![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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![Air Travel Fiction and Film]( "Air Travel Fiction and Film")
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Durante, E. (2020)
Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People explores how, over the past four decades, fiction and film have transformed our perceptions and representations of contemporary air …
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![Masculine Domination in Henry James's Novels]( "Masculine Domination in Henry James's Novels")
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Schniedermann, W. (2020)
This book proposes a new interdisciplinary approach to the gendered power relations in James’s novels. Reading James’s narrative form through the lens of relational sociology, …
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![British Detective Fiction 1891–1901]( "British Detective Fiction 1891–1901")
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Clarke, C. (2020)
This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead. In December 1893, at the height of …
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![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 subgenres have …
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![Literary Legacies of the South African TRC]( "Literary Legacies of the South African TRC")
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Mussi, F. (2020)
Since the 1970s, truth and reconciliation commissions have become increasingly popularised as options for addressing historical injustices, especially within the context of …
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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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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