Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSalvific Manhood foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James ...

In recent decades, critical and theoretical debate in the field of culture and literature has called into question many literary categories, has re...

This book reconstructs the poetics of Carmen Martín Gaite by viewing the concept of journey as a fundamental principle upon which she bases and ela...

Attention is fundamental to how we experience reality, and yet this notion has been understood and practised in very different ways across history....

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy. It covers the range and extent of ...

A storytellers craft can often be judged by how convincingly the narrative captures the identity and personality of its characters. In this book, t...

Until the Chace Act in 1891, no international copyright law existed between Britain and the United States, which meant publishers were free to edit...

Charlotte Yonge, a dedicated religious, didactic, and domestic novelist, has become one of the most effectively rediscovered Victorian women writer...

This book contextualizes the terror histories of a wide range of representative post-9/11 terror literatures in English from the USA, India, Pakist...

James Joyce is one of the most well-known modernist writers of the twentieth century, whose novels are special in that they use a form that he popu...

'An intimate and insightful portrait of the peerless observer of rural life' RICHARD MABEY'Moving, candid, vivid, it is all that we could hope for ...

Why do we believe what we believe in? Where are the values that we take for granted in constructing our identity coming from? Do we know how we cam...

Günter Grass is one of the writers who grew up in a Germany already in the grip of Nazism. None of them has found better ways than his of translati...

A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestse...

In my case, reading has always served a dual purpose. In a positive sense, it offers sustenance, enlightenment, the bliss of fascination. In a nega...

By placing these books in a broader cultural frame however, Anna Watz exposes how female submission has been disseminated as a consumer product. N...

Graham Greene is an immensely popular as well as powerful and idiosyncratic writer. His leading characters are murderers, spies, fugitives and outs...

Explores the process of becoming woman through an analysis of the depiction of girls and young women in contemporary Anglo-American and German lite...

In R.C. Hutchinson, Barry Webb reclaims the legacy of a highly-acclaimed, yet often forgotten writer. Despite having been awarded the Sunday Times ...

Though Ortons roots lay in traditions as diverse as those represented by such writers as Wycherley, Congreve, Wilde, Shaw, Carroll, Firbank, Feydea...

In the early 1920s, Soviet writers and literary theorists were convinced that adventure fiction held the key to developing a new kind of narrative....

This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assumed canonic...

The essays collected in this volume draw unprecedented critical attention to the centrality of politics in Flann O'Brien's art. The organising them...

Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman, completed in 1940, was initially rejected by his publishers for being 'too fantastic', and only appeared posth...

Olivia Manning was a superb writer - extravagantly funny and deeply serious at the same time - but her talent was not fully recognised in her lifet...

Reveals the alt-rights project to claim science fiction andby extensionthe future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films ...

The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoes writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. Features extende...

The intriguing history of Dickenss London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years  J...