Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

'Imprinted' is a history of reading and the development of a literary culture in the Caribbean from the late 19th century to contemporary times. It...

In this compelling new book, A. Robert Lee tackles the questions: how, and why, does a literary work assume the mantle of 'modern'? He shows, with ...

Between Self and Society explores the psychosocial dramas that galvanize six major British novels written between the eighteenth and twentieth cent...

Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of cre...

The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel analyses the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in the ninet...

The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale of illicit desire, grand...

This book is a phenomenological exploration of wandering and dwelling in the (selected) works of V. S. Naipaul, W. G. Sebald, and T. G. Tranströmer...

This book explores the enduring myth of Antigone, constantly rediscovered and relevant across centuries. It examines how myth influences collective...

This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential of design to represent narrat...

An admirable and thought-provoking consideration of the underlying themes of The Hobbit, following the there-and-back-again progress from its famou...

Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernismwith a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outrig...

This innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian litera...

While globalization is often credited with the eradication of traditional' constraints tied to gender and caste, in reality the opening up of the I...

Bringing together concerns in border studies, the environmental humanities and Scottish literary studies, this open access book examines the relati...

Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress unpacks the nuanced Arabic contribution to speculative fiction. Part of a larger proj...

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist wri...

Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Becketts oeuvre from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images of confinement that shape plays...

This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative form typical of Western liter...

Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction from authors such as Juliana Spahr, Mohsin Hamid, Bong Joon-ho, Kim Stanley Robinson,...

The 1850s United States witnessed a far-reaching political, social, and economic crisis. Symptomatic of this, a wide range of narrative fiction fro...

The first comprehensive study of the works of William Hope Hodgson, one of the true innovators of Weird fiction, this book examines the Weird novel...

A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects e...

From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of Cool Britannia, the many subcultures of Britains teenagers have often been at the ...

Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi Germany, and feted in his new country as the greatest living man of letters. This bea...

A revised and updated edition of a comprehensive biographical and critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou (1928-2...

Considering the support behind Brexit and Donald Trumps America first policies, this book challenges the idea that they are motivated solely by fea...

J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction illuminates the intellectual and philosophical interests that drive Coetzees writing. In doing so, it makes ...

In recent years, the biographical novel has become one of the most dominant literary forms-J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Colum McCa...