can stand with the works ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    by Harper Lee ...
    Look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Harper Lee, coming October 21, 2025.Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Edwardian Turn Of Mind

    by Samuel Hynes ...
    The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age. The years between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War witnessed a turbulent and dramatic struggle between the old and the new. Samuel Hynes considers the principal areas of conflict - politics, science, the arts and the relations between men and women - and fills them with a wide-ranging ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Hotbed

    Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism

    by Joanna Scutts ...
    The dazzling story of the Greenwich Village feminists who blazed the trail for the movement’s most radical ideasOn a Saturday in New York City in 1912, around the wooden tables of a popular Greenwich Village restaurant, a group of women gathered, all of them convinced that they were going to change the world.It was the first meeting of “Heterodoxy,” a secret social club*.* Its members were ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Reason and Imagination

    The Selected Correspondence of Learned Hand

    Edited by Constance Jordan ...
    Judge Learned Hand is an icon of American Law. Though he was never nominated to our country's highest court, Hand is nevertheless more frequently quoted by legal scholars and in Supreme Court decisions than any other lower court judge in our history. He was the model for all judges who followed him, setting the standard for the bench with a matchless combination of legal brilliance and vast ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Laughing at the Gods

    Great Judges and How They Made the Common Law

    by Allan C. Hutchinson ...
    Any effort to understand how law works has to take seriously its main players – judges. Like any performance, judging should be evaluated by reference to those who are its best exponents. Not surprisingly, the debate about what makes a 'great judge' is as heated and inconclusive as the debate about the purpose and nature of law itself. History shows that those who are candidates for a judicial ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Modernism and Copyright

    Edited by Paul K. Saint-Amour ...
    Series series Modernist Literature and Culture
    How was modernism shaped, from its beginning, by intellectual property law? What role did the law's imperial and transatlantic asymmetries play in modernism's dissemination? How did various modernists exploit, reform, anoint, and evade copyright? And how is the study of modernism today being affected by expanding copyright regimes? Modernism and Copyright is the first book to take up these ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Changing Concepts of Time

    by Harold A. Innis ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    This classic book, Harold Innis's last, returns to print with a new introduction by James Carey. An elaboration of Innis's earlier theories, Changing Concepts of Time looks at then-new technological changes in communication and considers the different ways in which space and time are perceived. Innis explores military implications of the U.S. constitution, freedom of the press, communication ... Read more

    $44.59 USD