Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America. "Foundational Fictions" shows how 19th century patriotism and heterose...

A comprehensive investigation of Hoffmann's "Serapiontic Principle" and what it implies for his oeuvre. Critics have long sought to elucidate the ...

Whither Quo Vadis? offers an engaging account of how the Roman world and its history are represented in film and the way in which the different ada...

The contradictory nature of the work of Benito Perez Galdos, Spain's greatest modern novelist, is brought to the fore in Catherine Jagoe's innovati...

This trade edition of "Moby-Dick" is a reduced version of the Arion Press "Moby-Dick", which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copi...

Vivid translation of one of the earliest and most important Grail romances. The High Book of the Grail (Perlesvaus) is one of the most fascinating...

When physicist Robert Goddard, whose career was inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," th...

Study of the genesis of the novel is facilitated by the reproduction of Dickens’ working plans and, for the first time, by some thousands of meticu...

The first volume of John Fowles's Journals ended with him achieving international literary renown after the publication of The Collector and The Ma...

Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or th...

No other edition accurately represents the actual (and likely authorial) divisions of the text as attested to by its two surviving witnesses—Caxton...

The text is that of the 1813 Second Edition (the origins of which can be traced back to 1795). The text is fully annotated and is accompanied by a ...

"Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant writings by Dostoevsky, among them "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions," the author’s account of a form...

In this engaging book David Clark guides the reader through the theology of CS Lewis and illuminates the use and understanding of scripture in the ...

John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences lov...

In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War, which...

This Norton Critical Edition of her best-selling novel is annotated and edited by preeminent Gaskell scholar Alan Shelston. "Contexts" includes con...

What did medieval readers think of romance? Their attitudes to it, and the implications for the genre, are explored in this provocative study. An ...

On the day that A. M. Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older marrie...

Giving a close critical reading to major texts by Dickens, Poe, Eliot, Melville, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner, Professor Cas...

Novelist, playwright and barrister John Mortimer has led an extraordinarily rich life, privately and professionally, much of it in the public eye. ...

A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by scienc...

"Backgrounds and Sources" includes central passages from the letters of Tolstoy and his correspondents, S. A. Tolstoy’s diaries, and contemporary a...

Investigation into the importance of the Anglo-Saxon past in medieval literature. As the point of origin, both real and imagined, of English law a...