Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature offers a nuanced and innovative take on the writer''s ostensible localism and, along wi...

Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national ide...

James Boswell's relish for life, unflinching honesty and wide social contacts make him one of the raciest and most entertaining of all diarists.Thi...

THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. THE ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014. For more than a decade, the book now conside...

THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. THE ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014. For more than a decade, the book now considered ...

Bel-vedére; or The Garden of the Muses is an early modern printed commonplace book containing an anthology of nearly 4,500 short verse quotations a...

The late 1960s and early 1970s saw the birth of modern feminism, the sexual revolution, and strong growth in the mass-market publishing industry...

Victor Hugo (1802-85) is an icon of French culture. He achieved immense success as a poet, dramatist, and novelist, and he was also elected to both...

Rekha Shetty's journey for the last 23 years have proved that innovation is a science. The art of the imagination can be implemented by the structu...

H. G. Wells is one of the most widely-read writers of the twentieth century, but until now the aesthetics of his work have not been investigated in...

One of literature's most witty personalities, Oscar Wilde captivated London society. In this perceptive appraisal of Wilde and those around him - i...

Since the turn of the previous century, science fiction and its native tropes have been used by authors, artists, filmmakers and critics in order t...

This is the brilliant memoir of a man who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before emerging as one of America's fin...

Dr Rza Öztürks new book, The Origin of Hardys Tragic Vision, is a lucid explanation of the most important aspect of novelist Thomas Hardys worldvie...