Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

In her admired works of fiction, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal ...

This Companion offers a compelling survey of American literature in the 1930s. These thirteen new essays by accomplished scholars in the field prov...

No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he ...

This book explores the central fictional minds in three of Ian McEwan''s most popular narratives. Mind presentation constitutes the main part of ch...

James Joyce's America is the first study to address the nature of Joyce's relation to the United States. It challenges the prevalent views of Joyce...

OUTSIDERS tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels...

The nineteenth-century Hispanic world was shattered to its core by war, civil war, and revolution. At the same time, it confronted a new period of ...

Francoise Davoine has been investigating psychotic phenomena and trauma for over thirty years, in collaboration with Jean-Max Gaudilliere. In this ...

Analyzes two groups of musical novels -- novels that take music as a model for their construction -- including jazz novels by Toni Morrison and Mic...

Philip K. Dick was a visionary writer of science fiction. His works speak to contemporary fears of being continually watched by technology, and ...

Best known for her Kate Delafield detective series, Katherine V. Forrest is recognized as one of the preeminent figures in lesbian popular liter...

This comprehensive guide to James Ellroy's work and life is arranged as an encyclopedia covering his entire career, from his first private-eye nove...

This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature. As the author of some of ...

The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militanc...

Examining nineteenth-century novels and philosophical essays on the conception of fictional form, Felicia Bonaparte sees the novel in this period n...

Studies of sexuality in Caribbean culture are on the rise, focusing mainly on homosexuality and homophobia or on regional manifestations of normati...

Studies of sexuality in Caribbean culture are on the rise, focusing mainly on homosexuality and homophobia or on regional manifestations of normati...

Adopting the term new death, which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James un...

Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. Reflecting these changes, storylines that involve cross-d...