Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

This study examines postmodern literature— including works by Kurt Vonnegut, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Ishmael Reed, and Thomas ...

Though Friedrich Schiller enjoyed prominent literary standing and great popularity in nineteenth century literary England, his influence has been l...

In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accide...

First published in 1979, this book looks at every aspect of the life and work of Elizabeth Gaskell, including her lesser known novels and writings ...

Critically analyzing the representation of pedagogy in the novels of J.M. Coetzee, this insightful text illustrates the author’s profound conceptio...

This book explores the concept of liminality in the representation of women in eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, as well as in contempo...

Katherine Mansfield has been widely recognised as one of the key authors of her generation, continuing to influence literary modernism and the shor...

This book reconstructs Istanbul through the prism of Orhan Pamuk’s fiction. It navigates the multiple selves and layers of Istanbul to present how ...

The Maya Literary Renaissance is a growing yet little-known literary phenomenon that can redefine our understanding of "literature" universally. By...

This book draws on Iris Murdoch’s philosophy to explore questions related to the importance of attention in ethics. In doing so, it also engages wi...

This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together several leading scholars to explore the substantial body of work produced by Padra...

A charming new paperback edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after the publica...

How does racial ideology contribute to the exploration of narrative voice? How does narrative (un)reliability help in the production and critique o...

Katherine Mansfield has been widely recognised as one of the key authors of her generation, continuing to influence literary modernism and the shor...

Representations of language learning and literacy, also known as “literacy narratives” are a staple of literature. They tell stories of conflict th...

The annotations in this volume, originally published in 1996, intend to assist the reader of Faulkner’s The Hamlet to understand obscure or difficu...

Originally published in 1999 The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature looks at how stereotypical foremother figure exists in ninetee...

This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inq...

This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and...

This book is a collection of essays on Yvonne Owuor’s writings, mainly her most acclaimed novel, Dust as well as Dragonfly Sea and her short story ...

The Pan-Hispanic short story anthology “McOndo” (Grijalbo Mondadori Barcelona, 1996), edited by the Chileans Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez, was e...

In spite of Connie Willis’s numerous science fiction awards and her groundbreaking history as a woman in the field, there is a surprising dearth of...

Reading Words into Worlds asks how it is that reading a novel can feel in some ways like being-in-a-world. The book explores how novels give themse...

This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe’s novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed wit...

As the first book-length study of emergent Pakistani speculative fiction written in English, this critical work explores the ways in which contempo...

The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction explores the ways in which the Arctic is imagined and what function it is made to serve in a selection o...

This book focuses on the projections of romantic love and its progression in a selection of popular romance novels and identifies an innovation wit...

‘Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro’s long experience as a celebrated writer...

This volume analyses the nature of the mime art of Deburau and of the pantomime performances of the Théâtre des Funambules in Paris in the context ...

This book reviews the cross-disciplinary debate sparked by renewed interest in Elinor Glyn’s life and legacy by film scholars and literary and femi...

This book explores the material and cultural history of the Ming Dynasty based on the Chinese magnum opus Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (literally, The Sto...

The first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including Sigmund Freud’s mistitled An Auto...

In the novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and D.H. Lawrence a miniature history of the English working class can be found. Through their sympath...

A comprehensive reference guide to the published writings of Graham Greene, this book surveys not only Greene's literary work - including his ficti...

In the epics of Homer people experience emotions, carry out thought, express themselves, suffer death, and survive in a shadowy afterlife. When Hom...

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary proj...

In the spring of 1928, the coal miner’s daughter Erna Halbe leaves her provincial hometown for Berlin, where she takes an office job. Her new colle...

This book, first published in 1980, is a guide to the major forces in the subculture of science fiction. It analyses the history of the field and t...

Like the characters in the popular dime novels of the time, London's heroes display such manly virtues as courage, loyalty, and steadfastness as th...

First published in 1991, Textual Communication examines the character and development of the novel from Richardson to Nabokov in relation to the pr...

This work is intended for scholars and students of Fanny Burney and of literature of the later 18th century, for students of women's writing and fo...

This book, first published in 1993, is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett’s later drama in the context of contemporary critical and p...

The Pharsalia, Lucan's epic on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, is a document of fundamental importance for students of the history and lit...

Exploring how the Bloomsbury Group’s cutting-edge thinkers—Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, and E. M. Forster—understood the intimacy of friends, lov...

James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family is the first monograph focusing on Sweeney Todd and Varney the Vampyre’s creator James Malcolm R...