Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Victorian Novelists and Publishers

Victorian Novelists and Publishers

Author: J. A. Sutherland
ISBN: 9781472510259
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Introduction Part One: The Novel Publishing World, 1830-1870 1. Novel Publishing 1830-1870 2. Mass Market and Big...  Read More >>

The Story-Shaped World: Fiction and Metaphysics: Some Variations on a Theme

The Story-Shaped World: Fiction and Metaphysics: Some...

Author: Brian Wicker
ISBN: 9781472507846
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Story-telling, since its earliest beginnings, has drawn its power not simply from the intrinsic fascination of a...  Read More >>

Frail Vessels: Woman's Role in Women's Novels from Fanny Burney to George Eliot

Frail Vessels: Woman's Role in Women's Novels from Fanny...

Author: Hazel Mews
ISBN: 9781472506528
Format: Hardback
$280.00

The years between the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and of John...  Read More >>

Sir Walter Scott: Landscape and Locality

Sir Walter Scott: Landscape and Locality

Author: James Reed
ISBN: 9781472509291
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Scott was the first British novelist to discover in landscape a literary as well as a pictoral medium, an insight...  Read More >>

Gatsby: The Cultural History of the Great American Novel

Gatsby: The Cultural History of the Great American Novel...

Author: Bob Batchelor
ISBN: 9780810891951
Format: Hardback
$80.95

One of the bestselling novels of all time, The Great Gatsby is also considered one of the most significant achievements...  Read More >>

American Post-Modernist Novels

American Post-Modernist Novels

Author: Salem Press
ISBN: 9781619252103
Format: Hardback
$435.60

Introduces literary contexts as they apply to American novels written post 1960, by American and Canadian authors,...  Read More >>

Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction

Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction...

Author: P. Bedore
ISBN: 9781137288646
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing...  Read More >>

Tolkien in Pawneeland: The Secret Sources of Middle-earth

Tolkien in Pawneeland: The Secret Sources of Middle-earth...

Author: Roger Echo-Hawk
ISBN: 9781494333416
Format: Paperback
$66.00

This second edition of Tolkien in Pawneeland (July 2016) features new essays on JRR Tolkien's use of the real-world...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives: Exploring the Self and the Environment

The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives:...

Author: Christina Kullberg
ISBN: 9780813935133
Format: Paperback
$57.20

In addition, her interdisciplinary approach extends the reach of her work beyond postcolonial and literary studies...  Read More >>

Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales

Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places...

Author: Marta McDowell
ISBN: 9781604693638
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Richly illustrated and filled with quotations from her books, letters, and journals, Beatrix Potter's Gardening...  Read More >>

The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing

The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century...

Author: David Bolt
ISBN: 9780472119066
Format: Hardback
$197.87

Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism rarely engages the experiential...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives: Exploring the Self and the Environment

The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives:...

Author: Christina Kullberg
ISBN: 9780813935126
Format: Hardback
$133.10

In addition, her interdisciplinary approach extends the reach of her work beyond postcolonial and literary studies...  Read More >>

J.R.R. Tolkien: Pocket Guide

J.R.R. Tolkien: Pocket Guide

Author: JEREMY MARK ROBINSON
ISBN: 9781861714527
Format: Paperback
$65.97

J.R.R. TOLKIEN: POCKET GUIDE Revised and Updated A new guide to the life and work of J.R.R. Tolkien, the premier...  Read More >>

The Ultimate Gift

The Ultimate Gift

Author: Jim Stovall
ISBN: 9788183223331
Format: Paperback
$36.93

What would you do to inherit a million dollars? Would you be willing to change your life? Jason Stevens is about...  Read More >>

Milestones on a Golden Road: Writing for Chinese Socialism, 1945-80

Milestones on a Golden Road: Writing for Chinese Socialism,...

Author: Richard King
ISBN: 9780774823739
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Milestones on a Golden Road examines works of fiction written in China between 1945 and 1980, when the arts were...  Read More >>

Asian American Women's Popular Literature: Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging

Asian American Women's Popular Literature: Feminizing...

Author: Pamela Thoma
ISBN: 9781439910191
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Considers how these books both depict contemporary American-ness and contribute critically to public dialogue about...  Read More >>

Herta Müller: Politics and Aesthetics

Herta Müller: Politics and Aesthetics

Author: Bettina Brandt ,  Valentina Glajar
ISBN: 9780803245105
Format: Paperback
$105.60

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A Human Necklace: The African Diaspora and Paule Marshall's Fiction

A Human Necklace: The African Diaspora and Paule Marshall's...

Author: Moira Ferguson
ISBN: 9781438444192
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Argues that Paule Marshall's work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across...  Read More >>

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

Author: Donald Watt
ISBN: 9780415848268
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez

Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in...

Author: Rebecca L. Harrison ,  Emily Hipchen
ISBN: 9781438449050
Format: Hardback
$261.36

""Provides insightful criticism from many perspectives and grants in-depth analyses of both well-known and lesser...  Read More >>

Empire and History Writing in Britain C.1750–2012

Empire and History Writing in Britain C.1750–2012

Author: Joanna de Groot ,  Geoffrey Cubitt
ISBN: 9780719090462
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This books offers both a narrative and an analysis of the influence of British imperial involvements on history...  Read More >>

Women's University Fiction, 1880–1945

Women's University Fiction, 1880–1945

Author: Anna Bogen
ISBN: 9781848934085
Format: Hardback
$315.00

The rise of the middle classes brought a sharp increase in the number of young men and women able to attend university....  Read More >>

Self-Control: by Mary Brunton

Self-Control: by Mary Brunton

Author: Anthony Mandal ,  Anthony Mandal
ISBN: 9781848934023
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Sheet Sahasik Hemantolok: Defying Winter

Sheet Sahasik Hemantolok: Defying Winter

Author: Nabaneeta Dev Sen (, Writer and literary critic) ,  Tutun Mukherjee (, Professor and Head, Centre for Comparative Literature University of Hyderabad)
ISBN: 9780198097433
Format: Paperback
$18.09

Nabaneeta Dev Sen creates a series of individual women and their stories uncovering the lives lived and left behind....  Read More >>

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