Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

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...

'Wild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars.' - Frances Wilson, The Telegraph'Exuberant and wide-ranging' - Lite...

Mari Sandozs The Battle of the Little Bighorn encouraged a change in how Americans viewed this infamous fight. By the mid-twentieth century a tower...

The Gothic Chapbook, Bluebook, and Shilling Shocker, 1797-1835 breaks new ground surveying the origins of the gothic chapbook, its publishers and a...

Outlines the key feminist debates on British women's fiction since the 'second wave' and grounds them in examples of women's writingThis book intro...

In The Lost Thread, Rancière debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologie...

At the end of the Qing dynasty, works of fiction by male authors placed women in new roles. Fictions Family delves into the writings of one literar...

These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatts fiction introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (192...