Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

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...

Charting an ''aesthetic'', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin''s art criticism in la...

During colonial times the Egyptian novel invoked a sovereign nation-state and basked in its perceived unity. After independence the novel began to ...

A transnational approach to Risorgimento culture's contentious and exhilarating nation-building enterpriseKey FeaturesRe-imagines the parameters an...

Collects Stan Gontarski's finest essays on the work of Samuel Beckett over a forty-year periodRepresenting a profound engagement with the work of S...

This book gathers a suite of newly commissioned, original essays on the work of E. L. Doctorow. It reframes our understanding of his oeuvre by enga...

A reexamination of Austens unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novelsand that challenges distinctions between h...

Winner of the 2020-21 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize In March 1999, in an effort to stave off financial collapse, the Ecuadorian govern...

Este libro muestra que Gabriel Miró no ha sido olvidado, sino que ha influido en la literatura hispánica posterior, en particular la novela de post...

VERY few authors can ever dream of coming close to the legacy left by AA Milne. He remains a household name in almost every corner of the globe tha...

This miscellany explores the fascinating and enigmatic world of J.R.R. Tolkien, examining his place in literary history, his books and his iconic c...

Imagine being one of the most well-loved children's authors of all time, yet your readers don't know if you're a man or a woman. Or even your real ...

This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twe...

Monika Kaup pairs post-apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, Jos Saramago, Octavia Butler and Cormac McCarthy with new realist theories from Bruno...

When Dickens died on 9 June 1870, he was halfway through writing his last book, _The Mystery of Edwin Drood_. Since that time, hundreds of academic...

Examines tourists' aesthetic responses in the context of US nation formationAmerican Travel Literature analyses tourist writings about Italy from 1...

This book maps out the novel''s complex network of intertexts, sources and echoes, interprets its highly experimental writing and explains the work...