Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

In-depth critical discussions of William Shakespeare's play - Plus complimentary, unlimited online access to the full content of this great literar...

This Companion offers an overview and assessment of Mario Vargas Llosa's large body of work, tracing his development as a writer and intellectual i...

Examines the major divisions in criticism of this major African American writer, paying particular attention to the way each critical period define...

How do contemporary female authors in Latin America tackle gender violence in their writings? This book analyses the portrayal of violence against...

This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists ana...

Explores Celestina's role as a key interlocutor in European literature and thought in the context of debates about the human condition. Winner of ...

In Junot Díaz: On the Half-Life of Love, José David Saldívar offers a critical examination of one of the leading American writers of his generation...

The story of the surprisingly fluctuating critical reputation of one of the great writers of the English language. Undoubtedly the best-selling au...

By examining important aspects of science fiction in the twentieth century, this book explains how the genre evolved to its current state. Close...

The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment ...

Explodes the conventional wisdom that there was a taboo on the topic of flight and expulsion in East Germany. It is by now almost a cliché that ...

As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (18971966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an ea...

The first anthology of critical interpretations of major Canadian short stories. Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by mo...

One of the major Latin American writers of the twentieth century. This book offers discussion and analysis of the subtle writing of Nobel Laureate...

First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood. In recent years it has become much more...

Using unpublished archive material, including correspondence and the many annotations Murdoch made to the books held in her Oxford library, this bo...

This book proposes a new way of tracing the history of the Early Modern Spanish novel through the prism of literary continuation. It identifies and...

The Body Beseiged: The Embodiment of Historical Memory in Nina Bouraoui and Leïla Sebbar by Helen Vassallo brings together the work of two importa...

Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and t...

The first book in English on the German Gothic in over thirty years, consisting of new essays investigating the internationality of the Gothic mode...

Essays exploring the ways in which Dickens' vision is both so much of its time, and yet has so much resonance for today. The scale of the 2012 bic...

Text with facing translation of the Scandinavian versions of the Tristan legend. This is the first in a set of three volumes making available for ...

LONGLISTED, THE ALLAN LLOYD SMITH PRIZE FOR BEST MONOGRAPH Offering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthr...