Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

This collection places the fiction of Bram Stoker in relation to this life, career and status as a late Victorian. It centres on various aspects of...

The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive overview available of the author's life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe...

Chapter 23 is published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license and is free to read or download from Oxford Academic. Archives have never been...

The Jane Austen Treasury is a delightful collection of facts and insights into the life and times of the great novelist and the attitudes and custo...

Impossibly muscular men and voluptuous women parade around in revealing, skintight outfits, and their romantic and sexual entanglements are a key p...

The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like its English counterpart, Robin Hood, it has be...

Impossibly muscular men and voluptuous women parade around in revealing, skintight outfits, and their romantic and sexual entanglements are a key p...

This series provides comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces. Each title features: conc...

A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodig...

Nominated for the 2022 Eisner Award - Best Academic/Scholarly WorkThe Life and Comics of Howard Cruse tells the remarkable story of how a self-desc...

Nominated for the 2022 Eisner Award - Best Academic/Scholarly WorkThe Life and Comics of Howard Cruse tells the remarkable story of how a self-desc...

Virtuoso Chris Ware (b. 1967) has achieved some noteworthy firsts for comics. The Guardian First Book Award for Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on...

Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse makes a dual intervention in both world literature and ecocriticism by examining mag...

Short works known for their humour and ribaldry, the fabliaux were comic or satirical tales told by wandering minstrels in medieval France. This ne...

Winner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Studies! Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books Characters like Black P...

Have you ever recognized Mrs. Elton in an office colleague? Or caught a glimpse of Lady Catherine de Bourgh in the neighborhood crank? Have you spo...

Literary historians have tended to associate the eighteenth century with the rise of the tyranny of the clockthe notion of time as ruled by mechani...

On the Edge is a first-of-its-kind collection of short stories and extracts from novels centred on theme of same-sex desire, translated from the or...