Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

The Encyclopaedia of Girls School Stories is published in three volumes, of which this is Volume One. Each volume contains articles on many the aut...

The J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature--long held at the University of California, Riverside--have been a majo...

Richard Wright was the grandson of slaves, Richard Rodriguez the son of immigrants. One black, the other brown, each author prominently displays hi...

While scholars have chronicled Czes?aw Mi?oszs engagement with religious belief, no previous book-length treatment has focused on his struggles wit...

'When I was at primary school, my teacher asked if any of us had heard of Charles Dickens. I was amazed she knew his name, because, until that mome...

Outlander, an epic time travel adventure with plenty of history and romance, has hit cable television. And unlike many other shows, this one seems ...

In its 80+ years, the Hardy Boys series has sold more than 50 million books in 25 or more languages, and has inspired five television series and...

In Womens Work, Courtney Thorsson reconsiders the gender, genre and geography of African American nationalism as she explores the aesthetic history...

In early nineteenth-century Russia, members of jocular literary societies gathered to recite works written in the lightest of genres: the friendly ...

In this distinctive gem of Proustian criticism, Inge Karalus Crosman defines the function of metaphor within the text. Given the metaphoric saturat...

Through her close reading, Diane Wolfe Levy reveals the complex irony in France''s last volume of short stories Les sept femme de la Barbe-Bleue. T...

Alice Fiola Berry''s study on the fundamental importance of language itself in the four books of Rabelais leads the reader down the path trod by Pa...

Conchita Herdman Marianella''s book develops the words Duena and Doncella in their Cervantine context. The book offers the two sides of this ch...

Balzac made a conscious effort in Comedie Humaine to multiply the reappearance, from book to book, of some of his characters. This careful analysis...

There is a new category of authors blurring the line between fiction and nonfiction: women who work or have worked in criminal justice--lawyers,...

In this definitive work, Donald Fowler Brown corrects many previous misconceptions about the works of Emilia Pardo Bazan (1851-1921), and offers a ...

This monograph proposes a re-reading of D''Annunzio''s female characters in five selected novels -Il Piacere, L''Innocente, Il Trionfo della Morte,...

Seventeenth-century French author Paul Scarron''s Roman comique has often been dismissed by critics as episodic and disorganized. This, in part, st...

The animal stories produced around the turn of the 20th century have maintained a remarkable hold on the imagination of children worldwide. This...

This work offers an original interpretation of the mothers of the protagonists in Dickens's autobiographical novels. Taking Julia Kristeva's psy...