Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Transcendent Writers in Stephen Kings Fiction combines a post-Jungian critical perspective of the puer aeternus. Offering new insight into Kings wo...

The essays in this volume interpret Jane Austens fiction through the lens of various sciences of the mind and brain, especially the cluster of disc...

This book is the first edited collection to explore the role of philosophy in the works of Cormac McCarthy, significantly expanding the scope of ph...

In the mid-twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published Six Articles on London Life in Good Housekeeping magazine, a popular magazine where fashion,...

In the mid-twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published Six Articles on London Life in Good Housekeeping magazine, a popular magazine where fashion,...

Branding Oscar Wilde traces the development and perception of Wildes public persona and examines the impact of interpretations of his writing. Thro...

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...

Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction is an interdisciplinary study that presents masculinity as a key thematic concern in contemporary New ...

Scholarly understanding of the Victorian literary field has changed dramatically in the past thirty years, due in large part to the extensive recov...

Lao Shes Teahouse and Its Two English Translations: Exploring Chinese Drama Translation with Systemic Functional Linguistics provides an in-depth a...

This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication format...

The author of Clinical Lessons on Life and Madness: Dostoevskys Characters draws on Dostoevsky's universe to illuminate psychoanalytic theory and p...

The Radical Ecology of the Shelleys: Eros and Environment is the first full-length study to explore a radically queer ecology at work in writings b...

This book evaluates the parallels, divergences, and convergences in the literary legacies of Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats. Coming 150 y...

Originally published in 1984. William Faulkner is the most studied American author of our time. This volume presents a collection of some of the be...

Originally published in 1970. Mark Twain is generally known as a childrens writer. This serious and appreciative introduction by I. M. Walker shows...

A collection of prefaces, reviews and articles by Americans on American and European fiction. Charted in these three volumes, which span 1776 to 19...

This title was first published in 2000. Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1909), the English author of forty-one domestic novels, was continuously in prin...

This is the first comprehensive historical analysis of how black music and musicians have been represented in the fiction of African American write...

This title was first published in 2003. Though Friedrich Schiller enjoyed prominent literary standing and great popularity in nineteenth century li...

This volume aims to introduce undergraduates, graduates, and general readers to the diversity and richness of Canadian short story writing and to t...

The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell offers a wide-ranging reconsideration of Orwell's life and work, focusing on the extensive connections between...

This book, together with A Second Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.M. For...

This book, together with A Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.M. Forces ser...

This groundbreaking study looks at the evolution of the war novel, tracing the movement from the modernist novel that followed World War I to the p...

The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answe...

When the first issue of The Liberal was published on 10 October 1822, the periodical was largely dismissed by the British press as a political proj...

That fiction is a lady, and a lady who has somehow got herself in to trouble, is a thought that must often have struck her admirers. Penned in 192...

First Published in 1985, the aim of this book is to define an aspect of Orwells literary identity which underlies and informs the sociopolitical co...

This book uses some of Doris Lessings fictional texts as a springboard for making new contributions to the study of ageing, and more specifically,...

Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insula...

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's foremost writers - an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his care...

Acts of Faith and Imagination wagers that fiction written by Catholic authors assists readers to reflect critically on the question: what is faith?...

After a long period of comparative neglect, starting almost immediately upon his death in 1900, John Ruskin began to attract, from the 1960s onward...

Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insula...

Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921), the most important female author of Spains nineteenth century, was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, crit...