Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Asian Ameritopias: Asian American Speculative Fictions

Asian Ameritopias: Asian American Speculative Fictions...

Author: Stephen Hong Sohn
ISBN: 9781439927526
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature, History, and Family

Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature,...

Author: Lindsay Diehl
ISBN: 9781771127288
Format: Paperback
$74.80

Examining a range of Chinese Canadian literature, this book incorporates elements of the author's own family story-her...  Read More >>

Saints, Sinners, and Clickers

Saints, Sinners, and Clickers

Author: Matthew J DiStefano ,  Lauren Cibene
ISBN: 9781964252643
Format: Paperback
$52.77

In a world where survival is brutal and morality is blurred, Saints, Sinners, and Clickers delves into the haunting,...  Read More >>

A Life For a Love

A Life For a Love

Author: L T Meade
ISBN: 9781835911204
Format: Paperback
$63.33

Excerpt: ... dread that her father was deceiving her kept strengthening  Read More >>

Chinese Science Fiction in Translation and Its World Impact: Connecting Futures

Chinese Science Fiction in Translation and Its World...

Author: Yiqing Gu (Tongji University, China) ,  Yun Wu
ISBN: 9781041106265
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Gu, Wu and Moratto explore how Chinese Science Fiction transcends cultural and linguistic barriers with its unique...  Read More >>

Body, Soul, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic Medicine

Body, Soul, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic...

Author: A. David Lewis
ISBN: 9781496862273
Format: Paperback
$69.99

An exploration of how comics illuminate medicine, religion, and identity  Read More >>

Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature

Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature

Author: Professor or Dr. Chris Holmes (Ithaca College, USA)
ISBN: 9781501388439
Format: Paperback
$49.99

A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels respond to and represent the world via characters that are profoundly limited...  Read More >>

Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination

Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination...

Author: Julia Ditter (Independent researcher) ,  Richard Kerridge (Bath Spa University UK)
ISBN: 9781350431065
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Examining the relationship between borders and the environment in Scottish literature from the nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature: Bodies of Knowledge

Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature: Bodies...

Author: Shannon Lambert (Ghent University, Belgium) ,  Lara Choksey (University of Exeter UK)
ISBN: 9781350425453
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science, this book considers how, in...  Read More >>

Philip Roth and the Body: Jewishness, Gender, and Race

Philip Roth and the Body: Jewishness, Gender, and Race...

Author: Dr. Joshua Lander (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9798765104835
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Examines the corporeality of Philip Roth’s fiction, arguing that Roth interrogates both how Jewishness has been...  Read More >>

Milan Kundera Known and Unknown: Multidimensional Analysis of Selected Works

Milan Kundera Known and Unknown: Multidimensional Analysis...

Author: Dr. Karen von Kunes (The University of Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9798765109465
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This collection of essays offers crucial and luminous insights into one of the best-known Czech authors, Milan Kundera,...  Read More >>

Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45: Dublin’s Dadaist

Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45:...

Author: Tobias William Harris (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) ,  James Little (University of Cyprus Cyprus)
ISBN: 9781350415911
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book rediscovers Flann O’Brien’s attempt to synthesise a...  Read More >>

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

Author: George Woodcock
ISBN: 9780921689485
Format: Paperback
$52.77

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  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 >>

Performative Authorship: Contemporary Francophone African Novelists Creating Meaning Inside and Outside the Book

Performative Authorship: Contemporary Francophone African...

Author: Kristen K. Stern
ISBN: 9781802074536
Format: Hardback
$271.69

Focusing on four contemporary francophone writers with roots in West and Central Africa—Fatou Diome, Alain Mabanckou,...  Read More >>

Living Fossils, Lost Worlds, Last Humans: The Science and Fiction of Population and Extinction

Living Fossils, Lost Worlds, Last Humans: The Science...

Author: Howard V Hendrix
ISBN: 9781476696324
Format: Paperback
$145.20

The narrative tropes of living fossils, lost worlds, and last humans have long foreshadowed the modern discourse...  Read More >>

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: 9781535886802
Format: Hardback
$1116.72

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To Go Boldly: A Companion to the First 60 Years of Star Trek

To Go Boldly: A Companion to the First 60 Years of Star...

Author: Tony Laplume
ISBN: 9798198563896
Format: Paperback
$26.40

A celebration of every series and film in the Star Trek franchise, finding the good throughout all of it, a fan's...  Read More >>

Unsettling Extinction

Unsettling Extinction

Author: Roman Bartosch (University of Cologne, Germany) ,  Ursula K. Heise (UCLA, USA)
ISBN: 9781350598478
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection...  Read More >>

Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940

Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940...

Author: Professor Gerry Smyth (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350412460
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Through new ecocritical readings of 18th and 19th century English genre fictions, this book explores the intersection...  Read More >>

Empire and Race in Enid Blyton’s Fiction: Deconstructing Whiteness and Modern Editing Practices

Empire and Race in Enid Blyton’s Fiction: Deconstructing...

Author: Dr Siobhan Morrissey (University of Galway, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350465138
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Using critical race theory to explore the racial, colonial and imperial ideologies underpinning Enid Blyton's fiction,...  Read More >>

Post-National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature

Post-National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature...

Author: Jesse van Amelsvoort (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781350595194
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Using works by Hafid Bouazza, Najat El Hachmi, Tsjêbbe Hettinga, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Leïla Slimani, Zadie Smith,...  Read More >>

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels

Author: John Brenkman
ISBN: 9780226849430
Format: Hardback
$303.60

An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James’s late works through the lens of minimalism.   Henry James’s...  Read More >>

The legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic vampire and its progeny

The legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic vampire and...

Author: Sam George ,  Bill Hughes
ISBN: 9781526198228
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This collection explores the genesis of John Polidori's foundational novella The Vampyre (1819). It then tracks...  Read More >>

Readers and mistresses: Kept women in Victorian literature

Readers and mistresses: Kept women in Victorian literature...

Author: Katie R. Peel
ISBN: 9781526198211
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while...  Read More >>

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