Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Writing Fiction offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant readings from well-known authors to i...

James Jones played many roles, including short story writer, social critic, and war novelist. His most famous work, From Here to Eternity (1951), s...

Focusing on the ways in which women writers from across the political spectrum engage with and adapt Wollstonecraft's political philosophy in order...

First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. William Makepeace Thac...

This volume contains two concise works by the innovative twentieth-century literary critic Janko Lavrin, offering accessible and thoughtful introdu...

The author states here that Tolstoy was a great educator and his views on education were ingenious and profound. Despite being a great artist, Tols...

First published 1986. In this book the author refutes the notion that Gissing’s weaknesses as a novelist are associated with defects in his persona...

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text explores the genesis, production and the critical appreciation of the illustrations to the fiction of...

As each generation confronts aging and responds to its challenges, the literary community—ranging from Philip Roth to Jonathan Franzen—has provided...

Popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global book market. Bringing together an international group of scholars, The Routle...

Though Friedrich Schiller enjoyed prominent literary standing and great popularity in nineteenth century literary England, his influence has been l...

First published in 1989, this study investigates Hardy not so much in terms of his novels but as he has been constituted as a major figure in Engli...

With its demand that works of art be judged according to the their morally didactic content, Tolstoy’s reviled aesthetics has seemed to exclude fro...

Haunting us with such unforgettable stories as The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, Salem’s Lot, Carrie, The Green Mile, and Pet Sematary, Stephe...

First published in 1988, the aim of this study is to define the role of religious meaning in the modern novel and to demonstrate that the novel can...

The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make...

There is no English novelist whose reputation has fluctuated so violently as that of George Meredith. First published in 1971, this volume of essay...

In Acts of Modernity, David Buchanan reads nineteenth-century historical novels from Scotland, America, France, and Canada as instances of modern d...

First published in 1991, this book radically challenged the view of Nana as the story of an old fashioned femme fatale and reinterprets her as a fe...

These eight volumes contain the works of Mary Shelley and include introductions and prefatory notes to each volume. Included in this edition are "F...

This volume explores the reception of Premchand’s works and his influence in the perception of India among Western cultures, especially Russian, Ge...

This new biography of Lady Blessington, the first in more than eighty years, illuminates the private and public life of this important but neglecte...

First published in 1966. By pursuing a group of cognate themes, the author relates major critical approaches to the fiction of James Joyce. One of ...

The Victorian period was the age of the novel and critics at the time clearly saw the importance of prose fiction. First published in 1993, this an...

The years 1890-1945 saw an unprecedented outpouring of fiction focused on British university life, much of it reflecting the drastic change that ha...

First published in 1979. This study explores the main critical issues that arise out of a modern reading of Scott’s work, and treats the major nove...

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, ...

First published in 1968. Richard Hengist Horne, virtually unknown today, was one of the more extraordinary figures of the nineteenth century litera...

This volume, first published in 1968, draws attention to the special relationship between Joyce’s life and his writing. The passages are presented ...

L'Etranger has the force and fascination of myth. The outwardly simple narrative of an office clerk who kills an Arab, 'a cause du soleil', and fin...

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, ...

First published in 1986. Dubliners was James Joyce’s first major publication. Setting it at the turn of the century, Joyce claims to hold up a ‘nic...

Positioned at a crossroads between feminist geographies and modernist studies, Excursions into Modernism considers transnational modernist fiction ...

The years 1890-1945 saw an unprecedented outpouring of fiction focused on British university life, much of it reflecting the drastic change that ha...

This book examines strategies of transformation (becomings, image-making, and the phantasmagoric) that figure in four stories and a novel by Gothic...

First published in 1984. Although Middlemarch was extravagantly praised by Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf, it is only in the last ...

Since the 9/11 attacks terror has established its permeating hold on society’s psyche. Creative writing, a popular and visible cultural witness to ...

First published in 1969. This title concerns itself with the ambivalence of Lawrence’s attitude towards corruption. Clarke demonstrates that Lawren...

Through close readings of select stories and novels by well-known writers from different literary traditions, Fictional Translators invites readers...

The years 1890-1945 saw an unprecedented outpouring of fiction focused on British university life, much of it reflecting the drastic change that ha...

Vivienne Brough-Evans proposes a compelling new way of reevaluating aspects of international surrealism by means of the category of divin fou, and ...

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, ...

The years 1890-1945 saw an unprecedented outpouring of fiction focused on British university life, much of it reflecting the drastic change that ha...

This title, first published in 1990, offers a feminist and psychoanalytic reassessment of the Joycean canon in the wake of Freud, Lacan, and Kriste...

These eight volumes contain the works of Mary Shelley and include introductions and prefatory notes to each volume. Included in this edition are "F...

These eight volumes contain the works of Mary Shelley and include introductions and prefatory notes to each volume. Included in this edition are "F...