Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pre...

ABBA ABBA is one of Anthony Burgesss most original works, combining fiction, poetry and translation. A product of his time in Italy in the early 19...

This novel is a designedly political document. Written at the time of the Hastings impeachment and set in the period of Hastingss Orientalist gover...

Puma disentangled from the three-part structure of The End of the World News and published here for the first time in its intended format is Anth...

Challenging readers to rethink what they read and why, the author questions the aesthetic assumptions that have led to the devaluing of fanficti...

A New York Times Bestseller There aren't many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. ...

Italo Calvino, whose works reflect the major literary and cultural trends of the second half of the twentieth century, is known for his imagination...

Each bi-annual volume presents vital information on approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels.

John Fowles' writing life was dominated by trees. From the orchards of his childhood in suburban Essex,to the woodlands of wartime Devon, to his la...

Lynda La Plante is Britains most successful and well known screenwriter and the first woman to win the prestigious Dennis Potter writers award. Att...

It has become axiomatic that First World War literature was disenchanted, or disillusioned, and returning combatants were unable to process or comm...

This study examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007...

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...

On the snowy morning of February 8, 1897, the Petersburg secret police were following Tolstoy''s every move. At sixty-nine, Russia''s most celebrat...

Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy. It...

The grotesque in contemporary British fiction reveals the extent to which the grotesque endures as a dominant artistic mode in British fiction and ...

This wide-ranging and accessible book examines the effects of British imperial involvements on history writing in Britain since 1750. It provides a...

The short fiction that flourished in nineteenth-century France has attracted relatively little critical attention compared with the novel. This stu...

The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and af...

Fascinating and extraordinary, thrilling and poignant, My Judy Garland Life will speak to anyone who has ever nursed an obsession or held a candle ...

A lost and now found memoir of J.B. Priestleywritten by someone who knew him better than most others: his own personal secretary. Written in the 19...

Jonathan Swift was a man of contradictions: a man who satirized the powerful but aspired to political greatness, who mocked men's vanity but held h...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'Engaging, brilliant' Guardian'A talkative, tender meditation' Financial Times'Every novelist will want to ...

The first study to bring Hemingway, Vonnegut, O'Brien, and 9/11 literature together in order to examine views about war, gender, and domesticity ov...

Toysa celebrated part of childhood and key figures in childrens imaginative playhave a fantastic history of heroism in print and on film. From the ...

This is the first full-length study of the poet, novelist and translator Christopher Meredith, best-known for his novel Shifts (1988), the classic ...