Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Rothelan: A Romance of the English Histories

Rothelan: A Romance of the English Histories

Author: Adam Kozaczka (Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M International University) ,  Clare A. Simmons (Professor of English, Ohio State University)
ISBN: 9781399531320
Format: Hardback
$219.00

History mingles with romance in John Galt's only novel set in the English Middle Ages.  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 >>

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum...

Author: Allison S. Curseen
ISBN: 9781469694191
Format: Hardback
$229.00

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  Read More >>

The Tragedy of the Korosko and The Fires of Fate: with The Nile Journal

The Tragedy of the Korosko and The Fires of Fate: with...

Author: Professor Douglas Kerr (Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London) ,  Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9781399554541
Format: Hardback
$288.00

Brings together Arthur Conan Doyle's Egyptian-themed works, based on his imperial travels.  Read More >>

The Rapture: The Awakening Of The Faithful

The Rapture: The Awakening Of The Faithful

Author: Ray Aquil
ISBN: 9798195051297
Format: Paperback
$55.41

This fiction story may be fiction, but it had a deeper story to tell let me give a few highlights of this story....  Read More >>

The Feminist New Age: Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield and Modernist-Era Periodical Culture

The Feminist New Age: Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield...

Author: Carey Snyder (Associate Professor of English, Ohio University) ,  Lise Shapiro Sanders
ISBN: 9781399561853
Format: Hardback
$230.00

Contextualises modernist-era feminist writings of Beatrice Hastings and Katherine Mansfield in The New Age magazine....  Read More >>

Telepoetics: Writing the Phone in Literature, Culture and Theory

Telepoetics: Writing the Phone in Literature, Culture...

Author: Sarah Jackson (Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University) ,  Philip Leonard (Professor of Literature and Theory, Nottingham Trent University)
ISBN: 9781399543170
Format: Hardback
$230.00

Telepoetics explores how telephony has shaped and been shaped by literature.  Read More >>

Lives in Adab: Essays in Honour of Julia Bray

Lives in Adab: Essays in Honour of Julia Bray

Author: Alexander Key (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University) ,  Letizia Osti (Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Milan)
ISBN: 9781399543132
Format: Hardback
$230.00

Essays and translations by modern-day scholars organised along the principles of the Arabic narrative tradition....  Read More >>

The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture: From Conviviality to Cursed Thirst

The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture: From...

Author: Pam Lock (Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781399502221
Format: Hardback
$200.00

The first book-length study of alcohol in Victorian literature and culture.  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 >>

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 >>

Judy Blume: a life

Judy Blume: a life

Author: Mark Oppenheimer
ISBN: 9781761380686
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The definitive, all-access biography of one of the world's most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant...  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: 9780231220552
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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

The Idea in Fiction

Author: H.W. Leggett
ISBN: 9781041326120
Format: Hardback
$388.12

First published in 1934, The Idea in Fiction by H. W. Leggett explores storytelling methods, tracing an idea’s journey...  Read More >>

Littérature de voyage et autobiogéographie (XIXe-XXIe siècles)

Littérature de voyage et autobiogéographie (XIXe-XXIe...

Author: Sarga Moussa ,  Małgorzata Sokołowicz
ISBN: 9789004755413
Format: Hardback
$287.76

This volume is the first to introduce autobiogeography as a new interpretative framework for reading travel writing...  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 >>

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 >>

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

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Metamodernism and the Postdigital in the Contemporary Novel

Metamodernism and the Postdigital in the Contemporary...

Author: Spencer Jordan (University of Nottingham, UK) ,  Anthony Mandal
ISBN: 9781350281066
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Duncan...  Read More >>

Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture: Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century

Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture: Pandemics,...

Author: Simon Bacon
ISBN: 9781350285538
Format: Paperback
$59.99

An exploration into how the figure of the zombie uniquely articulates the societal changes prompted by the health,...  Read More >>

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