Setting (Literature)
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The magykal papers
Locations of literary modernism
In search of Moby Dick
Places for dead bodies
Eudora Welty's aesthetics of place
Make that scene
Literary Britain
Shakespearean criticism
Three rules for writing a novel
History of Nowhere
The land's wild music
Science, myth, and the fictional creation of alien worlds
The fictions of romantic tourism
The role of place in literature
Narrative settlements
Cyclopedia of Literary Places
Place in American fiction
Literature of place
Haunted city
Amos Walker's Detroit
Four British fantasists
Dictionary of real people and places in fiction
Thomas Hardy, landscapes of the mind
Contemporary Spanish American Novels by Women
Where Shakespeare set his stage
The London of Charles Dickens
Themes and settings in fiction
Reconfigured Spheres
The Marvel Comics Guide to New York City
Crimes of the scene
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