Category - Literary Criticism
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Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An "illuminating" (Daily Mail, London) exploration of the second generation of the iconic Bloomsbury Group who inspired their elders to new heights...
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Finalist for the 2022 Edgar AwardWinner of the 2021 Quinn AwardAn innovative biography of Edgar A...
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Gothic: An Illustrated History
HardcoverOriginal price $37.00Original price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and filmThe word Gothic conjures ass...
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Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventies--termed the post-soul era--created new ways to und...
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Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventies--termed the post-soul era--created new ways to und...
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The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities: Urban Planning, Imperial Power, and the Improvisational Itineraries of the Poor
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities is a comparative study of architectural space in four (post-)colonial capitals: Belfast, Northern Irelan...
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Agatha Christie at Home
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill’s classic book, with many new illustrations, offers an insight into the life and work of the wor...
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Invented History, Fabricated Power: The Narrative Shaping of Civilization and Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$172.99$172.99 - $172.99Current price $172.99| /Invented History, Fabricated Power begins with an examination of prehistoric beliefs (in spirits, souls, mana, orenda) that provided personal exp...
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Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In Equal Natures, Shalyn Claggett argues that Victorian women writers used scientific understandings of the brain to challenge socially construct...
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Glitch Theory: Art and Semiotics
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /What do glitches reveal about the normally invisible processes behind our interpretations? Glitches and Glitch Art illuminate the unseen assumptio...
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Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Photo: to do with light. Phyto: plants and flowers. Proto: the first, the original. Nitro: it blows up.From Troy to Hiroshima, Crimea to the nu...
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95Original price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind is an interdisciplinary volume of literary and cultural scholarship that...
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Show Me a Story!: Why Picture Books Matter: Conversations with 21 of the World's Most Celebrated Illustrators
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In compelling interviews by the acclaimed Leonard S. Marcus, twenty-one top authors and illustrators reveal their inside stories on the art of crea...
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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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The Poetic Edda
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunti...
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Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $139.99 - Original price $139.99Original price $139.99$153.99$153.99 - $153.99Current price $153.99| /This book explores how the writers, poets, thinkers, historians, scientists, dilettantes and frauds of the long-nineteenth century addressed the ...
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Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /". . . impressive work of scholarship . . ." --Exceptional Human Experience Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780253203250 Media Type: Paperback Publishe...
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