Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

When the first issue of The Liberal was published on 10 October 1822, the periodical was largely dismissed by the British press as a political proj...

That fiction is a lady, and a lady who has somehow got herself in to trouble, is a thought that must often have struck her admirers. Penned in 192...

First Published in 1985, the aim of this book is to define an aspect of Orwells literary identity which underlies and informs the sociopolitical co...

This book uses some of Doris Lessings fictional texts as a springboard for making new contributions to the study of ageing, and more specifically,...

Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insula...

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's foremost writers - an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his care...

Acts of Faith and Imagination wagers that fiction written by Catholic authors assists readers to reflect critically on the question: what is faith?...

After a long period of comparative neglect, starting almost immediately upon his death in 1900, John Ruskin began to attract, from the 1960s onward...

Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insula...

Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921), the most important female author of Spains nineteenth century, was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, crit...

Vyankatesh Madgulkar (19272001) was one of the pioneers of modernist short fiction (nav katha) as well as rural (grameen) fiction in Marathi in the...

If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Ant...

Fear of age and death often creeps coldly into my heart; and the more I live, the more I dread death, even while I abhor life. Such an enigma is ma...

John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture critically reassesses the significance of American novelist, editor, critic, and a...

This book asks why so many authors drew on Cornwall for inspiration across the long nineteenth century, and considers the seismic cultural changes ...

A special student edition of Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, with an introduction and study notesWinston Smith lives in a world that controls every...

How Victorian authors engaged the imaginations of their readers and elevated the novel to new heightsAs novel publication exploded in nineteenth-ce...