Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

One of the most influential works on Sir Walter Scott, The Hero of the Waverley Novels is a model for reconstructing ideas common at a given period...

Fiction criticism has a long and influential history in pre-modern China, where critics would read and reread certain novels with a concentration a...

This wide-ranging collection assembles recent essays on Mittelholzer as a pioneering Caribbean modernist, critical overviews of his published works...

Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature ...

Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the problem of reproduction, Shiamin Kwas Perfect Copie...

An infamous Chinese femme fatale, in history and fictionZhao Feiyan (451 BCE), the second empress appointed by Emperor Cheng of the Han dynasty (20...

Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sum...

This volume is the outcome of a co-ordinated effort of a group of scholars who set themselves the task of reconsidering nineteenth-century Latvian ...

In 1857, following the publication of Madame Bovary, Flaubert was charged with having committed an outrage to public morality and religion. Dominic...

Traces Hemingway's critical fortunes over the ninety years of his prominence, telling us something about what we value in literature and why schola...

Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and the Goethezeit, featuring in this volume a special section on environmentalism. ...

The Mahatma Misunderstood studies the relationship between the production of novels in late-colonial India and nationalist agitation promoted by th...

New essays by leading scholars examining today's vibrant and innovative German crime fiction, along with its historical background. Although Geo...

A new critical assessment of the works of the Austrian-Jewish author, in whom there has been a recent resurgence of interest, from the perspective ...

Este libro reúne las últimas investigaciones de los máximos especialistas en este importante autor del siglo XV castellano que cultivó todos los gé...

The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of genres and foregrounding concerns of gender, en...

The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of genres and foregrounding concerns of gender, en...

A study of Lorca's poetic trajectory. This volume is one of few surveys in English of the whole of Lorca's poetry and the first to concentrate ent...

Reconstructs through testimonial literature the repression of women during the Franco years and recovers the writings of some of the forgotten post...

The author analyses six novels of the boom in Cuban fiction of the 1990s that subvert homogenized views of Cuban identity. This book examines six ...

First book of essays devoted to Coetzee's controversial novel, combining critical and pedagogical approaches. Ever since it was first published in...

The source of the narrative energy that creates such absorbing stories. Allende's very popular novels have attracted both critical approval and op...