![100 British Crime Writers]( "100 British Crime Writers")
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Miskimmin, E. (Ed) (2020)
100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their …
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![Animal Visions]( "Animal Visions")
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Pyke, S. M. (2019)
Animal Visions considers how literature responds to the harms of anthropocentricism, working with Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) and various adaptations of this …
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![Irish Crime Fiction]( "Irish Crime Fiction")
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Cliff, B. (2018)
This book examines the recent expansion of Ireland's literary tradition to include home-grown crime fiction. It surveys the wave of books that use genre structures to explore …
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![Food in the Novels of Thomas Hardy]( "Food in the Novels of Thomas Hardy")
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Salmons, K. (2017)
This book examines the role of food in the life and works of Thomas Hardy, analysing the social, political and historical context of references to meals, eating and food …
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![Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad]( "Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad")
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Salmons, K. (2017)
This book is about the role of food in the works of Joseph Conrad, analysing the social, political and anthropological context of references to meals, eating, food production and …
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![Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris]( "Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris")
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Godfrey, E. (Ed) (2016)
This book is about the fiercely contrasting visions of two of the nineteenth century’s greatest utopian writers. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, it emphasizes that space …
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![Time, Domesticity and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain]( "Time, Domesticity and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain")
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Damkjær, M. (2016)
This innovative study shows that nineteenth-century texts gave domesticity not just a spatial but also a temporal dimension. Novels by Dickens and Gaskell, as well as periodicals, …
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![Thomas Hardy, Time and Narrative]( "Thomas Hardy, Time and Narrative")
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Ireland, K. (2014)
How is Hardy's development of thematics and characters matched by that of narrative techniques and his handling of time? This book uses narratological methods to stress the …
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![British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935–1965]( "British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935–1965")
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Colletta, L. (2013)
British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 calls attention to the shifting grounds of cultural expression by highlighting Hollywood as a site that unsettled definitions and …
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![The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction]( "The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction")
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Steere, E. (2013)
The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the …
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![Transgressive Fiction]( "Transgressive Fiction")
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Mookerjee, R. (2013)
Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. …
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![Victorian Unfinished Novels]( "Victorian Unfinished Novels")
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Tomaiuolo, S. (2012)
The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and …
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![Thomas Hardy, Sensationalism, and the Melodramatic Mode]( "Thomas Hardy, Sensationalism, and the Melodramatic Mode")
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Nemesvari, R. (2011)
The first full-length study of sensationalist and melodramatic elements in Hardy's novels uses six of his texts to demonstrate the ways in which Hardy uses the melodramatic mode …
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![The Riddles of Harry Potter]( "The Riddles of Harry Potter")
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Wolosky, S. (2010)
The Riddles of Harry Potter draws readers into the deeper meanings of these phenomenally successful books, arguing that they launch and pursue interpretive quests in an ongoing …
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![Populism, Gender, and Sympathy in the Romantic Novel]( "Populism, Gender, and Sympathy in the Romantic Novel")
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Carson, J. (2010)
Populism, Gender, and Sympathy in the Romantic Novel is a richly historicized account that explores anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, women authors, and unstable …
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![Victorian Sensational Fiction]( "Victorian Sensational Fiction")
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Fantina, R. (2010)
This book recovers the fiction of Charles Reade, who was among the best-known authors of the sensation fiction of the 1860s, as a body of work that anticipates recent trends in …
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![Romantic Misfits]( "Romantic Misfits")
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Miles, R. (2008)
This book explores the false starts and disturbances of Romantic writing in Britain - 'misfits' and misfittings - as both a constitutive challenge to canonical romanticism and a …
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![Hardy the Physician]( "Hardy the Physician")
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Fincham, T. (2008)
Was Thomas Hardy clinically depressed or just syphilitic? Was Egdon Heath imbued with melancholic vapours? And does this explain why many of his characters suffered from …
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![Neurology and Literature, 1860–1920]( "Neurology and Literature, 1860–1920")
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Stiles, A. (Ed) (2007)
This collection demonstrates how late-Victorian and Edwardian neurology and fiction shared common philosophical concerns and rhetorical strategies. Between 1860 and 1920 witnessed …
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![A Wilkie Collins Chronology]( "A Wilkie Collins Chronology")
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Baker, W. (2007)
This book builds on a critical and scholarly revival of interest in Collins. Baker draws upon biographical revelations and the recent publication of Collins's letters to provide a …
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