Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Arnold Bennett: A Last Word

Arnold Bennett: A Last Word

Author: Frank Swinnerton
ISBN: 9781448214426
Format: Electronic book text
$12.91

'I have tried to depict Arnold Bennett as a man of character and integrity, a fundamentally innocent humorist, a...  Read More >>

Neil M. Gunn's the Silver Darlings: (Scotnotes Study Guides)

Neil M. Gunn's the Silver Darlings: (Scotnotes Study...

Author: John Burns
ISBN: 9781906841188
Format: Paperback
$17.98

John Burns's SCOTNOTE study guide examines Neil Gunn's most famous novel, The Silver Darlings. The social, cultural...  Read More >>

The Lost of a Grandmother

The Lost of a Grandmother

Author: Jalise Stroud
ISBN: 9781499010978
Format: Paperback
$24.87

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To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence

To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence

Author: Simon Garfield
ISBN: 9780857868619
Format: Paperback
$27.99

From Simon Garfield, the bestselling author of On the Map and Just my Type, comes a wonderful journey through the...  Read More >>

Suetonius the Biographer: Studies in Roman Lives

Suetonius the Biographer: Studies in Roman Lives

Author: Tristan Power (Lecturer in Classics, Lecturer in Classics, Columbia University) ,  Roy K. Gibson (Professor of Latin, Professor of Latin, University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780199697106
Format: Hardback
$236.95

The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious...  Read More >>

Locating Science Fiction

Locating Science Fiction

Author: Andrew Milner (School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University (Australia))
ISBN: 9781781381168
Format: Paperback
$145.17

A major, groundbreaking intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. It effects a series of vital...  Read More >>

Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s

Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s

Author: Andrew M. Butler (Canterbury Christ Church University (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781781381175
Format: Paperback
$158.37

An engaging and accessible book looking at 1970s sf writing, film and television – alongside music and architecture...  Read More >>

Henry Green at the Limits of Modernism

Henry Green at the Limits of Modernism

Author: Marius Hentea
ISBN: 9781845196769
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Although Henry Green has been recognised by James Wood, David Lodge and John Updike as one of the most innovative...  Read More >>

Touchstones: Essays on the Fantastic

Touchstones: Essays on the Fantastic

Author: John Howard
ISBN: 9780957348974
Format: Paperback
$28.46

Twenty-two essential essays on The Fantastic, including: In Smoke and Soot I Will Worship, The Ghosts of Sauk County,...  Read More >>

Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature: Responses to Reality in Western Literature

Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western...

Author: Professor Department of English Kathryn Hume (Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9781322031712
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

Since Plato and Aristotles declaration of the essence of literature as imitation, western narrative has been traditionally...  Read More >>

Contemporary American Trauma Narratives

Contemporary American Trauma Narratives

Author: Alan Gibbs
ISBN: 9780748694075
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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Virginia Woolf's Essayism

Virginia Woolf's Essayism

Author: Randi Saloman
ISBN: 9780748694105
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Explores the way Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her own conception of the modern novel. This book...  Read More >>

Sketches of Irish Character: by Mrs S C Hall

Sketches of Irish Character: by Mrs S C Hall

Author: Marion Durnin
ISBN: 9781848933903
Format: Hardback
$242.00

Born in Dublin into the Anglo-Irish gentry, Anna Maria Hall moved to London when she was fifteen where she became...  Read More >>

Stanislaw Lem: Selected Letters to Michael Kandel

Stanislaw Lem: Selected Letters to Michael Kandel

Author: Stanislaw Lem ,  Peter Swirski (University of Missouri-St Louis (United States))
ISBN: 9781781380178
Format: Hardback
$422.40

Edited and annotated translation of Stanislaw Lem’s previously unpublished fifteen-year correspondence with his...  Read More >>

Representations of Flight and Expulsion in East German Prose Works

Representations of Flight and Expulsion in East German...

Author: William Niven (Series Editor)
ISBN: 9781571135353
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Explodes the conventional wisdom that there was a taboo on the topic of flight and expulsion in East Germany.  Read More >>

Toni Morrison's Fiction

Toni Morrison's Fiction

Author: Jan Furman
ISBN: 9781611173666
Format: Paperback
$53.90

Updated critical commentary with discussion of four additional novels  Read More >>

Spirit Becomes Matter: The Brontes, George Eliot, Nietzsche

Spirit Becomes Matter: The Brontes, George Eliot, Nietzsche...

Author: Henry Staten
ISBN: 9780748694587
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Explains how, under the influence of the new 'mental materialism' that held sway in mid-Victorian scientific and...  Read More >>

Waverley

Waverley

Author: Walter Scott ,  P. D. Garside
ISBN: 9780748697878
Format: Hardback
$67.25

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Gothic Renaissance: A Reassessment

Gothic Renaissance: A Reassessment

Author: Elisabeth Bronfen ,  Beate Neumeier
ISBN: 9780719088636
Format: Hardback
$171.99

Collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic...  Read More >>

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