Search Results: Literary History from House of Our Own Books

Cambridge, England, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2017. This is a study of British detective fiction and other kinds of crime writing in order to show how crime and criminality were understood and represented between the wars (black covers with gold lettering on spine; gray pictorial dust jacket with white & yellow lettering and photo on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1987. This critical study of the rise of the novel argues that fiction written by women in 18th and 19th century England, rather than being incidental to the events of history, paved the way for the rise of the modern middle class (black covers with gold lettering on spine; dust jacket has crease along upper edge; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press, 1952. This history of Roman comedy is primarily a study of the work of two comic poets, Plautus and Terence; it examines the background and history of Roman comedy, the staging and presentation of the plays, the nature of the comedies, including stage conventions, plot structures, suspense and irony, delineation of character, moral tone of the plays, humor in situation, character and language, the originality of the authors and their relation to the Greek originals, their influence on later comedy in the 16th and 17th centuries; includes illustrations (dark red cloth with silver lettering, ends of spine slightly creased, foredge has light foxing; yellow dustjacket with brown lettering is slightly shelfworn; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy). Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 2017. This book is about the human disaster of suicide, how literature records, configures, and imagines survivors' responses, and the impulse to imagine one's own suicide as peculiarly and pervasively human; it concerns 20th and 21st literature and how it represents the ultimate assertion of selfhood at its decisive end (black covers with gold lettering on spine; white, green & black dust jacket; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.: Cornell University Press, 2011. This book is the third in a trilogy of studies by the author of race and imperialism in British culture from about 1800 to the modern era; this volume focuses on various contradictions inherent in racist and imperialist ideology by examining racial stereotypes in Victorian literature and culture that helped to justify British imperial authority (black covers with gold lettering on spine; brown pictorial dust jacket with red, black & white lettering; a bright, clean tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. As New/As New.