Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Writing Europe in Renaissance France: Travels in Reality and Imagination

Writing Europe in Renaissance France: Travels in Reality...

Author: Niall Oddy (Associate Lecturer, The Open University)
ISBN: 9781399522625
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Offers a national approach to the issue of Europe as a geographical, political, cultural and ideological signifier...  Read More >>

Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature

Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature

Author: Stacey McDowell (University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9781009380423
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing...  Read More >>

Chance: A Tale in Two Parts

Chance: A Tale in Two Parts

Author: Joseph Conrad ,  Allan Simmons
ISBN: 9781009618243
Format: Hardback
$310.50

First published in 1914, Joseph Conrad's female-centred, uncharacteristically optimistic Chance represented a new...  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 >>

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 >>

Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature

Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature

Author: Lola Boorman (Lecturer in American Literature and Culture, University of York)
ISBN: 9781399547543
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Explores the intersection of American literature and language politics through the curiously understudied subject...  Read More >>

Socialism and British Literature: A People to Come

Socialism and British Literature: A People to Come

Author: Roberto del Valle Alcalá
ISBN: 9781836244899
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This book offers an original reinterpretation of the literary history of British socialism in the long twentieth...  Read More >>

Sherlock Holmes: Inspiring Lives

Sherlock Holmes: Inspiring Lives

Author: Roger Johnson ,  Jean Upton
ISBN: 9781837050918
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Sherlock Holmes: Inspiring Lives is light-hearted and highly informative, and perfect for both the Sherlock aficionado...  Read More >>

Concrete and Plastic: Thinking through Materiality

Concrete and Plastic: Thinking through Materiality

Author: Kylie Crane (University of Rostock, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350380639
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Bringing plastic and concrete - two of the contemporary age's most significant materials - together, this book uses...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature...

Author: Cosima Bruno (SOAS University of London) ,  Lucas Klein (Arizona State University)
ISBN: 9781350215351
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Offering the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies...  Read More >>

Mary Butts: Necessary Contradictions and Feminist Reconstructions

Mary Butts: Necessary Contradictions and Feminist Reconstructions...

Author: Dr. Joel Hawkes (University of Victoria, Canada)
ISBN: 9781501380754
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A scholarly and experimental collection that offers fresh insight—with a feminist focus—into the often overlooked...  Read More >>

Conflict, Trauma, Memory: A Chronicle of Northeast Indian Literature

Conflict, Trauma, Memory: A Chronicle of Northeast Indian...

Author: Jayini Bhaumik
ISBN: 9781803748368
Format: Paperback
$160.91

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Comic Book Apocalypse!: The Death of Pre-Code Comics and Why It Happened, 1940–1955

Comic Book Apocalypse!: The Death of Pre-Code Comics...

Author: David J. Hogan ,  Maggie Thompson
ISBN: 9780764369599
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Explore the rise and fall of pre-Code comics with 500 covers revealing America's cultural shifts, censorship, and...  Read More >>

Emergent Voices of (North) African Immigrant Women and Their Daughters in French Literature and Film: Challenging the Inside, Seeking Outside, Passing Through Walls

Emergent Voices of (North) African Immigrant Women and...

Author: Sarah B. Buchanan
ISBN: 9781836245438
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. Emergent Voices is the first...  Read More >>

Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga

Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron...

Author: Dr Harriet Fletcher (Lecturer in Media and Communications, Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350447523
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Covering literature, visual media and popular culture, this book explores how the Gothic is consistently used to...  Read More >>

Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's Science Fiction

Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's...

Author: Jerome Winter
ISBN: 9781666956801
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The book argues that Ian McDonald’s globalized science fiction functions as a complex, hybrid fusion of magic realism...  Read More >>

The Third Doctor: Earthbound Defender of Time (Jon Pertwee, 1970-1974)

The Third Doctor: Earthbound Defender of Time (Jon Pertwee,...

Author: Matthew Petchinsky
ISBN: 9798295431388
Format: Paperback
$31.65

The Third Doctor: Earthbound Defender of Time is a powerful, in-depth exploration of Jon Pertwee's groundbreaking...  Read More >>

The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching: Prints, Process, Prose

The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching: Prints,...

Author: Rachel Skokowski (Curator, Janet Turner Print Museum and Director of Galleries, California State University)
ISBN: 9780198975274
Format: Hardback
$182.95

The first comprehensive study of the Goncourt brothers' etchings, including never-before published images of their...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian Literature

Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian...

Author: Tamar Koplatadze (Associate Professor in Postsocialist Literature and Culture, Associate Professor in Postsocialist Literature and Culture, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198974062
Format: Hardback
$208.95

A monograph on the rich and complex history of postcolonial literature from the Caucasus and Central Asia, examining...  Read More >>

Writing Noise in Interwar Britain: Literature and the Politics of Sound

Writing Noise in Interwar Britain: Literature and the...

Author: Anna Snaith (Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, English Department, King's College London)
ISBN: 9780198951476
Format: Hardback
$208.95

This book explores the preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound in interwar Britain. It contends that the extreme decibel...  Read More >>

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer

Author: Anne Longmuir
ISBN: 9781032112091
Format: Paperback
$111.24

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of...  Read More >>

Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities: COVID-19, the (Post)Apocalyptic, the Dystopic, and the Postcolonial

Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities: COVID-19,...

Author: Om Prakash Dwivedi (Om Prakash Dwivedi is Assistant Professor in English at Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Lucknow, India) ,  Aleks Wansbrough
ISBN: 9781032728148
Format: Paperback
$111.24

The book considers how identities have become more fractured since COVID-19, by thinking of COVID-19 in relation...  Read More >>

Reading Words into Worlds: Phenomenological Mimesis of Givenness in the Novel

Reading Words into Worlds: Phenomenological Mimesis...

Author: J. Clayton McReynolds
ISBN: 9781032635439
Format: Paperback
$126.76

Reading Words into Worlds asks: how can reading a novel make us feel as if we are living in a world? The book argues...  Read More >>

Meatfiction: The Treatment of Animals in the Contemporary American Novel

Meatfiction: The Treatment of Animals in the Contemporary...

Author: Jamie Redgate
ISBN: 9783032083722
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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