Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Recent years have seen a burgeoning of novels that respond to the environmental issues we currently face. Among these, Louise Squire defines enviro...

This book presents a philosophical context to show how Oscar Wilde broke from idealism, and challenges recent neo-historicist readings of Wilde whi...

A masterful study by a preeminent scholar that situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism Willa Cather is often pegged as a ...

From its beginnings in Twilight fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel Fifty Sh...

This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened 'mountaineering' in 18...

How and why did the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) matter to experimental writers in the early twentieth century? Previous answ...

In Interpretive Conventions, Steven Mailloux provides a general introduction to reader-response criticism while developing his own specific reader-...

This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the...

If the Punisher became a valuable piece of intellectual property during the closing decades of the twentieth century, he has become a global icon i...

In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she anal...

Available again after being long out of print, this is the pre-eminent critical study, and exploration, of how myth and legend played such a signif...

David J. Supino traces in unprecedented detail the lineaments of Joseph Conrads authorial career and the fortunes (and misfortunes) of his publishe...