Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Best Debut Short Stories 2025: The PEN America Dau Prize

Best Debut Short Stories 2025: The PEN America Dau Prize...

Author: Lydi Conklin ,  Dionne Irving
ISBN: 9781646223152
Format: Paperback
$35.00

The essential annual guide to the newest voices in literature The essential annual guide to the newest voices in...  Read More >>

Solo Mio (2026): A Heartfelt Italian Romantic Comedy Love, Loss & Second Chances on a Solo Journey

Solo Mio (2026): A Heartfelt Italian Romantic Comedy...

Author: Johanna Grunwald
ISBN: 9798243108607
Format: Paperback
$50.13

Some films don't ask to be explained. They ask to be understood. Solo Mio (2026) is one of those films. This book...  Read More >>

An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

Author: Dr Penny Bradshaw (Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Cumbria, UK)
ISBN: 9781350453340
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A lively way into the works of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, this book provides fresh understanding...  Read More >>

Thatha Lento Ayinabungozi Kuyaphileka: The New Ukuthwala Slogan In Mzansi Soil

Thatha Lento Ayinabungozi Kuyaphileka: The New Ukuthwala...

Author: Sibongiseni Masengemu
ISBN: 9798232983727
Format: Paperback
$95.01

Ingabe Ubuhlungu Bokuziphatha Buyintengo Yokuphumelela Kwangempela? Ku-Mzansi wanamuhla, lapho ingcebo yezwe idinga...  Read More >>

Angels, Demons, and Demigods: An Encyclopedia of Supernatural Beings in Story and on Screen

Angels, Demons, and Demigods: An Encyclopedia of Supernatural...

Author: David A. Salomon (Christopher Newport University, USA) ,  Kelly A. O'Connor-Salomon (Christopher Newport University, USA)
ISBN: 9781440874413
Format: Hardback
$150.00

This encyclopedia examines famous and influential depictions of angels, demons, and demigods in film, television,...  Read More >>

An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

Author: Dr Penny Bradshaw (Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Cumbria, UK)
ISBN: 9781350453357
Format: Hardback
$100.00

A lively way into the works of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, this book provides fresh understanding...  Read More >>

The Bonkbuster: Women's Popular Reading in the Long 1980s

The Bonkbuster: Women's Popular Reading in the Long...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Amy Burge (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Dr. Jodi McAlister (Deakin University, Australia)
ISBN: 9798765121702
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Offers a dedicated and detailed theorization and genre study of the ""bonkbuster,"" a phenomenally popular genre...  Read More >>

Writing Herstory through Ancient Greek Letters: Representations of Women in Fictional Epistolography

Writing Herstory through Ancient Greek Letters: Representations...

Author: Antonios Pontoropoulos (Swedish Institute in Rome, Italy)
ISBN: 9781350401754
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first comprehensive feminist reading of ancient Greek fictional letter collections.  Read More >>

The Death Drive: Philosophy, Literature, Theory

The Death Drive: Philosophy, Literature, Theory

Author: Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo (Texas A&M University-Victoria, USA) ,  Professor Paul Allen Miller (Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, USA)
ISBN: 9781350465671
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary...  Read More >>

Narrative in Ovid's Amores: Comics Theory, Elegy, and Segmentary Narrative

Narrative in Ovid's Amores: Comics Theory, Elegy, and...

Author: Natalie Swain (Acadia University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350407244
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Examines Ovid’s Amores through a comics-based methodology to demonstrate how Latin elegy uses its segmented format...  Read More >>

Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing

Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing

Author: Professor Karin Kukkonen (Professor in Comparative Literature, University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9781350522664
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Using author interviews and in-depth manuscript case studies, this book explores the process of creativity in literature...  Read More >>

Fictions of Radical Life Extension: Living Forever from the Fin de Siècle to the First World War

Fictions of Radical Life Extension: Living Forever from...

Author: James Aaron Green (University of Vienna, Austria)
ISBN: 9781350374713
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first book-length study of fictions of radical life extension, this book recovers a major but as-yet unrecognized...  Read More >>

Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Black Feminism: Desire as Power

Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Black Feminism:...

Author: Professor Chielozona Eze (Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research professor of African and African American literary and cultural studies, Northeastern Illinois University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350405677
Format: Hardback
$170.00

An examination of the ethical and social assumptions of Zora Neale Hurston’s aesthetics and feminist visions, this...  Read More >>

The Horror Theory Reader

The Horror Theory Reader

Author: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
ISBN: 9781517917821
Format: Paperback
$62.99

A comprehensive guide to the timeless, paradoxical appeal of horror Why do we enjoy horror? The emotional responses...  Read More >>

Women Journalists in the Brazilian Mainstream Press: The Case of O País (1884-1912)

Women Journalists in the Brazilian Mainstream Press:...

Author: Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva ,  Dr Tania Regina de Luca
ISBN: 9781855664289
Format: Hardback
$219.94

A nuanced and complex portrayal of female voices which have long been silenced, offering a fresh perspective on...  Read More >>

Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots: Black History in Contemporary Graphic Narrative

Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots: Black History in Contemporary...

Author: Daniel Stein
ISBN: 9781496860590
Format: Paperback
$56.10

A revelation of the powerful circuit between Black history and modern comics by African American creators  Read More >>

The Horror Theory Reader

The Horror Theory Reader

Author: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
ISBN: 9781517917814
Format: Hardback
$270.00

A comprehensive guide to the timeless, paradoxical appeal of horror Why do we enjoy horror? The emotional responses...  Read More >>

Into the Weeds

Into the Weeds

Author: Lydia Davis
ISBN: 9780300279740
Format: Hardback
$26.95

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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: 9781603297219
Format: Hardback
$208.00

Explore creative approaches for teaching literature that interlace pressing social issues—climate challenges, political...  Read More >>

The Look of the 1960s: Barbarella and Pulp Pop Comics

The Look of the 1960s: Barbarella and Pulp Pop Comics...

Author: Jan Baetens ,  Hugo Frey
ISBN: 9781477332504
Format: Hardback
$127.00

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The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature

The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental...

Author: Alexander Menrisky
ISBN: 9781041023883
Format: Paperback
$108.65

The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature offers an overview of the different ways diverse...  Read More >>

Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots: Black History in Contemporary Graphic Narrative

Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots: Black History in Contemporary...

Author: Daniel Stein
ISBN: 9781496860583
Format: Hardback
$205.70

A revelation of the powerful circuit between Black history and modern comics by African American creators  Read More >>

The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature

The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental...

Author: Alexander Menrisky
ISBN: 9781041023906
Format: Hardback
$401.06

The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature offers an overview of the different ways diverse...  Read More >>

American Narrative Realism: The Novel, Film, Television, and Theater

American Narrative Realism: The Novel, Film, Television,...

Author: David R. Shumway (Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009660099
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Realism has been disparaged for over a hundred years as an outmoded form, and, more recently, as a pernicious illusion,...  Read More >>

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