Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

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...