Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Following the Holocaust, American literature experienced a resurgence of Jewish themes, characters, and contributions. This book focuses on the gen...

In a famous review of Nathaniel Hawthornes Mosses from an Old Manse, Herman Melville took the critics to task for missing the darkness as the heart...

In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjectivity? This collection explor...

Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening climate change, this book ...

This book provides a rich and full analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their important contributions to ...

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the neural unconscious and higher-order thought in the frontal lobes, this o...

Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / Biography The first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship o...

The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains previously unpublished ess...

How superhero narratives in the margins of the mainstream tell innovative, feminist stories. Its no secret that superhero comics and their related ...

The German Pcaro and Modernity reads the re-emergence of the picaresque narrative in twentieth-century German-language writing as an expression of ...

Investigates the relationship of early twentieth-century German literature and thought with contemporary cognitive studies and posits a new theory ...

What do The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side have in common? They are all single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that cartoonists have ...

What do The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side have in common? They are all single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that cartoonists have ...

Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that sp...

'No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.' Northanger Abbey is a comedy about rea...

The complete edition of Sylvia Plath's prose including much unpublished and previously uncollected material, edited by Peter K. Steinberg.The Colle...

Through detailed close readings alongside investigations into the history of print culture, Marta Fossati traces the development of the South Afric...

Art for art's sake is a vile catchword, but I confess it appeals to me' Gentleman by day and thief by night, A. J. Raffles lives a double life. Ta...

From the novels to the screen, from adaptions to filming secrets, dive into the world of Jane Austen. Discover her life, inspirations, corresponden...

Is there such a thing as a female literary imagination a special brand of insight and intuition that characterises womens writing? Is there someth...

Growing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. Of course, and as usual, she recalls, I disobeyed paternal...

The Edinburgh Companion to Comic Gothic explores the role of irony, satire, parody, pastiche and the absurd in Gothic texts dating from the eightee...

In its early transition to democracy following Francos death in 1975, Spain rapidly embraced neoliberal practices and policies, some of which direc...

Julia Kristevas Time and Sense is a major reassessment of Marcel Proust and In Search of Lost Time. Not only a meditation on Proust, it is also a c...

This book aims to complement the traditional focus of translation studies, which has primarily centered on translating English into other languages...

The ethical approaches to literature have come into prominence in the twentieth century, calling for a turn to ethics in the studies of humanities,...

Projection (Psychoanalysis). The unconscious process or fact of projecting ones fears, feelings, desires or fantasies onto other persons, things or...

The supernatural as a category of literature can be difficult to define, and it can be especially difficult to distinguish supernatural literature ...

'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMAN Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are...

Novel-Poetry examines the verse-novel--a hybrid genre that emerged in the middle decades of Britain's nineteenth century--to make a larger claim ab...

Zombies have become an increasingly popular object of research in academic studies and, of course, in popular media. Over the past decade, they hav...

In the decades since the Second World War, the teenage witch has emerged as a major American cultural trope. Appearing in films, novels, comics and...

A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937 offers a new critical perspective on the weird that combines two ways of looking at weird and cosmic horror. ...

Surely America's greatest storyteller, no single author has been adapted more regularly than Stephen King. With sixty-five existing movies and thir...