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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Penguin Classics)

By: Lewis Carroll

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Penguin Classics: April 2003

Seller ID: 7177

ISBN: 0141439769

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865, it set critics awry: here was a book for children written for the pure pleasure of reading. It has since become one of the most famous children's books ever, translated into many different languages, performed as a play, and made into a popular Disney animated film. @AliceInTheSkyWithDiamonds Is it OK to drink from a mysterious bottle that's been opened? What if there are Ruffies in it? From "Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less"
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Authoring a Life : A Womans Survival in and Through Literay Studies

By: BRENDA O. DALY

Price: $21.00

Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr: April 1998

Seller ID: 6571

ISBN: 0791436802

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

D. H. Lawrence: Aesthetics and Ideology

By: Anne Fernihough

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: September 1993

Seller ID: 6565

ISBN: 0198112351

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

The vast body of Lawrence scholarship has veered between the extremes of uncritical celebration and violent denigration. This first extended study of Lawrence's aesthetics draws on a number of modern critical approaches to present an original and balanced analysis of Lawrence's literary and art criticism, and of the complex cultural context from which it emerged. This fascinating and lucid study reveals Lawrence's art criticism as pluralistic and anti-authoritarian, a necessary antidote to his sometimes brutally authoritarian politics and to the dogma and rigidity that pervades so many other a...
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Empathic Reader: A Study of the Narcissistic Character and the Drama of the Self

By: J. Brooks Bouson

Price: $30.00

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press: October 1989

Seller ID: 6536

ISBN: 0870236784

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Iliad or the Poem of Force

By: Simon Weil

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Pendle Hill Publications: August 1985

Seller ID: 39634

ISBN: 087574091X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

John Dryden's Imagery

By: Hoffman, Arthur W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Univeristy of Florida Press: 1968

Seller ID: 6546

ISBN: 9110002448

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Marxists on Literature: An Anthology (Pelican)

By: Various

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics): December 1975

Seller ID: 6646

ISBN: 0140218092

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Mary Shelley's Monster : The Story of Frankenstein

By: Martin Tropp

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: January 1977

Seller ID: 37984

ISBN: 0395253373

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Mourning, Gender, and Creativity in the Art of Herman Melville

By: Neal L. Tolchin

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: March 1988

Seller ID: 6554

ISBN: 0300039751

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

New England: Indian Summer 1865-1915, Limited Edition

By: Van Wyck Brooks

Price: $38.98

Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: December 1939

Seller ID: 129189

ISBN: B00127Z4UG

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Not Even Past: Race, Historical Trauma, and Subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten (American Literatures Initiative)

By: Dorothy Stringer

Price: $31.00

Publisher: Fordham University Press: November 2009

Seller ID: 6579

ISBN: 082323147X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Not Even Past highlights references to nineteenth-century U.S. slavery and anti-Black racism in literary and photographic projects begun during the late 1920s and early 1930s, including novels by William Faulkner and Nella Larsen, and portraits by Carl Van Vechten. These texts share a representational crisis, in which distinctions between present, quotidian racism and a massive, fully racialized historical trauma disappear. All identify persistent historical traumatization with intense subjective states (including madness, religious ecstasy, narcissism, and fetishistic enjoyment), and each exp...
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Passages from the English Notebooks

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Price: $19.95

Publisher: BiblioBazaar: May 2007

Seller ID: 32434

ISBN: 1426495293

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
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Rape and Representation (Gender and Culture Series)

By: John J. Winkler, Patricia Klindienst Joplin, Susan Winnett, Ellen Rooney, Coppelia Kahn, Eileen Julien, Marta Piexoto, Brenda R. Silver

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Columbia University Press: July 1993

Seller ID: 6534

ISBN: 0231072678

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Rape does not have to happen. The fact that it does--and in the United States a rape is reported every six minutes--indicates that we live in a rape-prone culture where rape or the threat of rape functions as a tool for enforcing sexual difference and hierarchy. "Rape and Representation" explores how cultural forms construct and reenforce social attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate sexual violence. The essays proceed from the observation that literature not only reflects but also contributes to what a society believes about itself.Fourteen essays by authors in the fields of English...
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The Best of Edward Abbey

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Sierra Club Books: March 1988

Seller ID: 56103

ISBN: 0871567865

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This book is a collection of thirty-one fiction and nonfiction pieces, selected by one of America's most popular and celebrated authors, including selections from his best-sellers The Monkey Wrench Gang, Desert Solitaire, The Brave Cowboy, Abbey's Road, Down the River, The Journey Home, and others. This gathering, which has the distinction of being both authored and edited by Abbey, provides a unity and consistency not found in any other collections.Those unfamiliar with Abbey will find this the ideal single-volume introduction to his work, while those who know his writing will treasure th...
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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-SiÃ¨cle France

By: N/A

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Zone Books: November 1998

Seller ID: 15603

ISBN: 1890951072

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

In France at the end of the nineteenth century, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture as the twentieth century came to a close resonate strikingly with those of the last fin-de-si?cle: crime, pollution, sexually transmitted diseases, gender confusion, moral depravity, alcoholism, and tobacco and drug use were topics of popular discussion then as now.The Decadent Reader is a collection of novels and stories from fin-de-si?cle France that celebrate decline, aestheticize decay, and take pleasure in perversity...
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The Demon and the Dove

By: van Kaam, Adrian and Kathleen Healy

Price: $12.00

Seller ID: 9419

ISBN: demondove

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The literature of fidelity

By: Michael H Black

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble: January 1975

Seller ID: 6564

ISBN: 0064904407

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The Porous Sanctuary: Art and Anxiety in Poe's Short Fiction (Sexuality and Literature)

By: William Freedman

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing: January 2002

Seller ID: 6574

ISBN: 0820451819

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2002. Sexuality and Literature. Vol. 10 General Editor: John Maynard
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The Strategy of Letters

By: Mette Hjort

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press: August 1993

Seller ID: 6551

ISBN: 0674840526

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

The Suicide Club (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Price: $1.50

Publisher: Dover Publications: November 2000

Seller ID: 16213

ISBN: 0486414167

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Short story trilogy involving a club for people who wish to end their lives. The "Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts," "Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk," and "The Adventure of the Hansom Cab" chronicle the exploits of Prince Florizel of Bohemia and Colonel Geraldine through some of 19th-century London's most dangerous haunts.
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WALKING ON AIR

By: N/A

Price: $2.00

Publisher: N/A: January 0001

Seller ID: 14265

ISBN: 0955296218

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew