Classics / Criticism
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Patience & Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go about the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy
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Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings
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Received Medievalisms: A Cognitive Geography of Viennese Women's Convents
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C. S. Lewis: A Biography
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Practical Virtues: Readings, Sermons, Prayers, and Hymns for the African American Family
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Agnes's Final Afternoon: An Essay on the Work of Milan Kundera
The Homoerotics of Orientalism
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The Centre of Things: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present
Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature
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The Theory of the Novel
Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho
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Twenties
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Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival
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Dark Symphony
The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherrie Moraga
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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V: Later Essays
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Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies
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A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages
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Queer Popular Culture: Literature, Media, Film, and Television
Strangers to Ourselves
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Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World
Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory
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Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction
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