Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to glob...

An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe--highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one...

How children and childrens literature helped build Americas empire Americas empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentiet...

Bringing together an international group of literary scholars, intellectual historians, and cultural historians, this book discusses history in its...

Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the worl...

Band 2 des Kempowski-Jahrbuchs widmet sich dem Roman Schöne Aussicht (1981). Geschildert wird die deutsche Zwischenkriegszeit. Aus Sicht der Famil...

The plants and landscape at Rowan Oak are the little postage stamp of soil that William Faulkner owned, walked, and tended for over thirty years du...

The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and...

Since the publication of Another Roadside Attraction in 1971, Tom Robbins (b. 1932) has become known as the principal voice of American countercult...

Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and film. Th...

As a novelist who has spent years crafting and refining his intense and oft outrageous Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction persona, James Ellroy ha...

Conversations with Michael Crichton brings together decades of interviews and profiles with one of the world's most successful authors. Michael Cri...

The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and...

A collection of political talesfirst published in British workers magazinesselected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael RosenIn t...

The psychologist may appear in science fiction as the herald of utopia or dystopia; literary studies have used psychoanalytic theories to interpret...

In 2000, readers voted Willie Morris (1934-1999) Mississippi's favorite nonfiction author of the millennium. After conducting over fifty interviews...

Delving deep into the intricate narrative styles of William Faulkner's most celebrated works, this captivating study immerses readers in the renown...

Violence, in its myriad forms, is a central theme in contemporary Irish history and culture and has long been a preoccupation for writers of Irish ...