Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

New reading of contemporary feminisms and the short storyThe short story has received renewed attention and notable popular acclaim in the twenty-f...

In this book Zeina G. Halabi examines the figure of the intellectual as prophet, national icon, and exile in contemporary Arabic literature and fil...

Contextualises Muriel Spark's writings in the tradition of Christian existentialism and its insistence on 'being towards death'This bookproposes th...

A wide-ranging study of the rise of a new culture of portability and its impact on modernist approaches to fictionLuggage is an overlooked detail i...

Explores the interconnected creative partnerships of the Wattses and De Morgans Victorian artists, writers and suffragistsThis is the first book d...

Constructs a history of community, family and temporality in American culture through one of the nation's most popular, yet unrecognized genresThe ...

This book fills a gap in existing scholarship on the history of the novel in relation to visual culture by discussing the visual fascination that n...

This is the first book-length study of imperial crossings in Thomas Hardys novels and short stories. Combining the strengths of world-literary and ...

A history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.Redrawing the Western charts ...

The Oxford Dickens edition of Pictures from Italy puts the spotlight on Dickens's 'little book' describing his travels through Italy in 1844 and 18...

A critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writing Writing Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish litera...

Academics, researchers and postgraduate students in Contemporary English Literature; Gothic Literature; Children's Literature; Youth and Childhood ...

Providesa sustained comparative reading of the relation between Beckett and Blanchot through its novel conception of the language and phenomenon of...

A reading of the philosophical idea of world as it relates to the posthuman subject in Beckett's short proseJonathan Boulter offers the reader a wa...

The first full-length study of modern technologies in late-Victorian New Woman writingThis book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relati...

Explores how nineteenth-century novels analysed the formal and social workings of newsArgues that the concept of fake news was central to the devel...

Celebrates the centennial of Katherine Mansfield's BlissThis book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some...

In this novel and pioneering study Maya I. Kesrouany explores the move from Qur'anic to secular approaches to literature in early 20th-century Egyp...

RereadsAntonia White's writing within the context of manic-depressive illnessMisdiagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia instead of what was bipol...

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

Explores Woolf's treatment of the relationship between self and world from an existential-phenomenological perspective Breaking fresh ground in Woo...

This book explores Cormac McCarthy's literature (novels, plays, screenplays, philosophical essays and unpublished archive material) to uncover a di...

A transnational approach to Risorgimento culture's contentious and exhilarating nation-building enterpriseKey FeaturesRe-imagines the parameters an...