Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

A collection of essays tracing seven decades of literary interaction between Hemingway and notable French authorsIn a 1946 Atlantic Monthly essay, ...

The first in-depth study of Kinsella's fiction since 1987, this book offers a unique and updated analysis. Utilizing a variety of approaches and...

The new essays in this book make two central claims. First, for some people, the word feminist has been either poorly defined or even demonized....

This book addresses Suzanne Collins's work from a number of literary and cultural perspectives in an effort to better understand both its signif...

In the riveting and intense Bid Me to Live, H.D. documents her traumatic experiences during WWI on which she blamed a number of personal tragedies,...

Until now, little was known of John Wyndham. Despite his popularity, his obsessive need for privacy led to him being known as the invisible man of ...

In this fresh look at the relationship between an author and his publishers, Peter L. Shillingsburg reassesses W.M. Thackeray's writing within the ...

George Orwell (1903-1950) is one of the most influential authors in the English language. His landmark novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Ei...

As video gaming and gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their ...

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 ...