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Ciara Gorman
Criminal Women in Contemporary French Crime Fiction

An exploration of representations of female criminality in contemporary French crime fiction, this book offers a literary, sociological and feminist analysis of the stereotypes surrounding women and crime…

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Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne
Fiction and Education in the Roman World

What was fiction in the Roman world - and how did ancient readers learn to make sense of it? This book redefines ancient fiction not as a genre but as a sociocultural practice, governed by the institution…

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Lois W McFarland,
Creation and Apocalypse in Feminist Speculative Fiction

Exploring nine works of contemporary feminist speculative fiction by Rhoda Lerman, Angela Carter, Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood and Nao mi Alderman, this book asks how biblical myths of creation and apo…

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Cristina Salcedo González
The Persephone Myth in Young Adult Fiction

Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salcedo González analyses six young adult novels which incorporate a rewo…

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Porscha Fermanis
Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890

Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890 posits that the nineteenth-century settler novel, far from being a generic and belated version of metropolitan fiction, can assist us in understandi…

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Jakub Lipski
Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790-1830

This Element demonstrates how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result of public interest in the partitions of Poland (1772-95) and their aftermath. It…

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Certainty and Ambiguity in Global Mystery Fiction

Mystery fiction as a genre renders moral judgments not only about detectives and criminals but also concerning the cultural structures within which these mysteries unfold.In contrast to other volumes whic…

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Jakub Lipski
Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790-1830

This Element demonstrates how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result of public interest in the partitions of Poland (1772-95) and their aftermath. It…

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Gerry Smyth
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940

In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between humanity, env…

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Gerry Smyth
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940

In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between humanity, env…

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Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne
Fiction and Education in the Roman World

Greek Culture in the Roman World

What was fiction in the Roman world - and how did ancient readers learn to make sense of it? This book redefines ancient fiction not as a genre but as a sociocultural practice, governed by the institution…

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Manuel García-Carpintero
Truth and Reference in the Making of Fiction

A standard feature of our engagement with fictions is that we praise them as if they offer true insights on factual, psychological or evaluative matters, or criticize them as if they purport to do it but …

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Evie Kendal
Science Fiction and the Ethics of Artificial Wombs

Ectogenesis, or artificial wombs, is not yet a reality. But is it the future? In this revolutionary book, Evie Kendal explores the potential that ectogenesis has to promote sexual equality in human reprod…

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Anas Galet M. Alhaisony
Multiculturalism in Contemporary British South Asian Fiction

This book explores the multifaceted themes of home, belonging, and multiculturalism in contemporary British South Asian fiction. Through detailed literary analysis of novels by authors such as Nadeem Asla…

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Sarah Rosenson
Fan Fiction on the Book of Genesis

The modern phenomenon of fan fiction involves readers writing creative pieces that answer questions left open in favorite works of literature. This also describes the ancient tradition of midrash, where r…

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Satomi Saito
The Evolution of Classical Detective Fiction in Japan

This Element traces the evolution of honkaku (orthodox) detective fiction in Japan, examining how a Western-derived puzzle genre was adapted, contested, and transformed within Japan's twentieth-century cu…

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Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction

For over half a century, organizations and individuals promoting ex-gay, conversion and/ or reparative therapy have pushed the tenet that a person may be able to, and should, alter their sexual orientatio…

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Satomi Saito
The Evolution of Classical Detective Fiction in Japan

This Element traces the evolution of honkaku (orthodox) detective fiction in Japan, examining how a Western-derived puzzle genre was adapted, contested, and transformed within Japan's twentieth-century cu…

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Sarah Rosenson
Fan Fiction on the Book of Genesis

Fan fiction, the art of storytelling using characters and elements from established work, can trace its lineage to "midrash," an ancient tradition of interpreting Biblical text by writing storie…

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Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France

This book investigates the recently accelerated phenomenon of mainstream French film and serial television's remarkable popularity not only within but - more novelly for European audiovisual narratives - …

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