Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

'Before Reading' activities prime a first reading.'During Reading' activities support pupils in reading and enjoying the text.'After Reading' resou...

This unique edition presents the complete span of Thomas' short stories, from his urgent hallucinatory visions of the dark forces beneath the surfa...

Georges Bataille was a philosopher, writer, librarian, pornographer and a founder of the influential journals Critique and Acéphale. He has had an ...

*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2021*'Truly one hell of a book.' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of QUEENIE'Powerful, timely, and pro...

In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her...

How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give vo...

What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region sh...

'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline C...

In The One, Other, and Only Dickens, Garrett Stewart casts new light on those delirious wrinkles of wording that are one of the chief pleasures of ...

In The One, Other, and Only Dickens, Garrett Stewart casts new light on those delirious wrinkles of wording that are one of the chief pleasures of ...

Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the heroic age o...

SEE the amazing vintage book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, knife-wielding killer crabs! READ the shocking plots involving de...

Dylan Thomas''s classic account of his childhood Christmases, newly issued with full colour illustrations by Peter Bailey in this beautiful, cloth-...

Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction and film. Following his books on Nordic Noir, Brit Noir and Euro Noir he now tac...

First appearing in Marvel Comics in the 1960s, Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a. Black Widow, was introduced to movie audiences in Iron Man 2 (2010). Her...

Winner of the European Association for American Studies Prize 2016. In Writing for Justice, Elena Mortara presents a richly layered study of th...

In Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System, John Rieder asks literary scholars to consider what shape literary history takes when based ...

James Welch was one of the central figures in twentieth-century American Indian literature, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk is of particular impo...

The first full-length novel by Chinese author Can Xue to appear in English   Theres no other writer in China like Can Xue . . . strange, surreal, a...

In contrast to the classical detective story, the spy novel tends to be considered a suspect, somewhat subversive genre. While previous studies ...

Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin...

Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including thre...

From Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith to Val McDermid and JK Rowling, After Agatha is an indispensable guide to women's crime writing over th...

*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'A simply wonderful book' PHILIPPE SANDS'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' PANKAJ MISHRA'Incredibl...

Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne''s landmark bi...

What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was...