![The Novel and the Multispecies Soundscape]( "The Novel and the Multispecies Soundscape")
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De Bruyn, B. (2020)
The contemporary novel is not as silent as we tend to believe, nor does it only attend to human plots and characters. As this book shows, writers in a range of genres have devoted …
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![Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle]( "Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle")
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Alder, E. (2020)
This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and …
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![Fantasies of Time and Death]( "Fantasies of Time and Death")
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Vaninskaya, A. (2020)
This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy—Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and J. R. R. Tolkien—to our culture’s perennial …
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![George Meredith]( "George Meredith")
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Cronin, R. (2019)
George Meredith: The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist is not only a critical biography of the Victorian novelist and poet George Meredith but also a portrait of the novel in the …
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![Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels]( "Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels")
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Johnston, J. O. (2019)
This book examines several distinctive literary figurations of posthuman embodiment as they proliferate across a range of internationally acclaimed contemporary novels: clones in …
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![Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction]( "Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction")
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Gruner, E. R. (2019)
This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that contemporary young adult novels depict readers as …
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![Transplant Fictions]( "Transplant Fictions")
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Russell, E. (2019)
Removing an organ from one (typically dead) body and placing it in another living body challenges our most foundational ideas about boundaries between self and other, individual …
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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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![Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury]( "Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury")
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Ingleby, M. (2018)
This study explores the role of fiction in the social production of the West Central district of London in the nineteenth century. It tells a new history of the novel from a local …
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![Fashion in the Fairy Tale Tradition]( "Fashion in the Fairy Tale Tradition")
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Do Rozario, R. C. (2018)
This book is a journey through the fairy-tale wardrobe, explaining how the mercurial nature of fashion has shaped and transformed the Western fairy-tale tradition. Many of fairy …
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![Inventing the Gothic Corpse]( "Inventing the Gothic Corpse")
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Shapira, Y. (2018)
Inventing the Gothic Corpse shows how a series of bold experiments in eighteenth-century British realist and Gothic fiction transform the dead body from an instructive icon into a …
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![British and American Representations of 9/11]( "British and American Representations of 9/11")
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Gheorghiu, O. (2018)
This book argues that twenty-first-century neorealist fiction is inspired by political and journalistic discourses and, along with them, constitutes one of the many …
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![Female Corpses in Crime Fiction]( "Female Corpses in Crime Fiction")
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Close, G. S. (2018)
This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning with the foundational …
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![George Eliot for the Twenty-First Century]( "George Eliot for the Twenty-First Century")
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Newton, K. M. (2018)
George Eliot for the Twenty-First Century reexamines Eliot two hundred years after her birth and offers an innovative critical reading that seeks to change perceptions of …
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![God and Self in the Confessional Novel]( "God and Self in the Confessional Novel")
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Sykes, Jr., J. D. (2018)
God and Self in the Confessional Novel explores the question: what happened to the theological practice of confession when it entered the modern novel? Beginning with the premise …
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![Domestic Noir]( "Domestic Noir")
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Joyce, L. (Ed), Sutton, H. (Ed) (2018)
This book represents the first serious consideration of the 'domestic noir' phenomenon and, by extension, the psychological thriller. The only such landmark collection since Lee …
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![British Terrorist Novels of the 1970s]( "British Terrorist Novels of the 1970s")
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Darlington, J. (2018)
This book discusses British novels published during the 1970s which feature terrorists either as main characters or a major plot points. The focus on terrorism’s literary …
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![Women’s Domestic Activity in the Romantic-Period Novel, 1770-1820]( "Women’s Domestic Activity in the Romantic-Period Novel, 1770-1820")
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Morrissey, J. (2018)
This book examines women’s domestic occupations in the Romantic-period novel at the most intimately human level. By examining the momentary thought and feeling processes that …
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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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![The Aesthetics of Anthony Burgess]( "The Aesthetics of Anthony Burgess")
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Clarke, J. (2017)
The book is the first full-length text on Anthony Burgess's fiction in a generation, and offers a radical and innovative way of understanding the extensive literary achievements …
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