Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211819
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Dark Rides: A Novel in Stories

Dark Rides: A Novel in Stories

Author: Derek McCormack
ISBN: 9781068758652
Format: Paperback
$25.88

Dark Rides is a collection of stories about gay teenagers growing up in a small city in Canada in the 1950s. Published...  Read More >>

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Author: Richard Barlow (Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University) ,  Paul Fagan (Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Maynooth University)
ISBN: 9781399529440
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter

The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter

Author: Paul Benedict Grant (Associate Professor of English, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
ISBN: 9781399519229
Format: Paperback
$57.99

The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov's humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick,...  Read More >>

Ulysses in Critical Perspective

Ulysses in Critical Perspective

Author: Michael Patrick Gillespie ,  A. Nicholas Fargnoli
ISBN: 9780813081458
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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The Cut Up

The Cut Up

Author: Louise Welsh
ISBN: 9781838859879
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The third keenly anticipated Rilke novel exploring the dark underbelly of contemporary Glasgow, from the Award-winning...  Read More >>

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Author: Laini Kavaloski
ISBN: 9781978830998
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

Mockingbird Grows Up: Re-Reading Harper Lee Since Watchman

Mockingbird Grows Up: Re-Reading Harper Lee Since Watchman...

Author: Michele Reutter ,  Jonathan S. Cullick
ISBN: 9798895271018
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Takes on the task of interpreting, contextualising, and deconstructing To Kill a Mockingbird in the wake of Go Set...  Read More >>

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and...

Author: Rongbin Han
ISBN: 9780231220545
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Rongbin Han examines the production and consumption of online alt-history fiction in China, offering new insight...  Read More >>

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211802
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Hispanic Coetzee: World Literature Beyond the Anglosphere

Hispanic Coetzee: World Literature Beyond the Anglosphere...

Author: Cristóbal Pérez Barra (Independent scholar)
ISBN: 9781399547116
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines the connections between J. M. Coetzee's work and Hispanic literatures and cultures, especially in the Southern...  Read More >>

Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature

Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature...

Author: Daniel Dufournaud (Assistant Professor, University of Macau)
ISBN: 9781399554466
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.  Read More >>

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives, 1850s to 1930s

Medicine and Women’s Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives,...

Author: Louise Benson James (Postdoctoral Fellow in English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781399523080
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>

The Historical Poem: On the Lives and Afterlives of Romantic Literary Criticism

The Historical Poem: On the Lives and Afterlives of...

Author: Joel Childers
ISBN: 9781503636682
Format: Hardback
$173.00

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Deutsche Identitaten: Narrative Der Zugehorigkeit in Der Deutschen Literatur Seit 1989

Deutsche Identitaten: Narrative Der Zugehorigkeit in...

Author: Monika Wolting
ISBN: 9783847119555
Format: Paperback
$182.16

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Serial Fiction in the Western World: History and Theory

Serial Fiction in the Western World: History and Theory...

Author: Giovanni Ragone ,  Antonio Rafele
ISBN: 9781041067917
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This volume traces the evolution of serial forms from antiquity to the digital age, exploring their role in literature,...  Read More >>

Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller

Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination...

Author: Peter Conrad
ISBN: 9781399409209
Format: Paperback
$28.44

A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens’s superhuman imagination.  Read More >>

William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love

William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love

Author: Philip Hoare
ISBN: 9780008534387
Format: Paperback
$24.99

How one visionary inspired 200 years of art, poetry, and protest. Weaving between the historical, cultural and personal,...  Read More >>

Comics and the Global South: Methodologies from and within Majority Worlds

Comics and the Global South: Methodologies from and...

Author: Andrea Aramburú ,  Dibyadyuti Roy
ISBN: 9789462705043
Format: Paperback
$126.79

Original comics scholarship offering methodologies developed from the histories, artistic traditions, and socio-political...  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis and The Lord of the Rings: A Meltzerian Perspective on Frodo’s Journey

Psychoanalysis and The Lord of the Rings: A Meltzerian...

Author: Adrian Smith
ISBN: 9781032996004
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Psychoanalysis and The Lord of the Rings offers a psychoanalytical perspective on The Lord of the Rings, informed...  Read More >>

La Reina Guerrera: Bilogía La Princesa Guerrera Parte II

La Reina Guerrera: Bilogía La Princesa Guerrera Parte...

Author: Ana Gómez
ISBN: 9798247610182
Format: Paperback
$59.88

Otorgo mis palabras y pongo mis más férreos deseos en que cuando escuches La Verdad que te ha sido revelada tu Alma...  Read More >>

Woolf, Bergson and the Sciences: Modernist Animals

Woolf, Bergson and the Sciences: Modernist Animals

Author: Candice Kent
ISBN: 9781041049890
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Woolf, Bergson, and the Life Sciences explores the use of animals in Woolf’s novels, alongside the writing of philosopher,...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Life Writing, and the Victorian Nomad

Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Life Writing, and the Victorian...

Author: Jean Fernandez
ISBN: 9781041209157
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Life Writing, and the Victorian Nomad employs canonical literary texts, and introduces...  Read More >>

Silence: A Literary History

Silence: A Literary History

Author: Kate McLoughlin (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780192855626
Format: Hardback
$70.95

Silence: A Literary History traces silences over twelve centuries of English literature, from the solitary states...  Read More >>

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