Literary studies: fiction Books
Edinburgh University Press The Afterlives of Georges Perec
Book SynopsisThis collection of 14 essays asks how Georges Perec has continued to influence of Media and Communication at us after his death. Swinburne University ofTechnology. What do Perec's descriptions of the minutiae of everyday life reveal about our use of information and communications technologies?.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Reading the Times
Book SynopsisFrom the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884 to the celebration of the millennium in 2000; from the fiction of Joseph Conrad to the novels of William Gibson and W.G. Sebald, 'Reading the Times' offers fresh insight into modern narrative.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Dickenss London
Book SynopsisTaking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, this book offers a project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms. It provides dual focus on methodology and the historicity of Dickensian urban consciousness.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press James Joyce and Cinematicity
Book SynopsisIn this book, Keith Williams explores Victorian culture's emergent 'cinematicity' as a key creative driver of Joyce's experimental fiction, showing how Joyce's style and themes share the cinematograph's roots in Victorian optical entertainment and science.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
Book SynopsisA substantial essay explores the complex early publication history of the novel Weir of Hermiston on both sides of the Atlantic, and exceptionally full explanatory notes and other background information are provided.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The PreRaphaelites and Orientalism
Book SynopsisInvestigates the latent and manifest traces of the East in Pre-Raphaelite literature and culture.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Scottish Gothic
Book SynopsisWritten from various critical standpoints by international scholars, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mideighteenth century to the present day.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Radical Romantics
Book SynopsisEngaging with the critical frameworks of cultural geography, cartography, and the burgeoning field of oceanic studies Radical Romanticsreformulates theories of colonization and empire in the Romantic period.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Literature of the 1990s
Book SynopsisPlacing literary creativity within a changing cultural and political context that saw the end of Margaret Thatcher and rise of New Labour, this book offers fresh interpretations of mainstream and marginal works from all parts of Britain.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisThese 11 newly commissioned essays represent the evolution, or coevolution, of Woolf studies in the early 21st-century.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
Book SynopsisThis volume views Doris Lessing's writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she lived.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Sentencing Orlando
Book SynopsisThe present collection of 16 original essays offers fresh perspectives on Orlando through a unique attention to Woolf's sentences.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel
Book SynopsisThrough a robust analysis of several 'new-consciousness' novels by award winning authors the book highlights their unconventional, yet coherent undertakings to foreground the marginal experiences of the Nubian, Amazigh, Bedouin, Coptic, Jewish, women and sexual minority populations in Egypt.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Gender Technology and the New Woman
Book SynopsisThis book examines late 19th-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Katherine Mansfield and Psychology
Book SynopsisIn line with the recent surge of critical interest in early psychology, the contributors of this volumeread Mansfield's work alongside figures like William James and Henri Bergson, opening up new perspectives on affect in her work.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Antonia White and ManicDepressive Illness
Book SynopsisBy contextualising White's life-writing and fiction within the contexts of manic-depression and narrative identity, 'Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness' proposes a new model for reading White.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary
Book SynopsisWithout a consideration of periodical poetry, Victorian poetry studies is quite simply anachronistic
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Modern Arabic Literature
Book SynopsisThe study of Arabic literary texts is blossoming and this book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to help research this highly prolific and diverse production of contemporary literary texts.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Theatrical Milton
Book SynopsisThis book changes the terms of scholarly discussion and discovers how the social structures of theatre afforded Milton resources for poetic and polemical representation and uncovers the precise contours of Milton's interest in theatre and drama.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Dissolution of Character in Late Romanticism
Book SynopsisThe Dissolution of Character in Late Romanticism' studies texts written by contemporary poets, novelists, essayists, journalists, philosophers, phrenologists, sociologists, gossip-mongers and anonymous correspondents.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism
Book SynopsisThis book provides innovative readings of literary works of British Romanticism and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary culture and thought.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Language on Display
Book SynopsisPost-Soviet Russia was a period of linguistic liberalisation, instability and change with varied attempts to regulate and legislate language usage. This book looks at how these debates featured in literature and illustrates the discussion through six interpretive readings of post-Soviet Russian prose.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf and Beingintheworld
Book SynopsisDrawing on Woolf's novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual's connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press A Feminine Enlightenment
Book SynopsisBeginning with Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), this study positions feminine genres such as the Gothic romance and Bluestocking poetry, usually seen as outliers in a masculine Age of Reason, as essential to understanding emotion's role in Enlightenment narratives of progress.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Anxious Men
Book SynopsisMasculinity in American Fiction of the Mid-Twentieth CenturyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: anxiety, conformity and masculinity 1. ‘Organisation Man’, domestic ideology and manhood 2. ‘Everything in him had come undone’: violent aggression, courage, and masculine identity 3. Representing sexualities and gender 4. Identity and assimilation in Jewish-American fiction 5. African-American identity and masculinity Afterword Works cited and consulted Index
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The American Short Story Cycle
Book SynopsisThe American Short Story Cycle spans two centuries to tell the history of a genre that includes both major and marginal authors, from Washington Irving through William Faulkner to Jhumpa Lahiri.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Kathy Acker
Book SynopsisExplores revolutionary politics in the work of one of America's most important avant-garde writers.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative
Book SynopsisThirty New Essays Redefine Narrative Theory for a Multi-Media Culture
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press American Gothic Culture
Book SynopsisThis new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Reinventing Liberty
Book SynopsisReturning to the range of historical fiction written before Scott, Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth-century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Radical Romantics
Book SynopsisEngaging with the critical frameworks of cultural geography, cartography, and the burgeoning field of oceanic studies 'Radical Romantics 'reformulates theories of colonization and empire in the Romantic period.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Vagabond Fictions
Book SynopsisFilling in a blank spot in the history of twentieth-century women's writing, Carole Sweeney examines the work of five experimental writers, whose writing has been neglected in accounts of the development of post-1945 British literature.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Imagining Surveillance
Book SynopsisImagining Surveillance presents the first full-length study of the depiction and assessment of surveillance in literature and film. Focusing on Utopian genre, the book offers an in- depth account of which the most creative writers, filmmakers and thinkers have envisioned alternative worlds in which surveillance in various forms plays a key concern.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Modernism Fashion and Interwar Women Writers
Book SynopsisModernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers' demonstrates how five female novelists of the interwar period engaged with an emerging fashion discourse that concealed capitalist modernity's economic reliance on mass-manufactured, uniform-looking productions by ostensibly celebrating originality and difference.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction
Book SynopsisIn 1960s Egypt a group of writers exploded onto the literary scene, transforming the aesthetic landscape.This bookexplores how this literary generation presents a marked shift in the representation of rural, urban and exilic space, reflecting a disappointment with the project of the postcolonial nation-state in Egypt.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Commemorating Peterloo
Book SynopsisTwo hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, known as Peterloo, distinguished scholars of Romantic-era literature join together in this commemorative volume to assess the implications of the violence.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Resistance and Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisAs calls mount for resistance to recent political events, Simon Morgan Wortham rethinks how psychoanalysis, political thought and philosophy can be brought together. He explores the political implications and complexities of a psychoanalytic resistance through close readings of authors from within and outwith the psychoanalytic tradition.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press TwentyFirstCentury Walter Scott
Book SynopsisAt 250, Walter Scott points toward our possible futures.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Modernism and Music
Book SynopsisUsing an approach to music informed by T. W. Adorno, this book examines the real-world, political significance of seemingly abstracted things like musical and literary forms.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press TwentyFirstCentury Childrens Gothic
Book SynopsisThis is the first monograph that brings together the fields of Gothic Studies and children's fiction to analyse a range of popular and literary works for children published since 2000.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa
Book SynopsisFocusing on well-known and obscure literary texts from the 1880s to the 1970s, as well as the many manifestos and programmes setting out visions of the future, this book charts the dreams of freedom of five major traditions of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid resistance.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Posthuman Space in Samuel Becketts Short Prose
Book SynopsisJonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Marquis De Sade and Continental Philosophy
Book SynopsisReads six interpretations of the Marquis de Sade in French post-war philosophy: Klossowski, Blanchot, Bataille, Lacan, Barthes, and Deleuze to show how he sits at a crossroads of surprisingly disparate branches of western culture, from Tom and Jerry to Kant's moral philosophy.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
Book SynopsisThis volume views Doris Lessing's writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she lived.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Modern Print Artefacts
Book SynopsisThis study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930.
£36.10
Edinburgh University Press The FinDeSiecle Scottish Revival
Book SynopsisThis book reveals a distinct but comparable concern with cultural defence and revivalism in fin-de-siecle Scotland, evident in the work of a number of writers and artists including Robert Louis Stevenson, Patrick Geddes, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Mona Caird, John Duncan and various contributors to The Evergreen.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Uncommon Alliances
Book SynopsisUncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europe' takes a critical stance toward both assimilationist and multicultural imaginings of community in the European Union that occlude neocolonial relations of dependence and exclusion.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Uncommon Alliances
Book SynopsisUncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europetakes a critical stance toward both assimilationist and multicultural imaginings of community in the European Union that occlude neocolonial relations of dependence and exclusion.
£27.54
