Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Many believe that Robert A. Heinlein was the most important American science fiction writer of the 20th century. This is the first detailed critica...

The concern with identity and belonging, with place/dis-placement is a major feature of postcolonial literature and the theme of alienation cannot ...

Australian genre fiction writers have successfully exploited the Australian landscape and peoples and as a result their books are today sold by the...

Who was Mary De Morgan and why should she be dragged out of the shadows cast by her illustrious parents, her male siblings and the members of the A...

Lacework or Mirror? Diary Poetics of Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley sets out to determine whether each of the diaries by three...

Unlike other horror fiction and fantasy writers, Clive Barker is true to the literary heritage of the genre. Though aware of the importance of ente...

The form of art called fiction has always been the privileged framework providing the perfect alibi for facing, framing, and containing the Others ...

From the elegance of the grand salons of Prideaux Place, Padstows most stately of homes, to the wild and remote Cornish coastline, Rosamunde Pilche...

First book-length ecocritical study of Cold War American literatureCompelling analyses of the function and representation of Nature in a wide range...

This groundbreaking book rescues Arthur Conan Doyle from the sub-literary category of popular fiction and from the myth of Sherlock Holmes. Instead...

Where are the snows of yesteryear. And the speedballs I useta know? Well, I guess its time for my Ovaltine and a long good night. In 1996...

Arthur Upfield created Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) who features in twenty-nine novels written from the 1920s to the the 1960s, mo...

Reading the novels of George Eliot, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Barry Unsworth, and others, as a Methodist, David Dickinson offers a colourful picture of...

The historical novel is a genre which has enjoyed widespread popularity in Germany from its beginnings in the eighteenth century. At that time, inc...

Inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Riot and the eyewitness accounts of Charles W. Chesnutts own family, Chesnutts The Marrow of Tradition captures the...

Originally intended to be a somewhat bland character who found himself in exciting situations, James Bond instead became the incomparable 007--the ...

This wide-ranging collection is the first to set Robert Louis Stevenson in detailed social, political and literary contexts. The book takes account...

Since the Chinese translation of The Da Vinci Code was released in China in 2004, the Dan Brown Craze has swept across the country. All of Browns n...

This study re-locates the work of Henry James by revealing parallels between the aestheticism of John Ruskin and that of James. It explores a mix o...

Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature offers a nuanced and innovative take on the writer''s ostensible localism and, along wi...

Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national ide...

James Boswell's relish for life, unflinching honesty and wide social contacts make him one of the raciest and most entertaining of all diarists.Thi...

THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. THE ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014. For more than a decade, the book now conside...

THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. THE ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014. For more than a decade, the book now considered ...

Bel-vedére; or The Garden of the Muses is an early modern printed commonplace book containing an anthology of nearly 4,500 short verse quotations a...

The late 1960s and early 1970s saw the birth of modern feminism, the sexual revolution, and strong growth in the mass-market publishing industry...

Victor Hugo (1802-85) is an icon of French culture. He achieved immense success as a poet, dramatist, and novelist, and he was also elected to both...

Rekha Shetty's journey for the last 23 years have proved that innovation is a science. The art of the imagination can be implemented by the structu...

H. G. Wells is one of the most widely-read writers of the twentieth century, but until now the aesthetics of his work have not been investigated in...

One of literature's most witty personalities, Oscar Wilde captivated London society. In this perceptive appraisal of Wilde and those around him - i...

Since the turn of the previous century, science fiction and its native tropes have been used by authors, artists, filmmakers and critics in order t...

This is the brilliant memoir of a man who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before emerging as one of America's fin...

Dr Rza Öztürks new book, The Origin of Hardys Tragic Vision, is a lucid explanation of the most important aspect of novelist Thomas Hardys worldvie...