Category - Literary Criticism
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Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Tales of Times Now Past is a translation of 62 outstanding tales freshly selected from Konjaku monogatari shu, a Japanese anthology dating from t...
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The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender ca...
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Love Poems from Spain and Spanish America
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The nearly seventy poems in this bilingual anthology are concerned with many kinds of love: erotic love, sublime love, filial love, maternal love...
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The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Shakespeare is synonymous with English literature. Well-loved the world over, his work endures for its ability to speak powerfully to the follies...
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To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charle...
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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English—and what they reveal ab...
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A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A tre...
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Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a tho...
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Engaging the Ottoman Empire: Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Daniel O'Quinn investigates the complex interpersonal, political, and aesthetic relationships between Europeans and Ottomans in the long eighteen...
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The Voynich Manuscript
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle"For the first time, a complete reproducti...
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Micro Middle Ages
HardcoverOriginal price $129.99 - Original price $129.99Original price $129.99$143.99$143.99 - $143.99Current price $143.99| /Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader c...
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Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements
HardcoverOriginal price $139.99 - Original price $139.99Original price $139.99$153.99$153.99 - $153.99Current price $153.99| /This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages. Medieval Mobilities questions how medieval people, ...
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Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed ...
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Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed ...
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The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
HardcoverOriginal price $64.95 - Original price $64.95Original price $64.95$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /The Politics of Emotion explores the intersection of powerful emotional states—love, melancholy, grief, and madness—with gender and political pow...
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The Illusion of the Burgundian State
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /On 25 January 1474, Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, appeared before his subjects in Dijon. Robed in silk, gold and precious jewels and wearin...
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Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales, 1400-1700
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Places have the power to suspend disbelief, even ...
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Polish Jewish Re-Remembering: Studies--Sketches--Interpretations
HardcoverOriginal price $139.00 - Original price $139.00Original price $139.00$160.99$160.99 - $160.99Current price $160.99| /Polish-Jewish Re-Remembering addresses Polish-Jewish relations, including the impact of Jews on the development of national culture in the twentiet...
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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English--and what they reveal abo...
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The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII"A delight-...
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Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalization John Milton (1608-1674) h...
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /A fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller—from William Wordsworth and Mary Wo...
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England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$134.99$134.99 - $134.99Current price $134.99| /New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for understanding Chaucer's poetry. Chaucer never went to Bohemia but Bohemia came to him wh...
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Marcel Proust: A Life
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The celebrated novelist and influential cultural critic's classic biography of one of history's most important writers, Marcel Proust If there is a...
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