Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

This exploration of gender and property ownership in eight important novels argues that property is a decisive undercurrent in narrative structures...

In 1798, a decade after the Founding Fathers created a nation based on the principles of liberty and equality, Charles Brockden Brown, then an unkn...

First published in 1998. This reference guide is designed for those who would be knowledge able readers of major short stories by D.H. Lawrence whe...

Before Gertrude Stein became the twentieth century's preeminent experimental writer, she spent a decade conducting research in both the leading psy...

Thinking Fascism analyzes three works by women writers—Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du rêve (1934), and Virginia ...

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the complete works of Wilkie Collins’s. Examining his vast array of novels and short stories...

Mental image, dream, fantasy, hallucination—all these are comprised in the psychoanalytic concept of the fantasm. Perhaps only such a multifarious ...

A Stanford University Press classic.

The Freedom to Remember examines contemporary literary revisions of slavery in the United States by black women writers. The narratives at the cent...

Within weeks of Thomas Hardy’s return to his native Dorchester in June 1883, he began to compile his ’Facts’ notebook, which he kept up throughout ...

During the first thirty years under communism, China completely banned crime fiction. After Mao, however, crime genres of all kinds—old and new, Ch...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman offers the definitive account of this controversial writer and activist's long and eventful life. Charlotte Anna Perkins S...

Upon its publication in 1871, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex sent shock waves through the scientific communit...

In 1992 the University of Pennsylvania Press published a new edition of Theodore Dreiser's second novel, Jennie Gerhardt. The original published te...

During the first half of the reign of Louis XIV, Charles Perrault enjoyed the status of a prominent public intellectual. A key player in the develo...

Since the middle of the twentieth century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scen...

The subject of this book is the relationship Henry James alludes to when he celebrates the novel's "large, free character of immense and exquisite ...

This book, first published in 1987, is an examination of Montaigne’s Essais and a guide to the reading of this fascinating, stimulating and imagina...

This significant critical anthology explores the life of Anna Komnene, the Byzantine context in which she wrote, and the impact of the Alexiad on...

Employing concepts from film theory, this much-needed study explores in-depth the "cinematic" quality of James Joyce's fiction from Dubliners to ...

A Stanford University Press classic.

"The Remnants of Nation" is a ground breaking book that introduces a new genre called 'poverty narratives' to study literature and popular culture ...

In this book, Robin Hackett examines portrayals of race, class, and sexuality in modernist texts by white women to argue for the existence of a lit...