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Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England (The Autobiographical Writings of Dionys Fitzherbert)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:20:14 +0000

The narrative presented here is a rare, detailed autobiographical account of one woman's experience of mental disorder in seventeenth-century England. Katharine Hodgkin presents in modern typography an annotated edition of the author's manuscript of this unusual and compelling text. Also include..

Price: $233.99

William Blake and the Productions of Time

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:18:58 +0000

Challenging the idea that a writer’s work reflects his experiences in time and place, Cooper locates the action of William Blake’s major illuminated books in the ahistorical present, an impersonal spirit realm beyond the three-dimensional self. Historicist attempts to place Blake’s vision in persp..

Price: $249.99

Visual Subjectivity in Chinese and American Thought and Literature

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:17:10 +0000

Providing the reader with a systematic study of visual subjectivity in comparative thought and literature, this book analyses the role that vision and visuality, especially interpersonal visuality, plays in the constitution of subject and subjectivity in Chinese and American traditions.

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Transgressive Theatricality, Romanticism, and Mary Wollstonecraft

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:06:05 +0000

Lisa Plummer Crafton argues that, throughout her works, Mary Wollstonecraft engages with early Romantic notions of the theatrical and contributes to contemporary debates on theater. Within the context of the political discourse of the French Revolution, juridical transcripts of treason and civil d..

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Signing the Body (Marks on Skin in Early Modern France)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:53:17 +0000

The first major investigation into the rich history and ambiguous status of body art, this study surveys varied forms of corporeal writing, imprinting and marking in France in the early modern period.

Price: $189.99

The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:42:07 +0000

Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of children’s literature across the globe, this companion is the first volume of its kind to focus on the undervisited regions of the world.

Price: $350.00

Pause and Effect (An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:19:37 +0000

Pause and Effect offers an introduction to the history of punctuation in the West, identifying some of the broader circumstances which have influenced its development; for example, the practices of the early scribes, changing attitudes to the written word and the impact of printing. The core of t..

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Memory, Intermediality, and Literature (Something to Hold on to)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:08:53 +0000

This book investigates how selected literary works use intermedial strategies to represent and perform cultural memory. Drawing on the theoretical perspectives of cultural memory studies, new materialism and intermediality studies, it analyzes works by Alexander Kluge, W.G. Sebald, and more.

Price: $249.99

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (A Publishing History)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:00:08 +0000

Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and mysterious as the stories themselves. Zoe Jaques and Eugene Giddens offer a detailed account of the initial publication of the Alice books, investigating how their subsequent transformations through print, illustration, f..

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Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film (Secret Messages and Buried Treasure)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:05:14 +0000

What Steven Walker labels a cryptic subtext, is an extreme case of hypertextuality. It involves a series of allusions to another text that have been inserted by the author into the primary text as potential points of reference. This book takes a deep dive into a broad array of lit..

Price: $233.99