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$22.50
xxsip181460

Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature


HATTAWAY, MICHAEL

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Blackwell Publishing 2005

KEYWORDS: English literature literary criticism history

$65.00
1y99d/69

An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Robert Browning


DREW, PHILIP

TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxvii + 106pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl scuffing & soiling to spine & boards)

PUBLISHER: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1990

KEYWORDS: bibliographies bibliography literature literary Robert Browning critical criticism

$22.50
xxsom181652

Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism


DOLLIMORE, JONATHAN & SINFIELD, ALAN (eds.)

Octavo softcover (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1985

KEYWORDS: shakespeare cultural materialism literary criticism theater theatre stephen greenblatt

$40.00
2i3a/26

Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature


STEPHENS, JOHN & McCALLUM, ROBYN

Octavo, illus heavy boards, gilt lettering to grey buckram spine, xi + 316pp, VG (light bruising to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name & other sm ink markings to eps, occasional & unobtrusive pencil markings & underlining, sl occasioanl cracking to gutters, sl soiling to some pages occasionally throughout)

PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1998

KEYWORDS: children's literature literary criticism history classical

$50.00
2i3a/31

Children's Writing in New Zealand Newspapers, 1930s and 1980s


HOLT, MOLLY JILL

UNPUBLISHED THESIS, lg quarto, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, v + 368pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems & board edges, spine cocked, sl chafing & soiling to boards, light foxing & soiling to page edges, bindery adhesive label to front pastedown, sl foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: University of Auckland (Thesis) 2000

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa children's literature literary criticism thesis theses newspapers

$22.50
xxspd181713

The Hundreds


BERLANT, LAUREN & STEWART, KATHLEEN

Octavo softcover (Nr. FINE); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 2019

KEYWORDS: writing literary criticism philosophy cultural studies anthropology affect theory language

$30.00
xxspg181750

Studies in Christ and Satan


SLEETH, CHARLES R.

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: University of Toronto Press 1982

KEYWORDS: christ and satan verse poem poetry old english junius manuscript literary criticism

$100.00
2a18a/7

Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection; with Some of its Applications


WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL

Octavo, green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, blind rule to boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 494pp, folding map to pg 348, VG- (heavy chipping to spine extrems with some sl loss, light bruising & scuffing to board corners, moderate discolouration to spine, moderate chafing to boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, various sm ink markings to prelims, heavy cracking to some gutters, moderate foxing to frontis & title page, light tanning, foxing & staining to fold out map- no tears)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1890

KEYWORDS: darwinism theory evolution criticism literary Charles Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace philosophy

$100.00
2a18a/24

Skepticism and Memory in Shakespeare and Donne


SHERMAN, ANITA GILMAN

Octavo, beige heavy boards, red lettering to spine, xvi + 240pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling to boards, v occasional marking in ink to margins)

PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2007

KEYWORDS: literature Shakespeare literary criticism Donne history

$40.00
2a18a/26

The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound


ELIOT, T. S. & ELIOT, VALERIE (Ed)

Lg quarto, yellow glossy light card covers, black & red lettering to spine, xxx + 149pp, VG- (moderate scuffing & fading to spine, moderate creasing & curling to cover edges with fading, heavy vertical crease to full length of front cover)

PUBLISHER: Harvest/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers 1974

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism poems poetry verse T S Eliot annotations Ezra Pound

$40.00
2a18a/28

Writing and European Thought 1600-1830


HUDSON, NICHOLAS

Super octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 222pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism Europe European history historical

$40.00
2a18a/31

Writing From History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature


HAMPTON, TIMOTHY

Super octavo, mauve glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 309pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to covers & edges, light chafing, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history renaissance writing intellectual culture

$60.00
2a18b/2

English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition


KING, JOHN N.

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xvi + 539pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1982

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism reformation history

$150.00
2a18b/3

Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance


HUNT, MAURICE

Octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 148pp, Near FINE (light bruising to boards) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing 2004

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history drama religion religious Christianity Shakespeare

$40.00
2a18b/4

The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas


ECO, UMBERTO & BREDIN, HUGH (Trans)

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 287pp, Near FINE (sl curling to cover edges, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: Thomas Aquinas literature literary criticism religion religious medieval philosophy

$85.00
2a18b/21

Middleton's Vulgar Pasquin: Essays on 'A Game at Chess'


HOWARD-HILL, T. H.

Super octavo, black buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 341pp, illus, VG+ (sl scuffing & bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges)

PUBLISHER: Associated University Presses 1995

KEYWORDS: literature historiography politics government chess allegory political plays criticism literary

$40.00
2a18b/22

Interpretation and Theology in Spenser


GLESS, DARRYL J.

Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 273pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to edges)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994

KEYWORDS: theology religion religious literature literary doctrine Christianity Edmund Spenser poetry history criticism

$40.00
2a18d/4

Scenic Form in Shakespeare


JONES, EMRYS

TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 269pp, VG (minimal library marks, light bruising to extrems, moderate water damage to lower spine extrem with paper residue adhered to spine, light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate water damage/staining to lower spine extrem, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1971

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism Shakespeare structure plays stage drama theatre theater

$80.00
2a18d/5

The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis & the Pursuit of Paganism


BARKAN, LEONARD

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black & grey lettering to spine, xvi + 398pp, VG (light creasing & curling to cover edges with some moderate fading, moderate creasing & fading to spine, light soiling to page edges, moderate crack to gutter of pgs 246/247, occasional markings to margins in pencil)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1986

KEYWORDS: art history literary criticism literature classical classics Ovid metamorphosis philosophy

$75.00
2a18d/45

The Capsule of the Mind: Chapters in the Life of Emily Dickinson


WARD, THEODORA

FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram boards, black lettering to spine, illus full title page, x + 205pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light fading to board edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy creasing to edges of pgs 17-34) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges with some minor closed tearing & discreet archival tape repairs, moderate chafing & soiling, light tanning to flaps)

PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press Harvard University Press 1961

KEYWORDS: first edition Emily Dickinson literary literature biographies memoirs poems poetry criticism

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