Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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George Borrow, Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

George Borrow, Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the...

Author: Andrew D. Radford
ISBN: 9781399554145
Format: Paperback
$67.99

A new scholarly edition of a bold yet overlooked Victorian text that blends the genres of memoir, travelogue, ethnography...  Read More >>

Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation

Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation

Author: Emily Van Duyne (Stockton University)
ISBN: 9781324110361
Format: Paperback
$31.95

A nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation

Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation

Author: Erin Elizabeth Greer
ISBN: 9781399520225
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Develops a literary-philosophical account of 'conversation' that reframes core concerns in contemporary ethics,...  Read More >>

Queer Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

Queer Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

Author: Ardel Haefele-Thomas
ISBN: 9781399554152
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Explores a full spectrum of Gothic works broadly understood as queer, from the eighteenth century to today  Read More >>

The Artifice of Affect: American Realist Literature and Emotional Truth

The Artifice of Affect: American Realist Literature...

Author: Nicholas Manning
ISBN: 9781399508001
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Offers a literary and cultural critique of the concept of true feeling, using affect theory to analyze post-war...  Read More >>

Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought of the Disaster

Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought...

Author: Jonathan Boulter
ISBN: 9781474499637
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A reading of Blanchot's idea of the disaster in relation to contemporary fiction of the United Kingdom and Ireland...  Read More >>

George Eliot: A Very Short Introduction

George Eliot: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Juliette Atkinson (Professor of English, University College London)
ISBN: 9780198864325
Format: Paperback
$20.95

This Very Short Introduction aims to show the extraordinary sophistication and self-awareness of Eliot's fiction,...  Read More >>

The Orchid Stories

The Orchid Stories

Author: Kenward Elmslie ,  Robert Glück
ISBN: 9781068758614
Format: Paperback
$36.22

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The Post-Zombie: Essays on the Evolving Undead

The Post-Zombie: Essays on the Evolving Undead

Author: C Wylie Lenz ,  Angela Tenga
ISBN: 9781476695808
Format: Paperback
$71.50

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Fremdheit Und Raum: Die Russlandberichte Von Herberstein Und Olearius Im Vergleich

Fremdheit Und Raum: Die Russlandberichte Von Herberstein...

Author: Andreja Bole Maia
ISBN: 9783825347710
Format: Hardback
$116.16

Fremdheit lasst sich nicht getrennt von Raum denken: Dieses Buch lotet das topologisch fundierte, asymmetrische...  Read More >>

Der Tod ... Warf Aus Den Weiden Auf Uns Seinen Schatten: Zum Leben Und Werk Immanuel Weissglas' Von 1920 Bis 1947

Der Tod ... Warf Aus Den Weiden Auf Uns Seinen Schatten:...

Author: Daniele Robol
ISBN: 9783825349035
Format: Hardback
$176.88

Dieser Band setzt sich mit dem Leben und Werk des deutsch-rumanischen Dichters und Ubersetzers Immanuel Weissglas...  Read More >>

The Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien's Demonized Creatures

The Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien's...

Author: Robert T Tally, Jr
ISBN: 9781476694351
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Despite its well-earned reputation as the richest world in fantasy, there exists a notable, troubling problem in...  Read More >>

A Fated Death (Dumnonia Mysteries 5)

A Fated Death (Dumnonia Mysteries 5)

Author: Clare Jayne
ISBN: 9798285403012
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Morvoren has a prophetic vision. Three swords clash, one of them with blood on it. Someone she cares about will...  Read More >>

Global Science Fiction: Essays on the International Imagination

Global Science Fiction: Essays on the International...

Author: Gary Westfahl
ISBN: 9781476689142
Format: Paperback
$171.60

Science fiction represents a diverse community of writers and readers that spans the entire world. This collection...  Read More >>

Literary Culture in the Medieval Welsh Marches: Networks, Places, Politics

Literary Culture in the Medieval Welsh Marches: Networks,...

Author: Matthew Siôn Lampitt (Research Associate, Research Associate, Department of English, University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780192846662
Format: Hardback
$177.95

This volume explores the literary and political culture of the medieval Welsh Marches, with particular focus on...  Read More >>

There is No Humor in Heaven: Mark Twain and Religious Liberalism

There is No Humor in Heaven: Mark Twain and Religious...

Author: Dwayne E. Eutsey
ISBN: 9780826223265
Format: Hardback
$145.20

More than a century after his death in 1910, Mark Twain remains a lightning rod for controversy. Especially in matters...  Read More >>

Reading to Resist: Contemporary Black British Women’s Writing

Reading to Resist: Contemporary Black British Women’s...

Author: Suzanne Scafe (London South Bank University)
ISBN: 9781032546292
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This is the first book to focus on writing by black British women writers, using an approach that highlights the...  Read More >>

My Year of Reading Welshly: Discovering Wales in 52 Books

My Year of Reading Welshly: Discovering Wales in 52...

Author: Alex Johnson
ISBN: 9781915279781
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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Ozono: La vida de un político

Ozono: La vida de un político

Author: Patricia Paz
ISBN: 9786280182629
Format: Paperback
$31.68

Ozono, la vida de un político Narra las luchas, sueños y retos de una comunidad que busca transformar su realidad....  Read More >>

Mapping the World at the Dawn of the British Empire: A Traveller's Guide

Mapping the World at the Dawn of the British Empire:...

Author: Matthew Dimmock (Professor of Early Modern Studies, University of Sussex) ,  Andrew Hadfield (Professor of English, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9780198942511
Format: Hardback
$58.95

A compact and informative guide to the ways in which the changing world of the early seventeenth century was understood...  Read More >>

Last Scene of All: Representing Death on the Western Stage

Last Scene of All: Representing Death on the Western...

Author: Jessica Goodman
ISBN: 9781781886908
Format: Paperback
$48.84

Death in classical tragedy is an ending: a symbolic moment of catharsis, read by the audience according to theatrical...  Read More >>

Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In

Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman...

Author: C. L. R. James ,  Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
ISBN: 9781684582792
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Available in its complete form for the first time since its original publication.  Read More >>

Comics of the Anthropocene: Graphic Narrative at the End of Nature

Comics of the Anthropocene: Graphic Narrative at the...

Author: José Alaniz
ISBN: 9781496857736
Format: Paperback
$69.99

The first full-length monograph to explore how US comics artists have depicted environmental destruction, mass extinctions,...  Read More >>

The Portrait of a Lady

The Portrait of a Lady

Author: Henry James ,  Michael Anesko (Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9781009655699
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The Cambridge Edition of The Portrait of a Lady (1881) offers the most authoritative and most comprehensively annotated...  Read More >>

Clinical Fictions: Psychoanalytic Novelists and Short Story Writers

Clinical Fictions: Psychoanalytic Novelists and Short...

Author: Jeffrey Berman
ISBN: 9781041034513
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Clinical Fictions: Psychoanalytic Novelists and Short Story Writers is the first book to explore works of fiction...  Read More >>

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