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Theodore Dalrymple
Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder

The twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson chided Agatha Christie for her "mawkishness and banality" and declared her work "literally impossible to read." Even if this were so…

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Nicole M Rizzuto
Arresting Ecologies

It is a truism that the last one hundred years have been defined by the accelerated and increased propulsion of people and information across seas, land, and air. Also a truism is that literature and art …

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Antonio Sergio Bessa
Noigandres

The Noigandres group was one of the key movements in Brazilian modernism. Bessa's account works through the specific poetic innovations that are the hallmark of the concrete poetics the group developed. T…

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David James
Discrepant Solace

Discrepant Solace studies some of the most challenging works of late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction and life-writing to consider narratives that engage with consolation as an enduring problem…

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Corrinne Harol
The Postsecular Restoration and the Making of Literary Conservatism

"Focused on conservative writers of the long Restoration, this book reveals a synergistic relationship between postsecularity and the modern sphere of literature. Its provocative account of the relat…

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Ágota Márton
Geometries of Empathy

What does it mean to empathize today?Virginia Woolf was convinced that 'the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved', first and foremost, to 'e…

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Stephen Orgel
The Texts of Shakespeare

How did plays from the popular theatre, written by an author better known as a poet, become the greatest literary monument in English? Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how the transformation o…

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Louis Klee
The Constellational Novel

A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose form. The Constellational Novel aims to shed light on the field of contemporary literature b…

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Emmy Waldman
Filial Lines

This is the first book to place the autobiographical projects of canonical comics authors Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel alongside each other, focusing on new and neglected works (and with an epilogue …

lieferbar ab 30.4.2026.

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Antonio Sergio Bessa
Noigandres

The Noigandres group was one of the key movements in Brazilian modernism. Bessa's account works through the specific poetic innovations that are the hallmark of the concrete poetics the group developed. T…

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The Oxford Handbook of Russian Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Poetry brings together forty original chapters by scholars, critics, and poets from across North America, Russia, and Europe, offering a wide-ranging account of the Russian …

lieferbar ab 24.7.2026.

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Caroline Rody
Writing the Great House

The great house is renowned as the setting for countless English novels and films. But Writing the Great House shows it to be not only an influential icon in the history of the European novel but also a t…

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Global King Lear

Global King Lear provides a kaleidoscopic view of multinational adaptations of King Lear with a focus on productions across Asia and Eastern Europe. By approaching Shakespeare's great tragedy as a global …

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Gregory Crane
Philology in a Digital Age

Philology in a Digital Age: Selected Papers brings together more than four decades of scholarship by Gregory Crane documenting the evolution of Classical Studies during the rise of digital technologies--i…

lieferbar ab 28.8.2026.

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A History of English Georgic Writing

This volume surveys the literature of rural working lives and landscapes written in English between 1500 and the present day, offering a range of scholarly perspectives on the georgic tradition, with insi…

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Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray

A perfect depiction of fin-de-siècle decadence, Oscar Wilde's only novel highlights the tension between the polished surface and murky depths of Victorian high society.Dorian Gray is young, arrogant and d…

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Beci Carver
Modernism's Whims

Thomas Hardy asks of the ghost stalking him: 'Whither, O whither will your whim now draw me?' Immediately tripping up on its own laid-out comma, then pausing to howl theatrically, and hedging its bets wit…

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Arthur Hugh Clough

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), one of the most distinctive writers of the Victorian p…

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Steven Belletto
The Beats

Kerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation, but in fact they were only the front line of a much more wide-ranging literary and cultural movement. This critical hi…

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Stephen M Fallon
Milton and Newton

John Milton, England's greatest narrative poet, and Isaac Newton, England's greatest natural philosopher, are rarely thought of together. While one is regarded as the last great figure of the English Rena…

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