Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Richard Yates (1926-1992) has been described as a writer's writer but has never received the critical attention befitting that designation. Firm...

Lauded by critics yet largely unappreciated by fans of horror and weird fiction, T.E.D. Klein is considered one of the great horror writers, des...

Science fiction has often been considered the literature of futuristic technology: fantastic warfare among the stars or ruinous apocalypses on E...

First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print. Yet most people are familiar with the title character from the movie...

The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century, identifying a central new genre: the condition of ...

This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic bo...

The subjects of this book constitute a significant cross section of BBC science fiction television. With such characters as the Doctor (an enigm...

Novel horizons analyses how narrative prose fiction developed during the English Restoration. It argues that after 1660, generic changes within dra...

Movies and books have romanticized the life of the cowboy. To most, the heroes of countless Westerns fall into one of three categories: the stro...

Chuck Palahniuk, America's premier transgressive novelist, enjoys a tremendous readership. Yet he has not necessarily been embraced by critics o...

The all-new essays in this book respond to the question, How do spaces in science fiction, both built and unbuilt, help shape the relationships amo...

Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre's explicit nature. For him,...

Starting with William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, this book covers in detail the great works of detective...

At the 2013 Celebrating The Hobbit conference at Valparaiso University - marking the 75th anniversary of the book's publication and the first inst...

Harry Potter has given the study of popular culture a unique platform for exploring the nature of human identity. Potter Studies is developing i...

Through the perspectives of selected novels from the end of World War II to the end of the 20th century--including The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill ...

The numerous anti-bullying programs in schools across the United States have done little to reduce the number of reported bullying instances. On...

This collection of fresh essays on Suzanne Collins's epic trilogy spans multiple disciplines. The contributors probe the trilogy's meaning using...

The form of art called fiction has always been the privileged framework providing the perfect alibi for facing, framing, and containing the Other''...