Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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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: 9780231211819
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Judy Blume: a life

Judy Blume: a life

Author: Mark Oppenheimer
ISBN: 9781761380686
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The definitive, all-access biography of one of the world's most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant...  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: 9780231220552
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Rongbin Han examines the production and consumption of online alt-history fiction in China, offering new insight...  Read More >>

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Author: Richard Barlow (Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University) ,  Paul Fagan (Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Maynooth University)
ISBN: 9781399529440
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

The Idea in Fiction

The Idea in Fiction

Author: H.W. Leggett
ISBN: 9781041326120
Format: Hardback
$388.12

First published in 1934, The Idea in Fiction by H. W. Leggett explores storytelling methods, tracing an idea’s journey...  Read More >>

Littérature de voyage et autobiogéographie (XIXe-XXIe siècles)

Littérature de voyage et autobiogéographie (XIXe-XXIe...

Author: Sarga Moussa ,  Małgorzata Sokołowicz
ISBN: 9789004755413
Format: Hardback
$287.76

This volume is the first to introduce autobiogeography as a new interpretative framework for reading travel writing...  Read More >>

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and...

Author: Hadley Suter
ISBN: 9780813955124
Format: Paperback
$68.99

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Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures

Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities...

Author: Cristina Rhodes
ISBN: 9781496862617
Format: Paperback
$69.99

How Latinx youth literature serves as a blueprint for a more equitable future  Read More >>

Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature

Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature...

Author: Daniel Dufournaud (Assistant Professor, University of Macau)
ISBN: 9781399554466
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.  Read More >>

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 >>

The Hera-Zeta Chronicles: As Above So Below

The Hera-Zeta Chronicles: As Above So Below

Author: Zsa Zsa Tudos
ISBN: 9798888961636
Format: Paperback
$83.64

The Hera-Zeta Chronicles allows you to take a peek into the concept of As Above So Below through the life and work...  Read More >>

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and...

Author: Hadley Suter
ISBN: 9780813955117
Format: Hardback
$266.00

How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there...  Read More >>

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