Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Got...

An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans ...

Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, ...

A prolific, popular writer takes on everything from the 1940s to E. L. Doctorow to blogging. Still on Call is the sixth and final collection of cri...

Revered across the globe as an author of compelling novels, journalism and essays that came to define the twentieth century, George Orwell was an u...

Scripting Empire recovers the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the critical mid...

Although the children's story Alice in Wonderland has been in print for over 150 years, the mysteries and rumours surrounding the story and its cre...

An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to ...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine ...

The first-ever volume of the photographs of German writer W.G. Sebald, exquisitely designed to shed new light on his creative process, as it chroni...

Did Charlotte Brontë take opium? Did the Reverend Brontë carry a loaded pistol? What, precisely, does 'wuthering' mean?Distinguished literary criti...

The 'rise of the middle class' in the eighteenth century has long been taken to usher in a prosaic age synonymous with the death of tragedy, an age...

This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), which introduced Rur...

'A brave man and a brave poet.' Bob Dylan'Utterly extraordinary.' Guardian'A torrent of textual splendor.' Los Angeles TimesFrom growing up as an o...

How does Dickens make his readers laugh? What is the distinctive character of Dickensian humour? These are the questions explored in this book on a...

We've all encountered protagonists who, over the course of a novel, turn out to be more complicated than we thought at first. But what does one do ...