Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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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 >>

Lives in Adab: Essays in Honour of Julia Bray

Lives in Adab: Essays in Honour of Julia Bray

Author: Alexander Key (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University) ,  Letizia Osti (Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Milan)
ISBN: 9781399543132
Format: Hardback
$230.00

Essays and translations by modern-day scholars organised along the principles of the Arabic narrative tradition....  Read More >>

Mode of Address: The Modernist Novel and Theory After Postmodernism

Mode of Address: The Modernist Novel and Theory After...

Author: Davis Smith-Brecheisen (University of Texas, Dallas)
ISBN: 9798855806526
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Shows how competing ideas about the reader in US literature and literary theory of the late 1960s and '70s reconfigured...  Read More >>

Wastelands and Wonderlands: Utopias and Dystopias in Film and Literature

Wastelands and Wonderlands: Utopias and Dystopias in...

Author: Matthew Leggatt (University of Winchester)
ISBN: 9798855806243
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Explores a wide range of utopias and dystopias in film and literature and their important relationship to our present...  Read More >>

Considering The Female Man by Joanna Russ, or, As the Bear Swore

Considering The Female Man by Joanna Russ, or, As the...

Author: Farah Mendlesohn
ISBN: 9781915556646
Format: Paperback
$58.05

This exploration of The Female Man offers a close reading of the text, focussing on how the book works, its structures,...  Read More >>

Katherine Mansfield and London

Katherine Mansfield and London

Author: Aime Gasston ,  Gerri Kimber
ISBN: 9781399539173
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

Exploring Contemporary Arabic Novels for Advanced Students of Arabic: Voices from the Arab Gulf Countries

Exploring Contemporary Arabic Novels for Advanced Students...

Author: Jonas Elbousty (Yale University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032672991
Format: Paperback
$108.65

Exploring Contemporary Arabic Novels for Advanced Students of Arabic offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary...  Read More >>

Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature, History, and Family

Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature,...

Author: Lindsay Diehl
ISBN: 9781771127288
Format: Paperback
$74.80

Examining a range of Chinese Canadian literature, this book incorporates elements of the author's own family story-her...  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

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

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Author: Meredith L. Goldsmith ,  Emily J. Orlando
ISBN: 9780813081373
Format: Paperback
$56.10

Exploring Edith Wharton's engagement with global issues in her life and writing Hailed for her remarkable social...  Read More >>

Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings

Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings

Author: Sebastian D. G. Knowles ,  Geert Lernout
ISBN: 9780813081311
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Through a wide variety of essays on language, history, politics, and culture in the works of James Joyce, this book...  Read More >>

A Survey of Anglo-Indian Fiction

A Survey of Anglo-Indian Fiction

Author: Bhupal Singh
ISBN: 9781041251569
Format: Hardback
$217.32

It can be argued that Anglo-Indian fiction is a criticism of the life of the English in India, and of Indians before...  Read More >>

Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf: Nature, Modernity and the Politics of Space

Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf: Nature, Modernity...

Author: Karina Jakubowicz (Adjunct Professor, department of English, Florida State University)
ISBN: 9781474494533
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens....  Read More >>

Exploring Contemporary Arabic Novels for Advanced Students of Arabic: Voices from the Arab Gulf Countries

Exploring Contemporary Arabic Novels for Advanced Students...

Author: Jonas Elbousty (Yale University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032687827
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Exploring Contemporary Arabic Novels for Advanced Students of Arabic offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary...  Read More >>

Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction

Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American...

Author: Laura B. McGrath
ISBN: 9780691256160
Format: Hardback
$54.99

A revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to today Middlemen...  Read More >>

The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume I: The Renaissance

The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume I: The Renaissance...

Author: Hilary Fraser (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, Birkbeck, University of London)
ISBN: 9780198746300
Format: Hardback
$482.95

This is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It contains the text of Walter Pater's...  Read More >>

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

Author: George Woodcock
ISBN: 9780921689485
Format: Paperback
$52.77

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

Laurence Sterne and his Readers in Early Soviet Russia: The Secret Order of Shandeans

Laurence Sterne and his Readers in Early Soviet Russia:...

Author: Peter Budrin (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Comparative Literature, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London)
ISBN: 9780198941743
Format: Hardback
$218.95

This volume explores the early Soviet reception of Laurence Sterne. By reconstructing individual readerly encounters...  Read More >>

Richard Aldington's Modernist Antiquity: Classics, Imagism, and the Great War

Richard Aldington's Modernist Antiquity: Classics, Imagism,...

Author: Elizabeth Vandiver (Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin and Classics, Emerita, Whitman College)
ISBN: 9780198958598
Format: Hardback
$296.95

This book examines the work of Richard Aldington, a poet, war poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, and translator...  Read More >>

Continuing to Look: Bruegel, Matisse, Leonardo, Manet, Constable, Turner

Continuing to Look: Bruegel, Matisse, Leonardo, Manet,...

Author: Robert Cumming ,  Gino Ballantyne
ISBN: 9780718898373
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Your experience of Slow Looking will deepen with Seeing is Believing as Robert encourages you to explore art through...  Read More >>

Arda Notebooks. The Best of I Quaderni di Arda

Arda Notebooks. The Best of I Quaderni di Arda

Author: Roberto Arduini ,  Claudio A Testi
ISBN: 9783905703559
Format: Paperback
$51.35

This volume brings together a selection of articles published in the Quaderni di Arda, edited by the Italian Association...  Read More >>

Continuing to Look: Bruegel, Matisse, Leonardo, Manet, Constable, Turner

Continuing to Look: Bruegel, Matisse, Leonardo, Manet,...

Author: Robert Cumming ,  Gino Ballantyne
ISBN: 9780718898342
Format: Hardback
$103.50

Your experience of Slow Looking will deepen with Seeing is Believing as Robert encourages you to explore art through...  Read More >>

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