Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Flannery O'Connor is unique in that she is not only familiar with seventeenth-century emblematic representations of scriptural truth, but she is al...

A comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the work of one of the foremost Native North American writers and his reception and influence. Thomas King...

The first book-length study of the novel that transformed Hemingway scholarship When The Garden of Eden appeared in 1986, roughly twenty-five years...

Changing critical views of Hemingway's great novel of the Lost Generation, from publication to the present. In the eight decades since its publica...

This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. May...

Miller as a writer whose work does something more profound and violent to literary conventions than produce novel effects: it announces the possibi...

By focusing on Luise Gottsched's extraordinary volume and range of translations, Hilary Brown sheds an entirely new light on Gottsched and her oeuv...

This is the first extended, English-language study to focus exclusively on the fiction of Juan Rulfo in over twenty years, analyzing a selection o...

New articles on topics spanning the Age of Goethe, with a special section of fresh views of Goethe's Faust. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication o...

Misrecognitions mounts a vigorous defense of the labyrinthine plotting of Victorian novels, notorious for their implausible concluding revelations ...

Orientalism as self-critique rather than hegemonic discourse in works by Hofmannsthal, Musil, and Kafka. In recent years a debate has arisen on th...

Phillip Herring distinguishes the solvable problems from the truly insolvable mysteries in Joyce studies. His unusual and often witty book contains...

Explores how contemporary novels dealing with flight and expulsion after the Second World War unsettle traditional notions of Heimat without abando...

This volume includes many of the best essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), one of the most original scholars of Russian culture o...

This volume includes many of the best essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), one of the most original scholars of Russian culture o...

How are linguistic wars for global prominence literarily and linguistically inscribed in literature? This book focuses on the increasing presence o...

Dickens, Religion and Society examines the centrality of Dickens's religious attitudes to the social criticism he is famous for, shedding new light...

An introduction to Cervantes's complex masterpiece. The purpose of this book is to help the English-speaking reader, with an interest in Spanish l...

Visionary of the Word brings together the latest scholarship on Herman Melvilles treatment of religion across his long career as a writer of fictio...

Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron , Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the sto...

Intimate Relations remaps the discussion on gender and the nation in South Asia through a close study of the domestic novel as a literary genre and...

Watchmen has been hailed as the quintessential graphic novel and has spawned a body of literary criticism since its 1986 initial appearance in i...

A full and accessibly-written survey of Bede and his works, including a chapter on his legacy for subsequent history. The Venerable Bede is a cruc...