Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Dickens loved the stage--he enjoyed thousands of evenings in the theatre, and longed to write for it and to perform himself, an ambition that he ev...

Marek Hlasko's literary autobiography is a vivid, first-hand account of the life of a young writer in 1950s Poland and a fascinating portrait of th...

Big on style, slight on substance: that has been a common charge over the years by critics of John Updike. In fact, however, John Updike is one of ...

Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi OEzdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this ...

Few authors benefit from being set in their contemporary context more than Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson in Context is a guide to his world, offer...

In 1929, Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), a journalist and war correspondent who was on the books of MI6, turned his hand to writing adventure stories f...

I will tell you a story that will make you believe in God. No story can guarantee being able to do this. Yet novelists can tell stories that make ...

Jane Austen is renowned for the economy of her art: for the close focus of her romantic plots and the precision of her writing style. Exploring tha...

Theories of sight and spectatorship captivated many writers and philosophers of the eighteenth century and, in turn, helped to define both sexual p...

Assembles for the first time the many different texts imagining the future after the end of apartheidExplores the history of how the future in Sout...

This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creati...

This collection of original, concise essays by leading international scholars draws closely on the Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D....

This volume applies a sign-oriented approach to the description of articulatory and acoustic iconic phenomena in James Joyces Ulysses. In its hypot...

Charlotte Brontë: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontës life ...

Long-awaited and comprehensive biography of the great Irish author James JoyceJames Joyce was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century,...