Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

A detailed and lively discussion and analysis of the novels, short stories, newspaper columns, and other works of one of the most important and pop...

These essays in the language, literature and history of the broadlyspeaking Celtic world range widely over time and space and subjectmatter. Subjec...

The book consists of a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the Chinese post-1970s writers group, especially the literary xiangjun five young writers...

Based on the theory and methodology of transcultural memory, this book describes and analyzes the fictional representations of memory and forgettin...

This book aims to develop a broader view of the trajectory of Hispanic modernity, tracing a motif of recurring impasse, first seen in peninsular Ba...

Explores the ways in which African writers have approached speculative fiction through in-depth articles on the use of language, terminology and th...

Sebastiano Vassalli (19412015) engaged in an ambitious project to narrate Italy, the nation, its people and its pathologies. His vast cast of chara...

To this day, Salem, Massachusetts, is synonymous with the witch trials of 1692. Their unique pace and structure has not only made the infamous town...

The book focuses on contemporary staff-centred mystery novels set in the academic domain, written by scholars who enrich the generic convention of ...

The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Rola...

Graphic Criticism analyzes the semantic families of one hundred Anglophone novels written between 1719 and 1997. The analysis demonstrates that the...

Marcel Prousts In Search of Lost Time has long fascinated philosophers for its complex accounts of time, personal identity and narrative, amongst m...

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...

F. Scott Fitzgerald published America's favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achiev...

Thomas Hart examines Erich Auerbach's contention that Don Quixote is not a tragedy but a comedy and suggests that Auerbach's view was shaped by his...

A meditation on the themes of separation and silence, The Summer of the Elder Tree was Marie Chaix's first book to appear in fourteen years, and de...

California Gothic explores the California dream and its dark inversion as a nightmare, as illustrated in fiction, poetry, and film. California bega...

The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on minew...

Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of cre...

** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023**** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and...

Though male French authors plotted prostitution to make their namesmimicking the surveillance of municipal authoritiesthe sex workers in their book...