Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Anton Chekhov. Earliest Stories: Chekhov's Complete Collected Works, vol. 1: Stories, Novellas, Humoresques, 18801882

Anton Chekhov. Earliest Stories: Chekhov's Complete...

Author: Rosamund Bartlett ,  Elena Michajlowska
ISBN: 9798887198095
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This volume comprises a complete annotated translaton of Anton Chekhov's fifty eight earliest stories, arranged...  Read More >>

The Guermantes Way

The Guermantes Way

Author: Marcel Proust ,  Adam Watt
ISBN: 9780192849762
Format: Paperback
$24.95

The Guermantes Way is the third volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important...  Read More >>

Networks of Reception in the Eighteenth-Century British Press and Laurence Sterne

Networks of Reception in the Eighteenth-Century British...

Author: Mary Newbould (Kazimierz Wielki University)
ISBN: 9781009238496
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Using a case study, this Element explores the criticism and creativity generated by eighteenth-century periodicals...  Read More >>

The Beats: A Literary History

The Beats: A Literary History

Author: Steven Belletto (Lafayette College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781316629918
Format: Paperback
$62.07

By detailing one of the most popular and significant cultural movements of the post-World War II era, readers will...  Read More >>

Biography and the Trade-Gothic Author: The Case of Isabella Kelly

Biography and the Trade-Gothic Author: The Case of Isabella...

Author: Yael Shapira (Bar-Ilan University)
ISBN: 9781009435192
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element argues for the value of biography in studying Gothic novels published by trade publishers during the...  Read More >>

From Man to Man or Perhaps Only—

From Man to Man or Perhaps Only—

Author: Olive Schreiner ,  Dorothy Driver (University of Cape Town)
ISBN: 9780192883056
Format: Paperback
$25.95

Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man (first published in 1926 and now re-edited after the discovery of an original...  Read More >>

The Post-9/11 Great American Novel: Fictional Perpetuations of White American Trauma and Islamophobia

The Post-9/11 Great American Novel: Fictional Perpetuations...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Sheheryar Sheikh (Dalhousie University, Canada)
ISBN: 9798765134405
Format: Hardback
$180.00

A study of the confluences between liberal white Americans’ trauma, their reverting to hyper-conservative Islamophobia,...  Read More >>

Science Fiction Language in Action: Scientologese

Science Fiction Language in Action: Scientologese

Author: Jennifer Kelso Farrell
ISBN: 9781666949971
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Examining the works of science fiction authors such as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Anthony Burgess, and Samuel...  Read More >>

21st-Century Climate Imaginaries: Global Activism, Ecopoetry and the Arts of Environmental Justice

21st-Century Climate Imaginaries: Global Activism, Ecopoetry...

Author: Natalie Pollard (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781350401822
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Adopting a comparative approach, this book argues that many iconic 21st-century metaphors and images used to communicate...  Read More >>

Speculative Mimesis in Fantasy Literature: Rethinking Relations Between Fiction and Reality

Speculative Mimesis in Fantasy Literature: Rethinking...

Author: Dr Elise Kraatila (Tampere University, Finland) ,  Senior Lecturer Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow UK)
ISBN: 9781350521438
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Positioning fantasy fiction as a response to the ongoing crisis of representation in Western fiction, this book...  Read More >>

Medicine, Theology and Wellness in Britain from the Enlightenment to Modernity

Medicine, Theology and Wellness in Britain from the...

Author: Dr Lesa Scholl (University of Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350410909
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Exploring the ways nineteenth-century medicine and theology co-created modern perceptions of the impact of nutrition...  Read More >>

James Joyce's Early Works in Ireland's Textual Cultures

James Joyce's Early Works in Ireland's Textual Cultures...

Author: Niels Caul (Champlain College, Ireland) ,  Niels Caul (Champlain College, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350528550
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Putting Joyce back into dialogue with other Irish writers of his generation, this book shows that his experiments...  Read More >>

Errant Natures and Wayward Bodies in Late-Victorian Speculative Fiction

Errant Natures and Wayward Bodies in Late-Victorian...

Author: Adrian Tait
ISBN: 9781666945058
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Adrian Tait argues that late-Victorian stories represent an important but still neglected part of a green literary...  Read More >>

Anton Chekhov. Earliest Stories: Chekhov's Complete Collected Works, vol. 1: Stories, Novellas, Humoresques, 18801882

Anton Chekhov. Earliest Stories: Chekhov's Complete...

Author: Rosamund Bartlett ,  Elena Michajlowska
ISBN: 9798887198088
Format: Hardback
$270.00

This volume comprises a complete annotated translaton of Anton Chekhov's fifty eight earliest stories, arranged...  Read More >>

Silence and Silencing in Selected African Novels: Power Dynamics and Transformative Voices

Silence and Silencing in Selected African Novels: Power...

Author: Oumar Chérif Diop (Kennesaw State University)
ISBN: 9781666918465
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Examines how African writers deconstruct normative discourses and use aesthetic forms and narrative techniques to...  Read More >>

Networks of Reception in the Eighteenth-Century British Press and Laurence Sterne

Networks of Reception in the Eighteenth-Century British...

Author: Mary Newbould (Kazimierz Wielki University)
ISBN: 9781009663199
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Using a case study, this Element explores the criticism and creativity generated by eighteenth-century periodicals...  Read More >>

Biography and the Trade-Gothic Author: The Case of Isabella Kelly

Biography and the Trade-Gothic Author: The Case of Isabella...

Author: Yael Shapira (Bar-Ilan University)
ISBN: 9781009548236
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element argues for the value of biography in studying Gothic novels published by trade publishers during the...  Read More >>

The Vagabond

The Vagabond

Author: Colette ,  Frances Egan
ISBN: 9780198881582
Format: Paperback
$15.95

A new translation into English of The Vagabond by Colette tells the story of thirty-three-year-old Renée Néré as...  Read More >>

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast: Gender and Animality in Modernist Hebrew Fiction

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast: Gender and Animality...

Author: Naama Harel
ISBN: 9781978841727
Format: Paperback
$81.40

Jews, women, and animals have been notoriously considered in Western thought as antithetical to the “civilized,” and...  Read More >>

Reconceptualising the Human: Exploring Critical Posthumanism in Select Novels of A. E. Van Vogt, Don Delillo and Olaf Stapledon

Reconceptualising the Human: Exploring Critical Posthumanism...

Author: Aishwarya Mishra ,  Gurudev Meher
ISBN: 9781645607427
Format: Paperback
$47.52

In 21st-century fiction, digitalization and globalization shatter the once-united front of Humanism. Haraway's cyborg...  Read More >>

Science Fiction Poetry (Volume 20)- SciFi, Fantasy, and Speculative Poetry, Discover Chronicles of the Sci-fi Stellar Verse, Echoes of the Void, and Nebula Narrative Anthology

Science Fiction Poetry (Volume 20)- SciFi, Fantasy,...

Author: Taylor Beelt Tillerson
ISBN: 9798887233444
Format: Paperback
$105.57

In the infinite expanse between a heartbeat and a supernova, where logic dances with wonder, this book of sci-fi...  Read More >>

Science Fiction Poetry (Volume 19)- SciFi, Fantasy, and Speculative Poetry, Discover Chronicles of the Sci-fi Stellar Verse, Echoes of the Void, and Nebula Narrative Anthology

Science Fiction Poetry (Volume 19)- SciFi, Fantasy,...

Author: Taylor Beelt Tillerson
ISBN: 9798887233437
Format: Paperback
$105.57

In the infinite expanse between a heartbeat and a supernova, where logic dances with wonder, this book of sci-fi...  Read More >>

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast: Gender and Animality in Modernist Hebrew Fiction

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast: Gender and Animality...

Author: Naama Harel
ISBN: 9781978841734
Format: Hardback
$262.90

Jews, women, and animals have been notoriously considered in Western thought as antithetical to the “civilized,” and...  Read More >>

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