Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

A three-time National Book Award for Fiction winner, Saul Bellow (1915-2005) is one of the most highly regarded American authors to emerge since Wo...

In Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, Satoru Saito sheds light on the deep structural and conceptual similarities between detect...

This study pairs selected Irish and British women novelists of three periods, relating their voices to the women's movements in their respective...

Sara Paretsky's groundbreaking mystery series about Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski debuted in 1982 and is still going strong. As co-f...

In this third volume of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anon...

Emma, perhaps the most technically accomplished of all of Austens novels, is also, after Pride and Prejudice, her most popular one. Its numerous fi...

This book takes four stories by the Russian Romantic author Vladimir Odoevsky to illustrate pathways, developed further by subsequent writers, into...

Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates the vexed question of Angela Carters feminist politics through the dusty lens of European Got...

Kleanthes and Habrokome by Konstantinos Manos, a Phanariot Greek high officer in late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth-century Romania, is an important...

Following the 1912 publication of his wildly successful Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs authored four bestselling sequels in quick succ...

Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now...

The enormous popularity of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy has raised awareness of other contemporary European authors of crime fiction. As a...

Poet, columnist, artist, and fiction writer Gwendolyn Bennett is considered by many to have been one of the youngest leaders of the Harlem Renaissa...

Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in...

An evolutionary and transformative journey through the history of science fiction from the innermost passions and dreams of the human spirit to the...

'Backing into the Spotlight is a hilarious and an unashamedly non-PC memoir . . . Now in his eighth decade, Whitehall is a fine raconteur, gloriou...

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This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century. The diversity of this much-loved genre is brea...

Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the histo...

If it is true that great art comes from great suffering, then the art of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 81) must be truly great indeed. The second of se...

The political novel, which enjoyed a steep yet short rise to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s, is primarily concerned with the ...

Science fiction and the United States military often inhabit the same imaginative space. Weapons technology has taken inspiration from science f...

Appalachian literature is filled with silent or non-discursive characters. The reasons for their wordlessness vary. Some are mute or pretend to ...

Science fiction can be translated into real unreality. More than a genre like fantasy, which creates entirely new realms of possibility, science...

This is a literary discussion of one-half of Zane Grey's Westerns, selected to best show the broad scope of this popular author's interests in t...

''I blush to say what happened next.''A satirical portrait of a drunken, orgiastic Roman banquet, hosted by the grossly ostentatious Trimalchio.Int...

At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called brilliant. After gaining exclusive access to ...

At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called brilliant. After gaining exclusive access to ...

Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody studies Jewish American writers' relationships with the idea of wo...

I'm laying a charge! Which of the twins -Babini or Wele - should inherit the homestead when their father dies? This classic tale of a court case am...