Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is widely recognised as one of the central and defining figures in Scottish literature and in European and American Ro...

Émile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as 'naturalism' and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon...

Science fiction first emerged in the Industrial Age and continued to develop into its current form during the twentieth century. This book analyses...

The Ideas in Things explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing...

In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodymindsthe intertwinement of th...

Ever since human beings first travelled, cities have constituted important material and literary destinations. While the city has formed a key them...

Ever since human beings first travelled, cities have constituted important material and literary destinations. While the city has formed a key them...

The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard is a detailed study of the development of the theme of the sexual imperative primari...

The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature traces the aesthetic and political development of the Gothic genre in Colombia. Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodrí...

Xie analyzes three novels by the international award-winning Chinese writer Yan Lianke and investigates how his signature mythorealist form produce...

Representations of Health, Illness, and Repair in the Works of Louisa May Alcott analyzes a remarkably wide range of wholesome and unwholesome soci...

Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate readers an...

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

Illuminating a powerful intersection between popular culture and global politics, Spies and Holy Wars draws on a sampling of more than eight hundr...

This powerful new reading of Moby-Dick brings into play some of the most consequential theoretical developments of the last three decades in philos...

A masterpiece of European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic Sturm und Drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The accla...

The new book by author of the Sunday Times bestseller, Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom.  In her latest colouring book, Millie brings you her own se...

In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodymindsthe intertwinement of th...