Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

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Johann Matthias Schneuber? Daniel Czepko von Reigersfeld? Jesajas Rompler von Löwenhalt? Selbst Berufsgermanisten dürften Schwierigkeiten haben, m...

This book by Rodge Glass, the award-winning novelist, short story writer and biographer, is the first ever detailed assessment of Michel Fabers lif...

Mit der Digitalisierung erfährt der Literaturbetrieb der Gegenwart einen massiven Wandel. Autor*innen schaffen mithilfe der sozialen Medien zusätz...

Assessing the cultural history of the dandy as a figure traditionally gendered masculine, this wide-ranging study advances a critical space for the...

Ein Meister an der Peripherie des Kapitalismus ist das erste ins Deutsche übersetzte Werk des Literatur- und Kulturkritikers Roberto Schwarz. In di...

Actor, memoirist, novelist, playwright and poet, Stephen Haggard was a highly individual figure in the English literature and theatre of the 1930s ...

When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, she was already a legendary wit, a much-quoted member of the Algonquin Round...

Kellers Wissen erscheint als vierter Band der Serie Gottfried Kellers Moderne. Kellers Texte akkumulieren, transformieren und generieren Wissen. Se...

Speculative Epistemologies is about truth effects in sf, which stands for both science fiction and speculative fiction. It examines six narratives,...

Mario Vargas Llosas intellectual transformations, from socialism to pragmatism, and liberalism, are reflected in his political and historical ficti...

The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and hi...

This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-level (Group 3) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid VIII, giving full L...

Die Reihe Communicatio, nun in neuer Ausrichtung, versammelt methodisch ambitionierte Forschungsbeiträge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache, die ...

Konrad von Würzburg was the most significant and versatile German author of the thirteenth century, possibly even the Middle Ages. His works stand ...

Mit Heißhunger wurde Der Butt nach seinem Erscheinen von den Lesern verschlungen, die der Schmalkost der Siebzigerjahre-Literatur überdrüssig waren...

This study, based on extensive archival research, sheds light on the writings attributed to the sixteenth-century sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (Libr...

Die Theorie des wilden Übersetzens, die dieses Buch entwickelt, beschreibt Verfahren des Übersetzens, die als generativer Mechanismus zur Produktio...

First published in 1990, Language in Popular Fiction was written to provide a comprehensive and illuminating look at the way language is used in th...

Imagining Surveillance presents the first full-length study of the depiction and assessment of surveillance in literature and film. Focusing on the...

Examines the way in which the British transformed the Pacific islands during the nineteenth centuryThe discovery of the Pacific islands amplified t...

How were the genres of literature changed by new methods of serialization and publishing? How did a widespread culture of performance emerge in the...

This is the first study devoted to Sylvia Plath's fiction. Plath wrote fiction throughout her life, in a wide variety of genres, including women's ...

Poet, columnist, artist, and fiction writer Gwendolyn Bennett is considered by many to have been one of the youngest leaders of the Harlem Renaissa...

What did it mean to have an Irish dwelling in the nineteenth century? How did Irish people write about, think about, visually represent or imagine ...

Redefines Romantic sociability through a reading of social contract theoryThe Politics of Romanticism examines the relationship between two major t...

Examines dissident conceptions of space in the British Romantic eraRadical Romantics is about utopias and failed utopias, about cities that are pal...

Theatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, theatricality iden...

Redefines the British historical novel as a key site in the construction of British national identityThe British historical novel has often been de...

Unter dem Namen satura gerät hier eine ,monströse, durch wilde Mischförmigkeit und intertextuelle Hypertrophie gekennzeichnete Texttradition in den...

Breaking fresh ground in Woolfian scholarship, this study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf's textual treatment of ...

This volume brings together a range of essays by eminent and emergent scholars working at the intersection of modern literary, cinema and sound stu...

Fanny Price, in Mansfield Park, tells her persistent suitor that 'we have all a better guide in ourselves...than any other person can be'. Sometime...