Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

The years between the 1920s and 1970s are key for the development of Caribbean literature, producing the founding canonical literary texts of the A...

A History of American Crime Fiction places crime fiction within a context of aesthetic practices and experiments, intellectual concerns, and histor...

New scholarly essays providing a multifaceted approach to the role of Africa in Hemingway's life and work. Hemingway's two extended African safari...

These unique essays focus primarily on Woolf's non-fiction and considers her in the context of the modernist marketplace. With research based on ne...

Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 191...

The impact of malaria on humankind has been profound. Focusing on depictions of this iconic 'disease of empire' in nineteenth-century and postcolon...

No one better symbolizes the course of modern literature ­ its triumphs and defeats ­ than Pound. From the dreaminess and aestheticism of his early...

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Her career in the Restoration theatre extend...

Saul Bellow is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American literature. Bellow's work explores the most important cultural and...

This innovative exploration of the recurring use of particular objects in Samuel Beckett's work is the first study of the material imagination of a...

The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Char...

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...

Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. ...

The essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novel   Over the past fifty years, fiction in English has never looked more various. Books b...

Conversations with Jonathan Lethem collects fourteen interviews, conducted over a decade and a half, with the Brooklyn-born author of such novels a...

An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Conrad's second novel, returns to the Malay world of Almayer's Folly (1895). Focusing on the collapse of Western ...

After debuting in 1938, Superman soon became an American icon. But why has he maintained his iconic status for nearly 80 years? And how can he stil...

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...

Detecting the South in Fiction, Film, & Television, edited by Deborah E. Barker and Theresa Starkey, examines the often-overlooked and underval...

How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers. Given comics ability to cross borders, Latin A...

Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005), winner of the prestigious Cervantes prize, is one of the most important Latin American writers of the twentieth cen...

Conversations with Jonathan Lethem collects fourteen interviews, conducted over a decade and a half, with the Brooklyn-born author of such novels a...

This fascinating new book offers a detailed account of the prolific debate about the sensation novel and considers the genre's dialogues with a num...