Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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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 >>

Frederick Knott and Dial M for Murder: The Creation and Evolution of an Iconic Thriller

Frederick Knott and Dial M for Murder: The Creation...

Author: Richard Weill
ISBN: 9781476699509
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Democracy, Secrecy and Dissidence in Contemporary Fiction in English

Democracy, Secrecy and Dissidence in Contemporary Fiction...

Author: Juan L. Pérez-de-Luque ,  Paula Martín-Salván
ISBN: 9783631927441
Format: Hardback
$139.73

This volume examines the interplay of democracy, secrecy, and transparency in contemporary English literature. Drawing...  Read More >>

Hemingway's Spanish Table: A Culinary Journey in 60+ Recipes

Hemingway's Spanish Table: A Culinary Journey in 60+...

Author: Howie Southworth
ISBN: 9798886742909
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History...

Author: Günter Leypoldt (Professor of American Studies, Professor of American Studies, University of Heidelberg)
ISBN: 9780197815113
Format: Hardback
$245.95

Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between...  Read More >>

The Long Rise of the British Novel, 1660–1800

The Long Rise of the British Novel, 1660–1800

Author: Nicholas Hudson (Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia)
ISBN: 9780198987369
Format: Hardback
$191.95

A rethinking of the evolution of the British novel that departs from dominant narratives and argues for an importantly...  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 >>

Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction

Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons...

Author: Justin L. Mann
ISBN: 9781478033264
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume IV: Elia and The Last Essays of Elia

Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume IV:...

Author: Gregory Dart (Professor of English, Professor of English, University College London)
ISBN: 9780198882985
Format: Hardback
$482.95

This fourth volume of The Collected Works of Charles and Mary Lamb contains Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia,...  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 >>

Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction

Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons...

Author: Justin L. Mann
ISBN: 9781478029816
Format: Hardback
$277.00

Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts

Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts...

Author: Blake Scott Ball (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of North Alabama)
ISBN: 9780197836439
Format: Paperback
$45.95

Charlie Brown's America tells the story of how and why the lovable kids and an adventurous beagle of Peanuts became...  Read More >>

China's Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai

China's Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai...

Author: Zhuodai Xu ,  Christopher Rea
ISBN: 9781939161949
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

In the Forest

In the Forest

Author: Edna O'Brien
ISBN: 9780571397495
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A young mother, her infant son and a Catholic priest are all murdered by a delusional young man.  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context

Tom Stoppard in Context

Author: David Kornhaber (University of Texas, Austin) ,  James N. Loehlin (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9781108413046
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

The Art of the ""What-If?"": In 17 Science Fiction Tales from the Past

The Art of the ""What-If?"": In 17 Science Fiction Tales...

Author: Paul J. Nahin
ISBN: 9783032156174
Format: Paperback
$59.49

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Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction...

Author: Erik Larson
ISBN: 9781684485901
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction explores the dominant noir moods of precarity and uncertainty...  Read More >>

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded...

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien ,  Humphrey Carpenter
ISBN: 9780008628772
Format: Hardback
$165.00

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now...  Read More >>

Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel

Author: Lucy Arnold
ISBN: 9781805967224
Format: Paperback
$118.80

This book is the first comprehensive critical introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science...

Author: Jo Walton ,  Ada Palmer
ISBN: 9781250372604
Format: Hardback
$84.45

From two of the most acclaimed writers in the field today, a groundbreaking look at how SF and fantasy writing--and...  Read More >>

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction...

Author: Erik Larson
ISBN: 9781684485918
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction explores the dominant noir moods of precarity and uncertainty...  Read More >>

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