Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Variously described as the average pilgrim, a wanderer, and a Buddha preaching in European clothes, Charlie Marlow is the voice behind Joseph Conra...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE GLOBAL READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2018Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the 1917 revolution and ...

ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 2020 FICTION HIGHLIGHTS: Petina Gappah's epic journey through nineteenth-century Africa is'engrossing, beautiful and deeply i...

Roberto Schwarz is the foremost literary critic of his generation in Brazil and the most important Marxist practitioner in the tradition of the Fra...

Invention does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos Mary Shelley In the 200 years since its first publication, the story of ...

Considers the ways ghost stories appeal to our uneasy relationship with conventional good senseWhat do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age ...

Marie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers ins...

Provides a unique snapshot of themes and trends within popular fiction in the twenty-first centuryThis groundbreaking collection captures the state...

Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction provides an accessible, concise and reliable overview of core critical terminology, key theoretical ap...

A wide-ranging study of shifting temporalities and their literary consequences in twentieth-century fictionFrom the Prime Meridian Conference of 18...

Argues that Gertrude Stein's gender can best be described as 'transmasculine'This thoughtful and sophisticated book views Gertrude Stein's life and...

Examines European Union's neocolonial sovereignty in cultural narratives of migrationUncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the Ne...

This book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish contex...

Maxwell Gray tells the sensational story of an ambitious clergyman, who accidentally kills the father of a woman he has made pregnant, and then all...

Investigates the latent and manifest traces of the East in Pre-Raphaelite literature and cultureThe Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism: Language and C...

This book reads the highly descriptive impressionist writings of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared attention to sight and sound. W...

Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical change in her own lifetime and beyondThe death of Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing ...

Restructures and revitalises late Romantic literature as a movement fascinated with competing claims about the reality and knowability of character...

This book presents an analysis of English, French and German language fiction about the so-called Arab Spring. Through a transnational comparison o...

This book shows how Mary Shelley created a monster. Commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of Frankenstein, it traces the origins and impact o...

Jane Austen is the worlds bestselling novelist 200 years after her death. We seem to have a never-ending appetite for the swooning of Sense & ...

A collection of original essays establishing how wide the intellectual boundaries of narrative theory have becomeThe Edinburgh Companion to Contemp...

Conspiracy theory in the Arab World has come to be associated with the rhetoric of Islamist extremists and authoritarian regimes. Yet its principle...