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Whether Goethe actually cried "More light!" on his deathbed, or whether Conrad Hilton checked out of this world after uttering "Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub," last words, regardless of authenticity, have long...

Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts. Since its founding in 2011, LARB has quickly established...

Literature from the Peripheries: Refrigerated Culture and Pluralism is a collection of chapters dealing with multiple minority cultures from all over the world. The book examines the status of several less known cultures or cultural communities which...

For centuries, English-language writers have borrowed words and phrases from other languages in their fictional works. Words in Collision explores this tradition of language-mixing and its consequences. Returning to Shakespeare’s Henry V, Michael Ross...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130765Author Samuel WeberFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 161mm * 20mm

How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a...

A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet-and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543408Author Amit PinchevskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular By the Book feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela...

A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet-and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame,...

Provides a uniquely detailed and accessible insight into the terminology and culture of the Victorian period Surveys not merely the reign of Queen Victoria but its antecedents in the long nineteenth century Includes illustrations derived wholly from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783898217354Author Andrew Hock Soon NgFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm...

The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373911Author Edwin FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

In this survey of Central and South American literature, Earl E. Fitz provides the first book in English to analyze the Portuguese- and Spanish-language American canons in conjunction, uncovering valuable insights about both. Fitz works by comparisons...

Social media has facilitated the sharing of once isolated testimonies to an extent and with an ease never before possible. The #MeToo movement provides a prime example of how such pooling of individual stories, in large enough numbers, can fuel political...

Why does crime feature at the center of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities? This book interrogates the connections that can be found between narratives of crime, cities, and colonialism to bring to light the ramifications of this literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578405698Author Jay TolsonFormat HardbackPage Count 452Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia Press

Part literary history, part feminist historiography And Wrote My Story Anyway: Novels by Black South African Women critically examines influential novels in English by eminent black female writers. Studying these writers' key engagements with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358728866Author Parvez MuzaffarFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer PublicationsWeight(grams) 68g

Embodying the Tactile in Victorian Literature: Touching Bodies/Bodies Touching explores the importance of sensory studies in mid to late-Victorian literature. Ann Gagne reconciles the social and cultural issues surrounding embodiment, particularly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783898215671Author Paola BaseottoFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem PressWeight(grams) 148g

In this survey of Central and South American literature, Earl E. Fitz provides the first book in English to analyze the Portuguese- and Spanish-language American canons in conjunction, uncovering valuable insights about both. Fitz works by comparisons...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783898215459Author Wei H KaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem PressWeight(grams) 148g

The Radical Novel and the Classless Society analyzes utopian and proletarian novels as a single socialist tradition in U.S. literature. Utopian novels by such writers as Edward Bellamy, William Dean Howells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Sutton E. Griggs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943208227Author Rachel ArteagaFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Amherst CollegePublisher Amherst CollegeWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783898215763Author Maryna RomanetsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem PressWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838202433Author Stefanie RudigFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem PressWeight(grams) 181g

The Poetics of Tenderness a literary-critical essay on love, grounded in the developmental theory of the British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott and shaped by recent work on the neurobiology and anthropology of love. It maintains that sexual love is not...

2023 Perkins Prize of the International Society for the Study of Narrative ESSE Book Award for Junior Scholars for a book in the field of Literatures in the English LanguageResponding to the current surge in present-tense novels, Making Time is an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783898216050Author Melanie A HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem PressWeight(grams) 148g

The book aims to introduce the Homeric oeuvre into the law and literature canon. It argues for a reading of Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey as primordial narratives on the significance of the rule of law. The book delineates moments of correspondence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783898213530Author Ulrich PalluaFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358721072Author Zulfiqar Ali ZulfiFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer PublicationsWeight(grams) 381g

How do our institutions shape us, and how do we shape them? From the late nineteenth-century era of high imperialism to the rise of the British welfare state in the mid-twentieth century, the concept of the institution was interrogated and rethought in...

Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation focuses on nonprocreative and nonbiological kinship ties, revealing the importance of these relationships...

Why does crime feature at the center of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities? This book interrogates the connections that can be found between narratives of crime, cities, and colonialism to bring to light the ramifications of this literary...

How do our institutions shape us, and how do we shape them? From the late nineteenth-century era of high imperialism to the rise of the British welfare state in the mid-twentieth century, the concept of the institution was interrogated and rethought in...

In politics, literature, and popular culture the small town is closely identified with the American national experience. But what do we talk about when we talk about the small town? Does the national myth conceal a deep-seated reactionary tendency or...

Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation focuses on nonprocreative and nonbiological kinship ties, revealing the importance of these relationships...