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Encyclopedia of the Novel

Encyclopedia of the Novel

The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual wri...

The Rise of the Novel, Updated Edition

The Rise of the Novel, Updated Edition

A classic description of the interworkings of social conditions changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as...

The English Middle-Class Novel

The English Middle-Class Novel

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The Woman's Historical Novel

The Woman's Historical Novel

The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been consistently un...

The Graphic Novel Classroom

The Graphic Novel Classroom

Every teacher knows that keeping adolescents interested in learning can be challenging—The Graphic Novel Classroom overcomes that challenge. In thes...

The Doctor in the Victorian Novel

The Doctor in the Victorian Novel

With the character of the doctor as her subject, Tabitha Sparks follows the decline of the marriage plot in the Victorian novel. As Victorians came to...

Genre and Extravagance in the Novel

Genre and Extravagance in the Novel

Examines the form of the novel, capaciously defined and across its history, exploring the interplay of conformity and experimentation in classic and o...

Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century

Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century

This handbook offers students and researchers a compact introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel in the light of current debates, theoret...

Novel Definitions

Novel Definitions

Novel Definitions captures the lively critical debate surrounding the invention of the English novel, showing how the rise of the novel is accompanied...

Novel Possibilities

Novel Possibilities

Childers (English, U. of California-Riverside) considers the role of the novel, particularly the social-problem novel of the 1840s, in interpreting an...

Indian English Novel

Indian English Novel

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The Campus Novel

The Campus Novel

The Campus Novel – Regional or Global? presents innovative scholarship in the field of academic fiction. Whereas the campus novel is traditionally c...

Narrating Friendship and the British Novel, 1760-1830

Narrating Friendship and the British Novel, 1760-1830

Friendship has always been a universal category of human relationships and an influential motif in literature, but it is rarely discussed as a theme i...

The Cambridge History of the English Novel

The Cambridge History of the English Novel

The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative ...

"My Novel"

"My Novel"

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The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Explanations and index

The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Explanations and index

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Social Science-Term-1

Social Science-Term-1

A book on social science

Demanding Respect

Demanding Respect

From pulp comics to Maus, the story of the growth of comics in American culture.

The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register

The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register

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The Impact of Racism on African American Families

The Impact of Racism on African American Families

In spite of the existence of statistics and numerical data on various aspects of African American life, including housing, earnings, assets, unemploym...

Index-guide to Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

Index-guide to Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Scott's Interleaved Waverley Novels

Scott's Interleaved Waverley Novels

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Novel-Poetry

Novel-Poetry

Novel-Poetry examines the verse-novel--a hybrid genre that emerged in the middle decades of Britain's nineteenth century--to make a larger claim about...

Hints for Home Reading

Hints for Home Reading

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A Fair Saxon. A Novel

A Fair Saxon. A Novel

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Complicity and Resistance in Jack London's Novels

Complicity and Resistance in Jack London's Novels

This study presents Jack London's novels as representations of a particular moment in American history, situating this attention within the wider proj...

Nouvelles en trois lignes

Nouvelles en trois lignes

Entre les mois de février et novembre 1906. Félix Fénéon. critique d’art et journaliste. anime une rubrique dans le quotidien Le Matin intitulé...

Peoria Public Library List of English Fiction, French Fiction, and Juveniles

Peoria Public Library List of English Fiction, French Fiction, and Juveniles

A catalog of juvenile and fiction books held by the Peoria Public Library, in one alphabetical listing.

100 Great American Novels You've (Probably) Never Read

100 Great American Novels You've (Probably) Never Read

From Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons and Anzia Yzierska's The Bread Givers to Laurie Colwin's Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object and Chet Raymo'...

Novel Stages

Novel Stages

The essays in Novel Stages examine the myriad intersections between drama and the novel in nineteenth-century France, a period when the two genres wer...

The Novel in India

The Novel in India

First published in 1970, The Novel in India traces the birth and development of prose fiction in Bengali, Marathi, Urdu, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam. I...

L'île au secret

L'île au secret

Comète a été enlevé par les membres des Ailes de la nuit, son clan originel, qui tentent de le persuader de les aider à envahir le territoire des...

The Novel in the Ancient World

The Novel in the Ancient World

This is the second publication in Brill's handbook series The Classical Tradition. The subject of this volume is that group of works of extended prose...

A Manual of English Literature

A Manual of English Literature

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The Publishers Weekly

The Publishers Weekly

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The Contemporary British Historical Novel

The Contemporary British Historical Novel

A detailed study of an increasingly popular genre, this book offers readings of a group of significant and representative works, drawing on a range of...

My Novel or Varieties in English Life

My Novel or Varieties in English Life

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

A Companion to the American Novel

A Companion to the American Novel

Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the deve...

Public Opinion

Public Opinion

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Eclectic Magazine

Eclectic Magazine

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