Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Who was John Updike? Fifty-three commentators have much to tell us. They reveal Updike through anecdote, observation, and insight. Their memories r...

Dystopian fiction captivates us by depicting future worlds at once eerily similar and shockingly foreign to our own. This collection of new essa...

The writings of H.G. Wells have had a profound influence on literary and cinematic depictions of the present and the possible future, and modern...

In recent decades crime fiction has enjoyed a creative boom. Although, as Alison Young argues in her book Imagining Crime (1996), crime stories rem...

British author and essayist George Orwell shot to fame with two iconic novels:the anti-Stalinist satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiec...

Frame narratives--stories within stories--are featured in nearly every canonical Gothic novel. Sometimes dismissed as a shopworn convention of t...

This book explores how contemporary fantastic fiction by women writers responds to the past and imagines the future. The first two chapters look...

Unarguably the greatest active Spanish language novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa was rewarded with the Nobel Prize in 2010 for, in the Swedish Academys...

This volume presents a variety of new essays on Kate Chopins The Awakening. This classic novella, published in 1899, is considered a landmark work ...

This volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 451. A classic novel of dystopian science ...

Essays in this set are organised into three categories: Theories, Themes & Types, History of Short Fiction, and Short Fiction Around the World....

From his first appearance in 1912, Tarzan became a multimedia franchise whose cultural influence extended well beyond mere entertainment. The or...

Lewis Nkosi''s insights into South African literature, culture and society first appeared in the 1950s, when the `new'' urban African in Sophiatown...

L. Frank Baum's novel, The Wizard of Oz, has spawned 39 official sequels, over 100 unofficial sequels, well nearly 40 films, several TV series, mus...

Dr. Mood's study returns Joyce's masterwork to the reader (and to accessibility) by a coupling of essential narrative themes that are humorous, sex...

First published in 1865, Alices Adventures in Wonderland began as a story told to Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating trip in July 1862....

Writers and alcohol have long been associated--for some, the association becomes unmanageable. Drawing on rare sources, this collection of brief...

Thomas Manns novel The Magic Mountain presents a panorama of European society in the first two decades of the 20th century and depicts the philosop...

In recent years, the interest in the house has grown irresistibly, to the point that in many ways houses seem to be situated at the very core of th...

The Making of the Modern Artist: Stephen Dedalus and Will Brangwen examines two fictional artists by James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence in A Portrait o...