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(Hardback, 1st ed. 2015)
By: Claire Chambers
ISBN: 9780230252592
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988).
(Paperback)
By: Michael Dirda
ISBN: 9781681772585
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda comes a collection of his most personal and engaging essays on the literary life-the perfect companion for any lover of books.
(Paperback)
By: Sir Richard Burton
ISBN: 9780892814756
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1993
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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Translated by the noted Victorian Orientalist, Sir Richard F. Burton, from the original Sanskrit, these ancient Indian folk tales influenced such later works as "1001 Arabian Nights" and Boccaccio's "Decameron." First published in 1870, these stories will entertain and delight modern readers while illuminating the life and customs of classical India.
(Hardback)
By: Charles W. Chesnutt
ISBN: 9781931082068
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Publisher: The Library of America
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This collection of essential writings from a pioneer of African-American literature features two stories newly restored to print. Eight essays highlight Chesnutt's prescient views on the paradoxes of race relations in America and the definition of race itself.
(Paperback)
By: Andrew Feld
ISBN: 9780060726034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Duncan White
ISBN: 9780349141992
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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In this ground-breaking and fascinating book, Duncan White illuminates a period in history in which literature became one of the most potent of weapons, and its authors often the bravest of warriors: the Cold War.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Nidesh Lawtoo
ISBN: 9781441124616
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Leading scholars, including Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, J. Hillis Miller and Jonathan Dollimore, explore new philosophical perspectives on Joseph Conrad's masterpiece, Heart of Darkness.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Tom Paulin
ISBN: 9780571221165
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An illuminating collection of essays from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, centering on the culture of dissent.
(Paperback)
By: Mason Currey
ISBN: 9781529059960
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 11th June 2020
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Writers, composers, painters, choreographers, playwrights, poets, philosophers, sculptors, filmmakers, and scientists on how they create (and avoid creating!) their creations.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Robert Liddell
ISBN: 9780720609196
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1995
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
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(Paperback)
By: Daniel Kalder
ISBN: 9781786075383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2019
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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A tour of the merciless leaders who inflicted their books upon society, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao and many more
(Hardback)
By: Daniel Kalder
ISBN: 9781786070586
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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A tour of the merciless leaders who inflicted their books upon society, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao and many more
(Hardback, Main)
By: Samuel Beckett
ISBN: 9780571358052
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2020
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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'The chest into which I threw all my wild thoughts': the exuberant first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author.
(Hardback)
By: Andrew Feldman
ISBN: 9781612196381
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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A radically new understanding of Hemingway's life in Cuba, from the first North American scholar permitted to study in residence there.
(Paperback)
By: Giles Murray
ISBN: 9781568365411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Tanya Erzen
ISBN: 9780807006337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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The Twilight saga has bedazzled millions of fans and generated billions in revenue. Erzen introduces readers to the global fanpire--members of Edward-addiction groups, twi-rock musicians, and adherents of vampire religion--to explain how the Twilight series has become a massive cultural phenomenon.
(Paperback)
By: Tanya Erzen
ISBN: 9780807006399
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Hardback)
By: Patrick McGuinness
ISBN: 9781841598055
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2017
Publisher: Everyman
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From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Rda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume introduction to a rich and varied tradition.
(Paperback)
By: Hu Fang
ISBN: 9781934105153
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Sternberg Press
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(Hardback)
By: Martin Premoli
ISBN: 9781350353152
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Michel Houellebecq
ISBN: 9780575084018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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From the notorious, bestselling author of ATOMISED: a scholarly love letter on the hugely influential and reclusive literary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft
(Paperback)
By: Chris Kraus
ISBN: 9781584350125
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2002
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2002
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and new American fiction.
(Hardback)
By: Henry James
ISBN: 9780940450233
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1984
Publisher: The Library of America
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(Paperback)
By: Erin Blakemore
ISBN: 9780061958779
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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From Zora Neale Hurston to Colette, Laura Ingalls Wilder to Charlotte Bronte, Harper Lee to Alice Walker, this title presents the stories of our beloved heroines and the writers who created them. It explores how the pluck and dignity of literary characters such as Jane Eyre and Lizzy Bennet can encourage women.
