Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Programming Literature

Programming Literature

Author: Rebecca Roach (Associate Professor of Contemporary Literature, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780198976561
Format: Hardback
$182.95

This is a book about the archival worlds of literature and computing, and the myriad of relations that have existed...  Read More >>

Contemporary American Fiction and Cultures of Self-Help

Contemporary American Fiction and Cultures of Self-Help...

Author: Gillian Moore (Trinity College Dublin)
ISBN: 9781009438490
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Offers a unique look at the charged relationships between contemporary fiction and self-help culture. It explores...  Read More >>

Feminist Gothic: Ghost Stories by Victorian Women Writers

Feminist Gothic: Ghost Stories by Victorian Women Writers...

Author: Anne DeLong
ISBN: 9781041028529
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This examination of thirty-two ghost stories by twenty-one Victorian women writers defines a new genre, feminist...  Read More >>

Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903-1913

Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903-1913

Author: L.M. Montgomery ,  Benjamin Lefebvre
ISBN: 9781049800165
Format: Paperback
$89.99

With critical commentary by L.M. Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre, Schooled with Briars reprints six of Montgomery's...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood...

Author: Lauren Rule Maxwell
ISBN: 9781603297226
Format: Paperback
$87.99

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The Emotions in Liberal Writing, C.1790–C.1920

The Emotions in Liberal Writing, C.1790–C.1920

Author: Jock Macleod ,  Peter Denney
ISBN: 9781526185587
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This book analyses the treatment of the emotions in liberal writing in Britain over the long nineteenth century,...  Read More >>

Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903-1913

Schooled with Briars: Collected Serials, 1903-1913

Author: L.M. Montgomery ,  Benjamin Lefebvre
ISBN: 9781487517472
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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Cervantes, Technology, and the Novel: An Aesthetic of Instrumentality in Don Quixote

Cervantes, Technology, and the Novel: An Aesthetic of...

Author: Cory A. Reed
ISBN: 9781487566036
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Cervantes, Technology, and the Novel studies Don Quixote in the context of early modern mechanics, technological...  Read More >>

Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway

Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway

Author: Jeffrey Meyers
ISBN: 9780807185094
Format: Hardback
$81.40

The multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the...  Read More >>

Green Thursday

Green Thursday

Author: Julia Peterkin
ISBN: 9781025253978
Format: Paperback
$50.03

""Green Thursday"" by acclaimed author Julia Peterkin presents a compelling collection of short stories rooted deeply...  Read More >>

Beckett and Leopardi

Beckett and Leopardi

Author: Peter Boxall (University of Oxford) ,  Peter Nicholls (New York University)
ISBN: 9781009431002
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett. It suggests that Leopardi becomes...  Read More >>

The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions

The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual...

Author: Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas (University of Granada, Spain) ,  Leire Olabarria (University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781350289666
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Focusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection...  Read More >>

Borges's Creative Infidelities: Translating Joyce, Woolf and Faulkner

Borges's Creative Infidelities: Translating Joyce, Woolf...

Author: Dr. Leah Leone Anderson (Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
ISBN: 9781501398322
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Using comparative analyses of source and target texts, Leone Anderson examines Jorge Luis Borges’s residual presence...  Read More >>

Green Thursday

Green Thursday

Author: Julia Peterkin
ISBN: 9781025253985
Format: Hardback
$84.35

""Green Thursday"" by acclaimed author Julia Peterkin presents a compelling collection of short stories rooted deeply...  Read More >>

Funny Dostoevsky: New Perspectives on the Dostoevskian Light Side

Funny Dostoevsky: New Perspectives on the Dostoevskian...

Author: Professor or Dr. Lynn Ellen Patyk (Dartmouth College, USA) ,  Professor or Dr. Irina Erman (The College of Charleston, USA)
ISBN: 9798765109793
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Tapping into the emergence of scholarly comedy studies since the 2000s, this collection brings new perspectives...  Read More >>

Beckett and Leopardi

Beckett and Leopardi

Author: Peter Boxall (University of Oxford) ,  Peter Nicholls (New York University)
ISBN: 9781009547918
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett. It suggests that Leopardi becomes...  Read More >>

Wars We Never Fought: Armed Conflict in Speculative Fiction

Wars We Never Fought: Armed Conflict in Speculative...

Author: Matthew B. Hill (Coppin State University, USA) ,  Dr. or Prof. Leigha H. McReynolds (University of Maryland, USA)
ISBN: 9798765121535
Format: Hardback
$190.00

A collection of 16 essays examining how armed conflict functions as a subject, theme, metaphor, symbol, or plot...  Read More >>

Anglo-German Entanglements in English Fiction: From the Cold War to Brexit

Anglo-German Entanglements in English Fiction: From...

Author: Daniela Keller
ISBN: 9781666934885
Format: Hardback
$180.00

A fresh and timely look at Anglo-German relations in English fiction from the Cold War to Brexit.  Read More >>

Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative Writing in Colonial India

Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative...

Author: Dr Mayurika Chakravorty (Instructor, Department of English, Carleton University, Carleton University, Canada) ,  Senior Lecturer Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow UK)
ISBN: 9781350401396
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A study of the origins, nature and role of fantasy literature in early 19th century colonial India, this book explores...  Read More >>

The Irish Proust: Cultural Crossings from Beckett to McGahern

The Irish Proust: Cultural Crossings from Beckett to...

Author: Max McGuinness (University College Dublin, Ireland) ,  Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350499348
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first book devoted to exploring Marcel Proust’s influence on Irish literature and Irish themes within his work...  Read More >>

The American Sentence: From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction

The American Sentence: From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction

Author: Ira Nadel (University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350473096
Format: Hardback
$110.00

A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book uses four stages in the story...  Read More >>

Italian Futurism and the Development of English Literary Modernism

Italian Futurism and the Development of English Literary...

Author: Robyn Jakeman (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350327689
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Going against most accounts of Futurism in England, this book unpacks the profound influence of Italian Futurism’s...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Vertigo: Unbalanced

A Cultural History of Vertigo: Unbalanced

Author: Anindya Raychaudhuri (University of St Andrews, UK)
ISBN: 9781350523517
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present,...  Read More >>

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