Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Academics, postgraduates, upper level undergraduates in Twentieth-Century Literature, The Novel, Modern Fiction, Narrative Theory / Narratology, Li...

Using an approach to music informed by T. W. Adorno, this book examines the real-world, political significance of seemingly abstracted things like ...

A critical re-evaluation of the imaginative transformations of Romanticism by major American writersThis book provides innovative readings of liter...

Offers a new understanding of empathy and its relation to medicine and literature, as a critical intervention into the medical humanitiesThis book ...

Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Leve...

A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHIn this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestsell...

Exam board: AQA & EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: Modern LanguagesFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Literature analysis made ...

This book is the first full-length study of Marguerite Yourcenar's Le Labyrinthe du monde along environmental lines. Written by the first académici...

Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars ...

The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors t...

Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side lending library in an effort to do ...

An Open Access edition of this book will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Engaging with...

Marguerite de Navarres Heptaméron, composed in the 1540s and first published posthumously in 1558 and 1559, has long been an interpretive puzzle. D...

This book addresses the ways in which writers deploy the trope of contested criminality to expose Zimbabwe's socially and politically oppressive cu...

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Polish born, learnt English from scratch when he arrived in Britain. Writings include: Heart of Darkness, The Secret Age...

This book works across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places, and topics traditi...

Many critics agree with C. S. Lewis that Satan is the best drawn of Milton's characters. Satan is certainly a wonderful creation, but Adam and Eve ...

Rowland presents a detailed exploration of how the archetypes of ancient goddesses Hestia, Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite breathe into and shape fem...

This book focuses on W. G. Sebald's life and works as teacher, as scholar and critic, as colleague and as collaborator on translation. It contains...

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five or...

When Ulrich Beck theorised a Risk Society (Risikogesellschaft) in 1986, the threat of global annihilation through nuclear war remained uppermost in...

As a study of color in the Victorian novel, this volume notices and analyzes a peculiar literary phenomenon in which Victorian authors who were als...

This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a li...

This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though it is very popular, and examines it...

Vivienne Brough-Evans proposes a compelling new way of reevaluating aspects of international surrealism by means of the category of divin fou, and ...

Offering a thoroughly new approach to American literature, this book examines the literary representation of smell regarding its impact on establis...

In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Womens Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez explain why...

Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge, Henry Fielding started his literary ...

Edward Thomas can be seen as the most important poetry critic in the early twentieth century. Thomas was a prose-writer before he was a poet. The S...

This book resituates Francis Sylvester Mahony in an early nineteenth-century literary-historical context, counteracting the efforts of twentieth-ce...

Great Expectations has had a long, active and sometimes surprising life since its first serialized appearance in All the Year Round between 1 Decem...

Evolutions of Jewish Character in British Fiction: Nor Yet Redeemed builds upon recent scholarship concerning representations of Jews in the Britis...

From 1809 until just before her death, Jane Austen lived in a small, all-female household at Chawton, where reading aloud was the evening's enterta...

This, the first critical biography of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), presents his East End writing as the counter-myth to the cultural production of ...

Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction investigates the representation of disability in fictional works by the le...

The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction tracks the emergence of a new type of physically and/or spiritually wounded hero(ine) in contemporary fict...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1905 book edition of the novel, complete with A. B. Wenzells eight original illustrations. A preface ...

From the Delivered to the Dispatched: Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977) focuses on masculinity in late twentieth-century American ...

What did she say? Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.This book explores the act of declaring love in works of literature written b...

This book comprehensively rethinks the relationship between G.K. Chesterton and a range of key literary modernists. When Chesterton and modernism h...

This volume is dedicated to fictional negotiations of future, or rather futureS. After all, future cannot but exist in a multitude of complementary...

This book offers to delineate a key phenomenon in contemporary Anglophone fiction: novel expansion, when the plot and characters from a finished no...

Anaïs Nin: A Myth of Her Own traces Nins literary craft by following the intimacy of self-exploration and poetic expression attained in the details...

Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradburys Elliott family stories are a unique...