Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction

James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction

Author: Nathan Ashman ,  Elizabeth Foxwell
ISBN: 9781476685489
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Once described as ‘the best crime writer you’ve never heard of’, James Sallis is a vastly underexplored figure in...  Read More >>

Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis

Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis...

Author: Paul Crosthwaite (Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780198891796
Format: Hardback
$188.95

Speculative Time examines how a climate of financial and economic speculation and disaster shaped the literary culture...  Read More >>

The Underground Sea

The Underground Sea

Author: John Berger ,  Tom Overton
ISBN: 9781805302995
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A succinct, urgent and never-before seen collection of Berger's writing on mineworkers and miners' strikes celebrating...  Read More >>

In Dialogue with Dickens: The Mind of the Heart

In Dialogue with Dickens: The Mind of the Heart

Author: Rosemarie Bodenheimer (Professor Emerita of English, Boston College) ,  Philip Davis (Emeritus Professor of Literature and Psychology, University of Liverpool)
ISBN: 9780192886743
Format: Hardback
$70.95

A collaborative book on the works of Charles Dickens that takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors....  Read More >>

Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia: Abandoning Babylon

Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia: Abandoning Babylon...

Author: Nathaniel Robert Walker (Associate Professor of Architectural History, Associate Professor of Architectural History, The Catholic University of America)
ISBN: 9780198907756
Format: Paperback
$82.95

A study of British and American Utopian writing of the 1800s in the context of developments in real architectural,...  Read More >>

The Writer as Migrant

The Writer as Migrant

Author: Ha Jin
ISBN: 9780226833835
Format: Paperback
$19.95

Containing three interconnected essays, this book sets Ha Jin's own work and life alongside those of other literary...  Read More >>

Authenticity and the Public Literary Self: Will The ‘Real’ Author Please Stand Up

Authenticity and the Public Literary Self: Will The...

Author: Sreedhevi Iyer
ISBN: 9780367531546
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This is the first book-length study on how authors of color present themselves in public literary discourse. The...  Read More >>

Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels

Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels

Author: Jarosław Milewski
ISBN: 9781032588872
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels is the first book to extensively discuss the works of Sarah Schulman,...  Read More >>

Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England

Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service...

Author: Urvashi Chakravarty
ISBN: 9781512826272
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England...  Read More >>

The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction

The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction...

Author: Pamela Bedore
ISBN: 9780367645717
Format: Paperback
$75.99

The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction provides a much-needed investigation into how crime and detection...  Read More >>

Gulf War Captivity Narratives: Identity and Ideology

Gulf War Captivity Narratives: Identity and Ideology...

Author: Monika Fludernik ,  Annika Wirth
ISBN: 9783631894323
Format: Hardback
$129.38

This book explores the construction of alterity, heroism, and the representation of violence in narratives of American...  Read More >>

Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience: Late Victorian Speculative Fiction

Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience: Late Victorian Speculative...

Author: Michael Kramp
ISBN: 9781032232973
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience explores the disturbing sustainability of white male supremacy.  Read More >>

Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century...

Author: Simon Ings
ISBN: 9780349128573
Format: Paperback
$34.99

How four writers transformed the politics of the twentieth century, and changed for ever the relationship between...  Read More >>

Reality's Riddles: Strange Facts and Unbelievable Stories from Around the Globe

Reality's Riddles: Strange Facts and Unbelievable Stories...

Author: Elena Sinclair
ISBN: 9798224384129
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Embark on a Global Odyssey of Wonders! Uncover the Marvels of 'Reality's Riddles'! Dive into the extraordinary...  Read More >>

A Guidebook to Monsters: Philosophy, Religion, and the Paranormal

A Guidebook to Monsters: Philosophy, Religion, and the...

Author: Ryan J Stark
ISBN: 9781666784695
Format: Paperback
$47.52

"Ryan J. Stark surveys the classic monsters in great literature and film, television, the Bible, and, perhaps unexpectedly,...  Read More >>

Bedtime Stories in Easy Spanish

Bedtime Stories in Easy Spanish

Author: Mart�n Pedroso
ISBN: 9788406632933
Format: Paperback
$184.77

"Prepare a su hijo para un relajante viaje a la tierra de los sue�os con nuestra colecci�n de ""Cuentos para dormir...  Read More >>

Bingeing It: A Diary of Retirement Reading

Bingeing It: A Diary of Retirement Reading

Author: Graham Falconer
ISBN: 9781039184152
Format: Hardback
$113.49

"As the subtitle indicates, Bingeing It is an account of the author's leisure reading between 2016 and 2022, when...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Author: Christine Kenyon Jones (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350381391
Format: Paperback
$39.99

"""The first book to examine the curious and often overlooked ways in which the lives, interests, work and sense...  Read More >>

A Guidebook to Monsters: Philosophy, Religion, and the Paranormal

A Guidebook to Monsters: Philosophy, Religion, and the...

Author: Ryan J Stark
ISBN: 9781666784701
Format: Hardback
$87.12

"Ryan J. Stark surveys the classic monsters in great literature and film, television, the Bible, and, perhaps unexpectedly,...  Read More >>

Riding The Tosh Horse: Ethel M. Dell, A Written Life

Riding The Tosh Horse: Ethel M. Dell, A Written Life...

Author: David Tanner
ISBN: 9781839527203
Format: Paperback
$36.20

The romantic novelist Ethel M. Dell was a recluse, and actively avoided marketing herself as a personality in any...  Read More >>

National Review's Literary Network: Conservative Circuits

National Review's Literary Network: Conservative Circuits...

Author: Stephen Schryer (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of New Brunswick)
ISBN: 9780198886204
Format: Hardback
$164.95

Stephen Schryer traces the careers of novelists, journalists, and literary critics who wrote for William F. Buckley,...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Author: Christine Kenyon Jones (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350381407
Format: Hardback
$130.00

"""The first book to examine the curious and often overlooked ways in which the lives, interests, work and sense...  Read More >>

Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy: The Feminist Critique of Commercial Modernity

Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy: The Feminist...

Author: Catherine Packham (University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781009395847
Format: Hardback
$219.94

A compelling new account of Wollstonecraft as critic of commercial modernity. Through her major works, Wollstonecraft...  Read More >>

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