Literary studies: fiction Books
Edinburgh University Press Novel Sensations
Book SynopsisConcentrating on the work of four major modernist authors Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and Samuel Beckett this book examines the close links between modernist literature and the philosophy of mind..
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press E.L. Doctorow
Book SynopsisThis book gathers a suite of newly commissioned, original essays on the work of E. L. Doctorow.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Beckett Beyond the Normal
Book SynopsisThis book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Ideas in Stories
Book SynopsisArgues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture
Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays highlights the intertwined fates of the modern short story and periodical culture in the period 18801950, the heyday of magazine short fiction in Britain.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture
Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays highlights the intertwined fates of the modern short story and periodical culture in the period 1880 1950, the heyday of magazine short fiction in Britain.Trade Review"The short story and the modern magazine grew up together, but the story of their mutual emergence has been slow to develop. At last, here is a volume that delves into this culturally vibrant symbiosis on all levels, from game-changing theoretical accounts to sharp, empirical micro-histories. This book is a must-have for short story experts and periodical studies scholars indeed for anyone fascinated by the interactions between emerging media and cultural forms. " -Patrick Collier, Ball State University
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Devolving Black Britain
Book SynopsisWriting Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature, with a focus on the critical significance of blackness.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Living Jim Crow
Book SynopsisAnalysing the ubiquity of the small town in fiction of the mid-century US South, Living Jim Crow is the first extended scholarly study to explore how authors mobilised this setting as a tool for racial resistance.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Transgender and the Literary Imagination
Book SynopsisTransgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the extent to which they have reflected, shaped or transformed changing understandings of gender.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Dickens and Demolition
Book SynopsisDickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or extracts from Dickens' fiction were repurposed as a portable terminology in arguments for large-scale demolition and redevelopment projects in London during his lifetime.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction
Book SynopsisThis book studies recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, encouraging us to be critically reflective, suspicious readers as well as participatory, 'nave' readers.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction
Book SynopsisThis book studies recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, encouraging us to be critically reflective, suspicious readers as well as participatory, 'naive' readers.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Rereading Orphanhood
Book SynopsisRereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the culture and mores of the long nineteenth century, especially those relating to family and kinship.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Rereading Orphanhood
Book SynopsisRereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the culture and mores of the long nineteenth century, especially those relating to family and kinship.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze in Childrens Literature
Book SynopsisJane Newland focuses on children's texts by some of the authors who fascinate Deleuze, including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, Andre Dhotel, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio and Michel Tournier. They are explored across chapters on central Deleuzian concepts: pure repetition, becoming, cartographies, stuttering and nonsense.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Aging in the Modern Arabic Novel
Book SynopsisBy assembling a range of fictional works from different parts of the Arab world that incorporate older characters, this book draws on a range of theoretical approaches to aging, particularly from the perspective of gender and feminism, to reconcile the biological and cultural understandings of old age.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Specters of World Literature
Book SynopsisAt the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field produces local literature as an other that haunts its universalising, assimilative imperative with the force of the uncanny.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Redwood a Tale
Book SynopsisThis new edition includes a historically and theoretically informed critical introduction that situates the novel within American social and literary history, also featuring a bibliography for further research and appendices detailing the significant differences between the two nineteenth-century editions.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Ancient Epic in Film and Television
Book SynopsisExamines representations of ancient epic and epic conventions in film and television.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Ancient Epic in Film and Television
Book SynopsisExamines representations of ancient epic and epic conventions in film and television.Trade Review"Gardner and Potter have produced a fascinating collection of essays on epic screen productions that defines the epic genre outside its traditional parameters and covers a wide variety of shows across different decades from the 1980s to 2021." -Professor Antony Augoustakis, Department of the Classics, University of Illinois
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisThis book shows that novelists often responded to newspapers by reworking well-known events covered by Victorian newspapers in their fictions.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Prophetic Translation
Book SynopsisIn this novel and pioneering study Maya I. Kesrouany explores the move from Qur'anic to secular approaches to literature in early 20th-century Egyptian literary translations.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Living in Technical Legality
Book SynopsisThrough detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television's Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Nuclear Fictions
Book SynopsisLooks at cultures of deterrence and 'war-ending' weapons and suggests their longer role within the development and stasis of the Anglosphere.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Eliot and Becketts Low Modernism
Book SynopsisExplores the relation between humility and humiliation in the works of T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Elizabeth Bowens Psychoanalytic Fiction
Book SynopsisThis book provides a new account of Bowen's fiction that highlights in particular the force and originality of Bowen's virtually psychoanalytic thinking about development, sexuality and gender.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Marie Corelli a Romance of Two Worlds
Book SynopsisMarie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Kathy Acker
Book SynopsisThis study boldly argues for Acker's revolutionary significance. It situates her within a historical avant-garde and examines how she took moments and movements from modern history, including the Paris Commune, Russian Nihilists and the global revolts of the 1960s.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Liminal Whiteness in Early U.S. Fiction
Book SynopsisHannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press New Ecological Realisms
Book SynopsisMonika Kaup pairs post-apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, Jose Saramago, Octavia Butler and Cormac McCarthy with new realist theories from Bruno Latour, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Markus Gabriel, Jean-Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Jane Porter 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.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Proust Between Deleuze and Derrida
Book SynopsisJames Dutton argues that Proust's la recherche du temps perdu (1913 27), stages a uniquely productive encounter between philosophy and literature. In its genre-defying originality, it anticipates some of the most important concepts and strategies of poststructuralist French thought exemplified in the work of Derrida and Deleuze.Trade Review"Dutton performs an acrobatic movement between Proust, Derrida and Deleuze, foregrounding In Search of Lost Time as a 'textual becoming' and running with the 'fractal force' of all three works. Readers are invited to join Derrida and Deleuze as sprouting roots in the rhizomatic unfurling of Proust's book. We should accept." -Patrick ffrench, King's College London
£23.74
Globe Pequot Press Superheroes
Book SynopsisSuperheroes! is the ultimate reference book about the men and women in tights who fight for what's right and the comic book phenomenon that conquered the world. From their origins in stories created by barely grown men during an era of global war and printed on cheap paper for consumption by children, superheroes have grown into a popular culture whirlwind that has attracted millions of fans and crossed over into every form of media.Encompassing early coming books, indie outliers, and the mammoth fictional universes managed by DC and Marvel, Superheroes! chronicles the rise of a distinctly American invention, the modern-day evolution of the myths and legends of old. Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Captain America, X-Men, the Justice League and the Avengersthey all represent our greatest hopes, and sometimes our darkest fantasies. Pop culture expert Brian Solomon tells a story that goes from the Golden, Silver and Bronze Ages of comic bo
£17.99
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Secrecy and Community in 21stCentury Fiction
Book SynopsisSecrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction examines the relation between secrecy and community in a diverse and international range of contemporary fictional works in English. In its concern with what is called ''communities of secrecy'', it is fundamentally indebted to the thought of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot, who have pointed to the fallacies and dangers of identitarian and exclusionary communities, arguing for forms of being-in-common characterized by non-belonging, singularity and otherness.Also drawing on the work of J. Hillis Miller, Derek Attridge, Nicholas Royle, Matei Calinescu, Frank Kermode and George Simmel, among others, this volume analyses the centrality of secrets in the construction of literary form, narrative sequence and meaning, together with their foundational role in our private and interpersonal lives and the public and political realms. In doing so, it engages with the Derridean ethico-political value of secrecy and Derrida'sTrade ReviewThe secret as index of ineradicable opacity rather than hidden knowledge to be disclosed; the forms of community that come from honoring the singularity and inviolability of others; and literature as an especially revelatory location for both of these operations – these are among the insights provided by this well-conceived, eclectic collection. Secrecy and Community highlights the urgency of recasting our sense of the present through the medium of Derrida’s late work. It is an impressive and moving achievement, and a welcome addition to contemporary thought. * Greg Forter, Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA, and author of Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction: Atlantic and Other Worlds (2018) *This much-needed volume of essays extends Derridean theory through close readings of a wide range of 21st-century narrative texts, thus demonstrating the complex interrelationship between secrets and community, identity politics and literature. * Leslie W. Lewis, Susan D. Morgan Distinguished Professor of English, Goucher College, USA, and author of Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American Literature (2017) *Many anthologies on secrecy exist, but only a few include cutting-edge essays and vivid empirical studies. In this timely book, the studies compiled by María J. López and Pilar Villar-Argáiz explore the link between secrecy, community, democracy and literature with admirable articulacy and precision. This volume attests to the intersectional articulation of these elements, and will contribute much to research on the different dimensions of literary secrecy. * Eduardo Barros Grela, Professor of English Studies, University of A Coruña, Spain, and co-editor of American Secrets: The Politics and Poetics of Secrecy in the Literature and Culture of the United States (2011) *Table of ContentsNotes on contributors Foreword Joseph Hillis Miller (University of California, Irvine, USA) Acknowledgements Introduction: Secrecy and community in twenty-first-century fiction María J. López (University of Córdoba, Spain) Part One. SECRECY, LITERARY FORM AND THE COMMUNITY OF READERS 1. Secrecy and community in ergodic texts: Derrida, Ali Smith and the experience of form Derek Attridge (University of York, UK) 2. Protective mimicry: Reflections on the novel today Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex, UK) 3. ‘Where all is known and nothing understood’: Narrative sequence and textual secrets in Toni Morrison’s Love Paula Martín-Salván (University of Córdoba, Spain) 4. Challenging stereotypes of femininity through secrets in Alice Munro’s fiction Mercedes Díaz Dueñas (University of Granada, Spain) 5. Zoë Wicomb and the secrets of the canon Liani Lochner (Université Laval, Canada) Part Two. COMMUNITIES OF SECRECY 6. Cryptaesthetic resistance and community in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland María Luisa Pascual Garrido (University of Córdoba, Spain) 7. Queering the Maori crypt: Community and secrecy in Witi Ihimaera’s The Uncle’s Story Gerardo Rodríguez-Salas (University of Granada, Spain) 8. Secrecy, invisibility and community in Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate Juan L. Pérez-de-Luque (University of Córdoba, Spain) 9. Novel mediums: The art of not speaking in (and of) Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black Hannu Poutiainen (Tampere University, Finland) Part Three. SECRECY, POSTCOLONIALISM AND DEMOCRACY 10. Shame and the idea of community in Ian Holding’s Of Beasts and Beings and What Happened to Us Mike Marais (Rhodes University, South Africa) 11. ‘Whilst our souls negotiate': Secrets and secrecy in Jonathan Franzen’s Purity Jesús Blanco Hidalga (University of Córdoba, Spain) 12. Conversing with spectres: Secrets and ghosts in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees Kim L. Worthington (Massey University, New Zealand) Index
£29.99
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc This Is a Classic
Book SynopsisThis Is a Classic illuminates the overlooked networks that contribute to the making of literary classics through the voices of multiple translators, without whom writers would have a difficult time reaching a global audience. It presents the work of some of today's most accomplished literary translators who translate classics into English or who work closely with translation in the US context and magnifies translators' knowledge, skills, creativity, and relationships with the literary texts they translate, the authors whose works they translate, and the translations they make. The volume presents translators' expertise and insight on how classics get defined according to language pairs and contexts. It advocates for careful attention to the role of translation and translators in reading choices and practices, especially regarding literary classics.Trade ReviewTranslation has always been about learning to understand others while finding out something vital about ourselves. Unlike other books in the field, This Is a Classic does not fall into the trap of neglecting one part of that equation to favor the other, and that is because it never loses sight of the fact that a literary classic – whatever else it is or does – teaches us to look at ourselves anew in consideration of others. * Juan Carlos Calvillo, Professor, Center for Literature and Linguistics, El Colegio de México, Mexico City *This important collection aims to raise awareness of translation in mainstream academia but is equally valuable for the lay reader because, as Galasso points out in her introduction, 'the classics are tools for developing writers.' With brilliant contributions from a constellation of our generation's literary rock stars, Galasso is on point in her curation of these essays which, as she points out, could just as accurately have been titled 'Translators on the Making of World Literature' because without translation 'literature would not have the ability to move around the globe.'" * Samantha Schnee, Founding Editor of Words Without Borders *Table of ContentsIntroduction Literary Classics through Translation Regina Galasso (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) Prologue: The Translator's Agency and the Literary Classic Abroad: Emily Dickinson's Voyage to Braziliput Adalberto Muller (University Federal Fluminense, Brazil) 1. Chinese Classics: The Commentarial Tradition Sabina Knight (Smith College, USA) with Kidder Smith (Bowdoin College, USA) 2. Happy Hour Homer: On Translating and Performing the Iliad Live in a Bar Lynn Kozak (McGill University, Canada) 3. Today in the Temple of Language: Translating Dante Mary Jo Bang (Washington University St. Louis, USA) 4. True Confessions of a Literary Translator Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (Independent Scholar, India) 5. What is a Classic? The Case of Esperanto Humphrey Tonkin (University of Hartford, USA) 6. The Russian Canon in Retranslation Marian Schwartz (Independent Scholar, USA) 7. Translating Yiddish Classics: Redefining Tradition in Modern Yiddish Literature through the Prism of Kadya Molodowsky Chantal Ringuet (Independent Scholar, Canada) 8. Victor Català's A Film (3000 Meters): Translating a Catalan Classic Peter Bush (Independent Scholar, UK) 9. Translation as Storytelling Susan Bernofsky (Columbia University, USA) 10. In Terror and Pandemic: Translating García Lorca's Poet in New York Mark Statman (The New School, USA) 11. Stopping at the Surface: Translating Clarice Lispector's The Besieged City and A Breath of Life Johnny Lorenz (Montclair State University, USA) 12. Tanizaki's The Key in Translation: Will You Still Need Me? Will You Still Read Me, When I'm Sixty-Four? Anna Zielinska-Elliott (Boston University, USA) 13. An Essay on Nichita Stanescu: The Classic and the Personal in Translation Sean Cotter (University of Texas, USA) 14. From Arabic to English, What is a Classic? Michelle Hartman (McGill University, Canada) 15. Translating a Classic into the Future: Tómas Jónsson—Bestseller Lytton Smith (SUNY Geneseo, USA) 16. Love, Anger, Madness Making a Classic: Amplifying Marie Vieux Chauvet's Haitian Trilogy Caroyln Shread (Mount Holyoke College, USA) 17. What besides Words?: Translating Bilge Karasu's A Long Day's Evening Aron Aji (University of Iowa, USA) 18. Nonsense in a Given Direction: Translating the Timelessness of Marguerite Duras Emma Ramadan (Independent Scholar, USA) 19. "Sentence" as Lifeline: Translating David Albahari's Novels Ellen Elias-Bursac (Independent Scholar, USA) Epilogue Matching Socks in the Dark; or How to Translate from Languages You Don't Know Ilan Stavans (Amherst College, USA) A Translation Experiment Kleptomaniac Classic: Ramona Esther Allen (CUNY, USA) and Sean Cotter (University of Texas, USA) Index
£24.99
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature
Book SynopsisBreaking with linearity the ruling narrative model in the Jewish-Christian tradition since the ancient world many 20th-century European writers adopted circular narrative forms. Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez shows this trend was not a unified nor conscious movement, but rather a series of works arising sporadically in different countries at different times, using a variety of circular structures to express similar concerns and ideas about the world. This study also shows how the renewed understanding of narrative form leading to this circular trend was anticipated by Nietzsche's critiques of truth, knowledge, language and metaphysics, and especially by his related discussions of nihilism and the eternal recurrence. Starting with an analysis of the theory and genealogy of linear narrative, the author charts the emergence of Nietzsche's idea of eternal return, before then turning to the history of the circular narrative trend. This history is explored from its inception, in the works of Trade ReviewIn this groundbreaking work, Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez retraces the teleological view of literature through a wide expanse of texts, both narrative and of literary criticism – from Homer to Aristotle, Tasso and Schiller – before delineating how certain authors of modern literature rejected linearity in favour of circular forms of narrative. Built on Nietzschean philosophy, particularly on his idea of eternal recurrence, the book’s close engagement with writers and dramatists, ranging from Strindberg to Nabokov, Joyce, Borges and Calvino, radically reconfigures the aesthetics grounding these texts. This brilliant account adds an important dimension to the evolution of the Western narrative. * Thirthankar Chakraborty, Assistant Professor of English, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India, and co-editor of Samuel Beckett as World Litertature *Far from a mere typology, Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature is both ambitious in scope and quite original in dealing with its central premise. Toribio Vazquez offers a personal attempt to present and understand the many different circular alternatives probed by the 20th-century writers under the spell of Nietzsche’s negative philosophy, a milestone for the contemporary collapse of linearity. His close readings compose an engaging picture of modernism(s) in Europe, sensitive to singularities and also particularly attentive of non-canonical names, such as Azorín and Kharns. A fine, comprehensive study, theory and analysis concerned. * Fábio de Souza Andrade, Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, University of São Paulo, Brazil *In this wide-ranging comparative study Toribio Vazquez extends our understanding of post-Nietzschean poetics. His corpus of canonical and non-canonical 20th-century writers exploit structures of circularity for a variety of purposes, from the axiological and psychological to the existential and self-referential. This is an ambitious and impressive piece of work. * Duncan Large, Professor of European Literature and Translation, University of East Anglia, UK *Table of ContentsForeword by Shane Weller (University of Kent, UK) Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Genealogy of Linearity 2. Nietzsche’s Bequest: Buddha’s Shadow and the ‘Greatest Burden’ 3. The Birth of Circularity: Strindberg, Stein and Azorín 4. ‘Vivir es Volver’: Queneau, Nabokov and Kharms 5. Circulus Vitiosus Litterae: Joyce, Borges and the Theatre of the Absurd 6. Circular Echoes: Robbe-Grillet, Calvino, Cortázar and Blanchot 7. Conclusion: Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature References Index
£80.75
Hodder Education Modern Languages Study Guides: Bonjour tristesse:
Book SynopsisLiterature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work: putting it into context, understanding the themes and narrative technique, as well as specialist terminology.Breaking down each scene, character and theme in Bonjour tristesse (Hello sadness) this accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the novel and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.- Strengthen language skills with relevant grammar, vocab and writing exercises throughout- Aim for top marks by building a bank of textual examples and quotes to enhance exam response- Build confidence with knowledge-check questions at the end of every chapter- Revise effectively with pages of essential vocabulary and key mind maps throughout- Feel prepared for exams with advice on how to write an essay, plus sample essay questions, two levels of model answers and examiner commentary
£17.16
Rowman & Littlefield Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of
Book SynopsisWe think we know Betty and Veronica from Archie comics, but we don’t. Far more than just Archie’s girlfriends, this book shows how the girls adapted to be compelling, relevant characters for each new generation over the past eighty years. Betty, Veronica, and the rest of the Riverdale gang appear to be frozen in time in Archie comics. They are perpetual high schoolers, recycling the same basic plotlines over and over in their wholesome, small-town American world. However, there is much more to Betty and Veronica than the broad archetypes and clichéd storytelling suggests. In Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of Riverdale, Tim Hanley explores the complexity behind these two iconic characters. We know Betty and Veronica as Archie's girlfriends, but that's just the beginning—they are their own women with evolving motivations and aims. From fighting over Archie to tackling women’s lib to chasing down serial killers on Riverdale, their friendship has endured and grown through decades of shifting characterizations and social change. Exploring their past offers unique insights into the ways life has progressed for young women over the past eighty years, and shows us the hidden strengths and secret depths of these pop culture icons. Featuring full-color comic book cover art that spans nearly eight decades of publishing—along with behind-the-scenes accounts of creative decisions, historical insights, and examinations of their different incarnations—this book provides a vibrant exploration of Betty and Veronica’s many adventures along their long, intriguing journey in popular culture.
£30.00
Rowman & Littlefield The Game Is Afoot: The Enduring World of Sherlock
Book SynopsisFans of Sherlock Holmes will delight to investigate Victorian England, a world where crimes large and small abound and where dark corners and well-lit drawing rooms alike hide villainy.Through the enduring eye of Sherlock Holmes, noted historian Jeremy Black traces how Holmes and his milieu evolved in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s books and how Holmes continues to resonate today. Black explores the context of Doyle’s ideas and stories and why they struck such a chord with readers in London, and ultimately the world. He portrays a complex man with eclectic interests, from soccer to spiritualism, from cricket to divorce-law reform. Standing twice for Parliament, Doyle was a committed meritocrat whose political experiences and values were expressed through his writings. Reading the Holmes stories through the lens of Doyle’s multifaceted career, Black throws fresh light on the values expressed in them and how Holmes would have been perceived at the time. He traces the imperial strand in the Holmes stories and his treatment of America and Europe. Drawing on a masterly knowledge both of Doyle’s era and his writings, this entertaining and wide-ranging book uses the Holmes stories to bring Victorian England to vibrant life, a world where crimes large and small abound and where dark corners and well-lit drawing rooms alike hide villainy. Holmes was a hero and an inspiration for many a character who redefined the idea of detection and the detective, a private man of great public importance. Here is his story.
£999.99
Rowman & Littlefield Stan Lee: A Life
Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of Marvel legend Stan Lee, celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth.Stan Lee’s extraordinary life was as epic as the superheroes he co-created, from the Amazing Spider-Man to the Mighty Avengers. His ideas and voice are at the heart of global culture, loved by millions of superhero fans around the world. In Stan Lee: A Life, award-winning cultural historian Bob Batchelor offers an in-depth and complete look at this iconic visionary. Born in the Roaring Twenties, growing up in the Great Depression, living and thriving through the American Century, and dying in the twenty-first century, Stan Lee’s life is a unique representation of recent American history. Batchelor examines Lee’s fascinating American life by drawing out all its complexity, drama, heartache, and humor, revealing how Lee introduced the world to heroes that were just as fallible and complex as their creator—and just like all of us. An up-close look at a legendary figure, this centennial edition includes completely new material to give the full measure of a man whose genius continues to mesmerize audiences worldwide. Candid, authoritative, and absorbing, this is the biography of a man who dreamed of one day writing the Great American Novel, but ended up doing so much more—revolutionizing culture by creating new worlds and heroes that have entertained generations.
£999.99
Black Rose Books Eduardo Galeano: Through The Looking Glass –
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£16.14
Africa World Press Voices From The Continent, Vol Iii: A Curriculum
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£21.21
Africa World Press Emerging Perspectives On Aminata Sow Fall: The
Book SynopsisVarious contibutors demonstrate Fall's unique intervention in literary creation where realism and heroism merge.
£29.71
Africa World Press Yoruba Fiction, Orature And Culture: Oyekan
Book SynopsisA selection of essays on Oyekan Owomoyela and his impact on the study of Yoruban literature.
£31.96
Africa World Press Emerging Perspectives On Yvonne Vera
Book SynopsisNew and exciting research on one of Zimbabwe's most influential writers, Yvonne Vera.
£31.96
The Library of America Henry James: Autobiographies: A Small Boy and
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£28.79
