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  • Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage

    Spying Undercover(s)

    Edición de Professor Ann Rea ...
    An exploration of how espionage narratives give access to cultural conceptions of gender and sexuality before and following the Second World War, this bookmoves away from masculinist assumptions of the genre to offer an integrative survey of the sexualities on display from important characters across spy fiction. Topics covered include how authors mocked the traditional spy genre; James Bond as a ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Middlebrow Wodehouse

    P.G. Wodehouse's Work in Context

    de Ann Rea ...
    While he is best known for his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories, P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer who penned many other novels, stories, and musical comedy libretti, the latter of which played an enormous role in the development of American musical theater. This collection re-examines Wodehouse in the context of recent scholarship on the middlebrow, attending to his self-conscious ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction

    Edición de Martin Priestman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of the English Short Story

    Edición de Dominic Head ...
    The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic evolution of the English short story to the present day, and written by international experts in the field, this book covers numerous transnational and historical connections between writers, modes and forms of transmission. ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Crime Fiction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Richard Bradford ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century, but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles, Herodotus, and Shakespeare. In this Very Short Introduction Richard Bradford explores the history of the genre, by considering the various definitions of 'crime fiction' and looking at how it has developed over time. Discussing the popularity of crime fiction worldwide and ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Historical Novel

    de Jerome de Groot ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible introduction to the genre and critical debates that surround it, including:the development of the historical novel from early eighteenth-century works ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • A Brief Take on the Australian Novel

    de Jean-François Vernay ...
    Grab the popcorn, sit back and let the story of Australian literature roll ... From Jean-Francois Vernay, "A Brief Take on the Australian Novel" offers a sweeping view of Australian writing since colonialism. Written from an outsider's perspective, this single-authored overview will appeal to readers through its playful, jargon-free and potentially contentious account of the Australian novel. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Talking About Detective Fiction

    de P. D. James ...
    In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it.“An avid book-length essay on the roots, ethics and methods of the detective story . . . Her opinions are often surprising and determinedly ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

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  • Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence

    Edición de Wesley K. Wark ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This book won the Canadian Crime Writers' Arthur Ellis Award for the Best Genre Criticism/Reference book of 1991. This collection of essays is an attempt to explore the history of spy fiction and spy films and investigate the significance of the ideas they contain. The volume offers new insights into the development and symbolism of British spy fiction. ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • The Journalistic Imagination

    Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter

    de Richard Keeble, Sharon Wheeler ...
    Focusing on the neglected journalism of writers more famous for their novels or plays, this new book explores the specific functions of journalism within the public sphere, and celebrate the literary qualities of journalism as a genre.Key features include:an international focus taking in writers from the UK, the USA and Franceessays featuring a range of extremely popular writers (such as Dickens, ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Heroes and happy endings

    Class, gender, and nation in popular film and fiction in interwar Britain

    de Christine Grandy ...
    Series series Studies in Popular Culture
    This is a highly anticipated examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s. Departing from a prevailing emphasis on popular culture as escapist, Christine Grandy offers a fresh perspective by noting the enduring importance of class and gender divisions in the narratives read and watched by the working and middle classes between the wars. This compelling ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Cover Stories (Routledge Revivals)

    Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller

    de Michael Denning ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1987, this title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchanan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré, and shows how these tales of spies, moles, and the secret service tell a history of modern society, translating the political and cultural transformations of the twentieth century into the intrigues of a shadow world of secret agents. Combining cultural history with ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD