Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

The great Victorian Christian author George MacDonald is the well-spring of the modern fantasy genre. In this book Colin Manlove offers exploration...

Many believe that Robert A. Heinlein was the most important American science fiction writer of the 20th century. This is the first detailed critica...

The concern with identity and belonging, with place/dis-placement is a major feature of postcolonial literature and the theme of alienation cannot ...

Australian genre fiction writers have successfully exploited the Australian landscape and peoples and as a result their books are today sold by the...

Who was Mary De Morgan and why should she be dragged out of the shadows cast by her illustrious parents, her male siblings and the members of the A...

Lacework or Mirror? Diary Poetics of Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley sets out to determine whether each of the diaries by three...

Unlike other horror fiction and fantasy writers, Clive Barker is true to the literary heritage of the genre. Though aware of the importance of ente...

The form of art called fiction has always been the privileged framework providing the perfect alibi for facing, framing, and containing the Others ...

From the elegance of the grand salons of Prideaux Place, Padstows most stately of homes, to the wild and remote Cornish coastline, Rosamunde Pilche...

First book-length ecocritical study of Cold War American literatureCompelling analyses of the function and representation of Nature in a wide range...

This groundbreaking book rescues Arthur Conan Doyle from the sub-literary category of popular fiction and from the myth of Sherlock Holmes. Instead...

Where are the snows of yesteryear. And the speedballs I useta know? Well, I guess its time for my Ovaltine and a long good night. In 1996...

Arthur Upfield created Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) who features in twenty-nine novels written from the 1920s to the the 1960s, mo...

Reading the novels of George Eliot, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Barry Unsworth, and others, as a Methodist, David Dickinson offers a colourful picture of...

The historical novel is a genre which has enjoyed widespread popularity in Germany from its beginnings in the eighteenth century. At that time, inc...

Inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Riot and the eyewitness accounts of Charles W. Chesnutts own family, Chesnutts The Marrow of Tradition captures the...

Originally intended to be a somewhat bland character who found himself in exciting situations, James Bond instead became the incomparable 007--the ...

This wide-ranging collection is the first to set Robert Louis Stevenson in detailed social, political and literary contexts. The book takes account...

Since the Chinese translation of The Da Vinci Code was released in China in 2004, the Dan Brown Craze has swept across the country. All of Browns n...

This study re-locates the work of Henry James by revealing parallels between the aestheticism of John Ruskin and that of James. It explores a mix o...