Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Haworth Parsonage is the world-famous home of the Brontes. Crowds of tourists are drawn to Haworth every year to discover what inspired Anne, Charl...

On the eve of the controversial, posthumous publication of The Original of Laura, Michael Maar follows his critically acclaimed The Two Lolitas wit...

Peter Carey, writer of such celebrated works as Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang, and His Illegal Self, is one of Australia's m...

Hailed as irrepressibly spirited and entertaining (Pico Iyer, Time) and a fascinating cultural survey (Paul Devlin, Daily Beast), this provocative ...

This book opens up the field of literary studies to the promise of a haptic oriented analysis. This book contends that the haptic sense - combining...

The humour of Tristram Shandy has often been acknowledged, but it is not easy to find scholarly articles on Laurence Sterne which suggest that thei...

Elizabeth Taylor (191275) is increasingly being recognised as one of the leading English novelists and short story writers of the middle of the twe...

Critical discussions of the Victorian realist novel tend to focus on its vivid representations of everyday life. The Victorian Novel Dreams of the ...

A great novelist on his twin obsessions: writing and coding. What is the relationship between the two? Is there such a thing as the sublime in code...

James Kelman is one of the most important Scottish writers now living. His fiction is widely acclaimed, and widely caricatured. His art declares wa...

Shimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israel's most subversive and politically outspoken writers. Growing up on opposite sides of the Israeli spe...

The subcultural enfant terrible of devolutionary protest and rebellion, Irvine Welsh is now widely acknowledged as the founding father of a whole n...

Edward Gibbon's presentation of character in both the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and in his posthumously published Memoirs...

Literature and a love of the English countryside are natural companions.Walking the Literary Landscape by Ian Hamilton and Diane Roberts brings the...

This collection introduces and examines the overarching ecological consciousness evinced in the writings of James Joyce. Reading Joyce with a keen ...

This popular case-study of Conrad''s classic short novel reprints an authoritative text together with essays written from a range of contemporary c...

Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She ...

Bestselling author and renowned professor Mary Karr offers a master class in the essential elements of great memoir-delivered with her signature wi...

Trinidadian author Ismith Khan (1925-2002) is celebrated in this new critical study, which sheds invaluable and entertaining light on his life, his...

The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature was ch...

Stories of Art and Artists gathers two centuries of stories from around the world. From Nathaniel Hawthornes The Artist of the Beautiful and Albert...

Examines a selection of post-1989 coming-of-age novels authored by the generation of Polish writers whose transition from adolescence to adulthood ...

Mariano Azuela (Mexico, 18731952) was a medical doctor by profession, recipient of Mexicos Premio Nacional de Literatura (1949), a distinguished me...

This book opens the curtain on the crucial role played by Victorian and Edwardian novelists in changing views of domestic violence. Examining the m...

What is Peter Pan all about? Many of us realise that there is a bit more to the stories than a simple fantasy about flying away to a wonderful plac...

Jeffrey Meyers has written acclaimed biographies of many of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, but none has affected him as dee...

The prevalence of science fiction readership among those who create and program computers is so well-known that it has become a cliche, but the ...

Richard Yates has been referred to as America's least known great writer. Today Yates is known primarily for the novel Revolutionary Road, consi...

My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light. Carmaletta Williams and John Edgar Tidwell explain that scholars hav...