Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Maurice Blanchot: Three Terrors

Maurice Blanchot: Three Terrors

Author: Marty Hiatt (Independent Scholar)
ISBN: 9798855804485
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Investigates permutations of the terror to examine the complex political and intellectual transformation of literary...  Read More >>

Mary Howitt, Our Cousins in Ohio

Mary Howitt, Our Cousins in Ohio

Author: Mary Howitt ,  Donald Ingram Ulin (Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford)
ISBN: 9781399523578
Format: Hardback
$230.00

A new critical edition of Our Cousins in Ohio, showcasing the transatlantic collaboration between best-selling English...  Read More >>

Writing Contested Illness: Experimentation in Contemporary Women's Life Writing

Writing Contested Illness: Experimentation in Contemporary...

Author: Chloe R. Green (Lecturer in English, Australian National University)
ISBN: 9781399534406
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines how women's experimental illness narratives are driving new conceptions of contested illness.  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives

The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational...

Author: Elisa Bolchi (Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Ferrara) ,  Maria Rita Drumond Viana (Professor C4 in the Department of Letters, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto)
ISBN: 9781399527316
Format: Hardback
$345.00

Explores Virginia Woolf as a transnational figure, her composite legacy and her impact in various cultural and political...  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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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