Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts: The Force of Character

Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance...

Author: Douglas S. Pfeiffer (Associate Professor of English,, Associate Professor of English,, Stony Brook University)
ISBN: 9780197901205
Format: Paperback
$77.63

Studying texts by Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Saint Jerome, George Gascoigne, and Fulke Greville, this volume explores...  Read More >>

Mid-Century Women's Writing: Disrupting the Public/Private Divide

Mid-Century Women's Writing: Disrupting the Public/Private...

Author: Melissa Dinsman ,  Megan Faragher
ISBN: 9781526195517
Format: Paperback
$68.99

This book re-examines British women's writing in the mid-century and its relationship to public and domestic spaces....  Read More >>

A Book of Monsters: Promethean Horror in Modern Literature and Culture

A Book of Monsters: Promethean Horror in Modern Literature...

Author: David Ashford
ISBN: 9781526195456
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature

Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature

Author: Nicholas Taylor-Collins
ISBN: 9781526195784
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English...  Read More >>

Reanimating Grief: Waking the Dead in Literature, Theatre and Performance

Reanimating Grief: Waking the Dead in Literature, Theatre...

Author: William McEvoy
ISBN: 9781526194695
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning....  Read More >>

Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance

Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance

Author: Chloe Kathleen Preedy ,  Rachel Willie
ISBN: 9781526195524
Format: Paperback
$68.99

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  Read More >>

Short Story Index, 2025 Annual Cumulation

Short Story Index, 2025 Annual Cumulation

Author: HW Wilson
ISBN: 9798891796980
Format: Paperback
$551.10

A meticulously curated reference aid streamlines the exploration of vital contemporary literature through rigorous...  Read More >>

Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis

Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of...

Author: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University, Sweden) ,  Richard Kerridge (Bath Spa University UK)
ISBN: 9781350401181
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening...  Read More >>

Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing: Race and Narrative Innovation

Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's...

Author: Professor Sheldon George (University of Massachusetts, Boston) ,  Professor Jean Wyatt (Occidental College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350383517
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Explores the stylistic and formal inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers from Britain, the United States,...  Read More >>

New Global Realism: Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel

New Global Realism: Thinking Totality in the Contemporary...

Author: Gabriele Lazzari (University of Surrey, UK) ,  Bryan Cheyette
ISBN: 9781350385719
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent...  Read More >>

Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction: Redefining the Philosopher in Multi-cultural Contexts

Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction: Redefining the...

Author: Professor Anway Mukhopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) ,  Professor Saptarshi Mallick (University of Graz, Austria and Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, University of North Bengal, India)
ISBN: 9798765100929
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This cross-cultural study explores and redefines what philosophy, philosophizing, and philosophers are through the...  Read More >>

Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts

Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts...

Author: Blake Scott Ball (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of North Alabama)
ISBN: 9780197836439
Format: Paperback
$45.95

Charlie Brown's America tells the story of how and why the lovable kids and an adventurous beagle of Peanuts became...  Read More >>

Reading Length in Fantasy Fiction

Reading Length in Fantasy Fiction

Author: Dr Matthew Oliver (Professor of English, Campbellsville University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350502215
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Reframing debates surrounding long narratives to explore their impact, this book develops a critical vocabulary...  Read More >>

The Long Rise of the British Novel, 1660–1800

The Long Rise of the British Novel, 1660–1800

Author: Nicholas Hudson (Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia)
ISBN: 9780198987369
Format: Hardback
$191.95

A rethinking of the evolution of the British novel that departs from dominant narratives and argues for an importantly...  Read More >>

The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century: A Library of America Boxed Set

The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century: A...

Author: John Stauffer
ISBN: 9781598538243
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Incudes both literary masterpieces-including classic stories by Poe, Hawthorne, Twain, James, and Wharton-and new...  Read More >>

Illness, Literature, and Care: Vulnerable Lives

Illness, Literature, and Care: Vulnerable Lives

Author: Robert Leigh Davis
ISBN: 9781666949193
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An intervention into contemporary debates on care by positioning it as a matter of attunement or resonance through...  Read More >>

Hemingway's Spanish Table: A Culinary Journey in 60+ Recipes

Hemingway's Spanish Table: A Culinary Journey in 60+...

Author: Howie Southworth
ISBN: 9798886742909
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Hemingway’s Spanish Table takes you on a culinary journey through Spain with 60 authentic recipes inspired by Hemingway’s...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Bowen in Context

Elizabeth Bowen in Context

Author: Allan Hepburn (McGill University, Montréal)
ISBN: 9781009536004
Format: Hardback
$232.88

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Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics

Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics...

Author: Silke Horstkotte ,  Nancy Pedri
ISBN: 9780814258293
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Through close readings of comics from a range of genres, this book uses the narratological concept of focalization...  Read More >>

Y Gelfyddyd Gymodlawn: T. Gwynn Jones a Cherddoriaeth

Y Gelfyddyd Gymodlawn: T. Gwynn Jones a Cherddoriaeth...

Author: Elen Ifan
ISBN: 9781837723324
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Mae’r gyfrol hon yn mynd i’r afael â gwaith T. Gwynn Jones (1871–1949), un o brif feirdd Cymraeg yr ugeinfed ganrif,...  Read More >>

Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction

Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons...

Author: Justin L. Mann
ISBN: 9781478033264
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction

Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons...

Author: Justin L. Mann
ISBN: 9781478029816
Format: Hardback
$277.00

Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

Censorship and the Irish Writer: Politics, Polemics, and the International Dialectic

Censorship and the Irish Writer: Politics, Polemics,...

Author: Brad Kent
ISBN: 9781487567613
Format: Hardback
$160.00

In recounting the fascinating history of how modern Irish writers politically, socially, and polemically organised...  Read More >>

Struggle, Resistance, and Decolonization in African American Literature after 1960

Struggle, Resistance, and Decolonization in African...

Author: W. Lawrence Hogue
ISBN: 9781839997945
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Against an African, African American, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement's backdrop, this book examines six African...  Read More >>

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