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  • The Global South Atlantic

    by Kerry Bystrom, Luis Felipe Alencastro, Jaime Hanneken, Jason Frydman, Isabel Hofmeyr, Anne-Garland Mahler, Oscar Hemer, Christina Civantos, Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra0, Lanie Millar1, Luis Madureira2, Maja Horn3, Waïl Hassan4 ...
    Not only were more African slaves transported to South America than to North, but overlapping imperialisms and shared resistance to them have linked Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean for over five centuries. Yet despite the rise in transatlantic, oceanic, hemispheric, and regional studies, and even the growing interest in South-South connections, the South Atlantic has not yet emerged as a ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

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  • How to Read Novels Like a Professor

    A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The End of Airports

    by Dr. Christopher Schaberg ...
    If air travel was once the bold future, it has now settled into a mundane, on-going present. We no longer expect romantic experiences or sublime views, but just hope that we get from here to there with minimal hassle. In The End of Airports, Christopher Schaberg suggests that even as the epoch of flight approaches a threshold of banality, there are still mysteries to be unraveled around our ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Transnationalism and German-Language Literature in the Twenty-First Century

    by Stuart Taberner ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat post-9/11; globalisation and neo-liberalism; the opportunities and anxieties of intensified mobility across borders; and whether transnationalism necessarily implies the end of the nation state and the dawn of ... Read more

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  • Pause and Effect

    An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West

    by M.B. Parkes ...
    From its publication in 1992 Pause and Effect has become a cornerstone of the study of punctuation across the world. Described as 'magisterial' by Lynne Truss in her best-selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, this book has stimulated interest and scholarly debates among writers, literary critics, philosophers, linguists, rhetoricians, palaeographers and all those who study the use of language. To ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing

    New Contexts, New Narratives, New Debates

    Edited by Dr Jenni Ramone ...
    Covering a wide range of textual forms and geographical locations, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing: New Contexts, New Narratives, New Debates is an advanced introduction to prominent issues in contemporary postcolonial literary studies.With chapters written by leading scholars in the field, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing includes:·Explorations of key ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • 9/11 in European Literature

    Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed

    Edited by Svenja Frank ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature. In the face of inner-European divisions the texts under consideration take the terror attacks as a starting point to negotiate European as well as national identity. While the volume shows that these identity formations are frequently based on the construction of two Others—the US nation and a cultural ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Dickens and the City

    Edited by Jeremy Tambling ...
    Series series A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens
    Dickens's relationship to cities is part of his modernity and his enduring fascination. How he thought about, grasped and conceptualised the rapidly expanding and anonymous urban scene are all fascinating aspects of a critical debate which, starting virtually from Dickens's own time, has become more and more active and questioning of the significance of that new thing, the unknown and unknowable, ... Read more

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  • Slavery, Colonialism and Connoisseurship

    Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literary Transnationalism

    by Nandini Bhattacharya ...
    Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century. In this book, Nandini Bhattacharya examines the works of such writers as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Colman Jr., James Cobb and Phillis Wheatley, who redefined ideas about Value and Taste. Writers re-presented the ethical ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell

    by Lesa Scholl, Emily Morris ...
    Critical assessments of Elizabeth Gaskell have tended to emphasise the regional and provincial aspects of her writing, but the scope of her influence extended across the globe. Building on theories of space and place, the contributors to this collection bring a variety of geographical, industrial, psychological, and spatial perspectives to bear on the vast range of Gaskell’s literary output and on ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Elizabeth Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers

    Edited by Susan M. Felch ...
    Series series The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions
    In 1574, Christopher Barker published a volume of prayers and poems collected and composed by Elizabeth Tyrwhit, an intimate member of Katherine Parr's circle, governess to the princess Elizabeth, wife of a Tudor court functionary, and a wealthy widow. Later, Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers was selected by Thomas Bentley to be republished in his 1582 compilation of devotional works, The ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Privacy, Domesticity, and Women in Early Modern England

    Edited by Corinne S. Abate ...
    The ten essays in this collection explore the discrete yet overlapping female spaces of privacy and domesticity in early modern England. While other literary critics have focused their studies of female privacy on widows, witches, female recusants and criminals, the contributors to this collection propose that the early modern subculture of femaleness is more expansive and formative than is ... Read more

    $77.99 USD