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Who said that the suburbs are boring The suburban trick is to look ordinary and be extraordinary, as Lynne Hapgood's absorbing discussion of the suburbs in fiction from 1880-1925 reveals. -- .

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This book provided the first comprehensive account of the Booker Prize-winning poet and novellist, Michael Ondaatje. It also offers a guide to key issues in postcolonial writing and theory. -- .

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Monster texts like Frankenstein reflect monstrosity in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance against systemic cultural oppression. This book uses different critical theories to trace these narrative patterns in novels by Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.

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This collection of essays focuses primarily on the narrative voice in French fiction from the mid-19th century to the present, from Balzac through Zola and Proust to the "nouveau roman".

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"This book will be the first scholarly examination of Jeff VanderMeer-an increasingly important, yet understudied figure in contemporary fiction. By blending science fiction, climate fiction, fantasy, horror, and the weird, VanderMeer has become a crucial voice in current discussions of how humanity interacts with natural and cultural environments"--

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"This book will be the first scholarly examination of Jeff VanderMeer-an increasingly important, yet understudied figure in contemporary fiction. By blending science fiction, climate fiction, fantasy, horror, and the weird, VanderMeer has become a crucial voice in current discussions of how humanity interacts with natural and cultural environments"--

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A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars--the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir and appreciation, On Conan Doyle is a highly engaging personal introduction to Holmes's creator, as well as a rare insider's acc

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"An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller--and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape "the air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern world"--Amazon.com.

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This collection aims to resurrect the long-forgotten penny dreadfuls and revivify their significance in Gothic studies.

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Throughout contemporary British writing, the question of national identity recurs. This book investigates the ways in which contemporary British fiction disseminates a consciousness of local and national identity, and the ways in which the writers negotiate a space for their locality.

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Science-fiction writer Philip K Dick (1928-1982) is the giant imagination behind popular culture - hit movies based directly on his writings, such as "Blade Runner", "Total Recall", "Minority Report", and cult favorites such as "A Scanner Darkly" and "Paycheck". This title confronts the fascinating and frightening ideas raised by his fantasies.

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"Picaresque Tales" - parodic narratives relating the adventures of a rogue - have been central to the development of Spanish literature. This text addresses the connection between literary representation and everyday life, examining the context in which the Picaresque mode developed.

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Following studies of Lovecraft and Stephen King, this book pays overdue attention to Kings equally prolific contemporary, Britains Ramsey Campbell. Focusing on neglected longer fictions, the book Ramsey Campbell discusses the writers prose style and treatment of Gothic, interpreting his work theoretically.

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This book argues that industrial patriarchy in South Wales established an exclusive though damaging form of structural masculine conformity expressed through a limited and limiting set of gendered practices.

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Rhys Davies was a seminal influence in Welsh writing because he was one of the first novelists to depict industrial Wales, and was a highly prolific writer producing some twenty novels and one hundred short stories in a career that spanned six decades. This book addresses Davies' struggle to enter the privileged circles of literary production.

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Rhys Davies dedicated his life to writing and is regarded as one of the most accomplished Welsh prose-writers in English. This volume contains essays on major aspects of his life and work, from the literary, social and national contexts within which he wrote to issues of gender, sexuality and race.

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Incisive readings of popular late 19th and early 20th century settler adventure romance unmask a deep-seated anxiety about the stability of concepts of whiteness and femininity in colonial Australia. It considers in detail Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career and Catherine Martin's An Australian Girl.