Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781535879903
Format: Hardback
$1473.78

""This series presents critical views on the most widely studied writers of short fiction. Each volume includes...  Read More >>

Specters, Monsters, and the Damned: Fantastic Threats to the Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction

Specters, Monsters, and the Damned: Fantastic Threats...

Author: Wan Sonya Tang
ISBN: 9780826507129
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Nan Shepherd's Correspondence, 192080

Nan Shepherd's Correspondence, 192080

Author: Kerri Andrews
ISBN: 9781474487580
Format: Paperback
$57.99

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Fear and Clothing: Dress in English Detective Fiction between the First and Second World Wars

Fear and Clothing: Dress in English Detective Fiction...

Author: Jane Custance Baker (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350240315
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Through analyzing dress in detective fiction, Fear and Clothing reveals a cultural history of identity affected...  Read More >>

Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II

Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II...

Author: James A. W. Heffernan (Dartmouth College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350474802
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows...  Read More >>

Trolling Before the Internet: An Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary Classics

Trolling Before the Internet: An Offline History of...

Author: Dr. David Rudrum (Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Huddersfield, UK)
ISBN: 9781501391538
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Trolling began long before the internet. This accessible history traces the ancestry of its textual and rhetorical...  Read More >>

Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time

Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time

Author: Penelope Lively
ISBN: 9781405966993
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Features meditations on what it is like to be old as well as on how memory shapes us.  Read More >>

Specters, Monsters, and the Damned: Fantastic Threats to the Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction

Specters, Monsters, and the Damned: Fantastic Threats...

Author: Wan Sonya Tang
ISBN: 9780826507136
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Examines a rich selection of Spanish fantastic literature to illustrate how the language of the supernatural expresses...  Read More >>

Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction

Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction

Author: Eugen Bacon (Melbourne, Australia) ,  Professor or Dr. Abimbola Adelakun (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
ISBN: 9798765114674
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Creative essays from award-winning African writers speak to the multiple futurisms in their black speculative fiction....  Read More >>

Representations of Health, Illness, and Repair in the Works of Louisa May Alcott

Representations of Health, Illness, and Repair in the...

Author: Michaela Keck
ISBN: 9781666922646
Format: Hardback
$209.59

This book examines the cultural work and meaning-making of Louisa May Alcott’s representations of health and illness....  Read More >>

What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost

What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise...

Author: Orlando Reade
ISBN: 9781787334885
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A dynamic reappraisal of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, exploring its radical origins in the seventeenth century...  Read More >>

Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction: Complicity and Continuities

Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction: Complicity...

Author: Dr Stephanie Bird (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350424098
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies,...  Read More >>

Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature: The Material Sacred

Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century...

Author: Dr Emily McAvan (Monash University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350280373
Format: Hardback
$170.00

""The first comprehensive look at the religious significance of this century's contemporary literature, this book...  Read More >>

Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin

Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to...

Author: Professor Polly Jones (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Eugene M Avrutin (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign USA)
ISBN: 9781350250390
Format: Hardback
$90.00

This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares...  Read More >>

Trolling Before the Internet: An Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary Classics

Trolling Before the Internet: An Offline History of...

Author: Dr. David Rudrum (Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Huddersfield, UK)
ISBN: 9781501391521
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Trolling began long before the internet. This accessible history traces the ancestry of its textual and rhetorical...  Read More >>

Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative

Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative

Author: Chad Schrock
ISBN: 9781350417410
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for...  Read More >>

British Romanticism and Prison Reform

British Romanticism and Prison Reform

Author: Jonas Cope
ISBN: 9781684485352
Format: Paperback
$131.87

British Romanticism and Prison Reform is the first full-length study to explore and define the close relationship...  Read More >>

What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost

What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise...

Author: Orlando Reade
ISBN: 9781787334878
Format: Hardback
$50.00

A dynamic reappraisal of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, exploring its radical origins in the seventeenth century...  Read More >>

Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature

Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature

Author: Professor or Dr. Chris Holmes (Ithaca College, USA)
ISBN: 9781501388422
Format: Hardback
$150.00

A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly...  Read More >>

Interactive Storytelling Essentials

Interactive Storytelling Essentials

Author: Andrew Parry
ISBN: 9798230221715
Format: Paperback
$87.09

Interactive Storytelling Essentials is the ultimate guide for creators looking to bring their stories to life in...  Read More >>

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