Literary studies: fiction

Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control

Original price was: $42.03.Current price is: $12.61.
Current debates about birth control can be surprisingly volatile, especially given the near-universal use of contraception among American and British women. Conceived in Modernism: The…

Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament

Original price was: $172.83.Current price is: $51.85.
Although scholars have widely acknowledged the prevalence of religious reference in the work of Cormac McCarthy, this is the first book on the most pervasive…

Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament: Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories

Original price was: $42.73.Current price is: $12.82.
Although scholars have widely acknowledged the prevalence of religious reference in the work of Cormac McCarthy, this is the first book on the most pervasive…

Darkness Visible Philip Pullman and His Dark Materials

Original price was: $10.66.Current price is: $3.20.
What do Philip Pullman and J.K. Rowling have in common that has made both of their stories so successful? What does Pullman listen to while…

Evelyn Waugh A Life Revisited

Original price was: $54.73.Current price is: $16.42.
BOOK OF THE WEEK on BBC Radio 4, a GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES and FINANCIAL TIMES Book of the Year and a Waterstones.com Best Biography of…

Evelyn Waugh A Life Revisited

Original price was: $16.31.Current price is: $4.89.
‘Brisk, lively and wonderfully entertaining’ John Banville‘Excellent … read this book’ Literary Review‘The best single-volume life of the author available’ Irish Times The much mythologised…

Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture

Original price was: $40.28.Current price is: $12.08.
Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture-and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves,…

House of Fiction From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life

Original price was: $18.65.Current price is: $5.59.
From the gothic fantasies of Walpole’s Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on…

How Fiction Works

Original price was: $15.36.Current price is: $4.61.
Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from ‘the strongest … literary critic we have’ (New York Review of Books) in this new revised…

Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction, Revised Edition

Original price was: $58.86.Current price is: $17.66.
Harvard’s George C. Simpson called the late Isaac Asimov “one of our natural wonders and national resources,” for his hundreds of nonfiction works on science,…

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

Original price was: $21.05.Current price is: $6.32.
‘A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.’…

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

Original price was: $20.04.Current price is: $6.01.
‘A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.’…