Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Does it ring a bell? The first-person narrator, a cultivated man of middle age, looks back on the story of an amour fou. It all starts when, travel...

'I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I've read in years. It's likely the best memoir published in years.' Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life an...

Reveals Virginia Woolf's interest in Christianity, its ideas and cultural artefactsThis wide-ranging study demonstrates that Woolf, despite her agn...

The story of Richard Aldington, outstanding Imagist poet and author of the bestselling war novel Death of a Hero (1929), takes place against the ba...

This wide-ranging book surveys the landscape of the Irish novel from the Act of Union to the end of the Edwardian era. From Maria Edgeworth's satir...

Over the last twenty years, critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted the role of his homosexuality for his creative work. This not only i...

From a superstar academic and cultural critic, an exploration of Alice Walkers critically acclaimed and controversial novel The Color PurpleIn 1982...