Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

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. ...

She burst across the revolutionary sky like a blazing meteor, dazzling all in her path, Trotsky wrote. For the poet Boris Pasternak, she was Lara, ...

Crime Fiction in the Caribbean: Reframing Crime and Justice is the first academic book to focus on crime fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers. I...

This book looks at texts produced before and after 9/11 by novelists with Muslim backgrounds in Britain. It delves into the ways in which the polit...

Antonin Artauds last large-scale work, published in its complete form in English for the first time. Drawings on texts and letters dating from 1946...

Literature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique thei...

Conceived as a second edition to Kawakami's acclaimed A Self-Conscious Art, which was the first full-length study in English of Patrick Modianos wo...

Practicing Romance sets out to re-tell the story of Hawthorne's career, arguing that he is best understood as a cultural analyst of extraordinary a...

Capra and Graziosi intervene in current debates about classics and its relation to revolutionary ruptures, nationalist movements, and identity poli...

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

Gothic Afterlives examines the intersecting dimensions of contemporary Gothic horror and remakes scholarship, bringing together innovative perspect...

This book explores contemporary womens historical fiction from global perspectives and expands substantially on existing studies by drawing on inte...

This book explores contemporary womens historical fiction from global perspectives and expands substantially on existing studies by drawing on inte...