Category - Literary Criticism
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Freedom Beyond Confinement: Travel and Imagination in African-American Cultural History and Letters
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$172.99$172.99 - $172.99Current price $172.99| /Freedom Beyond Confinement examines the cultural history of African American travel and the lasting influence of travel on the imagination particul...
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Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /First popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that...
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Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780198866275 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Publication Date: 06-30-2023 Pages: 0
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Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections betwee...
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Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/O Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $93.00 - Original price $93.00Original price $93.00$110.99$110.99 - $110.99Current price $110.99| /Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature, explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o ...
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Imperium in Imperio
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics....
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The Negro
PaperbackOriginal price $10.99 - Original price $10.99Original price $10.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /This is the classic history of the African peoples in Africa and the New World, a repudiation of the absurd belief, widely held in the post-Civil W...
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Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story of Black Slavery. with Original Illustrations (Aziloth Books)
PaperbackOriginal price $9.85 - Original price $9.85Original price $9.85$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /In 1841, a 33 year-old black carpenter named Simon Northup was living with his wife and children in upstate New York. A well-known fiddle player, h...
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Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw
HardcoverOriginal price $99.99 - Original price $99.99Original price $99.99$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /The remarkable autobiography of a Black woman evangelist. As a young Black orphan indentured to a Quaker family in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Zilpha E...
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Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The remarkable autobiography of a Black woman evangelist. As a young Black orphan indentured to a Quaker family in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Zilpha E...
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Virginia Woolf on the Ghost Stories of Henry James
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /First published in 1940, this volume contains a collection of classic essays by Virginia Woolf on the subject of Henry James and his work. Henry Ja...
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Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A dazzling new look into the short but intense, tragic life and remarkable work of John Keats, one of the greatest lyric poets of the English lan...
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Anna Karenina
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome office...
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An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans: Revised and Updated Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Published in Boston in 1833, Lydia Maria Child's An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans provided the abolitionist movement ...
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Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuries Before Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonis...
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Liminal Whiteness in Early Us Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Hannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation. In a Cri...
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Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to a...
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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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American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation defied power and created visions of America still resonant toda...
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The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“A wildly entertaining read.”—The Washington PostWhat if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A literary scholar offer...
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Shelleyan Reimaginings and Influence: New Relations
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Through attuned close readings, this volume brings out the imaginative and formal brilliance of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writing as it explores his...
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Spectral Dickens: The Uncanny Forms of Novelistic Characterization
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Drawing on the recent ontological turn in critical theory, Spectral Dickens explores an aspect of literary character that is neither real nor fic...
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The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It loca...
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