![Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel]( "Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel")
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Edelman, D. () P. (2021)
This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Diana Pérez Edelman …
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![Translocality in Contemporary City Novels]( "Translocality in Contemporary City Novels")
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Mattheis, L. (2021)
Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly characterised by translocality—the layering and …
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![Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction]( "Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction")
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Hopkins, L. (2021)
Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction offers an overview of the ways in which the past is brought back to the surface and influences the present in British detective fiction …
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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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![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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![James Joyce in Zurich]( "James Joyce in Zurich")
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Fischer, A. (2020)
This book offers a comprehensive account of James Joyce and Zurich, one of the four cities (including Dublin, Trieste and Paris) in which he spent significant parts of his life. …
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![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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![Possible Worlds Theory and Counterfactual Historical Fiction]( "Possible Worlds Theory and Counterfactual Historical Fiction")
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Raghunath, R. (2020)
This book offers a comprehensive Possible Worlds framework with which to analyse counterfactual historical fiction. Counterfactual historical fiction is a literary genre that …
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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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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