Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Gothic Science Fiction: 1818 to the Present

Gothic Science Fiction: 1818 to the Present

Author: S. MacArthur
ISBN: 9781137389268
Format: Hardback
$316.77

Gothic Science Fiction explores the fascinating world of gothic influenced science fiction. From Frankenstein to...  Read More >>

Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica

Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica...

Author: Matthew Parker
ISBN: 9780099591740
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Tells the story of Ian Fleming at Goldeneye in Jamaica, where all his novels and stories on James Bond were written....  Read More >>

Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair

Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair

Author: Dr Carole Sweeney (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781474239134
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Widely acknowledged as an important, if highly controversial, figure in contemporary literature, French novelist...  Read More >>

Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination

Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination

Author: Dr Simon Marsden (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9781474239066
Format: Paperback
$76.99

""Through close readings from her literary writings - from Wuthering Heights to her poems, essays and diaries -...  Read More >>

The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe

The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe

Author: Dr Stefano Evangelista (Trinity College, University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781474245968
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is widely recognised not only as one of the most representative figures of the British fin...  Read More >>

Dysfluencies: On Speech Disorders in Modern Literature

Dysfluencies: On Speech Disorders in Modern Literature...

Author: Dr. Chris Eagle (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9781501308666
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Dysfluencies is the first comprehensive study of how speech disorders are portrayed in modern literature. Tracing...  Read More >>

Arthur Ransome: Afloat in Lakeland

Arthur Ransome: Afloat in Lakeland

Author: W. R. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780992819330
Format: Paperback
$25.85

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English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850–1914

English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850–1914...

Author: Will Abberley (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781107101166
Format: Hardback
$335.28

Will Abberley explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, providing a new, historical...  Read More >>

Rebecca West's Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres: 1911-41

Rebecca West's Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres: 1911-41...

Author: Dr Laura Cowan (University of Maine, USA)
ISBN: 9781441144171
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Bringing new insights from genre theory to bear on the work of the journalist and novelist Rebecca West, this study...  Read More >>

The Subject of Holocaust Fiction

The Subject of Holocaust Fiction

Author: Emily Miller Budick ,  E Miller Budick
ISBN: 9780253016300
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Considering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates...  Read More >>

Unbuttoning America: A Biography of ""Peyton Place""

Unbuttoning America: A Biography of ""Peyton Place""...

Author: Ardis Cameron
ISBN: 9780801453649
Format: Hardback
$65.87

In this lively account of the writing, publication, and legacy of the 1956 bestselling novel, ""Peyton Place,""...  Read More >>

Joycean Legacies

Joycean Legacies

Author: Martha C. Carpentier
ISBN: 9781137503619
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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Twilight in Italy

Twilight in Italy

Author: D. H. Lawrence ,  Jan Morris
ISBN: 9781780769653
Format: Paperback
$17.99

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The Shelf

The Shelf

Author: Phyllis Rose
ISBN: 9780374535360
Format: Paperback
$26.95

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The Subject of Holocaust Fiction

The Subject of Holocaust Fiction

Author: Emily Miller Budick ,  E Miller Budick
ISBN: 9780253016263
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Considering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf: A Portrait

Virginia Woolf: A Portrait

Author: Viviane Forrester ,  Jody Gladding
ISBN: 9780231153560
Format: Hardback
$62.95

Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia...  Read More >>

The Spectrum of English Murder: The Detective Fiction of Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher and G. D. H. and Margaret Cole

The Spectrum of English Murder: The Detective Fiction...

Author: Curtis Evans
ISBN: 9781616462604
Format: Paperback
$25.75

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Travel, Modernism and Modernity

Travel, Modernism and Modernity

Author: Robert Burden
ISBN: 9781472452870
Format: Electronic book text
$316.67

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The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque

The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature: From the...

Author: J. A. Garrido Ardila (University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781107031654
Format: Hardback
$335.28

The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature offers a comprehensive view of the picaresque genre, its origins, definition...  Read More >>

A History of California Literature

A History of California Literature

Author: Blake Allmendinger (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781107052093
Format: Hardback
$344.14

Blake Allmendinger's A History of California Literature encompasses the prismatic nature of California by exploring...  Read More >>

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary...

Author: Jean-Michel Ganteau (Université Paul Valéry, France)
ISBN: 9781138903722
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This book visits vulnerability in contemporary British fiction, considering vulnerability in its relation to poetics,...  Read More >>

The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel

The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian...

Author: Maia McAleavey (Boston College, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781107103160
Format: Hardback
$316.80

A study exploring the prevalence of bigamy as a popular plot in Victorian fiction that upends familiar categories...  Read More >>

Cyberpunk, Steampunk and Wizardry: Science Fiction Since 1980

Cyberpunk, Steampunk and Wizardry: Science Fiction Since...

Author: Nader Elhefnawy
ISBN: 9781508899464
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Where writing on science fiction is concerned, it is the most recent decades that most often get overlooked, so...  Read More >>

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