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Ghosts of the Gothic: Austen, Eliot and Lawrence

Ghosts of the Gothic: Austen, Eliot and Lawrence
Author: Judith Wilt ISBN: 9780691643106 Format: Hardback	$200.00
In a fascinating study of what, during the last decade, rekindled an avid readership, Judith Wilt proposes a new... Read More >>

The Readable People of George Meredith

The Readable People of George Meredith
Author: Judith Wilt ISBN: 9780691645094 Format: Hardback	$165.00
Meredith's reputation as an ""unreadable"" novelist prompted Judith Wilt to examine the relationship between author... Read More >>

Epic Geography: James Joyce's Ulysses

Epic Geography: James Joyce's Ulysses
Author: Michael A. Seidel ISBN: 9780691638744 Format: Hardback	$185.00
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The Evolution of the French Novel, 1641-1782

The Evolution of the French Novel, 1641-1782
Author: English Showalter, Jr. ISBN: 9780691646404 Format: Hardback	$235.00
In France between 1641 and 1782 the romance developed into the novel. Mr. Showalter's intensive study of the novel,... Read More >>

Hawthorne and the Historical Romance of New England

Hawthorne and the Historical Romance of New England...
Author: Michael Davitt Bell ISBN: 9780691647210 Format: Hardback	$170.00
Three major conventional figures dominated Hawthorne's romances: the noble Founding Father, the ""narrow Puritan,""... Read More >>

Guide to Trollope

Guide to Trollope
Author: Winifred Gregory Gerould , James Thayer Gerould ISBN: 9780691630588 Format: Hardback	$180.00
Trollope fans and all who want to increase their knowledge of that great Victorian novelist will welcome this guide... Read More >>

Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: Bibliography of Works and Criticism

Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: Bibliography of Works and...
Author: David Dow Harvey ISBN: 9780691652023 Format: Hardback	$410.00
The Protean personality and career of Ford Madox Ford as poet, novelist, editor, critic, and ""miscellaneous writer""... Read More >>

Flaubert and Joyce: The Rite of Fiction

Flaubert and Joyce: The Rite of Fiction
Author: Richard K. Cross ISBN: 9780691647296 Format: Hardback	$135.00
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Figural Language in the Novel

Figural Language in the Novel
Author: Ramon Saldivar ISBN: 9780691640617 Format: Hardback	$180.00
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The Poetics of Quotation in the European Novel

The Poetics of Quotation in the European Novel
Author: Herman Meyer , Theodore Ziolkowski ISBN: 9780691649351 Format: Hardback	$185.00
This work, which has had a pronounced impact on European literary scholarship since its publication in 1961, represents... Read More >>

Ruskin's Maze: Mastery and Madness in His Art

Ruskin's Maze: Mastery and Madness in His Art
Author: Jay Fellows ISBN: 9780691642390 Format: Hardback	$200.00
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E.M.Foster: Perils of Humanism

E.M.Foster: Perils of Humanism
Author: Frederick Campbell Crews ISBN: 9780691649894 Format: Hardback	$135.00
Each of E. M. Forster's five novels-The Longest journey, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Room with a View. Howards End,... Read More >>

Achievement of William Dean Howells

Achievement of William Dean Howells
Author: Kermit Vanderbilt ISBN: 9780691649047 Format: Hardback	$150.00
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Joyce's Uncertainty Principle

Joyce's Uncertainty Principle
Author: Phillip F. Herring ISBN: 9780691635156 Format: Hardback	$150.00
Phillip Herring distinguishes the solvable problems from the truly insolvable mysteries in Joyce studies. His unusual... Read More >>

Balzac's Comedy of Words

Balzac's Comedy of Words
Author: Martin Kanes ISBN: 9780691644615 Format: Hardback	$190.00
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K.S. Aksakov, A Study in Ideas, Vol. III: An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Slavophilism

K.S. Aksakov, A Study in Ideas, Vol. III: An Introduction...
Author: Peter K. Christoff ISBN: 9780691642130 Format: Hardback	$300.00
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Dostoevsky and the Novel

Dostoevsky and the Novel
Author: Michael Holquist ISBN: 9780691638201 Format: Hardback	$135.00
What place do Dostoevsky's works occupy in the history of the novel? To answer this question, Michael Holquist focuses... Read More >>

Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention

Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention...
Author: Paul John Eakin ISBN: 9780691631530 Format: Hardback	$185.00
Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine... Read More >>

The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron

The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron
Author: Giuseppe Mazzotta ISBN: 9780691638928 Format: Hardback	$185.00
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Samuel Richardson: A Man of Letters

Samuel Richardson: A Man of Letters
Author: Carol Houlihan Flynn ISBN: 9780691642093 Format: Hardback	$230.00
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Heroic Commitment in Richardson, Eliot, and James

Heroic Commitment in Richardson, Eliot, and James
Author: Patricia McKee ISBN: 9780691639185 Format: Hardback	$230.00
Patricia McKee demonstrates that Richardson, Eliot, and James see disorderliness and indeterminacy in the human... Read More >>

Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections

Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections
Author: Lewis M. Dabney ISBN: 9780691636931 Format: Hardback	$190.00
Edmund Wilson helped shape American letters from the early 1920's through the mid-'60s. He remains a presence in... Read More >>

""To Be an Author"": Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905

""To Be an Author"": Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt,...
Author: Joseph R. McElrath , Robert C. Leitz ISBN: 9780691635323 Format: Hardback	$170.00
Collected in this volume are the 1889--1905 letters of one of the first African-American literary artists to cross... Read More >>

The Novel Histories of Galdos

The Novel Histories of Galdos
Author: Diane Faye Urey ISBN: 9780691631257 Format: Hardback	$175.00
Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) occupies a position in Spanish literature surpassed only by Cervantes, and, like... Read More >>

Xenophon's Imperial Fiction: On The Education of Cyrus

Xenophon's Imperial Fiction: On The Education of Cyrus...
Author: James Tatum ISBN: 9780691635378 Format: Hardback	$200.00
""If you inquire into the origins of the novel long enough,"" writes James Tatum in the preface to this work, ""...you... Read More >>

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