Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

This book interrogates the theme of vegetal sentience and consciousness in the form of trees that move purposefully and/or speak, a theme which app...

'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy...

'This travel book is truly a labyrinth--or, more precisely, a piece of the labyrinth that it has been my fate to wander, from the cradle to the gra...

Hailed by Virginia Woolf and many others as the all-time great letter writer, Jane Welsh Carlyle, wife of Thomas Carlyle, is not as well known toda...

Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and commodified space, this book ...

Arguing against the critical commonplace that Evelyn Waughs post-war fiction represents a decline in his powers as a writer, D. Marcel DeCoste offe...

Alicia Giménez Bartletts popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy I...

Exploring how Margaret Atwoods fiction reimagines the figure of the detective and the nature of crime, Jackie Shead shows how the author radically ...

While he is best known for his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories, P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer who penned many other novels, stories, and m...

In spite of their differing rhetorics and cognitive strategies, sociology and literature are often concerned with the same objects: social relation...

Bringing together an international group of scholars, this collection offers a fresh assessment of Kazuo Ishiguros evolving significance as a conte...

The first full-length account of D.H. Lawrences rich engagement with a country he found both fascinating and frustrating, D.H. Lawrences Australia ...

Critical assessments of Elizabeth Gaskell have tended to emphasise the regional and provincial aspects of her writing, but the scope of her influen...

Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how trave...

In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished no...

This title was first published in 2000: Thackeray's minor writings remain caught in a debate about what constitutes literature and whether magazine...

The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugène Delacroixs painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Victor Hugos n...

This title was first published in 1999: Examines the range of detective literature produced between 1901 and 1915 in Britain, during the reign of E...

Writing during periods of dramatic social change, Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell were both attracted to the idea of radical societal transfo...

Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories, but in spite of this impressive number, his contributions to the genre have been relatively underst...

This title was first published in 2002. Moderatus was an Elizabethan romance, probably the first published work of the 16th-century Welsh gentleman...

This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses the Emergency as an event tha...

Focusing on the works of bishop Gregory of Tours (539-594) and the poet-hagiographer Venantius Fortunatus (540-c.604), in later life bishop of Poit...

This book is the first collection on the British author Rose Macaulay (1881-1958). The essays establish connections in her work between modernism a...

A never-before-published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great not the demon the Bib...

In Carbide Tipped Pens, over a dozen of today's most creative imaginations explore these frontiers, carrying on the grand tradition of such legenda...

This monograph identifies the key preoccupations of forty-five primary texts by Jewish women published between 1945 and 2007. These texts have the ...

Zola, The Body Modern: Pressures and Prospects of Representation

This book provides the reader with a representative picture of modern utopian imagination in its negotiations with questions of sex and gender, dis...

By reading Clarice Lispector's work of whiteness through concepts developed by Bessie Head and Toni Morrison, the author deals with the ways in whi...

A never-before-published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great not the demon the Bib...

Hannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation. In a Cri...

This book is the first extensive study of seventeen works of short fiction by one of Scotland's most influential writers of all time. It examines t...

At 250, Walter Scott points toward our possible futures. Scott, although we necessarily look on his times as past, of course experienced them as pr...

Who would have expected Jane Austen to be up-to-date on gun technology or Virginia Woolf to recognise the class politics of plumbing?Austen and Woo...

Interrogates the Gothic in relation to Scotland, 'Scottishness', British Gothic, cultural and national boundaries, and issues of identityWritten fr...