Literary Studies: from c 1900
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Sol Plaatjes native life in South Africa: Past and present
Albert GrundlinghCurrent price €33.14Original price €38.99First published in 1916, Sol Plaatjes Native Life in South Africa was written by one of the South Africas most talented early 20th-century black le...
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William Trevor: Revaluations
Manchester University PressCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99William Trevor: Revaluations offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of one of the most accomplished and celebrated practitioners writing ...
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Sara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
Margaret KinsmanCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Sara Paretsky's groundbreaking mystery series about Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski debuted in 1982 and is still going strong. As co-f...
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Lynda La Plante
Julia HallamCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Lynda La Plante is Britains most successful and well known screenwriter and the first woman to win the prestigious Dennis Potter writers award. Att...
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Writing Disenchantment: British First World War Prose, 191430
Andrew FraynCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99It has become axiomatic that First World War literature was disenchanted, or disillusioned, and returning combatants were unable to process or comm...
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Doris Lessing
Susan WatkinsCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99This study examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007...
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Eccentricities: Writing in the Margins of Modernism: St. Petersburg to Rio De Janeiro
Sharon Lubkemann AllenCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99An innovative, interdisciplinary, incisive scholarly study remapping and redefining domains and dynamics of modernism, EccentriCities: Writing in t...
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Julian Barnes
Peter ChildsCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy. It...
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Decadent Daughters and Monstrous Mothers: Angela Carter and European Gothic
Rebecca MunfordCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates the vexed question of Angela Carters feminist politics through the dusty lens of European Got...
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The Faerie Queene as Children''s Literature: Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures
Velma Bourgeois RichmondCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Edmund Spenser's vast epic poem The Faerie Queene is the most challenging masterpiece in early modern literature and is praised as the work most...
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The Teenage Tarzan: A Literary Analysis of Edgar Rice Burroughs'' Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Stan GallowayCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Following the 1912 publication of his wildly successful Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs authored four bestselling sequels in quick succ...
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Autobiographical Statements in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
Princeton University PressCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99The fifteen essays in this volume explore the extraordinary range and diversity of the autobiographical mode in twentieth-century Russian literatur...
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The Complete Brecht Toolkit
Stephen UnwinCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's theory and practice of theatre, with a full set of exercis...
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Yeats and Modern Poetry
Edna LongleyCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned...
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Renaissance and Contemporary: Essays on Writing and Culture
William ZunderCurrent price €12.59Original price €13.99Current price €12.59Original price €13.99Save 10% -
Liminality in Cuba''s Twentieth-Century Identity: Rites of Passage and Revolutions
Stephen FayCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Presents research conducted in three difficult-to-access Cuban archives with rare textual resources, upon which very little analysis has ever previ...
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Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennetts Selected Writings
Pennsylvania State University PressCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Poet, columnist, artist, and fiction writer Gwendolyn Bennett is considered by many to have been one of the youngest leaders of the Harlem Renaissa...
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American Literature in Transition, 19701980
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €100.79Original price €111.99American Literature in Transition, 19701980 examines the literary developments of the twentieth-century's gaudiest decade. For a quarter century, f...
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From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea
Yoon Sun YangCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99The notion of the individual was initially translated into Korean near the end of the nineteenth century and took root during the early years of Ja...
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The Perfect Stranger
P. J. KavanaghCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99The Perfect Stranger was first published in the '60s and since then has continued to find a select group of passionate admirers. Evocative and enga...
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Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures
Timothy AubryCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic c...
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The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
British Library PublishingCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century. The diversity of this much-loved genre is brea...
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The Chinese Political Novel: Migration of a World Genre
Catherine Vance YehCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99The political novel, which enjoyed a steep yet short rise to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s, is primarily concerned with the ...
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Selected Works of Voltairine De Cleyre: Poems, Essays, Sketches and Stories, 1885-1911
Voltairine De CleyreCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Current price €16.65Original price €18.50Save 10%