Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Although Beckett scholarship has in recent decades experienced a renaissance as a result of various poststructuralist approaches that tend to empha...

Whereas literary criticism has mainly oscillated between the death of the author (Barthes) and the return of the author (Couturier), this work sugg...

For at least a century, scholarship on realist narrative, and occasional polemics against realist narrative, have assumed that realism promotes the...

In the spring of 1861, Ambrose Bierce, just shy of nineteen, became Private Bierce of the Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. For the next four years...

In this hilarious, inspiring and provocative series of essays, Kingsley Amis introduces every reader to the wonders and value of science fiction wr...

The ambiguous intent of Henry James''s horror story The Turn of the Screw has fascinated and divided its readers since its publication in 1898. The...

The foremost Proust scholar of our time offers a brilliantly revised and annotated edition of the first volume of the twentieth centurys most accla...

A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, an...

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See through the eyes of the Brontes as you immerse yourself in their lives and landscapes, wandering the very same paths they each wo...

See through the eyes of the Brontës as you immerse yourself in their lives and landscapes, wandering the very same paths they each wou...

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius... ...

Byron and Women [and men] is a compilation of new biographical and literary essays, examining the poet''s bisexuality and the ways in which it affe...