Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Reflects contemporary paradigm shifts in embryology and evolutionary theory through formal experimentation in the modernist BildungsromanModernist ...

The first sustained exegesis of a neglected masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, Samuel Beckett's How It IsThis book maps out the novel's c...

Humility and humiliation have an awkward, often unacknowledged intimacy. Humility may be a queenly, cardinal or monkish virtue, while humiliation p...

Defines the interdisciplinary field of Rural Modernity through analysis of British literature, art and cultureRural Modernity in Britain argues tha...

A new scholarly edition of a major late-Victorian scientific romance novelMarie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most cu...

Explores Robert Louis Stevenson's collaborative processContains new readings of thirteen works by Robert Louis Stevenson, including several rarely ...

This is an in-depth, original survey of religion in the modern Arabic novel. Tracing the relationship from the genesis of the form in the early 20t...

Exploring revolutionary politics in the work of one of America's most important avant-garde writersKey FeaturesSituates Acker in broader social, po...

First scholarly edition of a bestselling historical novelExplores thesocio-political themes of the novel and deemed as relevant today as they were ...

Explores the politics of nineteenth-century British realismOffers a new theory of institutions grounded in temporalityOutlines a transnational theo...

Constructs a history of community, family and temporality in American culture through one of the nation's most popular, yet unrecognized genresThe ...

Explores the crucial role played by the city in the construction of modernismThis innovative book examines the development of modernist writing in ...

Examines British women's experimental writing in historical contexts, 19451970The first detailed literary history of women's experimental writing i...

Brings ideas and animals together to shed new light on modernist magazine cultureTests the concept of 'primordial' modernism as a tributary of prim...

A revisionist reading of Fitzgerald's short stories through the lens of popular culture from the 1910s to the 1930sF. Scott Fitzgerald is remembere...

Reflections on the Bicentenary of the 1819 Massacre of Reformers in ManchesterTwo hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, kno...

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 ...