Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Academics, postgraduates, upper level undergraduates in Twentieth-Century Literature, The Novel, Modern Fiction, Narrative Theory / Narratology, Li...

Using an approach to music informed by T. W. Adorno, this book examines the real-world, political significance of seemingly abstracted things like ...

A critical re-evaluation of the imaginative transformations of Romanticism by major American writersThis book provides innovative readings of liter...

Offers a new understanding of empathy and its relation to medicine and literature, as a critical intervention into the medical humanitiesThis book ...

Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Leve...

A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHIn this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestsell...

Exam board: AQA & EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: Modern LanguagesFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Literature analysis made ...

This book is the first full-length study of Marguerite Yourcenar's Le Labyrinthe du monde along environmental lines. Written by the first académici...

Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars ...

The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors t...

Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side lending library in an effort to do ...

An Open Access edition of this book will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Engaging with...

Marguerite de Navarres Heptaméron, composed in the 1540s and first published posthumously in 1558 and 1559, has long been an interpretive puzzle. D...

This book addresses the ways in which writers deploy the trope of contested criminality to expose Zimbabwe's socially and politically oppressive cu...

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Polish born, learnt English from scratch when he arrived in Britain. Writings include: Heart of Darkness, The Secret Age...

This book works across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places, and topics traditi...

Many critics agree with C. S. Lewis that Satan is the best drawn of Milton's characters. Satan is certainly a wonderful creation, but Adam and Eve ...

Rowland presents a detailed exploration of how the archetypes of ancient goddesses Hestia, Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite breathe into and shape fem...

This book focuses on W. G. Sebald's life and works as teacher, as scholar and critic, as colleague and as collaborator on translation. It contains...

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five or...