Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved icons of British literature, but many of his novels stem from his connections with Europe. Does it make se...

This book looks into Bantis stance on Italian feminism, with a specific focus on her interpretation of the concept of equality as well as of sexual...

Makes scoring higher so easy, it's scary! Millions of readers have enjoyed Mary Shelley's original 1818 edition of Frankenstein for its dark and gr...

Makes scoring higher so easy, it's scary!Millions of readers have enjoyed Robert Louis Stevensons horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for its d...

The use of school life as a closed narrative environment is well documented, and modern examples such as Malory Towers and Harry Potter show the ge...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring J.R.R. Tolkien was the author of two of the most extraordinary, most original, and most popu...

This book establishes deconstructive dialogues between texts which are generically, chronologically and stylistically very different. Each chapter ...

This book takes a post-racial approach to the representation of race in contemporary British fiction, re-imagining studies of race and British lite...

Au siècle des Lumières, le roman de nature édifiante emprunte de nouvelles avenues, embrassant la forme didactique et le parti antiphilosophique. A...

This book is a series of original, critical meditations on short stories and novels from Central America between 1995 and 2016. During the Cold War...

This book is about the political wisdom embodied in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain, the self-declared best book by arguably Am...

You changed my life this is the gist of the fan mail Patricia Nell Warren received following the publication of her New York Times bestseller The ...

In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published i...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Fyodor Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his treatment of the big questions of et...

Reviews Anne Rowe, a scrupulous Murdoch scholar of many years standing, has written a slim but comprehensive overview of the writers career, attend...

Lutopie galante, bien quelle suppose létablissement de rapports apaisés entre les sexes, est une utopie fragile. Dans ce livre Dominique Hölzle pro...

In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a setting for Gothic terror. This book explores the ext...

In the 1790s, when Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams were at the peak of their critical reputations, they were known to each other and often...

The book examines each of Barnes' novels under his own name, indicating how his treatment of common themes in inventive structures helps to invigor...

This study examines the whole of Frames output starting with the fiction (novels, short-stories and poems) before focusing on the two autobiographi...

The works of James Joyce have long been regarded as central to European modernism. It is also clear what a continuing provocation and source of ren...

In 2017 the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Kazuo Ishiguro, 'who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the ab...

This book begins with the question: How are literary fragments defined as such? As a critical term, fragment is more of a starting-point than a def...

Martin Amis is one of the most important and distinctive writers of the last thirty years and his work continues to provoke controversy and debate....

Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was an extraordinary if sometimes neglected poet. His late-flowering masterpiece Briggflatts (1965) jettisoned him into t...

Beryl Bainbridge is one of Britains major post-war novelists. This study analyses Bainbridges work in relation to some of the pressing debates in p...

European culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed a radical redefinition of humanity and its place in the environment, togethe...

The second volume in Simone de Beauvoirs celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figureF...

This is the first book-length study of Forsters posthumously-published novel. Nine essays focus exclusively on Maurice and its dynamic afterlives i...

Roman et théâtre ont toujours échangé leurs personnages, leurs intrigues, et même leurs univers respectifs. Au XVIIIe siècle leurs relations prenne...

Although Henry Green has been recognised by James Wood, David Lodge and John Updike as one of the most innovative writers of his time, his signific...

THIS WAS DRAWYN BY A KNYGHT PRESONER, SIR THOMAS MALLEORE, THAT GOD SENDE HYM GOOD RECOVER. In 1934, these were the lines which made the Librarian ...

Reviews Anne Rowe, a scrupulous Murdoch scholar of many years standing, has written a slim but comprehensive overview of the writers career, attend...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.This volume contributes ...

Brunetto Latini's La rettorica is the first Italian translation of Cicero's early and widely influential De inventione, and this volume is a transl...

W. G. Sebald was a literary phenomenon: a German literary scholar working in England, who took up creative writing out of dissatisfaction with Germ...

Graham Swift is among the foremost contemporary British writers, having published seven highly acclaimed novels which are widely read by students a...