Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complet...

Following the volume of six fragmentary Sophoclean tragedies published in this series in 2006, Alan Sommerstein and Thomas Talboy now present sev...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses...

Reading Melville is not only reading. Reading Melville means being already engaged in the abyssal process of reading reading. Reading what reading ...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses...

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini...

The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and...

Gruel and truffles, wine and gin, opium and cocaine. Making a Man: Gentlemanly Appetites in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel addresses consumpt...

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini...

This book marks a new departure in the study of Dickens. The authors make use of first-hand evidence of Dickens’ actual methods and conditions of w...

The book investigates the problem of how narrative, normally conceived of temporally, encodes its relation to space, especially the territorial spa...

Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame ...

The documents collected in this volume, first published in 1970, trace the development of novel criticism during one of the most formative periods ...

Was Jack the Ripper an artist called Frank Miles? Toughill suggests that this former ’friend’ of Oscar Wilde was indeed the killer, and that Wilde ...

History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914 is a detailed and accessible study of Gothic literature in the nineteenth century. It examines h...

Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O'Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling ...

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a comp...

First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, a...

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twnetieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a comp...

Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist schol...

Lucian and His Roman Voices examines cultural exchanges, political propaganda, and religious conflicts in the Early Roman Empire through the eyes o...

First published in 1981, this book offers a study of British and American popular fiction in the 1970s, a decade in which the quest for the superse...

The Professor (1845-6), written before Jane Eyre, challenged contemporary expectations of the novel by its brevity, realism, and insistence on a wo...

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a comp...

Beginning with the late-nineteenth-century cultural resurgence and continuing through the present day, short stories and novels have given voice to...

This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and ov...

'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble c...

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini...

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832–95) has become a key figure in the recovery...

This book is an examination of the novels of Emyr Humphreys in the light of his ideas on Wales: Welsh history, Welsh culture and the importance of ...

One of the most fascinating and controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" is renowned for its innovative style and...

History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824 offers a detailed and accessible introduction to classic British Gothic literature and the popul...

Scholars have argued for decades over which constitutes the best possible version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s frequently anthologized story “The ...

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complet...

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complet...

A genuine classic of literary criticism, On Moral Fiction argues that "true art is by its nature moral."

This book is one of the first English-language studies to chart the development of crime fiction in French from the mid-nineteenth century to the p...

Hardly shy about himself or his work, Theodore Dreiser knew the value of publicity. Over four decades he often consented to interviews, answering q...

This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for ...

Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship, Oliver Lovesey examines the figure of the postcolonial intellectual as repeatedly evo...

The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. Includes separa...

The turn to fiction as a social research practice is a natural extension of what many researchers and writers have long been doing. Patricia Leavy,...

Offers an introduction to classic British Gothic literature. This book examines works by Gothic authors such as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann ...

The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates’ courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedi...

A controversial study of the alleged racism in the fiction of Nellie McClung