Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

In 2000, readers voted Willie Morris (1934-1999) Mississippi's favorite nonfiction author of the millennium. After conducting over fifty interviews...

Delving deep into the intricate narrative styles of William Faulkner's most celebrated works, this captivating study immerses readers in the renown...

Violence, in its myriad forms, is a central theme in contemporary Irish history and culture and has long been a preoccupation for writers of Irish ...

Simultaneously spiritual and material, liturgy incarnates unseen realities in concrete forms bread, wine, water, the architectural arrangement of ...

Since Sylvia Plaths death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a gr...

Writing about food has long been a part of autobiographical expression that combines culinary record-keeping and histories, drawing on the personal...

The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language pro...

Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction reframes how we think about Victorian women's changing economic rights and their representation in ...

Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection Fly-Catchers, w...

This collection of essays expands our understanding and appreciation of the body of work by established female authors of Spanish crime fiction ser...

Novelists Against Social Change studies the writing of John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell to show how these conservative authors put t...

An infamous Chinese femme fatale, in history and fictionZhao Feiyan (451 BCE), the second empress appointed by Emperor Cheng of the Han dynasty (20...

What makes fiction recognizable as fiction? Texts are shaped by their material print, but this book argues that they can also be made in response t...

Bryan Giemza challenges the myth of the solitary genius, both in scientific and humanistic endeavors, and demonstrates how Cormac McCarthy is the e...

Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of Hard...

With science fiction stories imagining futures and worlds vastly different from our own, and posthuman philosophies radically reconceptualising our...

'Screamingly funny and deliciously candid, full of wisdom and joie de vivre, this is memoir with the grip of a thriller' ERIN KELLY'A rollercoaster...

This book sets out to elucidate Conrads unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of scholars and graduate students engag...

If you woke to realize that you could rewrite your yesterday without knowing the kind of tomorrow it would grant you, would you do it? Are the auth...

Margaret Cavendish was one of the most prolific, complex and misunderstood writers of the seventeenth century. A contemporary of Descartes and Hobb...

National Review's Literary Network traces the careers of novelists, journalists, and literary critics who wrote for William F. Buckley, Jr.'s Natio...

This study explores Frances preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture and one of its more endur...

Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Ot...

Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic breaks new ground in uncovering penny titles which have been hitherto largely neglected from literary discourse reve...

The term 'Gothic' has been applied to examples of Australian cinema since the 1970s, often in arbitrary and divergent ways. This book examines a wi...