Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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The Afterlife of Sympathy: Reading American Literary Realism in the Wake of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Afterlife of Sympathy: Reading American Literary...

Author: Faye Halpern
ISBN: 9781625347855
Format: Paperback
$61.60

In reassessing American literary realism, Faye Halpern seeks not only to understand why writers adopted sentimental...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Oakes Smith: Selected Writings, Volume II: Feminist Journalism and Public Activism, 1850-1854

Elizabeth Oakes Smith: Selected Writings, Volume II:...

Author: Timothy H. Scherman
ISBN: 9780881469233
Format: Hardback
$77.00

Documents a nineteenth-century literary celebrity's decision to commit herself to the cause of woman's rights. The...  Read More >>

The Citybot's Library: Essays on the Transformers

The Citybot's Library: Essays on the Transformers

Author: Julian Darius
ISBN: 9781940589350
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Since 1984, the Transformers have been an almost ever-present part of American popular culture - in toys, cartoons,...  Read More >>

Sir Andrew Wylie of That Ilk

Sir Andrew Wylie of That Ilk

Author: John Galt ,  Sharon Ruth Alker
ISBN: 9781474443500
Format: Hardback
$219.00

An eccentric young Scot moves south and re-vitalizes the English familial, judicial, and political systems  Read More >>

Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film

Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence...

Author: Sarah Jilani
ISBN: 9781399507288
Format: Hardback
$195.00

Discusses the ways in which post-independence novels and films understand the relationship between subjectivity...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf and Capitalism

Virginia Woolf and Capitalism

Author: Clara Jones
ISBN: 9781399514088
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Refines our understanding of Virginia Woolf as a politically engaged writer  Read More >>

The Afterlife of Sympathy: Reading American Literary Realism in the Wake of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Afterlife of Sympathy: Reading American Literary...

Author: Faye Halpern
ISBN: 9781625347862
Format: Hardback
$196.90

In reassessing American literary realism, Faye Halpern seeks not only to understand why writers adopted sentimental...  Read More >>

Comic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

Comic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

Author: Avril Horner ,  Sue Zlosnik
ISBN: 9781399505758
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Extends the body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover contemporary texts, new media and texts from other cultures...  Read More >>

Beyond the World of Men: Women’s Fiction at the Czech Fin de Siècle

Beyond the World of Men: Women’s Fiction at the Czech...

Author: Geoffrey Chew ,  Geoffrey Chew
ISBN: 9788024656175
Format: Paperback
$32.95

An inclusive collection of modern Czech short fiction that features overlooked women writers. Bringing together...  Read More >>

Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II

Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II...

Author: James A. W. Heffernan (Dartmouth College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350324992
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows...  Read More >>

The Essential Manga Guide: 50 Series Every Manga Fan Should Know

The Essential Manga Guide: 50 Series Every Manga Fan...

Author: Briana Lawrence
ISBN: 9780762481781
Format: Paperback
$45.00

A must-have guide written by Crunchyroll senior editor Briana Lawrence that compiles the most iconic, contemporary,...  Read More >>

The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose

The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s...

Author: Ian Hickey ,  Eugene O'Brien
ISBN: 9781032597621
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is the first collection of essays solely focused on examining...  Read More >>

Knowledge and Art in Ernest Hemingway’s Vision of Bullfighting: An Introduction

Knowledge and Art in Ernest Hemingway’s Vision of Bullfighting:...

Author: Ricardo Marín Ruiz
ISBN: 9783631907719
Format: Hardback
$90.56

The book is a study of the relationship existing between two central topics in Hemingway´s life and career: modern...  Read More >>

'James Joyce and Paul L. Léon: The Story of a Friendship' Revisited

'James Joyce and Paul L. Léon: The Story of a Friendship'...

Author: Alexis Léon ,  Anna Maria Léon
ISBN: 9781350351035
Format: Paperback
$79.99

James Joyce spent the last decade of his life in Paris, struggling to finish his great final work Finnegans Wake...  Read More >>

The ""Lives"" and Writings of Edith Rickert (1871-1938): Novelist, Cryptologist, and World-Class Chaucerian

The ""Lives"" and Writings of Edith Rickert (1871-1938):...

Author: Christina von Nolcken
ISBN: 9783031532634
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Born into a family of very modest means in Canal Dover, Ohio, she numbered among the University of Chicago’s earliest...  Read More >>

Media Ecologies of Literature

Media Ecologies of Literature

Author: Dr. Susanne Bayerlipp (Assistant Professor, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany) ,  Dr. Ralf Haekel (Professor and Chair of English Literature, Universität Leipzig, Germany)
ISBN: 9781501383915
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""Applies recent theories of media ecology to British and American literature from the late 19th century to the...  Read More >>

Psychoanalytic Memoirs

Psychoanalytic Memoirs

Author: Jeffrey Berman (University of Albany, USA)
ISBN: 9781350338609
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including...  Read More >>

The Evolution of Gerald Durrell: Biography of an Author and Wildlife Conservationist

The Evolution of Gerald Durrell: Biography of an Author...

Author: Professor Mary Sanders Pollock (Professor of English, Stetson University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350385467
Format: Paperback
$39.99

In The Evolution of Gerald Durrell: A Naturalist's Critical Biography, Mary Sanders Pollock revisits the life and...  Read More >>

Representations of Language Learning and Literacy: How to Read Literacy Narratives

Representations of Language Learning and Literacy: How...

Author: Elena West
ISBN: 9781032635514
Format: Hardback
$305.00

It offers comprehensive methodology for the study of representations of language learning and literacy and applies...  Read More >>

Feminism as World Literature

Feminism as World Literature

Author: Professor Robin Truth Goodman (Professor, Florida State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501371226
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""Redefines the thematic contents of world literature in feminist terms as well as rethinking feminist terms, analyses,...  Read More >>

Correspondence Primarily on Pamela and Clarissa (1732–1749)

Correspondence Primarily on Pamela and Clarissa (1732–1749)...

Author: Samuel Richardson ,  Louise Curran (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780521830355
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Samuel Richardson was unquestionably a leading innovator in literary form prior to 1800. His correspondence, not...  Read More >>

The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter Grass

The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter...

Author: Alex Donovan Cole
ISBN: 9781032386140
Format: Paperback
$83.99

I argue for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public...  Read More >>

Bande dessinée et engagement

Bande dessinée et engagement

Author: Fabrice Preyat ,  Jean-Louis Tilleuil
ISBN: 9782807604780
Format: Paperback
$111.26

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Mia madre e l'America ...e altri racconti

Mia madre e l'America ...e altri racconti

Author: Paola Pancaldi Pugolotti
ISBN: 9791222735962
Format: Paperback
$28.83

Un viaggio nel cuore, tra nostalgia e rinascita. Ricordi sbiaditi dall'America, un mare rosso di rabbia, un incontro...  Read More >>

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