Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Vyankatesh Madgulkar (19272001) was one of the pioneers of modernist short fiction (nav katha) as well as rural (grameen) fiction in Marathi in the...

If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Ant...

Fear of age and death often creeps coldly into my heart; and the more I live, the more I dread death, even while I abhor life. Such an enigma is ma...

John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture critically reassesses the significance of American novelist, editor, critic, and a...

This book asks why so many authors drew on Cornwall for inspiration across the long nineteenth century, and considers the seismic cultural changes ...

A special student edition of Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, with an introduction and study notesWinston Smith lives in a world that controls every...

How Victorian authors engaged the imaginations of their readers and elevated the novel to new heightsAs novel publication exploded in nineteenth-ce...

'Wild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars.' - Frances Wilson, The Telegraph'Exuberant and wide-ranging' - Lite...

Mari Sandozs The Battle of the Little Bighorn encouraged a change in how Americans viewed this infamous fight. By the mid-twentieth century a tower...

The Gothic Chapbook, Bluebook, and Shilling Shocker, 1797-1835 breaks new ground surveying the origins of the gothic chapbook, its publishers and a...

Outlines the key feminist debates on British women's fiction since the 'second wave' and grounds them in examples of women's writingThis book intro...

In The Lost Thread, Rancière debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologie...

At the end of the Qing dynasty, works of fiction by male authors placed women in new roles. Fictions Family delves into the writings of one literar...

These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatts fiction introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (192...

With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to glob...

An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe--highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one...

How children and childrens literature helped build Americas empire Americas empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentiet...

Bringing together an international group of literary scholars, intellectual historians, and cultural historians, this book discusses history in its...

Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the worl...

Band 2 des Kempowski-Jahrbuchs widmet sich dem Roman Schöne Aussicht (1981). Geschildert wird die deutsche Zwischenkriegszeit. Aus Sicht der Famil...

The plants and landscape at Rowan Oak are the little postage stamp of soil that William Faulkner owned, walked, and tended for over thirty years du...

The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and...

Since the publication of Another Roadside Attraction in 1971, Tom Robbins (b. 1932) has become known as the principal voice of American countercult...

Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and film. Th...

As a novelist who has spent years crafting and refining his intense and oft outrageous Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction persona, James Ellroy ha...

Conversations with Michael Crichton brings together decades of interviews and profiles with one of the world's most successful authors. Michael Cri...

The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and...

A collection of political talesfirst published in British workers magazinesselected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael RosenIn t...

The psychologist may appear in science fiction as the herald of utopia or dystopia; literary studies have used psychoanalytic theories to interpret...