Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

During the latter half of the twentieth century the Gothic emerged as one of the liveliest and most significant areas of academic inquiry within li...

Bazaar Literature reorients our understanding of Victorian social reform fiction by reading it in light of the copious amount of literature generat...

This is the story of a literary marriage. It tells of the partnership between Edwin and Willa Muir, two intellectuals from small town Scottish back...

Although best known the world over for his masterpiece novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the antics of the ...

The Refugee Woman explores the Partition of Bengal in 1947, in its relationship to gender, by innovatively engaging with the cultural imagination o...

Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition is a major new intervention in research on early modern translation and...

In the genre of horror, elderly people are often used as a trope to evoke both a fear of death and a fear of aging. Old age is therefore equated wi...

Is plot a line, an arc, or a shape? None of these. Rather than thinking of plot as a sequence of events or actions put into place solely through hu...

This book presents J. M. Coetzee's work as a complex, nuanced counterblast to contemporary, global, neoliberal economics and its societies. Not sur...

Obscene poetry, servants' slanders against their masters, the diabolical acts of those who committed massacre and regicide. This is a book about th...

The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature identifies a documentary impulse in French literature that emerges at the end of...

The aim of this collection of essays is to explore negative characters in espionnage narratives of some of the most esteemed English writers, such ...

An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writer...

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of John Ruskin and four major Victor...

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual strives to be the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliots life and work in light of the ongoing public...

For fans new and old, an enjoyable tour through the world of Dickens in the hands of a master critic. Charles Dickens, the 'Great Inimitable', crea...

This volume provides a wide-ranging account of the development and importance of private libraries and book ownership through the seventeenth centu...

William Empson is, alongside T. S. Eliot, the greatest genius among twentieth-century critics, and Some Versions of Pastoral is widely recognised a...

The Last Word argues that the Hollywood novel opened up space for cultural critique of the film industry at a time when the industry lacked the cap...

What did British people in the late eighteenth century think and feel about their relationship to nonhuman animals? This book shows how an apprecia...

Many Americans' first encounter with international modernism came, not on the page, but in person-through the widespread phenomenon of the US lectu...

This book takes a fresh look at the representation of Cornwall in literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. It identifies alternat...

This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. ...