Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Educational Prophecies of Aldous Huxley

Educational Prophecies of Aldous Huxley

Author: Ronald Zigler
ISBN: 9781336148796
Format: Electronic book text
$382.80

The visionary legacy of Aldous Huxley is as relevant today as ever. Huxley possessed a sober understanding of the...  Read More >>

Suetonius: Life of Augustus

Suetonius: Life of Augustus

Author: D. Wardle (NKGV Professor of Classics, NKGV Professor of Classics, University of Cape Town)
ISBN: 9780199686452
Format: Hardback
$415.95

This volume provides the first large-scale commentary on Suetonius' Life of Augustus together with an English translation,...  Read More >>

James Bond and Popular Culture: Essays on the Influence of the Fictional Superspy

James Bond and Popular Culture: Essays on the Influence...

Author: Michele Brittany ,  Robert G. Weiner
ISBN: 9780786477937
Format: Paperback
$43.95

The most recognizable fictional spy and one of the longest running film franchises, James Bond has inspired a host...  Read More >>

Correspondence with Sarah Wescomb, Frances Grainger and Laetitia Pilkington

Correspondence with Sarah Wescomb, Frances Grainger...

Author: Samuel Richardson ,  John A. Dussinger (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
ISBN: 9780521830348
Format: Hardback
$284.63

The first scholarly edition of Samuel Richardson's correspondence with three young women: Sarah Wescomb, Frances...  Read More >>

Stephen King's Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror

Stephen King's Contemporary Classics: Reflections on...

Author: Philip L. Simpson ,  Patrick McAleer, Inver Hills Community Col
ISBN: 9781442244900
Format: Hardback
$129.95

This book looks at the more recent works of fiction by Stephen King as well as an examination of his nonfiction...  Read More >>

Sentimental Memorials: Women and the Novel in Literary History

Sentimental Memorials: Women and the Novel in Literary...

Author: Melissa Sodeman
ISBN: 9780804791328
Format: Hardback
$99.95

During the later eighteenth century, changes in the meaning and status of literature left popular sentimental novels...  Read More >>

The Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature

The Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion,...

Author: Manav Ratti (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781138822375
Format: Paperback
$118.00

Explores the emergence of a post-secular condition of the contemporary world, in which organized, conventional religion...  Read More >>

Peter Pan's Shadows in the Literary Imagination

Peter Pan's Shadows in the Literary Imagination

Author: Kirsten Stirling
ISBN: 9781138849693
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Goal is to help both practitioners and graduate students in the field of adult ESL understand & confront the problems...  Read More >>

Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

Author: Gerd Bayer (University of Erlangen, Germany) ,  Ebbe Klitgard (Roskilde University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781138849945
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This collection analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th...  Read More >>

Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child: Romanticizing and Socializing the Imperfect Child

Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child: Romanticizing...

Author: Amberyl Malkovich
ISBN: 9781138850781
Format: Paperback
$92.99

By examining some of Dickens’s works that contain the imperfect child, Malkovich considers the construction, romanticization,...  Read More >>

Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction

Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction

Author: Judie Newman (University of Nottingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781138813953
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions...  Read More >>

Unsettled Narratives: The Pacific Writings of Stevenson, Ellis, Melville and London

Unsettled Narratives: The Pacific Writings of Stevenson,...

Author: David Farrier (University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9781138813939
Format: Paperback
$105.00

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The Female Romantics: Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism

The Female Romantics: Nineteenth-century Women Novelists...

Author: Caroline Franklin (University of Wales, Swansea, UK)
ISBN: 9781138850743
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This study focuses on the dynamic interaction between Byron and Madame de Staël, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley and Jane...  Read More >>

Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People

Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for...

Author: Noga Applebaum (Roehampton University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138828384
Format: Paperback
$101.00

The book explores representations of modern technology in contemporary science fiction for young people. It exposes...  Read More >>

Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins

Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins

Author: Giorgia Grilli
ISBN: 9781138856103
Format: Paperback
$92.99

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling

On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling

Author: Michael Dirda
ISBN: 9780691164120
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member...  Read More >>

Die Wand Des Todes: Kuerzestgeschichten

Die Wand Des Todes: Kuerzestgeschichten

Author: Morteza Farahmand
ISBN: 9781505598162
Format: Paperback
$15.84

In diesen Kurzestegeschichten erlebt man die Episoden, die einen nachdenken lasst, wie die Menschen ihre Rolle als...  Read More >>

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

Author: Hermione Lee
ISBN: 9780099546597
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014 Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography New York...  Read More >>

Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace': Literary Classic to Soviet Cinematic Epic

Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace': Literary Classic to Soviet...

Author: Denise J. Youngblood
ISBN: 9780700620050
Format: Hardback
$145.17

An epic story of 20th century film-making, the complete history of the creation of Sergei Bondarchuk's cinematic...  Read More >>

Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel

Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian...

Author: Silvia Valisa
ISBN: 9781442649224
Format: Hardback
$130.00

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Martians, Morlocks and Moon Landings: How British Science Fiction Conquered the World

Martians, Morlocks and Moon Landings: How British Science...

Author: Jamie Austin
ISBN: 9781909125759
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Martians, Morlocks and Moon Landings details the influence of British Science Fiction on the world stage and is...  Read More >>

Malory's Anatomy of Chivalry: Characterization in the Morte Darthur

Malory's Anatomy of Chivalry: Characterization in the...

Author: Paul Rovang
ISBN: 9781611477788
Format: Hardback
$225.11

This book examines sixteen key figures in the Morte Darthur providing insight into each as an exemplar of chivalric...  Read More >>

Islam and Controversy: The Politics of Free Speech After Rushdie

Islam and Controversy: The Politics of Free Speech After...

Author: A. Mondal
ISBN: 9781137471673
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Was Salman Rushdie right to have written The Satanic Verses ? Were the protestors right to have done so? What about...  Read More >>

Dashiell Hammett and the Movies

Dashiell Hammett and the Movies

Author: William H. Mooney
ISBN: 9780813562520
Format: Paperback
$102.83

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