Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning t...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of this good book must be in want of a drink.Winner of the Gourmand Award in the...

A collection of reminiscences that illuminate the career and private life of the iconic author of Slaughterhouse-Five   Kurt Vonnegut (19222007), w...

Robert A. Heinlein began publishing in the 1940s at the dawn of the Golden Age of science fiction, and today he is considered one of the genre's 'b...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. Haitian writers have ma...

Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africas foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his ...

In Haints, Arthur Redding examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the Gothic tradition in their fiction, not as frivolous or...

Dismembering the American Dream offers a detailed study of the novels and stories of Richard Yates, fiction which examined mid-twentieth-century mi...

Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories posits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary ...

'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline C...

Game theory--the study of how people make choices while interacting with others--is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science ...

There were no reviews of Mansfield Park when it first appeared in 1814. Austen's reputation grew in the Victorian period, but it was only in the tw...

How is science fiction from the Arab and Muslim world different than mainstream science fiction from the West? What distinctive and original con...

From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christies...

Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. From Jane Eyre and Helen Burns poignant schoolgirl relati...

Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents the critically acclaimed biography with never-b...

A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Highly engaging Go now...

Written for readers at all levels, this book situates Jane Austen in her time, and for all times. It provides a biography; locates her work in the ...

London 1968:The Unstable Boys are the name on every music insider's lips and tipped to follow in the footsteps of the Beatles and the Rolling Stone...