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Tolstoy: The Making of a Novelist

Tolstoy: The Making of a Novelist

Author: Edward Crankshaw
ISBN: 9781448205219
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Tolstoy was not always an old man-not always a bearded patriarch fixing the world with the eye of an angry ancient...  Read More >>

Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore

Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore...

Author: Thomas Moore ,  John Russell
ISBN: 9781108058933
Format: Paperback
$77.60

First published between 1853 and 1856, this eight-volume collection of memoirs, diaries and letters provides rare...  Read More >>

Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore

Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore...

Author: Thomas Moore ,  John Russell
ISBN: 9781108058940
Format: Paperback
$80.19

First published between 1853 and 1856, this eight-volume collection of memoirs, diaries and letters provides rare...  Read More >>

Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr

Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr...

Author: Dora Osborne
ISBN: 9781907975400
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction

Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death...

Author: Wyatt Bonikowski
ISBN: 9781409444176
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Bonikowski examines how the figure of the shell-shocked soldier and the symptoms of war trauma were transformed...  Read More >>

Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads

Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics...

Author: Dr Daniel Stein ,  Dr Shane Denson
ISBN: 9781441185754
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Written by leading international scholars, this book surveys transnational dimensions of graphic narratives, covering...  Read More >>

Thomas Hardy and Desire: Conceptions of the Self

Thomas Hardy and Desire: Conceptions of the Self

Author: Jane Thomas
ISBN: 9780230224636
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's...  Read More >>

In the Mirror of the Past: Of Fantasy and History

In the Mirror of the Past: Of Fantasy and History

Author: Tomasz Ratajczak ,  Bogdan Trocha
ISBN: 9781443845281
Format: Hardback
$179.39

These days, we are ever more often confronted by overwhelming events. Searching for a way to understand them, we...  Read More >>

Isabel Allende: A Literary Companion

Isabel Allende: A Literary Companion

Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
ISBN: 9780786471270
Format: Paperback
$71.50

""Isabel Allende--known as ""la Famosa"" to Chileans--is the most widely read Spanish-language author. This reference...  Read More >>

Tolkien's Poetry

Tolkien's Poetry

Author: Julian Tim Morton Eilmann ,  Allan G. Turner
ISBN: 9783905703283
Format: Paperback
$70.62

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Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction: The Syndrome Syndrome

Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction: The...

Author: James Peacock (Keele University, UK) ,  Tim Lustig (Keele University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415507400
Format: Hardback
$315.00

The essays in this collection address the current preoccupation with neurological conditions and disorders in contemporary...  Read More >>

Science and Religion in Neo-Victorian Novels: Eye of the Ichthyosaur

Science and Religion in Neo-Victorian Novels: Eye of...

Author: John Glendening
ISBN: 9780415819435
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Criticism about the neo-Victorian novel — a genre of historical fiction that re-imagines aspects of the Victorian...  Read More >>

Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature: Novel Listening

Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature: Novel...

Author: Justin St. Clair (University of South Alabama, USA)
ISBN: 9780415661393
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This study examines postmodern literature— including works by Kurt Vonnegut, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Philip...  Read More >>

Dinosaurs in Fantastic Fiction: A Thematic Survey

Dinosaurs in Fantastic Fiction: A Thematic Survey

Author: Allen A. Debus
ISBN: 9780786475100
Format: Paperback
$79.07

From Jules Verne to Michael Crichton, this literary survey examines how paleoliterature originated, developed and...  Read More >>

East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader

East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader

Author: S. Estok ,  W. Kim
ISBN: 9781137274311
Format: Hardback
$145.17

East Asian Ecocriticisms presents original essays from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China that define and characterize...  Read More >>

Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in Edwardian Fiction

Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual...

Author: Kate Macdonald ,  Richard J. Bleiler
ISBN: 9781848933484
Format: Mixed media product
$767.00

The Edwardian period was a time of great social and political change. The six texts in this edition are all notable...  Read More >>

First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence

First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the...

Author: Sheila L. Skemp
ISBN: 9780812222487
Format: Paperback
$47.95

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Masculinity and the English Working Class: Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction

Masculinity and the English Working Class: Studies in...

Author: Ying Lee (Ying Lee, Queen's University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415541695
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This book analyzes Victorian working-class masculinity through the dual lenses of autobiography and fiction, examining...  Read More >>

George Eliot: A Life

George Eliot: A Life

Author: Rosemary Ashton
ISBN: 9780571296484
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.  Read More >>

The Story of Little Dombey and Other Performance Fictions (1850s & 60s)

The Story of Little Dombey and Other Performance Fictions...

Author: Charles Dickens ,  Black et al
ISBN: 9781554811649
Format: Paperback
$42.90

“Little Dombey and Other Performance Fictions” presents a selection of four short works that Dickens derived from...  Read More >>

A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre

A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre

Author: Gary Ferguson ,  Mary B. McKinley
ISBN: 9789004221895
Format: Hardback
$670.56

Eleven scholars offer new appreciations of Marguerite de Navarre’s rich and varied œuvre: her mystical poetry, plays,...  Read More >>

Clark Ashton Smith: A Critical Guide to the Man and His Work, Second Edition

Clark Ashton Smith: A Critical Guide to the Man and...

Author: Steve Behrends
ISBN: 9781479400560
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was a major writer of fantasy and science fiction during the first half of the twentieth...  Read More >>

The Accents of Persuasion: Charlotte Brontë's Novels

The Accents of Persuasion: Charlotte Brontë's Novels...

Author: Robert Bernard
ISBN: 9780571296477
Format: Paperback
$38.81

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