Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Christopher Isherwood Inside Out

Christopher Isherwood Inside Out

Author: Katherine Bucknell
ISBN: 9781529932348
Format: Paperback
$49.99

""Originally published in 2024 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain""--Title page verso.  Read More >>

Evelyn Waugh's Exterior Modernism: Cinema, Satire, Comedy

Evelyn Waugh's Exterior Modernism: Cinema, Satire, Comedy...

Author: Yuexi Liu (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)
ISBN: 9781350551985
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first to systematically examine Waugh’s relationship with cinema in the context of modernism, this book examines...  Read More >>

Agatha Christie's London: A Historical Guide to the Queen of Crime's Capital

Agatha Christie's London: A Historical Guide to the...

Author: Tina Hodgkinson
ISBN: 9781837050796
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Rediscover the capital through the eyes of the Queen of Crime  Read More >>

Banshees, Hags, and Changelings: Feminist Folklore Transformations in Irish Writing

Banshees, Hags, and Changelings: Feminist Folklore Transformations...

Author: Molly Ferguson
ISBN: 9780815611998
Format: Hardback
$150.00

""This title explores contemporary Irish writing by women to identify strategies used in actively revising folktales...  Read More >>

Reading Espionage Fiction: Narrative, Conflict and Commitment from World War I to the Contemporary Era

Reading Espionage Fiction: Narrative, Conflict and Commitment...

Author: Martin Griffin (Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Tennessee)
ISBN: 9781399520805
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores how espionage fiction captures the most significant political conflicts and crises of the last hundred...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene

Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene

Author: Peter Adkins (Lecturer in Modernist Literature, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781399516693
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

Rachel Bowlby – Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories

Rachel Bowlby – Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood,...

Author: Rachel Bowlby (Professor of Comparative Literature, University College London)
ISBN: 9781399528412
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense

The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense

Author: Anna Barton (Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of Sheffield) ,  James Williams (Lecturer in English, University of York)
ISBN: 9781399557382
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the...  Read More >>

Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller

Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis...

Author: Helen Tyson (Senior Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century British Literature, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781399522106
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century  Read More >>

The Reader in Modernist Fiction

The Reader in Modernist Fiction

Author: Brian Richardson (Professor in the English Department, University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9781399528375
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

The Selected Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle: A Victorian and a Contemporary

The Selected Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle: A Victorian...

Author: Jane Welsh Carlyle ,  Richard Lansdown (Adjunct Professor of English, University of Tasmania)
ISBN: 9781399557207
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Presents an image of Victorian life-especially womens' lives-that uniquely and surprisingly anticipates our own...  Read More >>

Comic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

Comic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

Author: Avril Horner (Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Kingston University) ,  Sue Zlosnik (Emeritus Professor of English, Manchester Metropolitan University)
ISBN: 9781399557702
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Extends the body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover contemporary texts, new media and texts from other cultures...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf and Capitalism

Virginia Woolf and Capitalism

Author: Clara Jones (Reader in Modern Literature, King's College London)
ISBN: 9781399514095
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Refines our understanding of Virginia Woolf as a politically engaged writer  Read More >>

Spectral Realms No. 24: Winter 2026

Spectral Realms No. 24: Winter 2026

Author: S T Joshi
ISBN: 9781614984917
Format: Paperback
$26.40

The twenty-fourth issue of Spectral Realms features a wealth of poetry and prose-poetry from such leading figures...  Read More >>

Modernism’s Whims

Modernism’s Whims

Author: Senior Lecturer Beci Carver (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780198950721
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Beci Carver's Modernism's Whims asks: what is it that 'whim' names? - what manner of simultaneously playful and...  Read More >>

Joseph Conrad and the Arts of his Time

Joseph Conrad and the Arts of his Time

Author: Robert Hampson (Professor of English, Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9781399523714
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Addresses the changing geographical and historical background to Conrad's life as a source for his developing artistic...  Read More >>

Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity

Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature...

Author: Benjamin Dalton (Researcher in French Studies and the Medical Humanities, University of Birmingham.)
ISBN: 9781399540551
Format: Hardback
$219.00

How do we engage with our metamorphic bodies and brains in ways which resist social and political violences and...  Read More >>

Valerius, A Roman Story

Valerius, A Roman Story

Author: Thomas C. Richardson (Professor of English Emeritus, Mississippi University for Women) ,  Thomas C. Richardson (Professor of English Emeritus, Mississippi University for Women)
ISBN: 9781399553537
Format: Hardback
$219.00

The first critical edition of the final text of Lockhart's Valerius, A Roman Story.  Read More >>

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and...

Author: Rongbin Han
ISBN: 9780231220552
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Rongbin Han examines the production and consumption of online alt-history fiction in China, offering new insight...  Read More >>

Dark Rides: A Novel in Stories

Dark Rides: A Novel in Stories

Author: Derek McCormack
ISBN: 9781068758652
Format: Paperback
$25.88

Dark Rides is a collection of stories about gay teenagers growing up in a small city in Canada in the 1950s. Published...  Read More >>

The Cut Up

The Cut Up

Author: Louise Welsh
ISBN: 9781838859879
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The third keenly anticipated Rilke novel exploring the dark underbelly of contemporary Glasgow, from the Award-winning...  Read More >>

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and...

Author: Rongbin Han
ISBN: 9780231220545
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Rongbin Han examines the production and consumption of online alt-history fiction in China, offering new insight...  Read More >>

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives, 1850s to 1930s

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives,...

Author: Louise Benson James (Postdoctoral Fellow in English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781399523080
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>

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