Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf

The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf

Author: Anne E. Fernald (Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Fordham University)
ISBN: 9780198885511
Format: Paperback
$94.95

A Handbook on Woolf's achievements as an innovative novelist and pioneering feminist theorist. It studies her life,...  Read More >>

Jane Eyre in German Lands: The Import of Romance, 1848–1918

Jane Eyre in German Lands: The Import of Romance, 1848–1918...

Author: Professor or Dr. Lynne Tatlock (Professor in the Humanities; Director, Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
ISBN: 9781501382390
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""A case study in international reception, pairing translated and adapted ""foreign"" material with German national...  Read More >>

Northern Crossings: Translation, Circulation and the Literary Semi-periphery

Northern Crossings: Translation, Circulation and the...

Author: Chatarina Edfeldt (Senior Lecturer, Dalarna University) ,  Dr. Erik Falk (Senior Researcher, Södertörn University)
ISBN: 9781501374289
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""Explores semi-peripheral literary cultures and their relations to the cosmopolitan and the vernacular, using the...  Read More >>

Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology

Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations...

Author: Dr Taylor Driggers (University of Glasgow, UK) ,  Senior Lecturer Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow UK)
ISBN: 9781350231771
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Fantasy literature inhabits the realms of the orthodox and heterodox, the divine and demonic simultaneously, making...  Read More >>

Contemporary Fiction, Celebrity Culture, and the Market for Modernism: Fictions of Celebrity

Contemporary Fiction, Celebrity Culture, and the Market...

Author: Carey Mickalites ,  Bryan Cheyette
ISBN: 9781350248601
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Arguing that contemporary celebrity authors like Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie,...  Read More >>

Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives

Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives...

Author: Heike Hartung (University of Graz, Austria) ,  Rüdiger Kunow (Potsdam University, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350237483
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This volume focuses on cultural representations of dementia as a disease of ageing masculinities and on male identity...  Read More >>

Advanced Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Advanced Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Author: Amy E. Weldon (Luther College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350180093
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Confident with the basics of your craft? Looking to take your writing to the next level? Advanced Fiction gives...  Read More >>

Advanced Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Advanced Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Author: Amy E. Weldon (Luther College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350180109
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Confident with the basics of your craft? Looking to take your writing to the next level? Advanced Fiction gives...  Read More >>

Work, Inheritance, and Deserts in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction

Work, Inheritance, and Deserts in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction...

Author: Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan
ISBN: 9789811925863
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book focuses on the complex relationships between inheritance, work, and desert in literature.  Read More >>

The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe

The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe

Author: Professor Robert Hampson, FEA FRSA (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) ,  Véronique Pauly (University of Versailles, France)
ISBN: 9781350291492
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Born and brought up in Poland bilingually in French and Polish but living for most of his professional life in England...  Read More >>

Science Fiction: Toward a World Literature

Science Fiction: Toward a World Literature

Author: George Slusser ,  Gary Westfahl
ISBN: 9781666905373
Format: Paperback
$90.56

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Gothic Mash-Ups: Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Gothic Storytelling

Gothic Mash-Ups: Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality...

Author: Natalie Neill ,  Xavier Aldana Reyes
ISBN: 9781793636591
Format: Paperback
$77.63

Through an examination of texts from diverse periods and media, Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role that appropriation...  Read More >>

Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848

Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848...

Author: Clare Pettitt (Grace 2 Chair, Faculty of English, Grace 2 Chair, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780198886105
Format: Paperback
$58.95

Studies 'seriality' in nineteenth-century literary and popular print culture, focusing on literacy and the material...  Read More >>

Resistance and its Discontents in South Asian Women's Fiction

Resistance and its Discontents in South Asian Women's...

Author: Maryam Mirza
ISBN: 9781526150615
Format: Hardback
$184.00

Resistance and its discontents in South Asian women's fiction examines the literary representation of a fascinating...  Read More >>

Theology and Tolkien: Practical Theology

Theology and Tolkien: Practical Theology

Author: Douglas Estes ,  Miguel Benitez, Jr.
ISBN: 9781978712669
Format: Hardback
$188.89

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Konrad von Würzburg: Ein Handbuch

Konrad von Würzburg: Ein Handbuch

Author: Markus Stock
ISBN: 9783110204988
Format: Hardback
$334.53

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Barroco latinoamericano y crisis contemporánea

Barroco latinoamericano y crisis contemporánea

Author: Borja García Ferrer
ISBN: 9783111208589
Format: Hardback
$188.67

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Traditional Chinese Fiction in the English-Speaking World: Transcultural and Translingual Encounters

Traditional Chinese Fiction in the English-Speaking...

Author: Junjie Luo
ISBN: 9783031056888
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book develops interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to analyzing the cross-cultural travels of traditional...  Read More >>

The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder

The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe,...

Author: Daniel Stashower ,  Matt Weisgerber
ISBN: 9798212965576
Format: Audio
$124.05

"The author of Edgar winner ""Teller of Tales"" recounts the story of Manhattan tobacco store clerk Mary Rogers,...  Read More >>

The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder

The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe,...

Author: Daniel Stashower ,  Matt Weisgerber
ISBN: 9798212965583
Format: Audio
$110.85

"The author of Edgar winner ""Teller of Tales"" recounts the story of Manhattan tobacco store clerk Mary Rogers,...  Read More >>

Katherine Mansfield and Children

Katherine Mansfield and Children

Author: Gerri Kimber ,  Todd Martin
ISBN: 9781474491914
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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Literature, Science, and Public Policy: From Darwin to Genomics

Literature, Science, and Public Policy: From Darwin...

Author: Jay Clayton (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)
ISBN: 9781009263528
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This book shows how literature can influence scientific controversies concerning genetic engineering, cloning, GMOs,...  Read More >>

Historical Fiction Now

Historical Fiction Now

Author: Mark Eaton (Professor of English, Azusa Pacific University and Associate Research Professor of American Literature, Claremont Graduate University) ,  Bruce Holsinger (Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English, University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9780198877035
Format: Hardback
$58.95

An edited volume that brings together award-winning historians, novelists, and literary critics to discuss the popularity...  Read More >>

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