Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

This book interrogates the theme of vegetal sentience and consciousness in the form of trees that move purposefully and/or speak, a theme which app...

'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy...

'This travel book is truly a labyrinth--or, more precisely, a piece of the labyrinth that it has been my fate to wander, from the cradle to the gra...

Hailed by Virginia Woolf and many others as the all-time great letter writer, Jane Welsh Carlyle, wife of Thomas Carlyle, is not as well known toda...

Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and commodified space, this book ...

Arguing against the critical commonplace that Evelyn Waughs post-war fiction represents a decline in his powers as a writer, D. Marcel DeCoste offe...

Alicia Giménez Bartletts popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy I...

Exploring how Margaret Atwoods fiction reimagines the figure of the detective and the nature of crime, Jackie Shead shows how the author radically ...

While he is best known for his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories, P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer who penned many other novels, stories, and m...

In spite of their differing rhetorics and cognitive strategies, sociology and literature are often concerned with the same objects: social relation...

Bringing together an international group of scholars, this collection offers a fresh assessment of Kazuo Ishiguros evolving significance as a conte...

The first full-length account of D.H. Lawrences rich engagement with a country he found both fascinating and frustrating, D.H. Lawrences Australia ...

Critical assessments of Elizabeth Gaskell have tended to emphasise the regional and provincial aspects of her writing, but the scope of her influen...

Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how trave...

In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished no...