Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

In recent years, critics and readers alike have increasingly recognized the unique brilliance of Joseph Conrad's short fiction, elevating it to the...

Bringing together cultural analysis and textual readings on critically-acclaimed bestseller and winner of the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages...

Alejandro Zaera-Polo's book is a first-person account by the former dean of Princeton University's School of Architecture, an international archite...

New insights into the work of an acclaimed science fiction author Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), a pioneer of science fiction and foremother of Afr...

This book addresses the recent surge of Anglo-American novels about visual art since the 2010s and interprets it as a coming of age of an old liter...

'Tired of walking in the dream I have returned to the country where I was born half a century ago' - The Higgins family is now dispersed; the third...

Over the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academics seeking to explain the un...

Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader of the Romantic movement, Revolutionary playwright, poet, epi...

Victorian legs is about the science (sometimes spurious) and sexuality (often frivolous) of legs during the Victorian period. The book argues that ...

This book offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Egyptian and British novels represent the Egyptian nationalist project in its struggle aga...

While breast cancer continues to affect the lives of millions, contemporary writers and artists have responded to the ravages of the disease in cre...

Brings to light an important and unconventional teacher of literature whose way of thinking and method are relevant both in and beyond German Studi...

New insights into the work of an acclaimed science fiction author Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), a pioneer of science fiction and foremother of Afr...

Escritora, no hay camino... explores Mexican travel literature -from early nineteenth-century publications to the contemporary era- to reveal how t...

Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books addresses Wilde's obsession with the visual appearance or "look" of his published writings. It examines the role play...

Acknowledging the powerful impact that Plato's dialogues have had on readers, Jill Gordon shows how the literary techniques Plato used function phi...

Half a century after the Raj, India retains a major place in the British imagination. In Colonial Power, Colonial Texts, M. Keith Booker examines a...

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