Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Highlights the transformative impact that book publishers had on the modernist movementPublishing houses are nearly invisible in modernist studies....

In an effort to expand its readership and increase support for its pan-Arab project, the Iraqi Ba'th almost completely eradicated illiteracy among ...

Explores the trailblazing work of the British literary avant-garde of the 1960sThis collection showcases the liveliness of British avant-garde fict...

Explores the little art communities and their aesthetic products in the early twentieth centuryHistoricizes and theorizes the role and function of ...

Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated...

Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain themWhat is the connection ...

Jane Newland explores how Deleuzian concepts can enhance and invigorate our readings of this literature, whose implied readership masks much parado...

Explores Katherine Mansfield's engagement in the periodical culture of the early twentieth centuryThis book considers Mansfield's ambivalent positi...

Reflects contemporary paradigm shifts in embryology and evolutionary theory through formal experimentation in the modernist BildungsromanModernist ...

The first sustained exegesis of a neglected masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, Samuel Beckett's How It IsThis book maps out the novel's c...

Humility and humiliation have an awkward, often unacknowledged intimacy. Humility may be a queenly, cardinal or monkish virtue, while humiliation p...

Defines the interdisciplinary field of Rural Modernity through analysis of British literature, art and cultureRural Modernity in Britain argues tha...

A new scholarly edition of a major late-Victorian scientific romance novelMarie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most cu...

Explores Robert Louis Stevenson's collaborative processContains new readings of thirteen works by Robert Louis Stevenson, including several rarely ...

This is an in-depth, original survey of religion in the modern Arabic novel. Tracing the relationship from the genesis of the form in the early 20t...

Exploring revolutionary politics in the work of one of America's most important avant-garde writersKey FeaturesSituates Acker in broader social, po...

First scholarly edition of a bestselling historical novelExplores thesocio-political themes of the novel and deemed as relevant today as they were ...

Explores the politics of nineteenth-century British realismOffers a new theory of institutions grounded in temporalityOutlines a transnational theo...

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

Explores the crucial role played by the city in the construction of modernismThis innovative book examines the development of modernist writing in ...

Examines British women's experimental writing in historical contexts, 19451970The first detailed literary history of women's experimental writing i...

Brings ideas and animals together to shed new light on modernist magazine cultureTests the concept of 'primordial' modernism as a tributary of prim...

A revisionist reading of Fitzgerald's short stories through the lens of popular culture from the 1910s to the 1930sF. Scott Fitzgerald is remembere...

Reflections on the Bicentenary of the 1819 Massacre of Reformers in ManchesterTwo hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, kno...