Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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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 >>

Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature: The Material Sacred

Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century...

Author: Dr Emily McAvan (Monash University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350280410
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The first comprehensive look at the religious significance of this century's contemporary English literature, this...  Read More >>

Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative

Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative

Author: Chad Schrock (Lee University, USA) ,  Emma Mason (University of Warwick UK)
ISBN: 9781350417458
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book demonstrates how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and...  Read More >>

Theologies of Pain: Literary Bodies and Afflicted Forms in Puritan New England

Theologies of Pain: Literary Bodies and Afflicted Forms...

Author: Lucas Hardy (Associate Professor, Youngstown State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350400405
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Mining unexplored discourses of pain in New England literary texts, this book shows how pain was central in shaping...  Read More >>

Fanfiction as Queer Healing: Femslash Authorship and the Swan Queen Ship

Fanfiction as Queer Healing: Femslash Authorship and...

Author: Dr Alice M. Chapman-Kelly (Fellow-in-Residence, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, University of Oxford, UK) ,  Senior Lecturer Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow UK)
ISBN: 9781350350908
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The first book-length exploration of femflash fanfiction and its implications for wider fan communities, this text...  Read More >>

Translating the Nonhuman: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Translating

Translating the Nonhuman: What Science Fiction Can Teach...

Author: Professor Douglas Robinson (Chair Professor English, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9798765112809
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Extends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation,...  Read More >>

Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture

Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature...

Author: Julia C. Obert
ISBN: 9781805966852
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This book examines joy...  Read More >>

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955

Author: Stephen O'Neill
ISBN: 9781836244813
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 is the first study of the impact of partition on the culture of Ireland....  Read More >>

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction...

Author: Erik Larson
ISBN: 9781684485901
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction: Confronting Dogmatism, Demagoguery, and Disinformation

Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction: Confronting Dogmatism,...

Author: Professor John Rieder (Emeritus Professor of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
ISBN: 9781350551527
Format: Hardback
$170.00

An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction’s power to intervene in the social, political, and environmental...  Read More >>

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time Travel

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time...

Author: Edward Royston
ISBN: 9780814259825
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time Travel

Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time...

Author: Edward Royston
ISBN: 9780814216132
Format: Hardback
$343.07

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction...

Author: Erik Larson
ISBN: 9781684485918
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction explores the dominant noir moods of precarity and uncertainty...  Read More >>

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels

James the Minimalist: An Essay on the Late Novels

Author: John Brenkman
ISBN: 9780226849447
Format: Paperback
$45.95

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What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You)

What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should...

Author: Naomi Kanakia
ISBN: 9780691251929
Format: Hardback
$44.99

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