Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

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 ...

SWOONWORTHY ROMANCE MEETS RIVETING SATIRE IN THIS TIMELESS CLASSICHe is all pride, and she prejudiced. When Mr Darcy arrives at the quiet town of H...