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Finnegans Wakes
Tales of Translation
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9781487541996
Pub Date: March 2022
In this unique book, Patrick O’Neill charts the international history of translations of the untranslatable Finnegans Wake.
Making Pictorial Print
Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885–1918
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9781487506735
Pub Date: December 2021
Applying media theory to late-Victorian print, Making Pictorial Print shows how popular illustrated magazines developed a new design interface that encouraged dynamic engagement and media literacy in the British public.
Beowulf as Children’s Literature
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9781487502706
Pub Date: December 2021
Beowulf as Children’s Literature brings together a group of scholars and creators to address important issues of adapting the Old English poem into textual and pictorial forms that appeal to children, past and present.
The Reception of Northrop Frye
Price: $150.00
ISBN: 9781487508203
Pub Date: September 2021
The Reception of Northrup Frye takes a thorough accounting of the presence of Frye in existing works and argues against Frye’s diminishing status as an important critical voice.
Languages of Trauma
History, Memory, and Media
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781487508968
Pub Date: March 2021
Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.
The Chronology of Revolution
Communism, Culture, and Civil Society in Twentieth-Century Britain
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9781487507398
Pub Date: February 2021
The Chronology of Revolution is a fresh, outward-facing history of the Communist Party of Great Britain with a compelling lesson for today’s socialist activists.
The Akunin Project
The Mysteries and Histories of Russia's Bestselling Author
Price: $46.95
ISBN: 9781487525767
Pub Date: February 2021
You don’t know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first century.
Penetrating Critiques
Emasculated Empire and Victorian Identity in Africa
Price: $84.00
ISBN: 9781487501525
Pub Date: November 2020
Penetrating Critiques pairs Victorian literary texts set in Africa with archival texts in order to explore the fraught problem of British masculinity and its construction.
Diplomacy and the Modern Novel
France, Britain, and the Mission of Literature
Price: $68.00
ISBN: 9781487508098
Pub Date: October 2020
Why have so many diplomats been writers? Why have so many writers served as diplomats? This book provides some fascinating insights into the connections between literature and diplomacy.
Useless Joyce
Textual Functions, Cultural Appropriations
Price: $31.95
ISBN: 9781487519957
Pub Date: July 2020
Tim Conley’s Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art.
Maps of Empire
A Topography of World Literature
Price: $68.00
ISBN: 9781487506841
Pub Date: June 2020
Maps of Empire examines how literature was affected by the decay and break up of old models of imperial administration in the mid-twentieth century.
Critical Alliances
Economics and Feminism in English Women’s Writing, 1880–1914
Price: $74.00
ISBN: 9781442637559
Pub Date: January 2020
This study argues that feminist collaboration was vital to women’s successful infiltration of the marketplace at the end of the nineteenth century and Edwardian period.
Wilde Writings
Contextual Conditions
Price: $41.95
ISBN: 9781487525453
Pub Date: December 2019
Featuring thirteen original essays that examine Wilde's achievements as an aesthete, critic, dramatist, novelist, and poet, this provocative and ground-breaking volume ushers the field of Oscar Wilde studies into the twenty-first century.
Women’s Writing in Canada
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780802095015
Pub Date: August 2019
This study discusses the influences, crossovers, and multiple genres through which women writers represent a changed and changing Canada.
Beautiful Untrue Things
Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife
Price: $86.00
ISBN: 9781487502904
Pub Date: July 2019
Beautiful Untrue Things explores the astonishing flurry of Oscar Wilde forgeries that circulated in the early twentieth century, offering an innovative reading that considers literary forgery a form of fan fiction.
Between Rhyme and Reason
Vladimir Nabokov, Translation, and Dialogue
Price: $81.00
ISBN: 9781487502997
Pub Date: May 2019
Using familiar and previously unknown materials, Stanislav Shvabrin has created an interpretative chronicle of Vladimir Nabokov’s dialogic engagement with his peers in the field of literary translation, mapping his evolution as translator and translation theorist.

Finnegans Wakes
Tales of Translation
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9781487541996
Pub Date: March 2022
In this unique book, Patrick O’Neill charts the international history of translations of the untranslatable Finnegans Wake.
Making Pictorial Print
Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885–1918
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9781487506735
Pub Date: December 2021
Applying media theory to late-Victorian print, Making Pictorial Print shows how popular illustrated magazines developed a new design interface that encouraged dynamic engagement and media literacy in the British public.
Beowulf as Children’s Literature
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9781487502706
Pub Date: December 2021
Beowulf as Children’s Literature brings together a group of scholars and creators to address important issues of adapting the Old English poem into textual and pictorial forms that appeal to children, past and present.
The Reception of Northrop Frye
Price: $150.00
ISBN: 9781487508203
Pub Date: September 2021
The Reception of Northrup Frye takes a thorough accounting of the presence of Frye in existing works and argues against Frye’s diminishing status as an important critical voice.
Languages of Trauma
History, Memory, and Media
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781487508968
Pub Date: March 2021
Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.
The Chronology of Revolution
Communism, Culture, and Civil Society in Twentieth-Century Britain
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9781487507398
Pub Date: February 2021
The Chronology of Revolution is a fresh, outward-facing history of the Communist Party of Great Britain with a compelling lesson for today’s socialist activists.
The Akunin Project
The Mysteries and Histories of Russia's Bestselling Author
Price: $46.95
ISBN: 9781487525767
Pub Date: February 2021
You don’t know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first century.
Penetrating Critiques
Emasculated Empire and Victorian Identity in Africa
Price: $84.00
ISBN: 9781487501525
Pub Date: November 2020
Penetrating Critiques pairs Victorian literary texts set in Africa with archival texts in order to explore the fraught problem of British masculinity and its construction.
Diplomacy and the Modern Novel
France, Britain, and the Mission of Literature
Price: $68.00
ISBN: 9781487508098
Pub Date: October 2020
Why have so many diplomats been writers? Why have so many writers served as diplomats? This book provides some fascinating insights into the connections between literature and diplomacy.
Useless Joyce
Textual Functions, Cultural Appropriations
Price: $31.95
ISBN: 9781487519957
Pub Date: July 2020
Tim Conley’s Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art.
Maps of Empire
A Topography of World Literature
Price: $68.00
ISBN: 9781487506841
Pub Date: June 2020
Maps of Empire examines how literature was affected by the decay and break up of old models of imperial administration in the mid-twentieth century.
Critical Alliances
Economics and Feminism in English Women’s Writing, 1880–1914
Price: $74.00
ISBN: 9781442637559
Pub Date: January 2020
This study argues that feminist collaboration was vital to women’s successful infiltration of the marketplace at the end of the nineteenth century and Edwardian period.
Wilde Writings
Contextual Conditions
Price: $41.95
ISBN: 9781487525453
Pub Date: December 2019
Featuring thirteen original essays that examine Wilde's achievements as an aesthete, critic, dramatist, novelist, and poet, this provocative and ground-breaking volume ushers the field of Oscar Wilde studies into the twenty-first century.
Women’s Writing in Canada
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780802095015
Pub Date: August 2019
This study discusses the influences, crossovers, and multiple genres through which women writers represent a changed and changing Canada.
Beautiful Untrue Things
Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife
Price: $86.00
ISBN: 9781487502904
Pub Date: July 2019
Beautiful Untrue Things explores the astonishing flurry of Oscar Wilde forgeries that circulated in the early twentieth century, offering an innovative reading that considers literary forgery a form of fan fiction.
Between Rhyme and Reason
Vladimir Nabokov, Translation, and Dialogue
Price: $81.00
ISBN: 9781487502997
Pub Date: May 2019
Using familiar and previously unknown materials, Stanislav Shvabrin has created an interpretative chronicle of Vladimir Nabokov’s dialogic engagement with his peers in the field of literary translation, mapping his evolution as translator and translation theorist.