Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

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...

This fascinating volume reveals the real men and women behind some of the most infamous London villains ever to appear in fiction. Fagin, Profess...

A smart, practical, and often funny guide for those who aspire to write mysteries, Sleuth reveals the secrets behind the curtain from a bestselling...

Explores how novelists of the mid-century US South invented small towns to aesthetically undermine racial segregation Investigates the role of wri...

Reconsiders the relationship between the Great War and modernism through women''s literary representations of death Provides the first sustained...

Explores the impact of the Russian Revolution and League of Nations on British modernist culture 1917 was the moment in which a new sense of intern...

This book studies recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, encouraging us to be critically reflective, ...

Explores hieroglyphs as a metaphor for the relationship between new media and writing in British modernismIn the British Museum, one object attract...

TracesVictorian self-harm through an engagement with literary fictionSelf-Harm in New Woman Writing offers a trans-disciplinary study of Victorian ...

Post-Soviet Russia was a period of linguistic liberalisation, instability and change with varied attempts to regulate and legislate language usage,...

Published in 1803, Thaddeus of Warsaw is a beguiling romance that also exposes the hardships faced by migrants in Britain two hundred years ago. Ja...

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction? The means of publishing, buying and...

The first in-depth analysis of Lydia Davis's translations and writing'The Many Voices of Lydia Davis' shows how translation, rewriting and intertex...

The Selected Works of Andrew Lang: Volume 1 Anthropology: Fairy Tale, Folklore, the Origins of Religion, Psychical Research Edited by Andrew Tever...

New essays and creative explorations of the friendship, milieu and writings of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf'I love to think of you, Virgi...