Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

These 14 essays examine Georges Perec's impact on architecture, art, design, media, electronic communications, computing and the everyday. What do ...

Xu Xu and Wumingshi were among the most widely read authors in China during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), but although they w...

The early eighteenth century was a vibrant period for European journalism. Already the author of several journals including the first spectator in ...

A radical intervention into critical debates over the status of sensation within modernist literatureOffers novel and insightful readings of key mo...

A revisionist reading of Fitzgerald's short stories through the lens of popular culture from the 1910s to the 1930sF. Scott Fitzgerald is remembere...

Water is a major global issue that will shape our future. Rarely, however, has water been the subject of literary critical attention. This book ide...

Explores Beckett's artistic vision at the intersection of queer, disability and posthumanist studiesThe first volume to address norms and normalcy ...

Establishes the importance of the popular radical figure of the pantomime clown in the work of Charles DickensThis book reappraises Dickens's Memoi...

This new edition of Elizabeth Maslen's successful study covers the full range of Doris Lessing's work and explores in detail both its form and cont...

Explores Robert Louis Stevenson's collaborative processContains new readings of thirteen works by Robert Louis Stevenson, including several rarely ...

Katherine Mansfield had a lifelong interest in literatures in translation and in literary translating. From her early notebooks until letters writt...

In this book, 19 stimulating new essays look at the Anglo-Arab novel from 1911 to the present day. Opening up the field of diasporic Anglo-Arab lit...

Explores the influence of contemporary radicalism over Oscar WildeOffers a new, politicised interpretation of Wilde's most famous literary worksCon...

The American Short Story since 1950 offers a reappraisal and contextualisation of a critically underrated genre during a particularly rich period i...

Hogg played a significant role in the success and notoriety of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the 'Maga', as the magazine came to be known among t...

Why have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into ...

The first multi-disciplinary scholarly consideration of the Victorian Gothic These 14 chapters, each written by an acknowledged expert in the field...

A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the Arabic novel. While the 'woman question' in the Arabic novel ha...

Places Woolf's writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930s. Bringing together studies in fashion, body cult...

A masterclass in attentive reading that opens up brilliant insights into two of George Eliot's novels. Can reading Adam Bede and Middlemarch be jus...

Published in association with the British Association for American Studies, this innovative series is an indispensable collection in American Studi...