Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

This first book-length study of fictional suicides in East German literature provides insight into the complex and dynamic rhetoric of the GDR and ...

A comprehensive inquiry into the literary representation of the convulsive social and political changes introduced by the Bolivarian Revolution. L...

Takes the recent wave of German autobiographical writing on illness and disability seriously as literature, demonstrating the value of a literary d...

A new edition of Malory's Morte Darthur based on the Winchester and other source manuscripts. CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Malory completed...

Set in the months before the outbreak of the Great War and in print for almost 100 years The Thirty-Nine Steps is John Buchan's most popular novel....

A new and wide-ranging view of the confluence, since the 1990s, of the fields of contemporary literature and popular music in Germany. In German...

Lost novel of a typical German family in the waning days of the Weimar Republic. 1932, the eve of the Nazi seizure of power: Germany beset with st...

Examines the major divisions in criticism of this major African American writer, paying particular attention to the way each critical period define...

Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is a cultural phenomenon. First published in 1865, it has never been out of print and has been translated into ...

Given the variety and richness of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English 'songscape', it might seem unsurprising to suggest that early mode...

This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants offered a compelling way to und...

This book argues that sovereignty is the first-order question of political order, and that seventeenth-century England provides an important case s...

What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when?In this remarkable book, Rob...

Deirdre David traces the successful writing life of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) from the time of her childhood growing up in a theatrical h...

The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years,...

History and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to histo...

'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age' Lynn Barber'A golden writer' Andrew MarrA. A. Gill was rightly hailed as one of the greatest jo...

Rome's annual elections were central to the relationship between its citizenry and political leadership, and canvassing for office played no small ...

Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the...

Ruin and Reformation in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Marvell explores writerly responses to the religious violence of the long reformation in England ...

Panic Fiction explores a unique body of antebellum American womens writing that illuminates womens relationships to the marketplace and the links b...

The Age of Silver advances a horizontal method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early real...

What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th ce...

C. S. Lewis considered his novel Perelandra (1943) among his favorite works. A triumph of imaginative science fiction writing, Perelandra part of L...