Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Olivia Manning was a superb writer - extravagantly funny and deeply serious at the same time - but her talent was not fully recognised in her lifet...

Reveals the alt-rights project to claim science fiction andby extensionthe future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films ...

The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoes writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. Features extende...

The intriguing history of Dickenss London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years  J...

A Book of the Year in The Times & Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Spectator, Irish Times and TLS. 'Superb' Daily Mail, 'Book of the Week''Brilliant' ...

First published in 1970, The Novel in India traces the birth and development of prose fiction in Bengali, Marathi, Urdu, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam...

Petronius: A Handbook unravels the mysteries of the Satyrica, one of the greatest literary works that antiquity has bequeathed to the modern world....

Fresh perspectives and eye-opening discussions of contemporary American fiction In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020, a ...

The definitive exploration of C.S. Lewiss philosophical thought, and its connection with his theological and literary work Arguably one of the most...

Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The imp...

First published in 1951, My Dear Holmes is a biography of Sherlock Holmes, which originated from the authors re-reading of the Sherlock Holmes stor...

Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Feminism and Diaspora offers insights into Chitra Banerjee Divakarunis provocative and popular...

Theology of Horror explores the dark reaches of popular horror films, bringing to light their implicit theological and philosophical themes. Horror...

Already renowned for his science fiction and scientific nonfiction, Arthur C. Clarke became the worlds most famous science fiction writer after the...

The unquenchable thirst of Dracula. The animal lust of Mr. Hyde. The acquiescence of Lewis Carroll's Alice. Victorian literature--with its overtone...

In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as this enormously ambitious posthumous volume, renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version o...

In-depth and refreshingly readable, Splattered Ink is a bold analysis of postfeminist gothic, a literary genre that continues to jar readers, rejec...

Award-winning epics like the Mars trilogy and groundbreaking alternative histories like The Days of Rice and Salt have brought Kim Stanley Robinson...

Detective Fiction on the Case of Community uses one of the most popular forms of modern literature to examine one of modernitys most trenchant prob...