Category - Literary Criticism
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Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance
HardcoverOriginal price $84.00 - Original price $84.00Original price $84.00$100.99$100.99 - $100.99Current price $100.99| /Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century t...
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Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics explores an often-overlooked genre of graphic narratives: those that fictionalize hi...
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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times Editors' Choice Book and a New Yorker Best Book of 2022 So Far Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub and Goodrea...
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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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American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces so...
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Exil in Kinder- Und Jugendmedien
PaperbackOriginal price $45.99 - Original price $45.99Original price $45.99$61.99$61.99 - $61.99Current price $61.99| /Das Jahrbuch Exilforschung 2023 widmet sich der Vermittlung von Exil- und Migrationserfahrung in Kinder- und Jugendmedien aus kindlicher Perspekti...
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Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840: 'Electrick Communication Every Where'
HardcoverOriginal price $119.99 - Original price $119.99Original price $119.99$133.99$133.99 - $133.99Current price $133.99| /This book investigates the science of electricity in the long eighteenth century and its textual life in literary and political writings. Electri...
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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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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Most of us give little thought to the back of the book--it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful a...
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Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up Volume 71
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture...
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The Vampire: A New History
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 authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of...
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On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia “Richly detailed and i...
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Why Read Moby-Dick?
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece—from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Vali...
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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television’s ...
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Patience & Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /“Compulsory for anyone seriously interested in books or curious about the manic nature of collecting.” —New York Times Book Review In his nationa...
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