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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 Life With Father by Clarence Day Publisher Comments Originally serialized in The New Yorker, and later adapted for stage, screen, and television, Clarence Day's Life with Father is a cherished American classic. Set in 1890s New York, Clarence Day's tales of his father, Clarence "Clare" Day, Sr., portray a... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reading Paul Muldoon by Clair Wills Publisher Comments Paul Muldoon's poetry has always been known for its complexity, its use of various forms, its allusions, as it opens up to all the contemporary and modernist forces of disorder, contingency, and confusion. For this reason critical studies of his work are... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Literary Silences in Pascal, Rousseau, and Beckett (Oxford Modern Languages & Literature Monographs) by Elisabeth Marie Loevlie Publisher Comments To explore literary silence is to explore the relationships between literary texts and the silence of the ineffable. Philosophical and critical accounts tend to operate with a dualistic understanding of silence as the negative other of text. This study... (read more) Your price $130.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton by Achsah Guibbory Publisher Comments This book examines the relationship between literature and religious conflict in seventeenth-century England, showing how literary texts grew out of and addressed the contemporary controversy over ceremonial worship. Examining the meaning and function of... (read more) Your price $112.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Gender and Citizenship by Claudia Moscovici Publisher Comments Claudia Moscovici proposes a new understanding of how gender relations were reformulated by both male and female writers in nineteenth-century France. She analyzes the different versions of gendered citizenship elaborated by Friedrich Hegel, George Sand,... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature by James D Hartman Publisher Comments In colonial America, tales about the capture of English settlers by Native American war parties and the captives' subsequent suffering and privations were wildly popular among readers. Despite their importance in the development of American literature... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Henry Fielding and the Narration of Providence: Divine Design and the Incursions of Evil by Richard A Rosengarten Publisher Comments Henry Fielding and the Narration of Providence analyzes the fate in 18th-century England of the Augustinian tradition of the providential design of history. At this time the retrospective form of literary narrative (also know as “the rise of the... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $34.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Remembered Earth: an Anthology of Contemporary Native America Literature by Geary Hobson Publisher Comments Land is people. Remembering is all. These themes pervade Geary Hobson's anthology of poetry, essays, and short stories by contemporary Native American writers. A Native American (Cherokee-Chickasaw), Hobson himself is a poet, short story writer, essayist,... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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   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 Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom by David N Sedley Publisher Comments This book studies the structure and origins of De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), the great first-century BC poem by Lucretius.... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price $72.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: Choosing Tough Words by Angelica Michelis Publisher Comments If the post of Poet Laureate was allocated on the basis of popularity, Carol Ann Duffy would have been the first woman to hold this prestigious post. Like Philip Larkin in his day, Duffy is both a poet respected by many academics and teachers, and widely... (read more) Your price $51.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Parody (New Critical Idiom) by Simon Dentith Publisher Comments "Parody" is everywhere in contemporary popular culture. It runs through literature, theatre and television, architecture and films and even everyday speech. Dentith, by drawing on examples from Aristophanes to The Simpsons, displays the many roles that... (read more) Your price $102.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Treasure Island and Kidnapped (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes by Gary Carey Publisher Comments These novels of pirates on the high seas and intrigue in the Scottish highlands were written on a challenge by Stevenson's teenage stepson to "write something really interesting." The results are these fast-moving and adventurous books, simple and... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $2.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Helene Cixous: Writing and Sexual Differences by Abigail Bray Publisher Comments Abigail Bray offers a lucid and accessible introduction to Helene Cixous's major philosophical and literary concepts and carefully explains the critical relevance of her theorization of writing and sexual difference. Bray provides original and... (read more) Your price $74.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Son of Blair : the Sequel : Further Letters From the Vicar, the Rev. A.R.P. Blair Ma (Oxon) by Ian Hislop Publisher Comments More 'sermons' from the Reverend Tony Blair, who's been running the parish for three years now. Be moved by his inspiring words, his vision, his caring leadership, his steadfast dedication to the congregation.... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mysticism of Dante by Henry C Sartorio Publisher Comments The most beautiful utterances of joy by men who have set forth to find happiness and have struck the right road, have come at times when all seemed to have turned against them. Dante was a man who stood for justice and who showed the way wherein... (read more) Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Genrefied Classics: A Guide to Reading Interests in Classic Literature (Genreflecting Advisory) by Tina Frolund Publisher Comments Rediscover the classics--and share them with readers! The Count of Monte Cristo is a rip-roaring adventure. Pride and Prejudice is an endearing romance. Howard Fast's April Morning is fascinating historical fiction and a moving war story. The list goes... (read more) Your price $48.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Golden Verses of Pythagoras by Fabre D'olivet Publisher Comments Translated by Nayan Louis Redfield. Contents: Discourse Upon the Essence and Form of Poetry; The Golden Verses of Pythagoras; Examinations of the Golden Verses.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $22.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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