Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin...

'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.' Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was Fitzge...

Walter M. Miller, Jr., was one of the twentieth century's leading science fiction writers, a two-time Hugo Award winner and author of the classi...

James Weldon Johnsons Modern Soundscapes provides an evocative and meticulously researched study of one of the best known and yet least understood ...

In his heyday, Hamlin Garland had a considerable reputation as a radical writer whose realistic stories and polemical essays agitating for a litera...

There were no reviews of Mansfield Park when it first appeared in 1814. Austen's reputation grew in the Victorian period, but it was only in the tw...

Few scholars nursed on the literary canon would dispute that knowledge of Western literature benefits readers and writers of the superhero genre...

Carlos Fuentes is a master of modern world literature. With the translation of his major works into English and other languages, his reputation has...

In Dracula and Philosophy 24 nocturnal philosophers stake out and vivisect Dracula from many angles. John C. Altmann decides whether Dracula can r...

This book situates the film-maker Patrick Keiller alongside the writers W.G. Sebald and Iain Sinclair as the three leading voices in 'English psych...

Why do we read? What do we cherish in a book? What is the nature of a masterpiece? What do Alice Munro, Albert Camus, and the great Polish experime...

Este libro recoge los ensayos de siete autores que reflexionan sobre la forma en que la figura del narrador chileno Jose Donoso se ha modificado tr...

A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvreDeploying the concepts and techniques of Body Studies, Guy J. Reynolds remaps Cather's vast and ...

Katherine Mansfield is the celebrated biography be bestselling author Claire Tomalin'One of the best biographies I have ever read: a perfect match ...

At the age of thirty-eight, Phyllis Dorothy James White, National Health Service employee, reinvented herself as P.D. James, crime novelist. By the...

Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthornes own experience as a member of the famous Brook Farm Community, which the author describes in his preface as the mo...

Black Milk is the affecting and beautifully written memoir on motherhood and writing by Turkey's bestselling female writer Elif Shafak, author of H...

It is widely known that Charles Dickens gave public readings of his works, and that those readings were enormously popular. Far less well known are...

There is no world of thought that is not a world of language, Walter Benjamin remarked, and one only sees in the world what is preconditioned by la...

John Thelwalls The Daughter of Adoption: A Tale of Modern Times is a witty and wide-ranging work in which the picaresque and sentimental novel of t...

The OBriens and the OFlahertys is a fast-paced tale of political intrigue and aristocratic vanitya romp through 1793 Dublin as Ireland pitches towa...

Mysteries and detective stories are among the most popular of books but the writers of such genre fiction suffer from a perception that their wo...

During the late 12th century, the Arthurian legends first took their form in the imagination of French-speaking romancers. Foremost among these ...

A feminist before such a term was created and most famous for The Awakening, the controversial Kate Chopin was also the author of a second novel...

Stunning black and white photographs of Chapelizod and the Phoenix Park, with essays by leading Dublin Joyceans. This is a homage to James Joyce, w...

In Migrant Modernism, J. Dillon Brown examines the intersection between British literary modernism and the foundational West Indian novels that eme...

Harry Potter and Beyond explores J. K. Rowling's beloved best-selling series and its virtuoso reimagining of British literary traditions. Weaving t...

What if science fiction stopped being fiction?  Developments in neuroscience are turning sci-fi scenarios into reality, and causing us to revisit ...

Bestselling novelist Tatiana de Rosnay pays homage to Daphne du Maurier, the writer who influenced her deeply, in this startling and immersive new ...

This latest volume of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift is the first fully annotated edition of Swift's Irish prose writings fro...