Literary studies: fiction Books
Edinburgh University Press British AvantGarde Fiction of the 1960s
Book SynopsisA collection of research-led essays on seminal British avant-garde writing of the 1960s
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Victorian Actress in the Novel and on the
Book SynopsisThis book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a significant figure for the relationship between women and the public sphere, to define their own place within and among genres and in relation to audiences.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Modernist Life Histories
Book SynopsisModernist Life Histories explores how new models of embryonic development helped inspire new kinds of coming-of-age plots during the first half of the twentieth century.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisThese comparative essays explore the shared terrain of these modernist women writers and shed new light on their 'curious & thrilling' literary relationship.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Samuel Becketts How it is
Book SynopsisThis book maps out the novel's complex network of intertexts, sources and echoes, interprets its highly experimental writing and explains the work's great significance for twentieth-century literature.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry
Book SynopsisThe first scholarly collection to explore book publishers that sold modernist texts to a wide range of readers across the Atlantic and elsewhere.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf and BeingintheWorld
Book SynopsisBreaking fresh ground in Woolfian scholarship, this study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf's textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Theatrical Milton
Book SynopsisTheatrical Milton' brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, 'theatricality' identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical strategies and effects of framing a given human action, including speech and writing, as an act of theatre.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Animalities
Book SynopsisThis pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to twentieth-century literature and film.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Gender Technology and the New Woman
Book SynopsisThis book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic
Book SynopsisReading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic provides a new account of aesthetic and technological innovation, from the Machine Age to the Information Age.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Dialectics of Improvement
Book SynopsisThis book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement, as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Women Writing and the Iraqi State
Book SynopsisExplores discourses on gender and representations of women in modern Iraqi fiction. By exploring discourses on gender in both propaganda and high art fictional writings by Iraqis, this book offers an alternative narrative of the literary and cultural history of Iraq.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press CrossChannel Modernisms
Book SynopsisExplores modernist aesthetics and cultural exchange between Britain, France and beyond
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Annals of the Parish
Book SynopsisJohn Galt's Annals of the Parish is the first novel of the Industrial Revolution.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Labour of Laziness in TwentiethCentury
Book SynopsisThis book argues that major twentieth-century American writers such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and David Foster Wallace provocatively challenge the ethos of productivity by filtering their ethical interventions through culturally stigmatised imagery of laziness.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Silence of Dean Maitland
Book SynopsisThe first scholarly edition of forgotten late Victorian classic of rural life and sensation fiction.
£117.00
Edinburgh University Press Thaddeus of Warsaw
Book SynopsisPublished in 1803, Thaddeus of Warsaw is a beguiling romance that also exposes the hardships faced by migrants in Britain two hundred years ago.
£117.00
Edinburgh University Press Sir Andrew Wylie of That Ilk
Book SynopsisAn eccentric young Scot moves south and re-vitalizes the English familial, judicial, and political systems
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisCharting an 'aesthetic', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin's art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth-century
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Arabic in Modern Hebrew Texts
Book SynopsisFocusing on the literary works of the writers Shimon Ballas, Sami Michael and Eli Amir, this book examines their use of their native Iraqi Arabic in their Hebrew works. It examines the influence of Arabic language and culture and explores questions of language, place and belonging from the perspective of sociolinguistics and multilingualism.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Blasted Literature
Book SynopsisBy connecting Fenian and anarchist violence found in popular fiction from the 1880s to the early 1900s with the avant-garde writing of British modernism, Deaglan O Donghaile demonstrates that Victorian popular fiction and modernism were directly influenced by the explosive shocks of late nineteenth-century terrorism.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of
Book SynopsisFrom Conrad Aiken to Hugh Jones, this first volume covers correspondents from every period of Mansfield's life.
£190.00
Edinburgh University Press Muriel Spark Existentialism and the Art of Death
Book SynopsisMuriel Spark's oeuvre is contextualised in the tradition of Christian existentialism and its insistence on 'being towards death'.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Muriel Spark Existentialism and the Art of Death
Book SynopsisThis book proposes that Christian existentialism and, in particular, the work of Soren Kierkegaard, helped shape Spark's religious commitments and her artistic innovations.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Romantic Periodicals in the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisMaps a coherent subfield of Romantic periodical studies through studying the trailblazing Blackwood?s Edinburgh MagazineAn introduction by two established scholars that articulates a case for the more sustained, systematic study of Romantic periodicals and justifies the volume?s focus by retracing Blackwood?s emergence as the era?s most innovative, influential and controversial literary magazine.Features eleven essays modelling how the wide-ranging commentary, reviews and original fiction and verse published in Blackwood?s during its first two decades (1817?37) might meaningfully inform many of the most vibrant contemporary discussions surrounding British Romanticism. Contributes to field-wide bicentenary celebrations and reappraisals both of Blackwood?s and the authors and works ? including Shelley?s Frankenstein, Byron?s Don Juan and Keats?s Poems ? whose reputations the magazine helped shape.This book pioneers a subfield of Romantic periodical studies, distinct from its neighbours in adjacent historical periods. Eleven chapters by leading scholars in the field model the range of methodological, conceptual and literary-historical insights to be drawn from careful engagements with one of the age?s landmark literary periodicals, Blackwood?s Edinburgh Magazine. Engaging with the research potential unlocked by new digital resources for studying Romantic periodicals, they argue that the wide-ranging commentary, reviews and original fiction and verse published in Blackwood?s during its first two decades (1817?37) should inform many of the most vibrant contemporary discussions surrounding British Romanticism.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Hardy Conrad and the Senses
Book SynopsisThis book readsthe highly descriptive impressionist writings of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared attention to sight and sound.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Robert Louis Stevenson and the Art of
Book SynopsisThis book investigates Stevenson's literary collaborations with family and friends as he travelled Scotland, America and the South Pacific.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Robert Louis Stevenson and the Art of
Book SynopsisThis book investigates Stevenson's literary collaborations with family and friends as he travelled Scotland, America and the South Pacific.
£20.89
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.
£20.89
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.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Novel Institutions
Book SynopsisThis book examines anachronisms in realist writing from the colonial periphery to redefine British realism and rethink the politics of institutions.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Novel Institutions
Book SynopsisThis book examines anachronisms in realist writing from the colonial periphery to redefine British realism and rethink the politics of institutions.
£26.59
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.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative
Book SynopsisThe Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories showcases the latest approaches to diverse narratives across many media and in numerous disciplines.
£35.15
Edinburgh University Press Modernism Fiction and Mathematics
Book SynopsisContrasting 'mathematical fictions' from and about the heyday of mathematical modernism, this book relates literary engagements with mathematical modernism to the wider context of modernist critiques of Enlightenment values and postmodern reassessments of modernist patterns.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Queer Communism and the Ministry of Love
Book SynopsisQueer Communism and the Ministry of Loveseeks to transform current narratives of midcentury literary, cultural, and intellectual history from a queer Marxist perspective.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The PreRaphaelites and Orientalism
Book SynopsisThe Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism: Language and Cognition in Remediations of the East redefines the task of interpreting the East in the late nineteenth century.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging study demonstrates that Woolf, despite her agnostic upbringing, was profoundly interested in, and knowledgeable about, Christianity as a faith and a socio-political movement.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Scottish Romanticism and the Making of Collective
Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth examination of Scottish Romantic literary ideas on memory and their influence among various cultures in the British Atlantic.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press The Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver
Book SynopsisThe Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver examines the cultural legacy of one of America's most renowned short story writers.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature
Book SynopsisThis book examines the diverse uses of conspiracy theory in Egyptian fiction since the early twentieth century. Read against the historical and intertextual backgrounds of individual authors and their works, conspiracy theory emerges not as a single, rigid ideology, but as a style of writing that is equal parts literary and political.
£22.79
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.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Outlaws and Spies
Book SynopsisConor McCarthy shows how outlaw literature and espionage literature critique the use of legal exclusion as a means of supporting state power. Texts discussed range from the medieval Robin Hood ballads, Shakespeare's history plays and the Ned Kelly story to John le Carre, Don DeLillo, Ciaran Carson and William Gibson.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Hotel Modernity
Book SynopsisHotel Modernity explores the impact of corporate space on the construction and texture of modern fiction and film.Trade Review"Robbie Moore's delightfully original Hotel Modernity is an adroit, indeed magisterial, intervention in cultural history but also in thinking about the novel form and its metaphors. His eclectic, deft, sophisticated approach persuasively and inspiringly combines substantial research on the world of hotels with shimmeringly suggestive critical readings of a rare order." -Philip Horne, UCL
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain
Book SynopsisThis book examines how manuscript practices interacted with an expanding print marketplace to nurture and transform the period's literary culture.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Home and Identity in NineteenthCentury Literary
Book SynopsisThis book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic changes in nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave expression to their novelty.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Modernist Exoskeleton
Book SynopsisFocusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations.
£19.94
