Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson

Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Marianne Noble (American University, Washington DC)
ISBN: 9781108722216
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and...  Read More >>

The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories

The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories

Author: Virginia Woolf ,  Urmila Seshagiri
ISBN: 9780691263137
Format: Hardback
$32.99

In 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Introduction to Ernest Hemingway

The Cambridge Introduction to Ernest Hemingway

Author: Michael Thurston (Smith College)
ISBN: 9781009422727
Format: Paperback
$59.51

Surveys the career of the influential Nobel-prize winning author Ernest Hemingway. Pays close attention to prose...  Read More >>

The Undead in World Mythology and Folklore: An Encyclopedia

The Undead in World Mythology and Folklore: An Encyclopedia...

Author: Theresa Bane
ISBN: 9781476695617
Format: Paperback
$60.50

The undead: Horrific monstrosities that will not remain at rest nor let the living be at peace. Such entities who...  Read More >>

Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century

Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century...

Author: Laura Beers
ISBN: 9781805264392
Format: Paperback
$29.99

With Orwell claimed by all sides of the culture wars, returning to his own world and words offers sharp and surprising...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Introduction to Ernest Hemingway

The Cambridge Introduction to Ernest Hemingway

Author: Michael Thurston (Smith College)
ISBN: 9781009422710
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Surveys the career of the influential Nobel-prize winning author Ernest Hemingway. Pays close attention to prose...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Harrower

Elizabeth Harrower

Author: Susan Wyndham
ISBN: 9781761170195
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Science Fiction Poetry (Volume 24)- SciFi, Fantasy, and Speculative Poetry, Discover Chronicles of the Sci-fi Stellar Verse, Echoes of the Void, and Nebula Narrative Anthology

Science Fiction Poetry (Volume 24)- SciFi, Fantasy,...

Author: Taylor Beelt Tillerson
ISBN: 9798887233550
Format: Paperback
$105.57

In the infinite expanse between a heartbeat and a supernova, where logic dances with wonder, this book of sci-fi...  Read More >>

The Gothic in Times of Crisis

The Gothic in Times of Crisis

Author: John Whatley
ISBN: 9781526191724
Format: Hardback
$206.99

An exploration of new Gothic, old Gothic, and their intersection with the crises of our own times. This text shows...  Read More >>

The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

Author: Michael DC Drout
ISBN: 9781324093886
Format: Hardback
$57.95

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The Lightning-Struck Tower

The Lightning-Struck Tower

Author: Irvin Khaytman
ISBN: 9781733514149
Format: Paperback
$18.45

The conversation between Draco Malfoy and Albus Dumbledore, in the chapter ""The Lightning-Struck Tower"" from Harry...  Read More >>

Histoire Du Marquis De Cressy: An MLA Text Edition

Histoire Du Marquis De Cressy: An MLA Text Edition

Author: Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni ,  Kate Deimling
ISBN: 9781603297059
Format: Paperback
$55.99

""A sentimental novel from eighteenth-century France. Depicting a status-seeking man and the women he harms, this...  Read More >>

Reading War, Making Memory: Remembering the Bosnian War across Europe

Reading War, Making Memory: Remembering the Bosnian...

Author: Tea Sindbæk Andersen ,  Jessica Ortner
ISBN: 9781836952305
Format: Hardback
$269.10

A clarifying analysis of how authors from Bosnia-Herzegovina translate and transmit the memory of the Bosnian War...  Read More >>

From Spare Oom to War Drobe: Travels in Narnia with my Nine-Year Old Self

From Spare Oom to War Drobe: Travels in Narnia with...

Author: Katherine Langrish
ISBN: 9781917665049
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Back in the 1960s a little girl of nine wrote a book of short stories about Narnia. Now a celebrated adult writer...  Read More >>

Mary Howitt, Our Cousins in Ohio

Mary Howitt, Our Cousins in Ohio

Author: Mary Howitt ,  Donald Ingram Ulin (Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford)
ISBN: 9781399523578
Format: Hardback
$230.00

A new critical edition of Our Cousins in Ohio, showcasing the transatlantic collaboration between best-selling English...  Read More >>

Writing Contested Illness: Experimentation in Contemporary Women's Life Writing

Writing Contested Illness: Experimentation in Contemporary...

Author: Chloe R. Green (Lecturer in English, Australian National University)
ISBN: 9781399534406
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines how women's experimental illness narratives are driving new conceptions of contested illness.  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives

The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational...

Author: Elisa Bolchi (Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Ferrara) ,  Maria Rita Drumond Viana (Professor C4 in the Department of Letters, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto)
ISBN: 9781399527316
Format: Hardback
$345.00

Explores Virginia Woolf as a transnational figure, her composite legacy and her impact in various cultural and political...  Read More >>

Thomas Moore and the Transatlantic, 1800–1840: The Local, the Global and the Mobile

Thomas Moore and the Transatlantic, 1800–1840: The Local,...

Author: Julia M. Wright (Professor and George Munro Chair in Literature and Rhetoric in the Department of English, Dalhousie University)
ISBN: 9781399547307
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Questions Thomas Moore's association with cultural nationalism by tracing his interest in motion and the transatlantic....  Read More >>

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender...

Author: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike (Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the 2025-2026 Wayne O. McCready Emerging Fellow, University of Calgary)
ISBN: 9781399538091
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Reveals how Nigerian writers redefine masculinity to challenge social norms and affirm relationalities.  Read More >>

The Code of the Superhero: Morality and Citizenship in the Comics

The Code of the Superhero: Morality and Citizenship...

Author: Ryan L Johnson
ISBN: 9781476694597
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Since their inception, superheroes in comic books and other media have endeavored to guide the nation's children...  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 >>

Critical Insights: H.G. Wells

Critical Insights: H.G. Wells

Author: Salem Press
ISBN: 9798891791404
Format: Hardback
$277.20

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