Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

_________________________The perfect accompaniment to the definitive new editions of Georgette Heyer's celebrated novels that are currently being r...

A century after Leo Tolstoy's death, the author of War and Peace is widely admired but too often thought of only with reference to his realism and ...

The publication Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination is part of the Topographies of (Post)Modernity: Studies in 20th and 21st Century ...

The Woodlanders (1887) was Thomas Hardy's elventh published novel and the one he claimed to like 'as a story, the best of all'. It is a story of wi...

Decadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power...

Although Joyce was losing his sight when he wrote Ulysses, Stephen's and Bloom's visual experiences are extraordinarily rich and complex. Absorbing...

'Postwar' is both a period and a state of mind, a sensibility comprised of hope, fear and fatigue in which British society and its writers paradoxi...

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continu...

As a literary genre, the sentimental novel reached the height of its vogue in the 1770s and 1780s and was still popular as the eighteenth century d...

The idea of America has always encouraged apocalyptic visions. The 'American Dream' has not only imagined the prospect of material prosperity; it h...

Gender in American Literature and Culture introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism. It offers nuanc...

The 1930s is frequently seen as a unique moment in British literary history, a decade where writing was shaped by an intense series of political ev...

Examining the work of more than one hundred writers, in a wide variety of genres including detective, spy, gothic, fantasy, comic, and science fict...

Modernism reshaped novel theory, shifting criticism away from readers' experiences and toward the work as an object autonomous from any reader. Nov...

This book charts the history of a distinct strain of European literary modernism that emerged out of a radical re-engagement with late nineteenth-c...

From 1980 to the present, huge transformations have occurred in every area of British cultural life. The election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 ushe...

Modernism and the Machinery of Madness demonstrates the emergence of a technological form of paranoia within modernist culture which transformed mu...

An original, wide-ranging contribution to the study of French writing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book examines the ways ...