Comparative Literature

Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte BrontA", George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Eithne Henson explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as...

Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influenced generations of writers of Bengali detective fiction...

How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a...

How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a...

In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot's writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues, manipulated scientific language in often subversive...

Critical attention to the Victorian supernatural has flourished over the last twenty-five years. Whether it is spiritualism or Theosophy, mesmerism or the occult, the dozens of book-length studies and hundreds of articles that have appeared recently...

Critical Transitions interrogates the terms and concepts most central to the urgent task of examining cultural change as a process of dynamic transition. This volume approaches the question of transition from multiple perspectives, demonstrating how the...

A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors-D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet-and builds a...

The Relocation of Culture is about accents and borders-about people and cultures that have accents and that cross borders. It is a book that deals with translation and nomadic identities, and with the many ways in which the increasing relevance of forced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618952288Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783965580145Author Manuele GragnolatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint ICI Berlin PressPublisher ICI Berlin PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781888445Author Julia Caterina HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 8mm

We describe people who are "consumed" or "devoured" by ambition as if by a predator or an out-of-control inferno. Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often...

Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan explores convergences and divergences in the psychoanalytic theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, with a special focus on the implications of their work for critical theory, broadly construed. The book is...

The reckoning of climate change calls for us to fundamentally rethink our notions of human centrality, superiority and power. Drawing on a wide range of modern writers and thinkers - from Freud and Darwin to Latour and Derrida, from Shakespeare and...

Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became the central vehicle for her modernist experiments in poetry and prose. This ground-breaking collection presents the work...

How did the tumult caused by German composer Richard Wagner result in the first modernist painting? In the first full-length book dedicated to the study of Edouard Manet and music, art historian Therese Dolan demonstrates that the 1862 painting Music in...

Painting Words: Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text addresses the importance of dialogue between art and literature, text and image in our image-saturated era. In a globalized world, isolation and compartmentalization hinder us back,...

The text of Finnegans Wake is not as monolithic as it might seem. It grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. Several of these sections, which James Joyce confidently claimed would "fuse of themselves", are still recognizable in the...

A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread. At the dawn of the 20th century, a wide-ranging utopianism dominated popular and intellectual cultures throughout Europe and America...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959350026Author Maria KvilhaugFormat PaperbackPage Count 646Imprint Three Little SistersPublisher Three Little SistersWeight(grams) 1102gDimensions(mm)...

Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism: Bites Here and There brings together a range of works exploring the evolution of cannibalism, literally and metaphorically, diachronically and across disciplines. This edited collection aims to promote a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528771610Author Jane AustenFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 19mm

This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with students for over forty years. This is a book written for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732797147Author Grant MaierhoferFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint Inside the CastlePublisher Inside the CastleWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 178mm...

In an interconnected world, literature moves through transnational networks, crosses borders, and bridges diverse cultures. In these ways, literature can bring people closer together. Today, as hopes for globalization wane and exclusionary nationalism is...

John Donne's Language of Disease reveals the influence of medical knowledge - a rapidly changing field in early modern England - on the poetry and prose of John Donne (1572-1631). This knowledge played a crucial role in shaping how Donne understood his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692399569Author Terry Richard BazesFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Rosencrantz & Guildenstern PublishersPublisher Rosencrantz & Guildenstern...

A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from ancient to modern timesLiterature is such a familiar and widespread form of imaginative expression today that...

Debated, denied, unheard of, encompassing: The Anthropocene is a vexed topic, and requires interdisciplinary imagination. Starting at the author's home in rural northern Michigan and zooming out to perceive a dizzying global matrix, Christopher...

Climate change is the greatest issue of our time - and yet too often literature on the subject is considered only in the bracket of 'environmental' writing, divorced from culture, society and politics. The New Poetics of Climate Change argues instead...

Dickens and Empire offers a reevaluation of Charles Dickens's imaginative engagement with the British Empire throughout his career. Employing postcolonial theory alongside readings of Dickens's novels, journalism and personal correspondence, it explores...

In The Writing Cure, Emma Lieber tells the story of her decade-long analysis, and her becoming a psychoanalyst, by tracing dreams, scenes, and signifiers that emerged from her analysis while also undertaking critical explorations of works of...

Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world--a thirty-one-volume work entitled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition. A storehouse of...

How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the CaribbeanHow did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Cold War, Peter Kalliney explores the various ways...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781887257Author Matthew ReynoldsFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 1075gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 30mm

How, in the twenty-first century, can we do commemoration better? In particular, how can commemoration contribute to post-war reconciliation and reconstruction? In this book, a global roster of distinguished writers, artists, musicians, religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996169646Author Boris DralyukFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Insert Blanc PressPublisher Insert Blanc PressWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads the fiction of Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques...

This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad...