Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Long before the successful The Lord of the Rings films, J.R.R. Tolkien's creations, imagination, and characters had captured the attention of milli...

Jane Austens novels are read all over the globe, and adaptations of her works have graced both film and TV screens. Although sometimes criticised f...

The enormous influence of Aristotle's psychology has been always related to the reception and interpretation of his De Anima. The Paraphrase by The...

A beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twenty-five hu...

«This book is a fascinating study of the love letter in a rich historical context, in which painting played an essential part not merely illustrat...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Charles Dickenss classic tale of miserly Ebenez...

This study is a theoretical reconsideration of the concept of the tragic combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts. Inspired by co...

How the Tiananmen Square protest and massacre haunts the work of writers in the Chinese diaspora.

Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, Sherlock Holmes appears in four novels and fifty-six short stories. Although Holmes was not the first li...

This book presents a diverse collection of essays about women writers and nature. Touching on many writers, such as Willa Cather, Imbolo Mbue, and ...

The Crimean War was the greatest international crisis of the Victorian era, and a modernwar of rifles, railroads and telegraphs. As it raged, two w...

Apocalypse is traditional and familiar, and it is an actual threat; it is feared, desired, and banal. Apocalypse in Crisis discusses fictions from ...

The monograph studies the Arab mahjari (emigre) writer Gibran Khalil Gibran (Kahlil Gibran) by examining his oeuvre as bilingual Arabic literature ...

Doubtful Writing offers a major reassessment of philosophical uncertainty in one of the early modern period's foremost doubters. It argues that Mon...

Colorful, irreverent, romantic, skeptical, a master of comic asides, a bittersweet humorist, and an unflinching critic of human pretensions, Mark T...

Shortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Non-Fiction Award 2023 The Rise of the Cyberzines concludes Mike Ashley's five-volume series, ...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This book compares fiction and non-fiction written by two ge...

After the end, the world will be un-American. This speculation forms the nucleus of Un-American Dreams, a study of US apocalyptic science fiction a...

In Shakespeare and Science Fiction Sarah Annes Brown investigates why so many science fiction writers have turned to Shakespeare when imagining hum...

What were the consequences of Tolstoy's unusual reliance on members of his family as source material for War and Peace? Did affection for close rel...

Bolesaw Prus and the Jews shows the complexity of the so-called Jewish question in nineteenth-century Congress Poland and especially its significan...

Companion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most importa...

Is each moment in history unique, or do essential situations repeat themselves? The traumatic events associated with the man who reigned as Tsar Dm...

Neither Arkadii nor Boris Strugatskii had originally intended to make a living in writing. Arkadii dreamed of becoming an astronomer, but his warti...

Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became the central veh...

Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became the central veh...

From twenty-seven of todays leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of WaldenFeatures essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan Kris...

In 1992, Art Spiegelman's two-volume illustrated work Maus: A Survivor's Tale was awarded a special-category Pulitzer Prize. In a comic book form, ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. So runs one of the most famou...

From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world   Why...

This volume seeks to understand more about the lives and histories of the general population of the Republic of Turkey during the years 1928 and 19...

This book focuses on Joyce's interest and involvement in early modern cinema and his subsequent thematic and formal borrowing for this genre; It wi...

The increased visibility of the Irish novel in recent years has been one of the outstanding developments in contemporary Irish literature. This dev...

Some comics fans view the industrys Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Bl...

Faulkner's People is an essential reference for the student and general reader of Faulkner who seeks guidance in identifying and interrelating the ...

First introduced in the pages of X-Men, Storm is probably the most recognized Black female superhero. She is also one of the most powerful charact...

In The Latinx Files, Matthew David Goodwin traces how Latinx science fiction writers are reclaiming the space alien from its xenophobic legacy in t...

If the Punisher became a valuable piece of intellectual property during the closing decades of the twentieth century, he has become a global icon i...

Although Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird has attracted a great deal of scholarly and popular attention due to its e...