Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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The Tolkienaeum: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien and his Legendarium

The Tolkienaeum: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien and his Legendarium...

Author: James Dunning ,  Mark T Hooker
ISBN: 9781499759105
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Beware of Pirated PDF Copies of The Tolkienaeum There are WebPages purporting to offer a free PDF download of The...  Read More >>

Apuleius and Africa

Apuleius and Africa

Author: Benjamin Todd Lee ,  Ellen Finkelpearl
ISBN: 9780415533096
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Apuleius in Africa addresses the problem of this intricate complex of different identities and its connection to...  Read More >>

Realism and Power (Routledge Revivals): Postmodern British Fiction

Realism and Power (Routledge Revivals): Postmodern British...

Author: Alison Lee (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138796188
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This study focuses on the subversive techniques of British postmodernist fiction and examines its challenge to Realist...  Read More >>

Cover Stories (Routledge Revivals): Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller

Cover Stories (Routledge Revivals): Narrative and Ideology...

Author: Michael Denning
ISBN: 9781138796249
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchanan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré, and shows how...  Read More >>

Nadine Gordimer (Routledge Revivals)

Nadine Gordimer (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Judie Newman (University of Nottingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781138799363
Format: Hardback
$168.00

International in her appeal, Nadine Gordimer is an original and accomplished novelist whose works have found literary...  Read More >>

Madame Bovary (Routledge Revivals)

Madame Bovary (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Rosemary Lloyd
ISBN: 9781138799349
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Madame Bovary ranks among the world’s most famous and widely read novels, and has inspired numerous critical theories....  Read More >>

TransLatin Joyce: Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature

TransLatin Joyce: Global Transmissions in Ibero-American...

Author: B. Price ,  C. Salgado
ISBN: 9781137407450
Format: Hardback
$145.17

TransLatin Joyce explores the circulation of James Joyce's work in the Ibero-American literary system. The essays...  Read More >>

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture

Author: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
ISBN: 9781137342393
Format: Hardback
$343.17

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical...  Read More >>

American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois

American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political...

Author: Mark Van Wienen
ISBN: 9780472035663
Format: Paperback
$97.55

A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S.  Read More >>

Reading Richard Matheson: A Critical Survey

Reading Richard Matheson: A Critical Survey

Author: Cheyenne Mathews ,  Janet V. Haedicke
ISBN: 9781442234659
Format: Hardback
$265.00

Richard Matheson (1926-2013) was a prolific author and screenwriter whose career of more than 60 years has shaped...  Read More >>

A Diagnosis of Modern Life: Robert Musil’s ""Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften ""as a Critical-Utopian Project

A Diagnosis of Modern Life: Robert Musil’s ""Der Mann...

Author: Stijn De Cauwer
ISBN: 9782875741578
Format: Paperback
$105.83

This book explores in detail the cultural critique at work in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften of Robert Musil. This...  Read More >>

Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan: Spies and ""Terrorists""

Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan:...

Author: Cara Cilano
ISBN: 9780415684514
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan examines post-9/11 American spy fictions alongside Pakistani...  Read More >>

Lonely Stardust: Two Plays, a Speech, and Eight Essays

Lonely Stardust: Two Plays, a Speech, and Eight Essays...

Author: Andrea Hairston
ISBN: 9781619760516
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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Discworld and the Disciplines: Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works

Discworld and the Disciplines: Critical Approaches to...

Author: Anne Hiebert Alton ,  William C. Spruiell
ISBN: 9780786474646
Format: Paperback
$43.95

This collection of new essays applies a wide range of critical frameworks to the analysis of prolific fantasy author...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader

Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader

Author: Helen Wussow ,  Mary Ann Gillies
ISBN: 9780989082679
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, addressing the theme of Virginia Woolf and the Commonwealth...  Read More >>

The Elinor Glyn System of Writing - Book II

The Elinor Glyn System of Writing - Book II

Author: Elinor Glyn
ISBN: 9781473315549
Format: Paperback
$36.20

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The Year of Henry James: The story of a novel: With other essays on the genesis, composition and reception of literary fiction

The Year of Henry James: The story of a novel: With...

Author: David Lodge
ISBN: 9780099554523
Format: Paperback
$32.99

In 2004, Henry James featured as a character in no less than three novels - David Lodge's Author, Author was one...  Read More >>

The Curious Case of HP Lovecraft

The Curious Case of HP Lovecraft

Author: Paul Roland
ISBN: 9780859655170
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Living Fiction: Reading the British Novel from Daniel Defoe to Julian Barnes

Living Fiction: Reading the British Novel from Daniel...

Author: William Hutchings
ISBN: 9781137298331
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Analysing a wide range of extracts from key works of British fiction from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century,...  Read More >>

American Unexceptionalism: The Everyman and the Suburban Novel after 9/11

American Unexceptionalism: The Everyman and the Suburban...

Author: Kathy Knapp
ISBN: 9781609382285
Format: Paperback
$118.80

American Unexceptionalism examines a constellation of post-9/11 novels that revolve around white middle-class male...  Read More >>

Don Quixote: A Dramatic Adaptation

Don Quixote: A Dramatic Adaptation

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov ,  Margarita Marinova
ISBN: 9781603291507
Format: Paperback
$42.90

When Soviet censors approved Mikhail Bulgakov’s stage adaptation of Don Quixote, they were unaware that they were...  Read More >>

Don Kikhot (Russian): A Dramatic Adaptation

Don Kikhot (Russian): A Dramatic Adaptation

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov ,  Margarita Marinova
ISBN: 9781603291491
Format: Paperback
$68.64

When Soviet censors approved Mikhail Bulgakov's Don Kikhot [ ], a stage adaptation of Don Quixote, they were unaware...  Read More >>

Jorge Semprun: Writing the European Other

Jorge Semprun: Writing the European Other

Author: Ursula Tidd
ISBN: 9781907747007
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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Priestley’S England: J. B. Priestley and English Culture

Priestley’S England: J. B. Priestley and English Culture...

Author: John Baxendale ,  Rebecca Mortimer
ISBN: 9780719072871
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Priestley's England explores the cultural, literary and political history of twentieth-century Britain through the...  Read More >>

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