Literary Criticism, September 2017 | Best Sellers

by LJ Reviews
Sep 14, 2017 | Filed in Reviews+
November 2016 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
November 2016 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
  1. Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel Stubbs, John W.W. Norton 2017. ISBN 9780393239423. $39.95
  2. South and West: From a Notebook Didion, Joan Alfred A. Knopf 2017. ISBN 9781524732790. $21
  3. At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present DiBattista, Maria Princeton University Press 2017. ISBN 9780691138114. $29.95
  4. Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast Marshall, Megan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017. ISBN 9780544617308. $30
  5. Charles Dickens: An Introduction Hartley, Jenny Oxford University Press 2017. ISBN 9780198788164. $16.95
  6. The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography Gordon, Edmund Oxford University Press 2017. ISBN 9780190626846. $35
  7. One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern Bloch, R. Howard Liveright: Norton 2017. ISBN 9780871406637. $27.95
  8. How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays Lake, Peter Yale University Press 2016. ISBN 9780300222715. $37.50
  9. Kafka: The Early Years Stach, Reiner Princeton University Press 2017. ISBN 9780691151984. $35
  10. The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Miserables Bellos, David Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2017. ISBN 9780374223236. $27
  11. Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature Hack, Daniel Princeton University Press 2017. ISBN 9780691169453. $35
  12. By Women Possessed: A Life of Eugene O’Neill Gelb, Arthur Putnam 2016. ISBN 9780399159114. $50
  13. Octavia E. Butler Canavan, Gerry University of Illinois Press 2016. ISBN 9780252040665. $95
  14. The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White Thomas, Brook Johns Hopkins University Press 2017. ISBN 9781421421322. $40
  15. Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes Sims, Michael Bloomsbury 2017. ISBN 9781632860392. $27
  16. Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll Beer, Gillian University of Chicago Press 2016. ISBN 9780226041506. $35
  17. The Great Latin American Novel Fuentes, Carlos Dalkey Archive 2016. ISBN 9781628971309. $23
  18. Montaigne: A Life Desan, Philippe Princeton University Press 2017. ISBN 9780691167879. $39.95
  19. Chaucer: Visual Approaches Fein, Susanna Pennsylvania State University Press 2016. ISBN 9780271074801. $69.95
  20. Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us About Evolution Ruse, Michael Oxford University Press 2017. ISBN 9780190241025. $34.95
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