Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

This fascinating volume reveals the real men and women behind some of the most infamous London villains ever to appear in fiction. Fagin, Profess...

A smart, practical, and often funny guide for those who aspire to write mysteries, Sleuth reveals the secrets behind the curtain from a bestselling...

Explores how novelists of the mid-century US South invented small towns to aesthetically undermine racial segregation Investigates the role of wri...

Reconsiders the relationship between the Great War and modernism through women''s literary representations of death Provides the first sustained...

Explores the impact of the Russian Revolution and League of Nations on British modernist culture 1917 was the moment in which a new sense of intern...

This book studies recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, encouraging us to be critically reflective, ...

Explores hieroglyphs as a metaphor for the relationship between new media and writing in British modernismIn the British Museum, one object attract...

TracesVictorian self-harm through an engagement with literary fictionSelf-Harm in New Woman Writing offers a trans-disciplinary study of Victorian ...

Post-Soviet Russia was a period of linguistic liberalisation, instability and change with varied attempts to regulate and legislate language usage,...

Published in 1803, Thaddeus of Warsaw is a beguiling romance that also exposes the hardships faced by migrants in Britain two hundred years ago. Ja...

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction? The means of publishing, buying and...

The first in-depth analysis of Lydia Davis's translations and writing'The Many Voices of Lydia Davis' shows how translation, rewriting and intertex...

The Selected Works of Andrew Lang: Volume 1 Anthropology: Fairy Tale, Folklore, the Origins of Religion, Psychical Research Edited by Andrew Tever...

New essays and creative explorations of the friendship, milieu and writings of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf'I love to think of you, Virgi...

George Orwell left post-war London for Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura, to write what became Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was driven b...

Examines the cultural importance of the coastline in the nineteenth-century British imaginationThe long nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic, va...

In contemporary culture, the stereotypical trappings of redneckism have been appropriated for everything from movies like Smokey and the Bandit to ...

This book explores the way Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her conception of the modern novel. The focus of this study is on Virgini...

This series, dedicated to the study of modern Arabic literature, is unique and unprecedented. it publishes contemporary, scholarly accounts of deve...

This title explores Thomas Hardy's engagement with Victorian legal debates in his prose fiction. Thomas Hardy's fiction is examined in this book in...

This title argues that 'travellers' tales of wonder' are a vital yet unacknowledged presence in contemporary literature. Exploring travellers' tale...

One of the major figures in science fiction for more than sixty years, James Gunn has been instrumental in making the genre one of the most vibr...

In his own lifetime and for nearly a hundred years James Hogg was was seen as the natural, if lesser, inheritor of the mantle of Robert Burns. Hogg...

This title features newly commissioned, innovative essays on Samuel Beckett and the arts in the broadest sense. This Companion captures the continu...

The Artist and the Trinity' aims to create a Christian theology of work based on Dorothy L. Sayers' analogy of the Trinity to the process of artist...

The Labour of Laziness in Twentieth-Century American Literature focuses on the issue of productivity, using the figure of laziness to negotiate the...