Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

This volume is a comprehensive and transatlantic literary study of womens nineteenth-and-twentieth-century fiction. Firstly, it introduces and expl...

Employing a wide range of interpretive and theoretical approaches, this collection brings together distinguished James scholars from four continent...

This book is the first work comparing Margaret Drabble with key Iraqi novelists. It analyses physical and soft violence in Drabbles novels and the ...

Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron Mask, is the most famous French writer of the n...

Analysing David Peace provides an exciting, challenging and accessible critical introduction to the work of contemporary British novelist David Pea...

Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity aims to advance the field of studies on the life and work of Henry James by fully exploring the authors us...

The Invention of Illusions: International Perspectives on Paul Auster is a collection of essays on Austers recent novels and films. Following the e...

This book presents a new interpretation of Joseph Conrads novel Lord Jim based on readings from not only its published text but also its principal ...

This book sheds light on the modernist short story cycle and its pivotal role in representing and depicting place. With an ever-changing attitude t...

Kathryn Stocketts 2009 best-selling novel The Help and its subsequent 2011 film center on the experiences of African-American domestic workers livi...

A farmers daughter, a convent girl, a lover of the Irish countryside, a poet, novelist and short story writer, a journalist, a friend of the Englis...

This volume presents interpretive essays utilizing a variety of approaches to honor the 160th anniversary of Oscar Wildes birth, celebrating the wr...

Mapping out the Rushdie Republic differs from existing studies on the work of Salman Rushdie by dint of its seriousness of intent and profundity of...

This book analyzes the work of iconic Chilean author Alberto Blest Gana (18301920) through the lens of Machiavelli and Cervantes. Transatlantic in ...

Charles Dickens novels are read and loved throughout the world, written at a time of struggle with the French emperor Napoleon and in an England at...

An examination of the ways major novels by Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf draw attention to their embodiment in the object of the b...

An exciting new contribution to the expanding but still largely uncharted territory of collaboration studies, Late Victorian Literary Collaboration...

The early decades of the twentieth century were a period of major economic and cultural upheaval across Europe and America. Scholars have typically...

Following the Second World War, yoga has asserted its presence in America and impacted the American culture, arts, and literature. This book offers...

The contributions in this book draw attention to the close, though sometimes ambiguous, relationship between biography, aesthetics, ideology, socia...

Factual Fictions: Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel focuses on contemporary American documentary narratives, specific...

The crime genre entered Italy in the late nineteenth century, and if initially Italian authors followed models developed abroadprincipally in the U...

Nabokovs distinguished and unique position in American literature has always been indisputable, but paradoxical. There has always been an element o...

Recent scholarship on Tolkien has been especially attentive not only to the importance of religion in his personal life, but also to the wider theo...

Dr Cecilia Acquarones perceptive analysis of liminality in British postcolonial fiction from a gender perspective constitutes an innovative, though...

This bilingual work identifies and explains the subversive rewriting of ancient, medieval and modern myths in contemporary novels.The book opens wi...

Hailed as the American Chekhov by the Times Literary Supplement, Raymond Carver is the most popular and influential American short-story writer sin...

This engaging and often controversial study of Becketts works argues that, for Beckett, pure language is reality. Taking its title from a sentence ...

Henry James Today is a collection of seven essays focused on the relevance of Henry Jamess work for an understanding of current problems. This volu...

Author of the masterpieces Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, the nom de plume of Eric Arthur Blair, experienced, explored and ex...

This book explores English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) use in online interaction within virtual communities constituted by fans of popular culture tex...

This book proposes an extension of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991, 2008) towards a cognitive discourse grammar, through the unique environ...

Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction draws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity ...

The words pride and prejudice became the title of Jane Austen's most famous novel, but the history of the phrase before Austen is less famous. I...

In this study of the influence of Indian metaphysics on Lawrence Durrells novels, Professor Nambiar offers a unique milestone in the history of Dur...

This volume provides a detailed description of the literary contact between Graham Greene and Francos Spain. Part I describes the most significant ...

This book explores English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) use in online interaction within virtual communities constituted by fans of popular culture tex...

This book investigates Anna Bantis contribution to the creation of a female literary canon, as well as the renewal of Italian literature, from styl...

Combining narratological and stylistic methods, this book theorizes dual narrative dynamics consisting of plot development and covert progression a...