Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Speculative Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Speculative Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology...

Author: Benjamin Warner ,  Professor Ron Tanner (Professor Emeritus, Loyola University, USA, Loyola University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350408487
Format: Hardback
$150.00

An accessible and wide-ranging all-in-one craft guide and anthology to the mode of speculative fiction writing,...  Read More >>

Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: The Monthly Magazine and Other Writings, 1789–1800

Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: The Monthly...

Author: Mark L. Kamrath ,  Professor Philip Barnard (University of Kansas, USA)
ISBN: 9798216376897
Format: Hardback
$300.00

Presents authoritative, annotated versions of major stories and essays from three late eighteenth-century American...  Read More >>

Literary Advice, British Fiction 1880-1914 and the Birth of the Creative Writing Industry

Literary Advice, British Fiction 1880-1914 and the Birth...

Author: Dr Paul Vlitos (Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Surrey, UK)
ISBN: 9781350266209
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first full-length study of the late Victorian and Edwardian writing advice industry, exploring how primary instructive...  Read More >>

Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange: 1550–1850

Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange: 1550–1850...

Author: Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, UK) ,  Louise Duckling (Independent Scholar)
ISBN: 9781350512283
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long...  Read More >>

Criminal Women in Contemporary French Crime Fiction: Gender, Genre and the Polar Féministe

Criminal Women in Contemporary French Crime Fiction:...

Author: Dr Ciara Gorman (Senior Tutor, Maynooth University, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350529410
Format: Hardback
$170.00

An interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which women’s violence, victimhood and villainy are portrayed in...  Read More >>

Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature

Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature

Author: Stacey McDowell (University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9781009380423
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing...  Read More >>

Forest Ecology and Fantasy Fiction: Morris, Tolkien, Le Guin

Forest Ecology and Fantasy Fiction: Morris, Tolkien,...

Author: Dion Dobrzynski (Bath Spa University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350547575
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Examining three of the most influential writers of the modern fantasy tradition, this book looks at how they engage...  Read More >>

Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine: A Commentary on the Tale by Apuleius

Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine:...

Author: Erich Neumann ,  Ralph Manheim
ISBN: 9780691279275
Format: Hardback
$62.99

Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, this book shows how the contest between...  Read More >>

Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor

Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor

Author: Jennifer Caplan ,  Jarrod Tanny
ISBN: 9780814352595
Format: Paperback
$85.99

The contributions illustrate the value of studying Jewish humor that decenters the US and Ashkenazi-centered analysis,...  Read More >>

Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor

Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor

Author: Jennifer Caplan ,  Jarrod Tanny
ISBN: 9780814352588
Format: Hardback
$224.00

The contributions illustrate the value of studying Jewish humor that decenters the US and Ashkenazi-centered analysis,...  Read More >>

Gothic Genesis: The Transmission Through Time and Territory

Gothic Genesis: The Transmission Through Time and Territory...

Author: Dr Aadil Zeffer
ISBN: 9798902075820
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Gothic Genesis: The Transmission Through Time and Territory offers a concise yet rigorous account of the Gothic's...  Read More >>

Unnützes Wissen für Stranger-Fans: Unglaubliche Fakten, bizarre Geheimnisse und urkomische Momente aus der Welt von Hawkins

Unnützes Wissen für Stranger-Fans: Unglaubliche Fakten,...

Author: Anton Weber
ISBN: 9798244218114
Format: Paperback
$42.93

Denkst du, du weißt alles über Stranger Things? Denk nochmal nach!Mach dich bereit für eine Achterbahnfahrt durch...  Read More >>

Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020: The State, the Citizen, and the Sovereign Ideal

Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020: The...

Author: Professor Matthew J. Christensen
ISBN: 9781847013958
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Providing a survey of Anglophone African detective fiction, from the late 1940s to the present day, this study traces...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell

The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell

Author: Elizabeth Ludlow ,  Rebecca Styler
ISBN: 9781032611129
Format: Hardback
$685.69

This volume addresses Gaskell’s works, networks, contexts, and legacies. Contributors draw on ecocriticism, queer...  Read More >>

Islands and Insularity in the Post-East German Novel: Public and Private Worlds

Islands and Insularity in the Post-East German Novel:...

Author: Dr Janice Shersby
ISBN: 9781640142435
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Pathbreaking study of recent novels by former East German authors that contribute, by employing tropes of retreat...  Read More >>

Speculative Insight: December 2025

Speculative Insight: December 2025

Author: Alexandra Pierce
ISBN: 9781764366045
Format: Paperback
$60.69

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Murder on the Night Sleeper: Sleeper Trains in Popular Culture

Murder on the Night Sleeper: Sleeper Trains in Popular...

Author: David Meara
ISBN: 9781398120877
Format: Paperback
$41.37

David Meara explores the enduring popularity of sleeper trains in film and fiction. Illustrated with many film stills,...  Read More >>

Speculative Insight: 2025

Speculative Insight: 2025

Author: Alexandra Pierce
ISBN: 9781764366052
Format: Hardback
$121.41

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood...

Author: Lauren Rule Maxwell
ISBN: 9781603297226
Format: Paperback
$87.99

Exploring diverse texts amid climate change, pandemics, and struggles over rights, the essays offer innovative approaches...  Read More >>

Empreintes Tremblantes

Empreintes Tremblantes

Author: Naif Mahdi ,  Sara Hussein
ISBN: 9786038504475
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Le livre Empreintes tremblantes est une collection de très courtes histoires qui se concentrent sur des moments...  Read More >>

Oscar Wilde's Paris: Legends and Legacies

Oscar Wilde's Paris: Legends and Legacies

Author: Colette Colligan ,  Gregory Mackie
ISBN: 9781487541415
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Oscar Wilde's Paris explores Wilde's connection with the French capital from his rise to fame to his eventual exile...  Read More >>

A Doctor Enjoys Sherlock Holmes

A Doctor Enjoys Sherlock Holmes

Author: Edward J (Edward Jerald) Van Liere
ISBN: 9781025241883
Format: Paperback
$50.03

""A doctor enjoys Sherlock Holmes"" by Edward J. Van Liere presents a captivating collection of 20th-century American...  Read More >>

Green Thursday

Green Thursday

Author: Julia Peterkin
ISBN: 9781025253978
Format: Paperback
$50.03

""Green Thursday"" by acclaimed author Julia Peterkin presents a compelling collection of short stories rooted deeply...  Read More >>

Die dunkle Seite des Mondes: Was die NASA wirklich vor uns verbirgt - Alien-Basen und die Zukunft der Menschheit

Die dunkle Seite des Mondes: Was die NASA wirklich vor...

Author: Haruto Ouka
ISBN: 9798243469173
Format: Paperback
$30.70

Haben Sie sich jemals gefragt, warum wir seit über 50 Jahren nicht mehr auf dem Mond waren? Warum zeigt uns der...  Read More >>

Green Thursday

Green Thursday

Author: Julia Peterkin
ISBN: 9781025253985
Format: Hardback
$84.35

""Green Thursday"" by acclaimed author Julia Peterkin presents a compelling collection of short stories rooted deeply...  Read More >>

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