Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

When Charles Dickens died in 1870 he was the best-known man in the English-speaking world-the pre-eminent Victorian celebrity, universally mourned ...

Although fantasy and supernatural literature have long and celebrated histories, many critics contend that the fantastic and the supernatural ha...

Voices and Books in the English Renaissance offers a new history of reading that focuses on the oral reader and the voice- or performance-aware sil...

This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and importance for the twenty-first c...

This book explores the concept of quiet an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles and argues for the terms application to the stu...

Margaret Harkness is the first book to bring together research on the life and work of a writer, activist and traveller at the forefront of literar...

Richard Marsh was one of the most popular and prolific authors of the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods. His bestselling The Beetle: A Mystery (...

Swedish crime fiction became an international phenomenon in the first decade of the twenty-first century, starting first with novels but then perco...

Realism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often ...

This book investigates the crucial question of restitution in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, wi...

This book takes the concept of postmemory, developed in Holocaust studies, and applies it for the first time to novels by contemporary British writ...

This is the first book-length history of the classic French childrens author, the comtesse de Ségur. Virtually unknown in the English-speaking worl...

G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories are widely considered to be some of the finest detective short stories ever published, offering vivid wri...

This novel is one of Anthony Burgesss most accessible and entertaining works. By turns bawdy, raucous, tender and bittersweet, and full of music an...

In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pre...

ABBA ABBA is one of Anthony Burgesss most original works, combining fiction, poetry and translation. A product of his time in Italy in the early 19...

This novel is a designedly political document. Written at the time of the Hastings impeachment and set in the period of Hastingss Orientalist gover...

Puma disentangled from the three-part structure of The End of the World News and published here for the first time in its intended format is Anth...

Challenging readers to rethink what they read and why, the author questions the aesthetic assumptions that have led to the devaluing of fanficti...

A New York Times Bestseller There aren't many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. ...

Italo Calvino, whose works reflect the major literary and cultural trends of the second half of the twentieth century, is known for his imagination...

Each bi-annual volume presents vital information on approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels.