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  • Mars Greening
    Mark A. Benvenuto / Mark ABenvenuto
    Human colonies have been established on Mars, after the first manned mission inadvertently began to terraform it. Young Tony Rust, a geosurveyor in the New Europa colony, has made a curious discovery, which at first glance seems to be of little consequence. But has Tony stumbled onto something that could change both his home and his adopted planet forever? ...
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    24,12 €

  • 'Throw the book away'
    Amie A. Doughty
    Children’s literature is an excellent way to educate children, on everything from social behavior and beliefs to attitudes toward education itself. A major aspect of children’s literature is the importance of books and reading. Books represent adult authority. This book examines the role that books, reading and writing play in children’s fantasy fiction, from books that ac...
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    42,94 €

  • The Superhero Reader
    Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture.While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development...
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    157,91 €

  • Visions of Britain, 1730-1830
    Sebastian Mitchell
    Visions of Britain is an inquiry into the literary and visual representation of Great Britain in the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. The book considers the inter-relationship of text and image for the purposes of national projection. It analyses an extensive range of poems, novels, journals, drawings, satirical prints, portraits, landscapes, and history paintin...
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    64,89 €

  • War over Lemuria
    Richard Toronto
    Life magazine described the Shaver Mystery as 'the most celebrated rumpus that rocked the science fiction world.' Its creators said it was a 'new wave in science fiction.' Critics called it 'dangerous nonsense' and labeled its fans the lunatic fringe. Whatever else the Shaver Mystery was, it became a worldwide sensation between 1945 and 1948, one of the greatest controversie...
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    44,08 €

  • Black Comics
    Winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work.Bringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical perspectives, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is an analytic history of the diverse contributions of Black artists to the medium of comics. Covering comic books, superhero comics, graphic novels and cartoon strips from the early 20...
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    46,98 €

  • Girls Transforming
    Sanna Lehtonen
    This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children’s fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting. Drawing on recent feminist and queer theory, the study discusses the tropes of invisibility and age-shifting as narrative devices representing gendered experiences. The transfor...
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    57,44 €

  • Xeno Fiction
    Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The technical term for a fascination with the strange and alien is xenophilia, just as the term for a terror of the strange is xenophobia. At its core, then, science fiction is...Xeno Fiction. So science fiction seeks out the strange, roams far from home in space and time...
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    18,60 €

  • Japan and the Cosmopolitan Gothic
    Michael J. Blouin
    In American discourse, Japan is routinely imagined as a supernatural entity. Gothic tales from these cultures are exchanged, adapted, and consumed. By analyzing this phenomenon, in texts ranging from those of Lafcadio Hearn to the films of Shimizu Takashi, Blouin explores the relationship between the two countries as well as the layers of complexity that accompany constructions...
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    65,26 €

  • Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown
    Charles Brockden Brown
    The Letters and Early Epistolary Writings of Charles Brockden Brown gathers and presents, for the first time, the complete extant correspondence of a key American author, along with early manuscript fictions never before published and new scholarly work contextualizing and exploring the writings and their context. The volume is edited to highest scholarly standards and bears th...
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    242,33 €

  • Paratexts
    James Gunn
    In the mid-1980s, Easton Press began publishing a series of leather-bound collector editions called “Masterpieces of Science Fiction,” and “Masterpieces of Fantasy,” which featured some of the most important works in these genres. Author James Gunn was commissioned to write introductions to these works, which allowed him to pay tribute to many authors who inspired and influence...
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    120,82 €

  • The Flying Fifty-Five
    Edgar Wallace
    This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1922 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’The Flying Fifty-Five’ is a novel set in the horse racing community and follows the ups and downs of turf life. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in London, England in 1875. He received his early education at St. Peter’s School and the ...
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    38,68 €

  • Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults
    This collection enacts a lively debate about the goals and efficacy of YA dystopias, with three major areas of contention: do these texts reinscribe an old didacticism or offer an exciting new frontier in children’s literature? Do their political critiques represent conservative or radical ideologies? And finally, are these novels high-minded attempts to educate the young or si...
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    268,14 €

  • Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature
    Jolene Zigarovich
    This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examination of the century’s shifting attitudes toward death and uncovering literary moments in which sexuality and death often conjoined. By bringing together various viewpoints and historical relations, the volume contributes to an emer...
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    254,14 €

  • Fear and Learning
    This groundbreaking collection of new essays presents critical reflections on teaching horror film and fiction in many different ways and in a variety of academic settings--from cultural theory to film studies; from women’s and gender studies to postcolonialism; from critical thinking seminars on the paranormal to the timeless classics of English horror literature. Together,...
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    50,00 €

  • The Dark Tower Companion
    Bev Vincent
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    21,61 €

  • Conversations with Octavia Butler
    Conseula Francis
    Octavia Butler (1947-2006) spent the majority of her prolific career as the only major black female author of science fiction. Winner of both the Nebula and Hugo Awards as well as a MacArthur 'genius' grant, the first for a science fiction writer, Butler created worlds that challenged notions of race, sex, gender, and humanity. Whether in the postapocalyptic future of the Parab...
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    42,84 €

  • The Heyday of Sir Walter Scott
    Donald Davie
    First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the nineteenth century. ...
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    31,65 €

  • Tolkien’s Poetry
    J. R. R. Tolkien is best known for his prose work, especially his novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Although there are many poems included in his novels that add depth to the narrative, Tolkien’s talent as a writer of poetry has scarcely been appreciated and in-depth studies of Tolkien’s verses are rare. This collection edited by Julian Eilmann and Allan Turner prese...
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    30,66 €

  • Dinosaurs in Fantastic Fiction
    Allen A. Debus
    From the first illustrated edition of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1867, dinosaurs and prehistory have fascinated readers. Writers would time and again come back to dinosaurs as an element of fantastic fiction, often using these creatures--through the venue of the written word--to reflect the world of the writers’ own time. This literary survey exami...
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    43,96 €

  • Clark Ashton Smith
    Steve Behrends
    Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was a major writer of fantasy and science fiction during the first half of the twentieth century. Together with H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Smith was one of the 'Three Musketeers' of legendary Weird Tales magazine, and contributed some of the most distinctive (and controversial) fantastic fiction to ever appear in Hugo Gernsback’s Wonder...
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    18,73 €

  • Nolan on Bradbury
    William F. Nolan
    BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNER! William F. Nolan knew the late great Ray Bradbury for more than sixty years, and during that entire span he has written perspicaciously about his mentor and friend, beginning with The Ray Bradbury Review (1952) and continuing to the present day. This volume, published on the occasion of Nolan's 85th birthday, is a celebration of his lifelong devoti...
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    20,00 €

  • The Wizard of Oz Catalog
    Fraser A. Sherman
    L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wizard of Oz had by 2005 spawned 39 official sequels, more than 100 unofficial sequels, nearly 40 films, several television series, music videos, commercials, computer games, radio shows and more. It has received a number of different interpretations: an African-American slant, a Turkish low-budget fantasy, Japanese anime, and American pornography, ...
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    58,76 €

  • Cauldron of Changes
    Janice C Crosby / Janice C. Crosby
    The spiritual dimensions in the fantastic works of both firmly established and newer writers--including such talents as Marion Zimmer Bradley, Alice Walker, Patricia Kennealy, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison and Ntozake Shange--are examined in this book. The author links their fantastic novels to actual currents within the feminist spirituality movement, addressing the genre...
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    43,45 €

  • Teaching with Harry Potter
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    The Harry Potter phenomenon created a surge in reading with a lasting effect on all areas of culture, especially education. Today, teachers across the world are harnessing the power of the series to teach history, gender studies, chemistry, religion, philosophy, sociology, architecture, Latin, medieval studies, astronomy, SAT skills, and much more. These essays discuss the...
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    42,61 €

  • Fantasy
    Rosemary Jackson
    First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it. Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central field of what may, in general terms, be called literary...
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    78,78 €

  • New Worlds
    Damien Broderick / John Boston
    In the mid-1960s, British science fiction and fantasy were convulsed by the 'New Wave.' This movement emerged from the SF magazines edited by John Carnell. Such brilliant NEW WORLDS and SCIENCE FANTASY writers as J. G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, John Brunner, and Michael Moorcock heralded the rise of this new kind of fantastic fiction. John Boston and Damien Broderick’s concludi...
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    20,55 €

  • Of Comics and Men
    Jean-Paul Gabilliet / Bart Beaty / Nick Nguyen
    A meditation on the production, content, and techniques of the American comic bookOriginally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet’s Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the American comic book industry from the 1930s to the present. The book intertwines aesthetic issues and...
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    56,77 €

  • Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction
    Melissa Schaub
    This is a study of a common recurring character type in British detective novels of the early twentieth century, by Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, and Georgette Heyer. All of these novelists frequently feature women who distinguish themselves as heroines by acting like gentlemen. Few use the word explicitly, but all embody a remarkably consiste...
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    65,50 €

  • French Crime Fiction, 1945-2005
    Margaret-Anne Hutton
    In the first major study of representations of World War II in French crime fiction, Margaret-Anne Hutton draws on a corpus of over 150 texts spanning 60 years. Filling a gap in the fields of both crime fiction and fictional representations of the War, Hutton’s book calls into question the way both this popular genre and the French theatre of World War II have been conceptualis...
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    268,11 €


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