Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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My Dear Boy: Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926–1938

My Dear Boy: Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes,...

Author: Carmaletta M. Williams ,  John Edgar Tidwell
ISBN: 9780820353852
Format: Paperback
$81.71

My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light through the study of his private correspondence...  Read More >>

Evelyn Waugh's Oxford

Evelyn Waugh's Oxford

Author: Barbara Cooke ,  Amy Dodd
ISBN: 9781851244874
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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Imagination and Environmental Political Thought: The Aftermath of Thoreau

Imagination and Environmental Political Thought: The...

Author: Joshua J. Bowman
ISBN: 9781498559027
Format: Hardback
$228.00

This book explores and evaluates Henry David Thoreau’s political thought through the lens of a theory of imagination...  Read More >>

The Hunter Elite: Manly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and American Conservation, 1880-1925

The Hunter Elite: Manly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and...

Author: Tara Kathleen Kelly
ISBN: 9780700625888
Format: Paperback
$100.29

At the end of the nineteenth century, Theodore Roosevelt, T.S. Van Dyke, and other elite men began describing their...  Read More >>

Bernard Shaw’s Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect: Shaw, Freud, Simmel

Bernard Shaw’s Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect:...

Author: Stephen Watt
ISBN: 9783319715124
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book traces the effects of materiality - including money and its opposite, poverty - on the psychical lives...  Read More >>

American Crime Fiction: A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art

American Crime Fiction: A Cultural History of Nobrow...

Author: Peter Swirski
ISBN: 9783319790312
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Peter Swirski looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic...  Read More >>

Novelas Contemporáneas de América Latina Desde El Punto de Vista de Jacques Lacan

Novelas Contemporáneas de América Latina Desde El Punto...

Author: Gladys M Varona-Lacey ,  Euisuk Kim
ISBN: 9781433140822
Format: Hardback
$279.31

En este libro analizo las novelas de los autores latinoamericanos del siglo XX y XXI a través del psicoanálisis...  Read More >>

The Hunter Elite: Manly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and American Conservation, 1880-1925

The Hunter Elite: Manly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and...

Author: Tara Kathleen Kelly
ISBN: 9780700625871
Format: Hardback
$263.97

At the end of the nineteenth century, Theodore Roosevelt, T.S. Van Dyke, and other elite men began describing their...  Read More >>

African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue

African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue...

Author: Yaw Agawu-Kakraba ,  Komla F. Aggor
ISBN: 9781527507654
Format: Hardback
$263.87

African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue is a collection of essays of broad historical and geographic...  Read More >>

Critiquing the Postcolonial Construct in Chinua Achebe’s Novels

Critiquing the Postcolonial Construct in Chinua Achebe’s...

Author: Ranjana Das Sarkhel
ISBN: 9781527506695
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Chinua Achebe's novels have always been read as texts from an erstwhile colonised African nation, interpreted within...  Read More >>

Pagan Saints in Middle-earth

Pagan Saints in Middle-earth

Author: Claudio A Testi ,  Verlyn Flieger
ISBN: 9783905703382
Format: Paperback
$38.81

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My Exaggerated Life: Pat Conroy

My Exaggerated Life: Pat Conroy

Author: Katherine Clark
ISBN: 9781611179071
Format: Hardback
$46.20

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J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye: A Cultural History

J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye: A Cultural...

Author: Josef Benson
ISBN: 9781442277946
Format: Hardback
$92.99

This book looks at how an iconic novel has resonated with several generations of readers. By focusing on Salinger...  Read More >>

J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard

Author: D. Harlan Wilson
ISBN: 9780252041433
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in...  Read More >>

Otherwise, Revolution!: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead

Otherwise, Revolution!: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac...

Author: Rebecca Tillett (University of East Anglia, UK)
ISBN: 9781623568412
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Leslie Marmon Silko’s 1991 novel Almanac of the Dead is a profound and challenging analysis of late capitalist society...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American...

Author: Christopher N. Phillips (Lafayette College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781108420914
Format: Hardback
$139.73

This volume gives a fresh look at the American Renaissance, the years before the Civil War that saw the rise of...  Read More >>

Richard Marsh, Popular Fiction and Literary Culture, 1890–1915: Rereading the Fin De SièCle

Richard Marsh, Popular Fiction and Literary Culture,...

Author: Victoria Margree ,  Daniel Orrells
ISBN: 9781526124340
Format: Hardback
$195.00

This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical...  Read More >>

Writers' Biographies and Family Histories in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature

Writers' Biographies and Family Histories in 20th- and...

Author: Lucie Guiheneuf ,  Aude Haffen
ISBN: 9781527505346
Format: Hardback
$263.87

New creative forms of life writing have emerged over the past four decades. Following in the footsteps of the ""New...  Read More >>

Finance Fictions: Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis

Finance Fictions: Realism and Psychosis in a Time of...

Author: Arne De Boever
ISBN: 9780823279173
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Finance Fictions examines the tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel and shows...  Read More >>

Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy: Outstanding Essays from the J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences

Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy: Outstanding...

Author: Gregory Benford ,  Gary Westfahl
ISBN: 9781476669281
Format: Paperback
$105.47

""The J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature have been a leading influence in the...  Read More >>

Walks in the Footsteps of Daphne du Maurier

Walks in the Footsteps of Daphne du Maurier

Author: Sue Kittow
ISBN: 9781910758380
Format: Paperback
$23.26

This third book in Sue’s series is unique for her personal style, the in-depth research, delightful details, the...  Read More >>

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