Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

A marriage of mystery fiction and queer concerns, queer crime literature celebrates the pairing of the political and the sexual. Queer crime fic...

Experience the thrill of reading Ender's Game all over again Go deeper into the complexities of Orson Scott Card's classic novel with science fict...

In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny Huh investigates anxieties about r...

Are gardens anything more than collections of plants? Spaces for leisure activities? Extensions that protect the private house from the public road...

A revealing and concealing intelligence lurks somewherebut where, exactly?in Dickens's writing. To capture something of that knowing Dickens who el...

The legacy of the relationship between African American writers and Communism in the US is a contested one. In Bitter with the Past but Sweet with ...

The Return of the Native was a radical departure for Thomas Hardy, ushering in his tragic literary vision of the world. Though set in a small space...

Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto t...

This work traces the concepts of initiation, transformation and rebirth though Beatrix Potter's personal writings and her children's fiction. He...

Had there been no Great War, there would have been no Hobbit, no Lord of the Rings, no Narniaperhaps even no conversion to Christianity by C.S. Lew...

Joy Kogawa is a Member of the Order of Canada and a Member of the Order of British Columbia with numerous honorary degrees and lifetime achievement...

Following the appearance of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 1950, C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia have enchanted children and adults ali...

A man awakens to find himself transformed into a giant vermin; a performer starves himself to death as a circus attraction; a fiendish engine of ca...

Novelist, translator, critic, and acerbic book reviewer Frances Newman (1883-1928) was praised by Virginia novelist James Branch Cabell and critic ...

This book positions Robert Musil's theory and writings within recent critical accounts of modernism and brings him into dialogue with continental p...

This Critical Survey was originally published in 1981, with a supplement in 1987 and revised editions in 1993 and 2001. The Fourth Edition includes...

When Charles Dickens died in 1870 he was the best-known man in the English-speaking world-the pre-eminent Victorian celebrity, universally mourned ...

Although fantasy and supernatural literature have long and celebrated histories, many critics contend that the fantastic and the supernatural ha...

Voices and Books in the English Renaissance offers a new history of reading that focuses on the oral reader and the voice- or performance-aware sil...

This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and importance for the twenty-first c...

This book explores the concept of quiet an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles and argues for the terms application to the stu...

Margaret Harkness is the first book to bring together research on the life and work of a writer, activist and traveller at the forefront of literar...

Richard Marsh was one of the most popular and prolific authors of the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods. His bestselling The Beetle: A Mystery (...

Swedish crime fiction became an international phenomenon in the first decade of the twenty-first century, starting first with novels but then perco...

Realism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often ...

This book investigates the crucial question of restitution in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, wi...