Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film

Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in...

Author: Christopher Hanscom
ISBN: 9780231208482
Format: Hardback
$198.95

Christopher P. Hanscom questions common understandings of political art by examining four figures central to recent...  Read More >>

Storytelling in Kabuki: An Exploration of Spatial Poetics of Comics

Storytelling in Kabuki: An Exploration of Spatial Poetics...

Author: Steen Ledet Christiansen
ISBN: 9781496226686
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Steen Ledet Christiansen’s Storytelling in “Kabuki” explores the series created by David Mack—a slow, recursive...  Read More >>

Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell

Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell...

Author: D. J. Taylor
ISBN: 9780300272987
Format: Hardback
$39.95

A spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays  Read More >>

Invisible Warfare: How Does a Book Defeat an Empire?

Invisible Warfare: How Does a Book Defeat an Empire?...

Author: Liao Yiwu ,  Michael M. Day
ISBN: 9781509562947
Format: Hardback
$26.95

As a writer, poet, musician and dissident, Liao Yiwu is one of the most important chroniclers and analysts of contemporary...  Read More >>

America's Imagined Revolution: The Historical Novel of Reconstruction

America's Imagined Revolution: The Historical Novel...

Author: Tomos Wallbank-Hughes ,  Scott Romine
ISBN: 9780807181546
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical...  Read More >>

Paul Scott

Paul Scott

Author: Patrick Swinden
ISBN: 9780853835783
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Contrary to popular belief, Paul Scott was not a historical novelist in the realist tradition but a post-modernist...  Read More >>

Edward Bond

Edward Bond

Author: Simon Trussler
ISBN: 9780582012493
Format: Paperback
$86.99

This study gives an overview of the development of Edward Bond's distinctive dramatic language and style, and looks...  Read More >>

Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood

Author: Francis King
ISBN: 9780582012509
Format: Paperback
$86.99

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Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch

Author: A. S. Byatt ,  Ian Scott-Kilvert
ISBN: 9780582012523
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In this 1976 study, A. S. Byatt examines Murdoch's fiction and main philosophical ideas, relating the two and providing...  Read More >>

Henry James

Henry James

Author: Tony Tanner
ISBN: 9780853835080
Format: Paperback
$86.99

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

Author: Jocelyn Brooke
ISBN: 9780582010550
Format: Paperback
$86.99

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Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark

Author: Patricia Stubbs
ISBN: 9780582012295
Format: Paperback
$86.99

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Author: B. C. Southam ,  Ian Scott-Kilvert
ISBN: 9780582012431
Format: Paperback
$86.99

There have been innumerable reinterpretations of her work but no revaluations. Brian Southam shows how different...  Read More >>

Dickens: The Later Novels

Dickens: The Later Novels

Author: Barbara Hardy ,  Ian Scott-Kilvert
ISBN: 9780582012059
Format: Paperback
$86.99

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The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell

The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell

Author: George Woodcock
ISBN: 9781551642697
Format: Hardback
$142.53

There is so much more to Orwell than just his books, impressive though they are.  Read More >>

Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism

Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism...

Author: Scott M. Reznick (Assistant Professor of English, State University of New York at Plattsburgh)
ISBN: 9780198891956
Format: Hardback
$149.95

This volume traces how American literature evolved in response to widespread conflicts over the very nature of US...  Read More >>

Apennine Crossings: Travellers on the Edge of Tuscany

Apennine Crossings: Travellers on the Edge of Tuscany...

Author: Nick Havely (Emeritus Professor of English and Related Literature, Emeritus Professor of English and Related Literature, University of York)
ISBN: 9780198882626
Format: Hardback
$52.95

This innovative exploration of the literature, history, and culture of the Apennines links a twenty-first century...  Read More >>

Walter Pater and Persons

Walter Pater and Persons

Author: Stephen Cheeke (Senior Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780198920267
Format: Hardback
$149.95

In this inventive and far-reaching study, Stephen Cheeke examines the vital concept of the Person in the work of...  Read More >>

Children and Biography: Reading and Writing Life Stories

Children and Biography: Reading and Writing Life Stories...

Author: Professor Kate Douglas (Flinder's University, Australia) ,  Kate Douglas (Flinder's University Australia)
ISBN: 9781350236400
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The first study of life narratives produced for, about, and written by children, this book examines the recent popularity...  Read More >>

Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood

Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern...

Author: Hilary A. Hallett (Columbia University)
ISBN: 9781324094463
Format: Paperback
$58.08

A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study...  Read More >>

Notable Writers of LGBTQ+ Literature

Notable Writers of LGBTQ+ Literature

Author: Salem Press
ISBN: 9781637007198
Format: Hardback
$380.60

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Imagination on Fire: The Literary Career of Alice Muriel Williamson

Imagination on Fire: The Literary Career of Alice Muriel...

Author: Richard Rex
ISBN: 9781680536201
Format: Hardback
$236.50

A first-person account by the former dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture, an international architect...  Read More >>

Judging

Judging

Author: Maryanne Mabery
ISBN: 9781962381659
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Kiara Tierson is a high-power Federal Judge living with two sons, Jason and Brent - she lives her perfect life....  Read More >>

The Mars House: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

The Mars House: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

Author: Natasha Pulley
ISBN: 9781399618533
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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The Black Box: Writing the Race

The Black Box: Writing the Race

Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr
ISBN: 9780241678503
Format: Hardback
$55.00

"A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves,...  Read More >>

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