Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Homer's Allusive Art

Homer's Allusive Art

Author: Bruno Currie (Associate Professor in Classical Languages and Literature, Associate Professor in Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198768821
Format: Hardback
$271.00

Homer's Allusive Art argues for a new understanding of Homeric allusion and its place in literary history through...  Read More >>

The Seduction of Fiction: A Plea for Putting Emotions Back into Literary Interpretation

The Seduction of Fiction: A Plea for Putting Emotions...

Author: Carolyne Lee ,  Jean-François Vernay
ISBN: 9783319394527
Format: Hardback
$145.17

By meshing psychology with literary analysis, this book inspires us to view the reading of fictional works as an...  Read More >>

Short Stories for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context & Criticism on Commonly Studied Short Stories

Short Stories for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context...

Author: Kristen B Mallegg ,  Thomas E Barden
ISBN: 9781410328564
Format: Hardback
$509.52

Each bi-annual volume presents vital information on approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories at the high...  Read More >>

Joyce's Love Stories

Joyce's Love Stories

Author: Christopher DeVault
ISBN: 9781138250468
Format: Paperback
$112.00

In his comprehensive study of love in James Joyce's writings, DeVault shows that Joyce frequently ties his characters'...  Read More >>

Science Fiction beyond Borders

Science Fiction beyond Borders

Author: Shawn Edrei ,  Danielle Gurevitch
ISBN: 9781443899550
Format: Hardback
$229.55

Since the turn of the previous century, science fiction and its native tropes have been used by authors, artists,...  Read More >>

The Labors of Modernism: Domesticity, Servants, and Authorship in Modernist Fiction

The Labors of Modernism: Domesticity, Servants, and...

Author: Mary Wilson
ISBN: 9781138270305
Format: Paperback
$120.00

In The Labors of Modernism, Wilson analyzes the unrecognized role of domestic servants in the experimental forms...  Read More >>

Spanish and Portuguese Romances of Chivalry

Spanish and Portuguese Romances of Chivalry

Author: Henry Thomas
ISBN: 9781138982727
Format: Paperback
$96.99

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Discourses of Empire and Commonwealth

Discourses of Empire and Commonwealth

Author: Sandra Robinson ,  Alastair Niven
ISBN: 9789004322776
Format: Hardback
$361.68

In Discourses of Empire and Commonwealth, edited by Sandra Robinson and Alastair Niven, a range of contemporary...  Read More >>

Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists: Nineteenth Century Terrorism and The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists: Nineteenth Century...

Author: David Mulry
ISBN: 9781137502889
Format: Hardback
$224.37

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How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis

How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the...

Author: Adam Weiner (Wellesley College, USA)
ISBN: 9781501313110
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Literary history meets economic policy in this entertaining polemic on the ethical and potentially destructive power...  Read More >>

A Child's Christmas in Wales

A Child's Christmas in Wales

Author: Dylan Thomas ,  Peter Bailey
ISBN: 9781444015430
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Dylan Thomas's classic account of his childhood Christmases, with full colour illustrations by Peter Bailey. The...  Read More >>

Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage

Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage

Author: Professor Philip Weinstein (Swarthmore College, USA)
ISBN: 9781501325557
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography of one of today’s most important novelists....  Read More >>

Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856 - 1935: Volume I, 1865-1884

Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856 - 1935: Volume...

Author: Amanda Gagel ,  Sophie Geoffroy
ISBN: 9781848934955
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget – a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction, her support...  Read More >>

Cormac McCarthy’s Borders and Landscapes

Cormac McCarthy’s Borders and Landscapes

Author: Dr. Louise Jillett (Western Sydney University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781501319112
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Cormac McCarthy’s work is attracting an increasing number of scholars and critics from a range of disciplines within...  Read More >>

Screening the Novel: Rediscovered American Fiction in Film

Screening the Novel: Rediscovered American Fiction in...

Author: Gabriel Miller (Rutgers University, USA)
ISBN: 9781474291620
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Some of the most memorable movies of Hollywood’s Golden Age were based on novels that never received the acclaim...  Read More >>

Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance

Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance

Author: Jacqueline Dillion
ISBN: 9781137503190
Format: Hardback
$263.97

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Counternarrative Possibilities: Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac McCarthy's Westerns

Counternarrative Possibilities: Virgin Land, Homeland,...

Author: James Dorson
ISBN: 9783593505541
Format: Paperback
$84.95

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Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel: Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine

Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel: Social...

Author: Maureen Tuthill
ISBN: 9781137597144
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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The Novel and Europe

The Novel and Europe

Author: Andrew Hammond
ISBN: 9781137526267
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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Un Yanqui en la Corte del Rey Arturo (Spanish Edition)

Un Yanqui en la Corte del Rey Arturo (Spanish Edition)...

Author: Mark Twain
ISBN: 9781539887478
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Con este viaje al pasado, Mark Twain no pretende hacer alardes científicos, la transposición de épocas y cuerpos...  Read More >>

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