Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Richard Yates (1926-1992) has been described as a writer's writer but has never received the critical attention befitting that designation. Firm...

Lauded by critics yet largely unappreciated by fans of horror and weird fiction, T.E.D. Klein is considered one of the great horror writers, des...

Science fiction has often been considered the literature of futuristic technology: fantastic warfare among the stars or ruinous apocalypses on E...

First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print. Yet most people are familiar with the title character from the movie...

The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century, identifying a central new genre: the condition of ...

This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic bo...

The subjects of this book constitute a significant cross section of BBC science fiction television. With such characters as the Doctor (an enigm...

Novel horizons analyses how narrative prose fiction developed during the English Restoration. It argues that after 1660, generic changes within dra...

Movies and books have romanticized the life of the cowboy. To most, the heroes of countless Westerns fall into one of three categories: the stro...

Chuck Palahniuk, America's premier transgressive novelist, enjoys a tremendous readership. Yet he has not necessarily been embraced by critics o...

The all-new essays in this book respond to the question, How do spaces in science fiction, both built and unbuilt, help shape the relationships amo...

Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre's explicit nature. For him,...

Starting with William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, this book covers in detail the great works of detective...

At the 2013 Celebrating The Hobbit conference at Valparaiso University - marking the 75th anniversary of the book's publication and the first inst...

Harry Potter has given the study of popular culture a unique platform for exploring the nature of human identity. Potter Studies is developing i...

Through the perspectives of selected novels from the end of World War II to the end of the 20th century--including The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill ...

The numerous anti-bullying programs in schools across the United States have done little to reduce the number of reported bullying instances. On...

This collection of fresh essays on Suzanne Collins's epic trilogy spans multiple disciplines. The contributors probe the trilogy's meaning using...

The form of art called fiction has always been the privileged framework providing the perfect alibi for facing, framing, and containing the Other''...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of So...

Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of So...

Loss is the core experience which determines the identity of Kazuo Ishiguro''s narrators and shapes their subsequent lives. Whether a traumatic ord...

The current state of scholarship surrounding Harry Potter is both vibrant and varied. One of the reasons scholars continue to be attracted to the s...

Brian Medlin met the novelist Iris Murdoch at Oxford in 1961 when he joined New College as a Research Fellow, and they remained friends for the rem...

The Gothic has always been fascinated with objects carrying with them a sense of horror - the decomposing body, the rigid corpse, the bleeding stat...

H. G. Wells played a central role in defining the intellectual, political, and literary character of the twentieth century. A prolific literary inn...

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Edward Wasiolek, after much valuable work on Dostoevsky, has now written one of the best books on Tolstoy in recent decades. This may be in part be...

Natsume Sseki (18671916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes ...