Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

The English Novel and Prose Narrative provides an astute, wide-ranging and accessible critical introduction to the English novel and short fiction,...

The literary potential of trauma is examined in this book, bringing trauma theory and literary texts together for the first time. Trauma Fiction fo...

Florence Nightingale is famous as the heroine of the Crimean War and later as a campaigner for medical care founded on a clean environment and good...

This title, originally published in 1990, is a contribution to the social and literary history of ethnic groups in America. Its sources are the wri...

First Published in 1968. In the English literary production of the eighteen eighties and nineties, George Gissing stands as an important figure. Th...

Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more th...

The last 20 years have witnessed an unprecedented flourishing of cultural expression in Scotland, regarded by some as a response to a growing sense...

As calls mount for resistance to recent political events, Simon Morgan Wortham explores the political implications and complexities of a psychoanal...

Cultural fictions - texts written from the perspective of the edge - are the focus of this exciting and enlightening book. The author examines the...

Examines Spain's contribution to international interest in Gothic culture, film and literatureWith the success of novels such as 'The Shadow of the...

In Writing Men, Berthold Schoene-Harwood develops a trajectory of masculine emancipation from the monstrous imagery of nineteenth-century fiction t...

Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction is an illuminating and challenging critical study of this ever popular genre. In the book Gill Plain uses contempor...

Beyond the Sound Barrier examines twentieth-century fictional representations of popular music-particularly jazz-in the fiction of James Weldon Joh...

The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as arche...

Written originally as a fanfiction for the series Twilight, the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey has made obvious what was always clear to fans a...

Con unos 20 artículos de investigadores/-as de Europa, de los Estados Unidos y de la República Dominicana, la presente obra interdisciplinaria e in...

Through a series of short essays, Readings traces the consideration given to the act of close reading in literary criticism and theory over the las...

The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as arche...

As America's ethnic and racial character undergoes explosive transformation, its crime fictions trace, contest and celebrate the changes. The Conte...

The Fiction of Postmodernity is a significant and accessible new study of the relation of postmodern fiction to theories of the postmodern. Contemp...

James Hogg knew Sir Walter Scott well, and after Scott's death in 1832 he wrote an affectionate but frank account of their long friendship. Hogg ar...

Scotland was an active -- albeit junior -- partner in the British Empire. But the poorer and more marginalised parts of Scottish society shared so...

A philosophical exploration of wonder: its history, its present condition and its future potentialGenevieve Lloyd illuminates and challenges some p...

In this collection of short stories Hogg focuses on the Scottish civil war of 1644-45, in which the Marquis of Montrose led his royalist forces in ...