Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Prancing Ovelist: in Praise of Ronald Firbank

Prancing Ovelist: in Praise of Ronald Firbank

Author: Brigid Brophy
ISBN: 9781564788979
Format: Paperback
$55.44

One of the most penetrating and sympathetic explorations ever undertaken by one writer into the mind of another,...  Read More >>

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Author: Barbara Hardy
ISBN: 9781474401357
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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Montaigne in Transit: Essays in Honour of Ian Maclean

Montaigne in Transit: Essays in Honour of Ian Maclean...

Author: Neil Kenny ,  Richard Scholar
ISBN: 9781909662964
Format: Hardback
$147.00

Can the role of the ancient writers whom Montaigne quotes be assessed without consideration of the differences he...  Read More >>

Immortal Boy: A Portrait of Leigh Hunt

Immortal Boy: A Portrait of Leigh Hunt

Author: Ann Blainey
ISBN: 9781138190818
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Ann Blainey’s work, first published in 1985, provides a sensitive study of Leigh Hunt and the literary climate that...  Read More >>

Before You Write Your Novel: Essential Skills for the First-time Novelist

Before You Write Your Novel: Essential Skills for the...

Author: James McCreet (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138186729
Format: Hardback
$242.00

Writing a good, publishable novel is not an easy task, but this book can help you get there. Previously available...  Read More >>

The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of French Roman Scientifique

The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of...

Author: Brian Stableford
ISBN: 9781612275031
Format: Paperback
$85.36

"British, French and American traditions of speculative fiction developed separately for more than a hundred years,...  Read More >>

Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal

Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal...

Author: Marie Mulvey-Roberts (University of the West of England)
ISBN: 9781526104045
Format: Undefined
$290.40

"""Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state,...  Read More >>

Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain

Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public...

Author: Robert Spoo (, University of Tulsa)
ISBN: 9780190469160
Format: Paperback
$62.95

This book reveals the impact of copyright law on transatlantic modernism in the United States. Key aspects of modernism-James...  Read More >>

Origins of the Dream: Hughes's Poetry and King's Rhetoric

Origins of the Dream: Hughes's Poetry and King's Rhetoric...

Author: W. Jason Miller
ISBN: 9780813062006
Format: Paperback
$45.10

Reveals the connection between Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and Langston Hughes’s poetry. During...  Read More >>

Reading Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees: Glossary and Commentary

Reading Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees:...

Author: Mark Cirino
ISBN: 9781606352397
Format: Paperback
$53.90

A line-by-line examination of a neglected Hemingway gem In 1950, Ernest Hemingway was the most famous writer in...  Read More >>

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Author: Barbara Hardy
ISBN: 9781474401340
Format: Hardback
$232.88

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A Long the Krommerun: Selected Papers from the Utrecht James Joyce Symposium

A Long the Krommerun: Selected Papers from the Utrecht...

Author: Onno Kosters ,  Tim Conley
ISBN: 9789004314450
Format: Paperback
$293.04

A LONG THE KROMMERUN offers a selection of the best papers from the 2014 Utrecht James Joyce Symposium, presenting...  Read More >>

Domestic Violence in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction

Domestic Violence in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction...

Author: Jina Moon
ISBN: 9781443889483
Format: Hardback
$300.96

This book opens the curtain on the crucial role played by Victorian and Edwardian novelists in changing views of...  Read More >>

After Critique: Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age

After Critique: Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal...

Author: Mitchum Huehls (Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, UCLA)
ISBN: 9780190456221
Format: Hardback
$154.95

Taking up four different political themes--human rights, the relation between public and private space, racial justice,...  Read More >>

Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home

Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home

Author: Lisa Grekul ,  Lindy Ledohowski
ISBN: 9781442631090
Format: Hardback
$89.99

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The New Woman Gothic: Reconfigurations of Distress

The New Woman Gothic: Reconfigurations of Distress

Author: Patricia Murphy
ISBN: 9780826220677
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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Women and the Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

Women and the Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

Author: Avril Horner ,  Sue Zlosnik
ISBN: 9780748699124
Format: Hardback
$258.75

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Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond

Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond

Author: Chia-Rong Wu
ISBN: 9781604979213
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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Geographies of Love: The Cultural Spaces of Romance in Chick- and Ladlit

Geographies of Love: The Cultural Spaces of Romance...

Author: Christian Lenz
ISBN: 9783837634419
Format: Paperback
$74.95

»What's love got to do with it?« This study presents a transcultural literary expedition into the spaces of a relationship:...  Read More >>

On the Shelf: Revisiting Abandoned Scripts

On the Shelf: Revisiting Abandoned Scripts

Author: Julianne Todd ,  Iain McLaughlin
ISBN: 9781910868256
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Not every script or story idea makes it into production. There are far more reasons for a story not to be made than...  Read More >>

Saul Bellow: A Literary Companion

Saul Bellow: A Literary Companion

Author: Mark Connelly
ISBN: 9780786499267
Format: Paperback
$71.50

A three-time National Book Award for Fiction winner, Saul Bellow is one of the most highly regarded American authors...  Read More >>

Science Fiction in Argentina: Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse

Science Fiction in Argentina: Technologies of the Text...

Author: Joanna Page
ISBN: 9780472053100
Format: Paperback
$79.07

An exploration of science fiction literature, cinema, theater, and comics from Argentina over the last 140 years....  Read More >>

Virgil and Joyce: Nationalism and Imperialism in the Aeneid and Ulysses

Virgil and Joyce: Nationalism and Imperialism in the...

Author: Randall J. Pogorzelski
ISBN: 9780299308001
Format: Hardback
$115.50

James Joyce’s Ulysses was deeply influenced by the Aeneid, Virgil’s epic poem about the journey of Aeneas and the...  Read More >>

Ornament As Crisis: Architecture, Design, and Modernity in Hermann Broch's """"the Sleepwalkers

Ornament As Crisis: Architecture, Design, and Modernity...

Author: Sarah McGaughey
ISBN: 9780810131873
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Ornament as Crisis explores the ways in which the novels of Hermann Broch's Sleepwalkers (Schlafwandler) trilogy...  Read More >>

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