Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender...
Author: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike (Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the 2025-2026 Wayne O. McCready Emerging Fellow, University of Calgary)
ISBN: 9781399538091
Format: Hardback 		$200.00

Reveals how Nigerian writers redefine masculinity to challenge social norms and affirm relationalities.  Read More >>

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The Code of the Superhero: Morality and Citizenship in the Comics

The Code of the Superhero: Morality and Citizenship...
Author: Ryan L Johnson
ISBN: 9781476694597
Format: Paperback 		$131.87

Since their inception, superheroes in comic books and other media have endeavored to guide the nation's children...  Read More >>

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Contemporary American Fiction and Cultures of Self-Help

Contemporary American Fiction and Cultures of Self-Help...
Author: Gillian Moore (Trinity College Dublin)
ISBN: 9781009438490
Format: Hardback 		$232.88

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Beckett and Leopardi

Beckett and Leopardi
Author: Peter Boxall (University of Oxford) ,  Peter Nicholls (New York University)
ISBN: 9781009547918
Format: Hardback 		$142.31

This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett. It suggests that Leopardi becomes...  Read More >>

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The Professor's House

The Professor's House
Author: Willa Cather ,  Melissa J. Homestead (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
ISBN: 9780198861355
Format: Paperback 		$18.95

The Professor's House (1925) depicts the mid-life crisis of Godfrey St. Peter, a history professor at a midwestern...  Read More >>

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How Cormac Works: McCarthy, Language, and Style

How Cormac Works: McCarthy, Language, and Style
Author: Bill Hardwig
ISBN: 9780807185490
Format: Paperback 		$92.40

Throughout a career that spanned six decades, Cormac McCarthy produced twelve novels that, while often quite different...  Read More >>

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Critical Insights: Wuthering Heights

Critical Insights: Wuthering Heights
Author: Salem Press
ISBN: 9798891791268
Format: Hardback 		$277.20

The provided description lacks any concrete details, leaving the narrative’s plot, characters, and themes completely...  Read More >>

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Critical Insights: Native Son

Critical Insights: Native Son
Author: Salem Press
ISBN: 9798891791381
Format: Hardback 		$277.20

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Masculinities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Culture, 1931–1965: The Men We Dreamed Of

Masculinities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction...
Author: Loic Wright
ISBN: 9781032834306
Format: Hardback 		$305.00

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Heroines of the Postmodern and their Worlds in Contemporary Historical Fiction

Heroines of the Postmodern and their Worlds in Contemporary...
Author: Alicja Bemben ,  Michael Joseph
ISBN: 9781032958224
Format: Hardback 		$294.00

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Comic Book Apocalypse!: The Death of Pre-Code Comics and Why It Happened, 1940–1955

Comic Book Apocalypse!: The Death of Pre-Code Comics...
Author: David J. Hogan ,  Maggie Thompson
ISBN: 9780764369599
Format: Hardback 		$135.00

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Concrete and Plastic: Thinking through Materiality

Concrete and Plastic: Thinking through Materiality
Author: Kylie Crane (University of Rostock, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350380639
Format: Paperback 		$59.99

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Mary Butts: Necessary Contradictions and Feminist Reconstructions

Mary Butts: Necessary Contradictions and Feminist Reconstructions...
Author: Dr. Joel Hawkes (University of Victoria, Canada)
ISBN: 9781501380754
Format: Paperback 		$59.99

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature...
Author: Cosima Bruno (SOAS University of London) ,  Lucas Klein (Arizona State University)
ISBN: 9781350215351
Format: Paperback 		$86.99

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Sherlock Holmes: Inspiring Lives

Sherlock Holmes: Inspiring Lives
Author: Roger Johnson ,  Jean Upton
ISBN: 9781837050918
Format: Paperback 		$32.99

Sherlock Holmes: Inspiring Lives is light-hearted and highly informative, and perfect for both the Sherlock aficionado...  Read More >>

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Writing Noise in Interwar Britain: Literature and the Politics of Sound

Writing Noise in Interwar Britain: Literature and the...
Author: Anna Snaith (Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, English Department, King's College London)
ISBN: 9780198951476
Format: Hardback 		$208.95

This book explores the preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound in interwar Britain. It contends that the extreme decibel...  Read More >>

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Count Petöfy: A Novel of Austria-Hungary

Count Petöfy: A Novel of Austria-Hungary
Author: Rex Rex Levang (Customer) ,  Theodor Fontane
ISBN: 9781640142206
Format: Hardback 		$316.80

First English translation of an unjustly overlooked novel by the great German realist novelist Theodor Fontane....  Read More >>

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The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching: Prints, Process, Prose

The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching: Prints,...
Author: Rachel Skokowski (Curator, Janet Turner Print Museum and Director of Galleries, California State University)
ISBN: 9780198975274
Format: Hardback 		$182.95

The first comprehensive study of the Goncourt brothers' etchings, including never-before published images of their...  Read More >>

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Conflict Zone Literatures: A Genre in the Making

Conflict Zone Literatures: A Genre in the Making
Author: Debamitra Kar
ISBN: 9781032335377
Format: Paperback 		$111.24

This book examines the metanarratives promoted by the state that determine the ideological framework and how these...  Read More >>

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Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's Science Fiction

Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's...
Author: Jerome Winter
ISBN: 9781666956801
Format: Hardback 		$160.00

The book argues that Ian McDonald’s globalized science fiction functions as a complex, hybrid fusion of magic realism...  Read More >>

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Philosophy with Clarice Lispector

Philosophy with Clarice Lispector
Author: Fernanda Negrete (University at Buffalo, USA)
ISBN: 9781032684512
Format: Paperback 		$111.24

This book examines Clarice Lispector’s body of work, foregrounding its theoretical insights and exploring its philosophical...  Read More >>

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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: 9781535886710
Format: Hardback 		$1116.72

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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: 9781535886703
Format: Hardback 		$1116.72

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The Reluctant Dragon: China's Story, Told Through Chinese Eyes

The Reluctant Dragon: China's Story, Told Through Chinese...
Author: I N Paradise
ISBN: 9798271887963
Format: Paperback 		$105.57

Why does China act the way it does? Not through Western analysis. Through Chinese eyes. YIN AND YANG: THE TWO...  Read More >>

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When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever

When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories...
Author: Susan Cheever
ISBN: 9780374600990
Format: Hardback 		$79.20

""A sympathetic and illuminating account of The Stories of John Cheever, and the intersecting life and work of legendary...  Read More >>

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