Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Many writers, from Aristophanes to Joseph Heller, have written about politics. But at certain periods in history, often at times of conflict and tu...

New creative forms of life writing have emerged over the past four decades. Following in the footsteps of the New Biographers, who more than half...

The papers collected in this volume deal with the explorations of Science Fiction, Fantasy and, more generally, the representation of otherness thr...

Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa observes and examines several issues that are central to the South Afr...

The most popular mystery writer of all time concocted a rich recipe of intrigue, character, and setting. All of Agatha Christie's 66 detective ...

In this collection of literary portraits, Jules Chametzky shares his recollections of more than forty notable Jewish writers, from Alfred Kazin to ...

Charles Dickens travelled to North America twice, in 1842 and twenty-five years later in 1867--68, and on both trips Massachusetts was part of his ...

Charles Dickens travelled to North America twice, in 1842 and twenty-five years later in 1867--68, and on both trips Massachusetts was part of his ...

This is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literatur...

This book is the first collected volume to be entirely dedicated to the work of contemporary Anglo-American writer Patrick McGrath. It follows the ...

Most people dont realize Charles Dickens has a biblical foundation. Each of the spirits that appear in A Christmas Carol directly correlates with a...

This book provides comprehensive insights into the concept of gender in an international context. By focusing on diverse and varied critical approa...

Although Beckett scholarship has in recent decades experienced a renaissance as a result of various poststructuralist approaches that tend to empha...