Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, C.S. Lewis was commemorated in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, taking his place beside the greatest nam...

Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular novelists during England's Victorian era. While Collins scholarship has often focused on social issues, ...

This two volume biographical study, published in anticipation of the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, details not o...

This is a domestic biography of the Thackeray family, placing the writer in the context of his home life. The story continues long after his death,...

To read a crime novel today largely simulates the exercise of reading newspapers or watching the news. The speed and frequency with which today'...

After its publication in 1986, Stephen King's novel It sparked sequels, remakes, parodies and solidified an entire genre: clown horror. Decades ...

The first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceThe first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceExplores Carver's r...

Traces and measures the material impact of Dickens' fiction in London's built environmentDickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or...

Explores the depiction of transgender identity in twentieth-century and contemporary literary fictionTransgender and the Literary Imagination is th...

Insdorf challenges the notion of Montaigne as an anti-feminist by exploring both the feminist and anti-feminist concepts apparent in Montaigne''s w...

Through close readings of eight tales from the Conde Lucanor, Anibal A. Biglieri offers the foundation for a Poetics of short didactic narratives. ...

Eduardo de Faria Coutinho''s analysis of Grande Sertao: Veredas places the novel at the intersection of experience, literary history, and artistry....

Examines representations of the actress in Victorian novels and theatresThis book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a signi...

This title unveils the relationships and intertextualities between this coterie of modernist writers. The relationship between the personal lives o...

Jonathan Lethem is the first full-length study dedicated to the work of an exciting, genre-busting contemporary writer with an increasingly high pr...

This study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930. The bo...

Its no secret that authors have a love-hate relationship with Hollywood. The oft-repeated cliché that the book was better than the movie holds true...

Is crime fiction the new `political novel'' in South Africa? Why did the apartheid censors disapprove of crime fiction more than any other genre? C...

''I love to think of you, Virginia, as my friend ... pray consider how rare it is to find someone with the same passion for writing, who desires to...

Provides the first sustained scholarly examination of Mansfield''s engagement with and relation to early twentieth-century periodical culture. Fore...

In this study of Andre Gide''s magnum opus, Les Faux-Monnayeurs, Karin Nordenhaug Ciholas argues for the novel''s thematic unity.

Provides much-needed critical analyses of the work of 60s avant-garde writers . Offers focused essays - each presents one author in their cultural/...

Although the year 1984 is hurtling back into the distant past, Orwell''s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to have a huge readership and to help...

This is a critical bibliography of the Nodier studies and editions of his works that appeared between 1923 and 1967. Part I presents a chronologica...

'Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived' Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegra...

Where does the violence at the heart of modern masculinity come from? From action movies to video games to sports culture, why is so much about bei...

A literary history of Arthur Conan Doyles work with the Strand Magazine in the twentieth century You know Arthur Conan Doyle as the stereotypically...

This volume attempts an objective reassessment of the controversial works and life of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Ignoring secondary...

This is an introduction of an academic means for critical analysis of film adaptations. Critical questions specific to film adaptations need to be ...

Tilling the Hard Soil takes readers on a journey out of their comfort zones and into the lives of ordinary people living with extraordinary challen...

This work takes an in-depth look at the world of comic books through the eyes of a Native American reader and offers frank commentary on the med...

Emilia Pardo Bazán, the most prolific and influential Spanish female writer of the nineteenth century, was a very controversial figure, vilified fo...

The author uses theories on power, resistance and discipline developed by Michel Foucault to analyze the interactions of mountaineers and the au...

This book comprehensively covers the history of Italian crime fiction from its origins to the present. Using the concept of moral rebellion, the...

This book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humour in English detective/crime fiction. Works using humour as an amel...

Nora Ephron famously claimed that she wrote about every thought that ever crossed her mind, from her divorce from Carl Bernstein (Heartburn) to ...

In American Westerns, the main characters are most often gunfighters, lawmen, ranchers and dancehall girls. Civil professionals such as doctors,...

In recent decades, science fiction in both print and visual media has produced an outpouring of story lines that feature forms of simulated real...

Australian crime fiction has grown from the country's origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convict...