Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Focusing on Alice Munro’s last three collections, this book examines the differences between these volumes and the rest of her work to analyse the ...

First published in 1979, Virginia Woolf is an original critical study of where the author considers Virginia Woolf’s non-fiction as well as fiction...

As a book on allusion, this has interest for both the traditional literary or cultural historian and for the modern student of textuality and reade...

A crime novel, at once disturbing and perversely comforting, factually has been known to curtail social anxieties through the ‘open and shut case’ ...

Even though we instruct our children not to lie, the truth is that lying is a fundamental part of children’s development—socially, cognitively, emo...

The best-known novel of Sophie von La Roche, a German 18th-century woman writer. The plot reflects typical 18th-century concerns: the value of sent...

Drinking with Dickens is a light-hearted sketch by Cedric Dickens, the great-grandson of Charles Dickens. There are vivid and memorable drinking sc...

This volume considers Samuel Beckett’s fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work of Irish authors Eimear McBride, Ke...

"New Blazing World" (1666), is one of the earliest pieces of science fiction, telling the story of a voyage to a Utopian World. The Duchess of Newc...

This book studies the ways Hardy writes about music, and argues that this focus allows for a close and varied investigation of the affective dimens...

How do different ethnic groups approach the short story form? Do different groups develop culture-related themes? Do oral traditions within a parti...

Louis Ferdinand Céline (the pseudonym of Louis Destouches) was a famous novelist and ferocious anti-Semitic pamphleteer who rose to fame before Hit...

Matilde Serao (1857-1927) was a successful and prolific journalist and novelist. This book tells the story of the arrival in Rome of a provincial d...

Gabriele D'Annunzio was one of the most flamboyant figures in the political history of modern Europe. A poet in the Byronic style and a popular her...

This title includes essays by Elisabeth Bronfen, Crosbie Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova, Louis James, Michael Fried, Michael Grant, Jasia Reichardt, Rob...

Author of six novels, five volumes of biographical lives, two travel books, and numerous short stories, essays, and reviews, Mary Shelley is largel...

Whether revered for his masculinity, condemned as an icon of machismo, or perceived as possessing complex androgynous characteristics, Ernest Hemin...

Point de lendemain (No Tomorrow) is the English translation of a French 18th century masterpiece, Point de Lendemain by Dominique Vivant Denon. Wri...

Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fic...

In Evelyn Waugh and the Modernist Tradition, George McCartney argues that unlike traditional satirists, Evelyn Waugh was not primarily concerned wi...