Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture, an...

This book explores the media ecologies of literature – the ways in which a literary text is interwoven in its material, technical, performative, pr...

Amorous Acts illustrates the value of psychoanalytic theory for comprehending relationships, experiences, art, politics, and all sorts of human int...

Charting a new course in the criticism of postwar fiction, Cool Characters examines the changing status of irony in American cultural and political...

What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel th...

This study illuminates various aspects of the relationship between Joseph Conrad's literary work and his roots in Polish and East-Central European ...

Examines the ways diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities in Iran and in the US Highlights a defining characteri...

It has often been said that the nineteenth century was a relatively stagnant period for Chinese fiction, but preeminent scholar Patrick Hanan shows...

Robert Penn Warren has distinguished himself in many areas of endeavor—as a poet, a novelist, a critic, and an observer of American history and pol...

A profound reconsideration of how Blanchot work figures theologically in some of the major currents of twentieth-century thought. Hart reveals Blan...

A scholarly edition of Lockhart's most intricate and sophisticated contribution to the Scottish historical novel Critically-edited text with full ...

Avuncularism explores the fiction of Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and many other writers in order to argue that th...

Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee is one of the most widely taught contemporary writers, but also one of the most elusive. Many critics wh...

James Joyce spent the last decade of his life in Paris, struggling to finish his great final work Finnegans Wake amidst personal and financial hard...

Since her debut in 1920 with The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Agatha Christie has become the chief proponent of the English village murder mystery....

1913: The year of French modernism is the first book to respond to two deceptively simple questions: “What constituted modernism in France?” and “W...

This fascinating exploration of a work that was the epitome of German literary modernism illuminates in chilling detail the death of the Weimar Rep...

Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to sus...

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional...

Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee is one of the most widely taught contemporary writers, but also one of the most elusive. Many critics wh...