Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, ...

New Orleans is an indispensable element of America's national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless nove...

Samuel Richardson (16891761), among the most important and influential English novelists, was also a prolific letter writer. Beyond its extraordina...

This book evaluates twentieth century British and Global Anglophone literature in relation to the growth of ecological thinking in the United Kingd...

This fourth and final volume, which completes the Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, covers the final twenty-four years of what wa...

The first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents ...

Set in the South of France during the waning days of the French Revolution and the early years of Napoleonic rule, The Rover (1923) is the last nov...

In the years of and around the First World War, American poets, fiction writers, and dramatists came to the forefront of the international movement...

The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclai...

This eighteenth and final volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a variorum edition of The Great Gatsby (1925), the...

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continu...

Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the f...

What does it mean to focus on the decade as a unit of literary history? Emerging from the shadows of iconic Victorian authors such as Eliot and Ten...

Henry James left America in 1875 for the sake of his art and for the rich cultural heritage of Europe. His return in the late summer of 1904, based...

New essays by leading scholars on major aspects of the most significant Austrian writer of the postwar generation. Since the death of Thomas Bernh...

New essays introducing a broad range of novelists of the Weimar period. The Weimar Republic was a turbulent and fateful time in German history. Ch...

Pioneering examination of the Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and its reception in the middle ages, from a theoretically infor...

This book is the first major study of one of Spain's most celebrated younger novelists, Belén Gopegui, whose work stands apart from other writers o...

First full study of the use made by Renaissance writers of the past in their prose fiction. Davis's study could scarcely be more timely or invigor...

A survey of the critical reception of George Eliot's fiction in Victorian periodicals. First published in 1990, this paperback reintroduces a majo...

Marked by names such as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and Patrick Pearse, the decade 19101920 was a period of revolutionary change in Ireland, in litera...

The Greek Novels have moved from the margins to the centre-stage over recent decades, not just because of their literary qualities and thrilling na...