Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

C.L.R. James was a protean 20th century Marxist intellectual, widely recognized as a pioneering scholar of slave revolt; a leading voice of Pan-Afr...

Every twenty-or thirty-something women knows these books. The pink covers, the flimsy paper, the zillion volumes in the series that kept you readin...

For decades, James Joyce's modernism has overshadowed his Irishness, as his self-imposed exile and association with the high modernism of Europe's ...

Love letters during the Napoleonic wars were largely framed by concepts of love which were promoted through novels and philosophy. The standard tex...

How did Russian writers respond to linguistic debate in the post-Soviet period?Post-Soviet Russia was a period of linguistic liberalisation, instab...

The SCOTNOTES booklets are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and texts frequently used within literature courses, aimed at senior ...

In this perceptive book, John Pfordresher shares the enthralling story of how Charlotte Brontë wrote her masterpiece and why she tried so vehementl...

There is growing critical interest in the connections between literature and Christianity, but Virginia Woolf's work has so far attracted little at...

The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism' redefines the task of interpreting the East in the late nineteenth century. It takes as a starting point Edwar...

This book examines the œvre of Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) from her first literary writings in the Thirties to her great novels in the Nineties. ...

Enigmatic mysterious intriguing: George Mackay Brown was a notoriously private man. He rarely left his native Orkney, and yet became one of the 2...

Regency England was a pivotal time, remembered for its political uncertainty with a changing monarchy, the Napoleonic Wars, and a population explos...

Reveals the secrets and stories that lie beneath the surface of Watson's narrativesThe Case of Sherlock Holmes uncovers what is untold, partly told...

How far would you go to fight for survival...? A look in the eyes of a stranger leads to a rescue mission. A woman trapped in a cycle of multiple...

By connecting Fenian and anarchist violence found in popular fiction from the 1880s to the early 1900s with the avant-garde writing of British mode...

Both Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) and his wife Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya (1844-1919) were prolific letterwriters. Lev Nikolaevich wrote appro...

The Philosopher''s Banquet is the first sustained study of Plutarch''s Table Talk, a Greek prose text which is a combination of philosophical dialo...

When it was first published in 1897 - 120 years ago - Irish author Bram Stoker's Dracula was ranked by the Daily Mail above work by Mary Shelley an...

'Wonderful...concise, witty, effortlessly learned.' Sunday Times How does Magwitch swim to shore with a great iron on his leg? Where does Fanny Hil...

We live in a time of linguistic plainness. This is the age of the tweet and the internet meme; the soundbite, the status, the slogan. Everything re...

There were a number of books about A Game of Thrones (the HBO series) and A Song of Ice and Fire (the books) published last year ...the one that im...

This book examines the persistence of the rural tradition in the English novel into the twentieth century. In the shadow of metropolitan literary c...

D.H. Lawrence's first travel book and an important insight into the roots of his literary genius. In 1912, a young D.H. Lawrence left England for ...

This study shows how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and synaesthetic metaphor to create a...

Ann Gomersalls The Citizen (1790) is an epistolary novel, written over two volumes. Gomersall came out of the merchant class in Leeds and little el...

Writers lives are endlessly fascinating for the reading public and literary scholars alike. By examining the self-representation of authors across ...

This book analyses the theme of community in seven French Caribbean novels in relation to the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The is...

In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at t...

In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spains wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote, went on t...

I will make bold to say that Bowden is Americas most alarming writer. Just when you think youve heard it all you learn you havent in the most punge...

Having emerged as one the leading contemporary British writers, David Mitchell is rapidly taking his place amongst British novelists with the gravi...

This book offers the first sustained and comprehensive discussion of the Jamaican writer, Olive Seniors extensive oeuvre, including poetry, short s...

First published in 1923, Jean Toomers Cane is an innovative literary workpart drama, part poetry, part fictionpowerfully evoking black life in the ...

Conceived as a second edition to Kawakami's acclaimed A Self-Conscious Art, which was the first full-length study in English of Patrick Modianos wo...