Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45: Dublin’s Dadaist

Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45:...

Author: Tobias William Harris (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) ,  James Little (University of Cyprus Cyprus)
ISBN: 9781350415911
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book rediscovers Flann O’Brien’s attempt to synthesise a...  Read More >>

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

Author: George Woodcock
ISBN: 9780921689485
Format: Paperback
$52.77

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context

Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context

Author: James Ogude (University of Pretoria)
ISBN: 9781009524469
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Offers compelling and multiple contexts of Ngugi's writing over the five decades and in the process underscoring...  Read More >>

Performative Authorship: Contemporary Francophone African Novelists Creating Meaning Inside and Outside the Book

Performative Authorship: Contemporary Francophone African...

Author: Kristen K. Stern
ISBN: 9781802074536
Format: Hardback
$271.69

Focusing on four contemporary francophone writers with roots in West and Central Africa—Fatou Diome, Alain Mabanckou,...  Read More >>

Living Fossils, Lost Worlds, Last Humans: The Science and Fiction of Population and Extinction

Living Fossils, Lost Worlds, Last Humans: The Science...

Author: Howard V Hendrix
ISBN: 9781476696324
Format: Paperback
$145.20

The narrative tropes of living fossils, lost worlds, and last humans have long foreshadowed the modern discourse...  Read More >>

Unsettling Extinction

Unsettling Extinction

Author: Roman Bartosch (University of Cologne, Germany) ,  Ursula K. Heise (UCLA, USA)
ISBN: 9781350598478
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection...  Read More >>

Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940

Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940...

Author: Professor Gerry Smyth (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350412460
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Through new ecocritical readings of 18th and 19th century English genre fictions, this book explores the intersection...  Read More >>

Empire and Race in Enid Blyton’s Fiction: Deconstructing Whiteness and Modern Editing Practices

Empire and Race in Enid Blyton’s Fiction: Deconstructing...

Author: Dr Siobhan Morrissey (University of Galway, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350465138
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Using critical race theory to explore the racial, colonial and imperial ideologies underpinning Enid Blyton's fiction,...  Read More >>

Post-National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature

Post-National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature...

Author: Jesse van Amelsvoort (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781350595194
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Using works by Hafid Bouazza, Najat El Hachmi, Tsjêbbe Hettinga, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Leïla Slimani, Zadie Smith,...  Read More >>

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers

Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the...

Author: Rebecca Parks
ISBN: 9781535886802
Format: Hardback
$1116.72

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To Go Boldly: A Companion to the First 60 Years of Star Trek

To Go Boldly: A Companion to the First 60 Years of Star...

Author: Tony Laplume
ISBN: 9798198563896
Format: Paperback
$26.40

A celebration of every series and film in the Star Trek franchise, finding the good throughout all of it, a fan's...  Read More >>

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels

Author: John Brenkman
ISBN: 9780226849430
Format: Hardback
$303.60

An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James’s late works through the lens of minimalism.   Henry James’s...  Read More >>

The legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic vampire and its progeny

The legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic vampire and...

Author: Sam George ,  Bill Hughes
ISBN: 9781526198228
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This collection explores the genesis of John Polidori's foundational novella The Vampyre (1819). It then tracks...  Read More >>

Readers and mistresses: Kept women in Victorian literature

Readers and mistresses: Kept women in Victorian literature...

Author: Katie R. Peel
ISBN: 9781526198211
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while...  Read More >>

Women and madness in the early Romantic novel: Injured minds, ruined lives

Women and madness in the early Romantic novel: Injured...

Author: Deborah Weiss
ISBN: 9781526198259
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This book argues that early Romantic-Period women novelists used female madness to critique patriarchal structures...  Read More >>

The Re-Enchanted Ghost in Contemporary American Fiction

The Re-Enchanted Ghost in Contemporary American Fiction...

Author: Karen Frances McCarthy
ISBN: 9781041172062
Format: Hardback
$401.06

The Re-Enchanted Ghost in Contemporary American Fiction examines an emerging trend in spectrality in contemporary...  Read More >>

The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard

The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J....

Author: Christopher Priest ,  Nina Allan
ISBN: 9781399417495
Format: Hardback
$49.99

This book is about J. G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel.  Read More >>

Proximate Histories: Entangled Temporalities in Contemporary African Fiction

Proximate Histories: Entangled Temporalities in Contemporary...

Author: Russell West-Pavlov (University of Tübingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781041287070
Format: Paperback
$108.65

This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining...  Read More >>

Gombrowicz: An Introduction

Gombrowicz: An Introduction

Author: Aleksandra Konarzewska (University of Tübingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781032025759
Format: Paperback
$62.07

This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz’s life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century...  Read More >>

The Philosophies of Stan Lee: Essays on a Comics Mastermind

The Philosophies of Stan Lee: Essays on a Comics Mastermind...

Author: Jeff McLaughlin
ISBN: 9781476698847
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Known for shaping an expansive fictional universe filled with complex characters, Stan Lee also used his work to...  Read More >>

The Lattice of the Ashes: ARC One: The Stillness

The Lattice of the Ashes: ARC One: The Stillness

Author: Abhishek Y R
ISBN: 9798197317506
Format: Paperback
$21.09

The Accord does not govern Vael Tareth. It authors it. For one hundred and eighty-eight years, reality in this...  Read More >>

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