Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Instead of making readers into better people, what if fiction could help us to become better animals? On Fiction and Being a Good Animal argues tha...

Saul Bellow emphasized to a remarkable degree that the protagonists in his later novels were intellectuals trained in the humanistic traditions of ...

This is the first book to focus primarily on George Orwell’s ideas about free speech and related matters – freedom of the press, the writer’s freed...

A systematic transnational investigation of post-war literary experiments in Europe and the Americas Clarifies concepts, provides a well-defined m...

In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorizatio...

Alongside the other volumes in this new Collected Works, The Ever Green will transform academic and popular understanding of this pivotal but, unti...

Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction challenges literary studies to attend to surfaces rather than interpretation through a history of how we came t...

Body of Writing focuses on the traces that an author’s “body” leaves on a work of fiction. Drawing on the work of six important Spanish American wr...

A provisional re-mapping of Scotland's post-devolution literary culture, these fifteen essays explore how literature, theatre and visual art have b...

What is a reference to an Italian Egyptologist doing in Louisa May Alcott's portrait of domesticity Little Women? Why does Elizabeth Stuart Phelps'...

This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works. Afrofuturism was coine...

This volume of commemorative and celebratory essays, first published in 1974, concentrates on William Empson – the critic, the poet and friend. The...

Blood Narrative is a comparative literary and cultural study of post-World War II literary and activist texts by New Zealand Maori and American Ind...

In Obscene Things Naifei Ding intervenes in conventional readings of Jin Ping Mei, an early scandalous Chinese novel of sexuality and sexual cultur...

In Obscene Things Naifei Ding intervenes in conventional readings of Jin Ping Mei, an early scandalous Chinese novel of sexuality and sexual cultur...

This title was first published in 2003. This text explores the "dark, pessimistic truth that pervades the pages of modern texts", setting a theme o...

Body of Writing focuses on the traces that an author’s “body” leaves on a work of fiction. Drawing on the work of six important Spanish American wr...

By focusing on the story of Hector, James M. Redfield presents an imaginative perspective not only on the Iliad but also on the whole of Homeric cu...

The "idle fictions" of the vanguard novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain and Spanish America represented a kind of interlude of playfulness--a vac...

Simone de Beauvoir continues to dominate twentieth century feminist theory, yet her work is the focus of inflamed debate amongst theorists of femin...

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s ...

A new definitive edition of Stevenson's famous exploration of evil and greed. One of literature's most famous island stories, Treasure Island has i...

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s ...

The third of the Waverley Novels is dominated by two old men, Jonathan Oldbuck (the Antiquary of the title) and the beggar Edie Ochiltree. Togethe...

This book is a collection of excellent essays about heroic, intelligent, perceptive, and resourceful private citizens with exceptional investigativ...

Arguing that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship, Virtual Americas advocates a c...

The first critical study of Anna Kavan's experimental fiction Makes extensive use of unpublished archival sources Reads Kavan comparatively again...

Scott Bukatman's Terminal Identity—referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional "subject" and the birth of a new subjectivity ...

An exploration of modernist women's distinctive role in domestic and cinema arts in the context of current debates about gender and modernism. Phot...

This in-depth critical assessment of the work of French psychoanalyst and literary theorist, Julia Kristeva, brings together for the first time rea...

Substantially reworks accounts of gothic and globalisation, to examine located gothic engagements with global histories and phenomena Provides a c...

Rachel Bowlby's acclaimed book on Virginia Woolf now appears with five new essays which look at Woolf in a number of new frames - as a woman essayi...

This book for the first time brings together Gillian Beer's essays on Virginia Woolf. Widely recognised as a leading authority on Woolf and a sophi...

Set in south-west Scotland in the immediate aftermath of the 1707 Union, The Black Dwarf was intended to be a story about the first, abortive, Jaco...

The most haunting and Shakespearean of Scott's novels, The Bride of Lammermoor is a fast-paced tragedy set on the eve of the 1707 Union. The proud ...

In Telling Complexions Mary Ann O’Farrell explores the frequent use of "the blush" in Victorian novels as a sign of characters’ inner emotions and ...

Bringing together a diverse array of new and established scholars and creative writers in the rapidly expanding field of memory studies, this colle...