Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

In her admired works of fiction, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal ...

Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts?Henry El...

Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write and certainly not to bite these women put pen to paper an...

'To die will be an awfully big adventure.' Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barr...

States of Plague examines Albert Camuss novel as a palimpsest of  pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a ...

Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's greatest novels.From medieval romances and tales of chivalry found in the realist nov...

This is the first facsimile publication of 'Martha Lloyds Household Book', the manuscript cookbook of Jane Austens closest friend. Marthas notebook...

'Novel Houses' visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. Each chapter stars a famous novel in which...

David Mikics has been hailed by Harold Bloom as one of our finest literary critics. In this fresh and revealing book, he examines Saul Bellows work...

Assesses the relevance of the works of Fontane, perhaps the foremost German novelist between Goethe and Mann, for the twenty-first century. Theo...

Against the Stream is the latest volume of Frederic Raphaels acclaimed memoirs Personal Terms, an unrivalled parade of the authors eventful and pro...

The life, work and history of Aphra Behn: seventeenth century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual writer, and spy. Praise f...

''What we ought to do, as writers, is seize freedom now, immediately, by recognizing that we already have it.''Cynthia Ozick, one of ''the greatest...

Anne Bronte: for so long underestimated, from her own day to modern times. But why exactly has this remarkably talented and pioneering author been ...

Virginia Woolfs many novels, notably Night and Day (1919), Jacobs Room (1922), Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931), ...

Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation.She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize fiv...

A comprehensive look at the academic criticism of Jane Austen from her time down to the present. Among the most important English novelists, Jane ...

Born in London in 1890, Angela Thirkell was Sir Edward Burne-Joness granddaughter, J.M. Barries goddaughter and a cousin of Rudyard Kipling and Sta...

This collection of essays offers an intimate history of Austens art and life told through objects associated with her personally and with the era i...