Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Virginia Woolf and Motherhood

Virginia Woolf and Motherhood

Author: Charlotte Taylor Suppé
ISBN: 9781399520928
Format: Paperback
$57.99

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David Peace

David Peace

Author: Katy Shaw
ISBN: 9781805967347
Format: Paperback
$56.90

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Evasive Manoeuvres: Canadian Women's Confessional Writing

Evasive Manoeuvres: Canadian Women's Confessional Writing...

Author: Myra Bloom
ISBN: 9780228027645
Format: Paperback
$72.42

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Migrant Women Writers and the Short Story in North America: 1980-2020

Migrant Women Writers and the Short Story in North America:...

Author: Laura Gallon
ISBN: 9783032155856
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book explores short fiction by migrant women writers in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2020, including...  Read More >>

Dickens and Switzerland

Dickens and Switzerland

Author: Christine Gmür (independent researcher and a teacher in English and German at the Upper Secondary School Kantonsschule im Lee, Winterthur)
ISBN: 9781399535663
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The first in-depth study of the essential role Switzerland played in Charles Dickens's imagination  Read More >>

Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction, 1913–1941

Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction,...

Author: James Reichert
ISBN: 9798880700547
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as...  Read More >>

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and...

Author: Hadley Suter
ISBN: 9780813955124
Format: Paperback
$68.99

How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there...  Read More >>

Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition

Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State,...

Author: Wen-chin Ouyang (Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, SOAS, University of London)
ISBN: 9781399564885
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Uncovers the politics of nostalgia and madness inherent in the Arabic novel.  Read More >>

The Iraqi Novel: Key Writers, Key Texts

The Iraqi Novel: Key Writers, Key Texts

Author: Fabio Caiani (lecturer, University of St Andrews) ,  Catherine Cobham (Lecturer, University of St Andrews)
ISBN: 9781399565523
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Studies a neglected area of postcolonial fiction, fostering a better understanding of Iraqi culture and society....  Read More >>

Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892-2008

Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892-2008...

Author: Hoda Elsadda (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cairo University)
ISBN: 9781399564984
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Provides a nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national'...  Read More >>

Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition

Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity...

Author: Wen-chin Ouyang (Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, SOAS, University of London)
ISBN: 9781399564878
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nationstate, modernity and tradition.  Read More >>

Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in the Diaspora

Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in...

Author: Syrine Hout (Associate Professor, American University of Beirut)
ISBN: 9781399564847
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Investigates the semantic permutations of 'homeness' in post-war diasporic Anglophone Lebanese novels.  Read More >>

The Feminist New Age: Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield and Modernist-Era Periodical Culture

The Feminist New Age: Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield...

Author: Carey Snyder (Associate Professor of English, Ohio University) ,  Lise Shapiro Sanders
ISBN: 9781399561853
Format: Hardback
$230.00

Contextualises modernist-era feminist writings of Beatrice Hastings and Katherine Mansfield in The New Age magazine....  Read More >>

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and...

Author: Hadley Suter
ISBN: 9780813955117
Format: Hardback
$266.00

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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 >>

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Author: Laini Kavaloski
ISBN: 9781978830998
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: The Doom of Empire

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: The Doom...

Author: Martin Green
ISBN: 9781041313618
Format: Hardback
$388.12

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century (1984) discusses 6 authors whom Dr Green saw as the most interesting...  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: 9781469694191
Format: Hardback
$229.00

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

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