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Vendor:Ian James
Paul Virilio
Paul Virilio is a challenging and original thinker whose work on technology, state power and war is increasingly relevant today. Exploring Virilio's main texts from their political and historical contexts, and case studies from contemporary culture and media in order to explain his philosophical...- $28.95
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Vendor:Stephen Kern
The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns
The Culture of Love interprets the sweeping change in loving that spanned a period when scientific discoveries reduced the terrors and dangers of sex, when new laws gave married women control over their earnings and their bodies, when bold novelists and artists shook off...- $52.00
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Jane Austen: Sibling Rivalry, Unconscious Fantasy and Change
From the Introduction by author: Love, Rivalry, and the UnconsciousJane Austen's novels have been praised by the literary critics, loved by the 'ordinary reader', and made into many films (Southam, 1967; Wiltshire, 2001). Psychoanalytic readings of the six great novels elaborate Austen's famous description...- $29.95
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Vendor:Maurice LeBlanc
Ars鈩e Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes
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Vendor:Katarzyna A. Malecka
Grief Memoirs: Cultural, Supportive, and Therapeutic Significance
Grief Memoirs: Cultural, Supportive, and Therapeutic Significance bridges literary studies and psychology to evaluate contemporary grief memoirs for use by bereaved and non-bereaved individuals. This volume positions the grief memoir within life writing and bereavement studies through examination of the genre's characteristics, definitions, and...- $170.00
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Vendor:Sophie Read
Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England
The Reformation changed forever how the sacrament of the Eucharist was understood. This study of six canonical early modern lyric poets traces the literary afterlife of what was one of the greatest doctrinal shifts in English history. Sophie Read argues that the move from...- $41.99
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Vendor:Prudhomme Sully
Les Vaines Tendresses
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Vendor:Henry James
Transatlantic Sketches
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Vendor:Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volumes 1-3
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Vendor:Roger Bloor
The Collected Poems of Arnold Bennett
By the time of his death in 1931, Arnold Bennett was a renowned and highly respected author with a prodigious literary output. The variety of subject matter covered by him was immense. He wrote novels, short stories, stage-plays, literary reviews, self-improvement manuals, film scripts,...- $28.00
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Vendor:H. L. Mencken
A Little Book In C Major
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...- $35.95
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Vendor:Jan Gorak
Canon Vs. Culture: Reflections on the Current Debate
Canon Vs. Culture explores the consequences of one of the main educational shifts of the last quarter century-- the changes from academic inquiry conducted through a selected list of accepted authorities to an investigation of the cultural operations of an entire society.Author: Jan GorakISBN-10:...- $59.95
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Vendor:Aakash Singh Rathore
A Philosophy of Autobiography: Body & Text
This book offers intimate readings of a diverse range of global autobiographical literature with an emphasis on the (re)presentation of the physical body. The twelve texts discussed here include philosophical autobiography (Nietzsche), autobiographies of self-experimentation (Gandhi, Mishima, Warhol), literary autobiography (Hemingway, Das) as well...- $170.00
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Vendor:Eric Purchase
The Future of Reading
Why do we read? What happens to our imaginations when we read? To our knowledge? What creative forces are unleashed? What are the wider implications of all of this?In a truly engaging and accessible style, The Future of Reading looks at the very experience...- $32.95
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Vendor:Christine June Wunderli
Elie Wiesel, the Shtetl, and Post-Auschwitz Memory
How are Holocaust events remembered and narrated, and why? What knowledge can Holocaust testimony convey?Christine June Wunderli explores these questions as sheexamines four works by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.Guided by Bourdieu's theory of literary field as well asYoung's theory of literary representation, she tracesHasidic...- $52.95
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Vendor:John Herbert Clifford
The Musiclover's Handbook: A Pronouncing Dictionary of Musical Terms
This handy reference work provides phonetic pronunciations and brief definitions of hundreds of musical terms. Including a wide range of genres and styles, from classical to popular music, this book is an essential resource for music lovers of all stripes.This work has been selected...- $31.95
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Vendor:Glen Newey
The Routledge Guidebook to Hobbes' Leviathan
Hobbes is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of ideas and political thought, and his seminal text Leviathan is widely recognised as one of the greatest works of political philosophy ever written. The Routledge Guidebook to Hobbes' Leviathan...- $32.95
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Vendor:Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell: The Complete Plays
The first complete collection of the works of American playwright Susan Glaspell, this book includes all of the Pulitzer Prize winner's works: Suppressed Desires, Trifles, The People, The Outside, Woman's Honor, Close the Book, Tickless Time, and Free Laughter (these eight are all one...- $75.00
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Vendor:Marilyn Brock
From Wollstonecraft to Stoker: Essays on Gothic and Victorian Sensation Fiction
This collection of 13 essays examines the work of Victorian authors Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Wollstonecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and Charlotte Bronte. Each essay explores their use of...- $29.95
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Vendor:F. L. Lucas
Style: The art of writing well
*4th edition with a new foreword by Joseph Epstein (Harriman Classics)* Lost for almost forty years, Style has acquired the status of a legend. Loved by some of the greatest modern authors and acclaimed by critics, this guide to recognising and writing stylish prose...- $19.99
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Vendor:John Burns
The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities
The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-philosopher Plato referred centuries ago in the Republic. The book presents eight chapters by four humanities scholars that historically contextualize and cross-interpret aspects of...- $24.95
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Vendor:Bernard Lightman
Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of modern disciplinarity. Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines...- $52.95
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Vendor:Jessica Johnson
An Analysis of Saba Mahmood's Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Saba Mahmood's 2005 Politics of Piety is an excellent example of evaluation in action. Mahmood's book is a study of women's participation in the Islamic revival across the Middle East. Mahmood - a feminist social anthropologist with left-wing, secular political values - wanted to...- $8.95
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Vendor:Charlotte Bronte
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1848)
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Vendor:William Makepeace Thackeray
Barry Lyndon
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 - 24 December 1863) was a British novelist and author. He is known for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.Author: William Makepeace ThackerayISBN-10: 1727369637ISBN-13: 9781727369632Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2018Pages: 246Format:...- $14.99
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Vendor:Robert C. Tannehill
Semeia 20: Pronouncement Stories
Author: Robert C. TannehillISBN-10: 1589835905ISBN-13: 9781589835900Publisher: Society of Biblical LiteratureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1981Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d- $22.00
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Vendor:C. Julius Solinus
Julius Solin: Polyhistor (1847)
Julius Solin: Polyhistor (1847) est un livre �����crit par Solinus, C. Julius. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage historique qui pr�����sente une compilation de connaissances sur les merveilles du monde antique, telles que les animaux, les plantes, les min�����raux, les ph�����nom�����nes naturels, les monuments et les...- $36.95
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Vendor:Robert Pack
The Idea in the Mirror: Essays
Starting with the first essay, this collection makes the case for liberal arts learning and demonstrates the wisdom of Samuel Johnson's claim that "we have art in order to better enjoy our lives or better to endure them." Robert Pack is emeritus professor from...- $21.95
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Vendor:M. Allen Cunningham
We Are Guests of Ancient Time: Essays & Variations
In this expansive and searching work, M. Allen Cunningham traverses landscapes of memory, history, and imagination - from 1769 California to the melee of the Internet in the 2020s - as he questions himself and the reader about our experience of time in an...- $20.00
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Vendor:Richard Seaford
Cosmology and the Polis: The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus
This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text...- $46.99
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Vendor:Charles Babbage
On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures
This classic work, published in 1832, explores the relationship between technology, productivity, and economic progress. Babbage was one of the pioneers of modern computing, and his insights into the nature of machinery are still relevant today. This book is essential reading for anyone interested...- $33.95
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Vendor:Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Prose Works Of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... By Richard Herne Shepherd; Volume 2
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Vendor:Fritz Leiber
Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark
While Howard Phillips Lovecraft was closing the final chapter of his writing career, Fritz Reuter Leiber was only beginning to open his own. The year was 1936 and Jonquil Leiber, Fritz's first wife, sent a letter on her own initiative to Lovecraft, knowing that...- $39.95
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Vendor:Regina B. Oost
Gilbert and Sullivan: Class and the Savoy Tradition, 1875-1896
Making use of archival resources in the United Kingdom and the United States, Regina B. Oost examines advertisements, promotional materials, and programs, as well as letters, diaries, and account books, to reconstruct the ways in which Richard D'Oyly Carte, W.S. Gilbert, and Arthur Sullivan...- $170.00
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Vendor:Philip J. Holden
Orienting Masculinity, Orienting Nation: W. Somerset Maugham's Exotic Fiction
Although their settings span a wide geographical area, from the South Pacific to India, Maugham's exotic short stories, novels, and travelogues all, ultimately, focus on the creation of a masculine British identity. In this first book to address Maugham's fiction in light of recent...- $75.00
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