Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211819
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Judy Blume: a life

Judy Blume: a life

Author: Mark Oppenheimer
ISBN: 9781761380686
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The definitive, all-access biography of one of the world's most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant...  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 >>

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Author: Richard Barlow (Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University) ,  Paul Fagan (Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Maynooth University)
ISBN: 9781399529440
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

Quixotic Authority: The Female Quixote and the Woman Writer, Lennox to Austen

Quixotic Authority: The Female Quixote and the Woman...

Author: Jodi L. Wyett
ISBN: 9781644534120
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Quixotic Authority reveals how deeply absorbed reading was inextricable from and essential to British women's professional...  Read More >>

Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature

Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature...

Author: Daniel Dufournaud (Assistant Professor, University of Macau)
ISBN: 9781399554466
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.  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 >>

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211802
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

The Historical Poem: On the Lives and Afterlives of Romantic Literary Criticism

The Historical Poem: On the Lives and Afterlives of...

Author: Joel Childers
ISBN: 9781503636682
Format: Hardback
$173.00

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story...  Read More >>

A History of Romance Novels: From Trembling Innocents to Hunky Werewolves

A History of Romance Novels: From Trembling Innocents...

Author: Dale DeBakcsy
ISBN: 9781036122812
Format: Hardback
$69.99

When you pick up the latest Emily Henry novel, or settle in for an evening with the newest volume of your favorite...  Read More >>

Hispanic Coetzee: World Literature Beyond the Anglosphere

Hispanic Coetzee: World Literature Beyond the Anglosphere...

Author: Cristóbal Pérez Barra (Independent scholar)
ISBN: 9781399547116
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines the connections between J. M. Coetzee's work and Hispanic literatures and cultures, especially in the Southern...  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

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Translating the Nonhuman: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Translating

Translating the Nonhuman: What Science Fiction Can Teach...

Author: Professor Douglas Robinson (Chair Professor English, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9798765112809
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Extends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation,...  Read More >>

Quixotic Authority: The Female Quixote and the Woman Writer, Lennox to Austen

Quixotic Authority: The Female Quixote and the Woman...

Author: Jodi L. Wyett
ISBN: 9781644534137
Format: Hardback
$369.60

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Rabelais and the Social Order: An Essay in Cognitive Criticism

Rabelais and the Social Order: An Essay in Cognitive...

Author: Neil Kenny (Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of French, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198987246
Format: Hardback
$282.95

This book explores the fiction of the French writer François Rabelais (d. 1553) and its engagement with the seemingly...  Read More >>

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time Travel

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time...

Author: Edward Royston
ISBN: 9780814259825
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

Get a Clue: How to Plot, Write, and Sell Your MG or YA Mystery

Get a Clue: How to Plot, Write, and Sell Your MG or...

Author: Fleur Bradley
ISBN: 9798993730707
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Get a Clue is a handbook for writing a MG or YA mystery.  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Allegory

The Oxford Handbook of Allegory

Author: David Parry (Tutorial Fellow and Director of Studies in English Regent's Park College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780192894359
Format: Hardback
$355.95

A Handbook on allegory, as both a literary genre and a means of interpretation. The Handbook reflects the diversity...  Read More >>

Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture

Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature...

Author: Julia C. Obert
ISBN: 9781805966852
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This book examines joy...  Read More >>

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955

Author: Stephen O'Neill
ISBN: 9781836244813
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 is the first study of the impact of partition on the culture of Ireland....  Read More >>

Into the Fog: Sherlock Holmes' London

Into the Fog: Sherlock Holmes' London

Author: Ron Tinner ,  Steve Shanabruch
ISBN: 9781068523403
Format: Sheet map
$32.95

In which we lead readers through the capital as Holmes and Watson knew it - a city of gaslight, theatres, grand...  Read More >>

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time Travel

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time...

Author: Edward Royston
ISBN: 9780814216132
Format: Hardback
$343.07

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum...

Author: Allison S. Curseen
ISBN: 9781469694207
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  Read More >>

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels

Author: John Brenkman
ISBN: 9780226849447
Format: Paperback
$45.95

An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James's late works through the lens of minimalism. Henry James's...  Read More >>

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