Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

To read a crime novel today largely simulates the exercise of reading newspapers or watching the news. The speed and frequency with which today'...

After its publication in 1986, Stephen King's novel It sparked sequels, remakes, parodies and solidified an entire genre: clown horror. Decades ...

The first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceThe first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceExplores Carver's r...

Traces and measures the material impact of Dickens' fiction in London's built environmentDickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or...

Explores the depiction of transgender identity in twentieth-century and contemporary literary fictionTransgender and the Literary Imagination is th...

Insdorf challenges the notion of Montaigne as an anti-feminist by exploring both the feminist and anti-feminist concepts apparent in Montaigne''s w...

Through close readings of eight tales from the Conde Lucanor, Anibal A. Biglieri offers the foundation for a Poetics of short didactic narratives. ...

Eduardo de Faria Coutinho''s analysis of Grande Sertao: Veredas places the novel at the intersection of experience, literary history, and artistry....

Examines representations of the actress in Victorian novels and theatresThis book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a signi...

This title unveils the relationships and intertextualities between this coterie of modernist writers. The relationship between the personal lives o...

Jonathan Lethem is the first full-length study dedicated to the work of an exciting, genre-busting contemporary writer with an increasingly high pr...

This study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930. The bo...

Its no secret that authors have a love-hate relationship with Hollywood. The oft-repeated cliché that the book was better than the movie holds true...

Is crime fiction the new `political novel'' in South Africa? Why did the apartheid censors disapprove of crime fiction more than any other genre? C...

''I love to think of you, Virginia, as my friend ... pray consider how rare it is to find someone with the same passion for writing, who desires to...

Provides the first sustained scholarly examination of Mansfield''s engagement with and relation to early twentieth-century periodical culture. Fore...

In this study of Andre Gide''s magnum opus, Les Faux-Monnayeurs, Karin Nordenhaug Ciholas argues for the novel''s thematic unity.

Provides much-needed critical analyses of the work of 60s avant-garde writers . Offers focused essays - each presents one author in their cultural/...

Although the year 1984 is hurtling back into the distant past, Orwell''s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to have a huge readership and to help...

This is a critical bibliography of the Nodier studies and editions of his works that appeared between 1923 and 1967. Part I presents a chronologica...

'Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived' Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegra...

Where does the violence at the heart of modern masculinity come from? From action movies to video games to sports culture, why is so much about bei...

A literary history of Arthur Conan Doyles work with the Strand Magazine in the twentieth century You know Arthur Conan Doyle as the stereotypically...