Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Co-winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture  Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the American a...

Kenneth White (19362023) established his reputation as a poet, essayist and travel writer in France in the 1970s and 80s, having left Britain in 19...

In Paradise Lost the reciprocal forces of 'first matter' are centrally located in 'Light Ethereal, first of things', 'that light', as Raphael expla...

When Edith Wharton became friends with Henry James, she joined a group of men who became her inner circle. This group included both well-known figu...

Makiko Minow coined the phrase 'lesbian modernism' in 1989. Since then, scholars of lesbian modernism have produced crucial work to critique and ex...

This first book-length study of Anna Kavan's writing contradicts earlier critical approaches that have figured her writing as sui generis by readin...

Academics, researchers, postgraduates, upper level undergraduates, educated general readers in Fin de Sicle, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cult...

Explores the many ways in which Anthony Trollope is being read in the twenty-first centurySince the turn of the century, the Victorian novelist Ant...

New scholarly essays on the short story in English as a phenomenon of world literatureThis collection explores the history and development of the a...

'Imprinted' is a history of reading and the development of a literary culture in the Caribbean from the late 19th century to contemporary times. It...

In this compelling new book, A. Robert Lee tackles the questions: how, and why, does a literary work assume the mantle of 'modern'? He shows, with ...

Between Self and Society explores the psychosocial dramas that galvanize six major British novels written between the eighteenth and twentieth cent...

Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of cre...

The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel analyses the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in the ninet...

The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale of illicit desire, grand...

This book is a phenomenological exploration of wandering and dwelling in the (selected) works of V. S. Naipaul, W. G. Sebald, and T. G. Tranströmer...

This book explores the enduring myth of Antigone, constantly rediscovered and relevant across centuries. It examines how myth influences collective...

This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential of design to represent narrat...

An admirable and thought-provoking consideration of the underlying themes of The Hobbit, following the there-and-back-again progress from its famou...

Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernismwith a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outrig...

This innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian litera...

While globalization is often credited with the eradication of traditional' constraints tied to gender and caste, in reality the opening up of the I...

Bringing together concerns in border studies, the environmental humanities and Scottish literary studies, this open access book examines the relati...

Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress unpacks the nuanced Arabic contribution to speculative fiction. Part of a larger proj...

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist wri...