Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

George Orwell left post-war London for Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura, to write what became Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was driven b...

Examines the cultural importance of the coastline in the nineteenth-century British imaginationThe long nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic, va...

In contemporary culture, the stereotypical trappings of redneckism have been appropriated for everything from movies like Smokey and the Bandit to ...

This book explores the way Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her conception of the modern novel. The focus of this study is on Virgini...

This series, dedicated to the study of modern Arabic literature, is unique and unprecedented. it publishes contemporary, scholarly accounts of deve...

This title explores Thomas Hardy's engagement with Victorian legal debates in his prose fiction. Thomas Hardy's fiction is examined in this book in...

This title argues that 'travellers' tales of wonder' are a vital yet unacknowledged presence in contemporary literature. Exploring travellers' tale...

One of the major figures in science fiction for more than sixty years, James Gunn has been instrumental in making the genre one of the most vibr...

In his own lifetime and for nearly a hundred years James Hogg was was seen as the natural, if lesser, inheritor of the mantle of Robert Burns. Hogg...

This title features newly commissioned, innovative essays on Samuel Beckett and the arts in the broadest sense. This Companion captures the continu...

The Artist and the Trinity' aims to create a Christian theology of work based on Dorothy L. Sayers' analogy of the Trinity to the process of artist...

The Labour of Laziness in Twentieth-Century American Literature focuses on the issue of productivity, using the figure of laziness to negotiate the...

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...