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The Factory Girl and the Seamstress (Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture) by Amal Amireh Publisher Comments This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American literary and cultural studies due to the general view... (read more) Your price $93.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels: Jewish Myth and Mysticism by Saleel Nurbhai Publisher Comments This is the first study to argue that Jewish Mysticism influenced not only her Jewish novel, "Daniel Deronda," but all of George Eliot's novels. The reader is left with a very different George Eliot from that assumed by most previous criticism. Though... (read more) List Price $100.00 Your price $83.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance by Phillipa Hardman Publisher Comments Twelve essays address a central concern of medieval romance, the matter of identity.... (read more) Your price $80.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Politics of Language in Romantic Literature by Richard Marggraf Turley Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-237) and index.... (read more) List Price $100.00 Your price $81.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contributions to the Study of World Literature #54: The Adventure of the Detected Detective: Sherlock Holmes in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake by William D Jenkins Publisher Comments What better introduction could there be to Finnegans Wake, perhaps the most difficult literary work ever written, than the Sherlock Holmes stories, perhaps the most readable and popular stories ever written? James Joyce made extensive use of Sherlockian... (read more) Your price $104.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Christianity in Bakhtin: God and the Exiled Author (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature) by Ruth Coates Publisher Comments An examination of the influence of Christianity on the thought and work of Mikhail Bakhtin.... (read more) Your price $77.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture #33: Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature by Nicola Bown Publisher Comments Examines the fairy in the work of many Victorian painters, novelists and poets.... (read more) Your price $47.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Perspectives on Modern Central and East European Literature: Quests for Identity: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East Eu (International Council for Central and East Europ by Todd Patrick Armstrong Publisher Comments In Perspectives on Modern Central and East European Literature: Quests for Identity scholars from around the world examine literatures of countries only recently coming into their own as distinct political and cultural entities. This volume will appeal... (read more) Your price $75.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Complete Works of St. Thomas More #0001: English Poems, Life of Pico, the Last Things by St Thomas More Publisher Comments Publication of this volume brings to conclusion the Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More, a thirty-year publishing project of landmark importance in the study of humanism in Western history. The volume contains More's earliest works... (read more) Your price $96.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race by Gerald Kennedy Publisher Comments The nine essays gathered here pursue the provocative implications of Toni Morrison's claim that no early American writer was more important than Poe in shaping a concept of "American Africanism," an image of racialized blackness destined to haunt the... (read more) Your price $66.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Literary Criticism on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Child That Books Built by Francis Spufford Synopsis What would you find if you went back and re-read all of your favourite books from childhood? Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness, in this memoir.... (read more) Your price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture #31: Theatre, Finance and Society in Early Modern England by Theodore B Leinwand Publisher Comments Examines emotional responses to socio-economic pressures in early modern English plays and historical texts.... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price $64.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Task of the Critic: Poetics, Philosophy, Religion by Henry Sussman Publisher Comments Todays critic must be something of a philosopher as well as a poet. Yet her workremains above all that of the close reader, and the emergence of the valuesembodied by the close reader to stand alongside those of the philosopher andthe poet may be one of... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Merchant of Venice: Notes (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes by Waldo F. Mcneir Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. In "CliffsNotes on The Merchant of Venice, you follow along as a young merchant cannot repay his debt to a... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $1.95 (Used - Pamphlet) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Winter's Tale (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes by Evelyn Mclellan Publisher Comments Many books have assembled facts, reasonable suppositions, traditions, and speculations concerning the life and career of William Shakespeare. Taken as a whole, these materials give a rather comprehensive picture of England's foremost dramatic poet.... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price $1.88 (Used - Pamphlet) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Passion of Creation by Adams Publisher Comments These poems are the fruit of a lifetime's accumulation of experience and wisdom; they are a reflection of nature and human passion.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Good Friend by Joseph Edward Cohen Publisher Comments A GOOD FRIEND The book for that indispensable character who's always ready to listen, especially to the juicy parts.... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Odysseys Homemapping African-Can Lit by George Elliott Clarke Publisher Comments Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging collection of essys and reviews presents a history of African-Canadian literature and exmines its debt to, and synthesis with, oral cultures. George Elliott Clarke identifies the... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $70.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Designing the Life of Johnson by Bruce Redford Publisher Comments What makes a biographical masterpiece? By decoding the manuscript of Boswell's Life of Johnson, this innovative study reveals the methods and the models that shaped his monumental portrait. The result is a more subtle, more vital assessment of Boswell... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels by Pamela K. Gilbert Publisher Comments The work of popular women novelists in mid-Victorian Britain and beliefs about femininity and disease.... (read more) Your price $45.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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