Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors t...

This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative form typical of Western liter...

Mary Charlton's 1799 Rosella, or Modern Occurrences is a fascinating novel that brokers between conservative and feminist ideas, humour and horror,...

This book explores the role of government in the governing process of Bangladesh. It primarily focuses on the dilemmas and constraints faced by the...

In 1944, the novel Xie (Crabs) by Mei Niang (1916-2013) was honored with the Japanese Empire’s highest literary award, Novel of the Year. Then, at ...

Science Fiction and Anticipation: Utopias, Dystopias and Time Travel presents ten chapters discussing themes related to time travel, utopias, and d...

This monograph contends that attending to Pratchett’s work could help to save our world. It draws attention to the astonishing capacity of Pratchet...

Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the ‘gutter’ in graphic narratives – the gap between panels that a reader has to ima...

Family Annals, or the Sisters, Mary Hays's last novel, was originally published in 1817. This philosophically complex novel examines the themes of ...

This volume traces the unique trajectory of The Outsiders, from beloved book to beloved movie. Based on S.E. Hinton’s landmark novel, Coppola’s fil...

Two English-Language Translators of Jin Ping Mei examines English translations of the Ming novel Jin Ping Mei by translators from different histori...

This book examines the representation of child sexual abuse in five American novels written from 1850 to the present. The historical range of the n...

Contemporary Japanese horror is deeply rooted in the folklore of its culture, with fairy tales-like ghost stories embedded deeply into the social, ...

This book addresses Irish identity in Irish literature, especially masculinity in some of its forms through an interdisciplinary methodology. The s...

Exploring the collaborative, consumer-oriented Modernism that developed out of both planned and fortuitous groupings in periodicals, this book trac...

Examining the multiple non-humorous meanings of laughter, this book explores a unique strain of laughter in modernism that is without humor, withou...

George Eliot (1819-80) is one of the most widely-read of the 19th-century novelists and story-writers. "Impressions of Theophrastus Such" appeared ...

Since its publication in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye has been a cultural phenomenon, not only as an assigned text for English courses, but as a to...

Biographies of two 17th-century female criminals, both celebrated in their day. These are the first editions published since the 17th century.

This book examines the Tudor histories of the English Reformation written in the period 1530-83. All the reforming mid-Tudor regimes used historica...

This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the transnational and transcult...

An early example of satirical political writing by a woman. The book, with its blend of politics and sexuality, is based on the public and private ...

Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of ‘Har...

Focusing on Alice Munro’s last three collections, this book examines the differences between these volumes and the rest of her work to analyse the ...

First published in 1979, Virginia Woolf is an original critical study of where the author considers Virginia Woolf’s non-fiction as well as fiction...

As a book on allusion, this has interest for both the traditional literary or cultural historian and for the modern student of textuality and reade...

A crime novel, at once disturbing and perversely comforting, factually has been known to curtail social anxieties through the ‘open and shut case’ ...

Even though we instruct our children not to lie, the truth is that lying is a fundamental part of children’s development—socially, cognitively, emo...

The best-known novel of Sophie von La Roche, a German 18th-century woman writer. The plot reflects typical 18th-century concerns: the value of sent...

Drinking with Dickens is a light-hearted sketch by Cedric Dickens, the great-grandson of Charles Dickens. There are vivid and memorable drinking sc...

This volume considers Samuel Beckett’s fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work of Irish authors Eimear McBride, Ke...

"New Blazing World" (1666), is one of the earliest pieces of science fiction, telling the story of a voyage to a Utopian World. The Duchess of Newc...

This book studies the ways Hardy writes about music, and argues that this focus allows for a close and varied investigation of the affective dimens...

How do different ethnic groups approach the short story form? Do different groups develop culture-related themes? Do oral traditions within a parti...

Louis Ferdinand Céline (the pseudonym of Louis Destouches) was a famous novelist and ferocious anti-Semitic pamphleteer who rose to fame before Hit...

Matilde Serao (1857-1927) was a successful and prolific journalist and novelist. This book tells the story of the arrival in Rome of a provincial d...

Gabriele D'Annunzio was one of the most flamboyant figures in the political history of modern Europe. A poet in the Byronic style and a popular her...

This title includes essays by Elisabeth Bronfen, Crosbie Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova, Louis James, Michael Fried, Michael Grant, Jasia Reichardt, Rob...

Author of six novels, five volumes of biographical lives, two travel books, and numerous short stories, essays, and reviews, Mary Shelley is largel...

Whether revered for his masculinity, condemned as an icon of machismo, or perceived as possessing complex androgynous characteristics, Ernest Hemin...

Point de lendemain (No Tomorrow) is the English translation of a French 18th century masterpiece, Point de Lendemain by Dominique Vivant Denon. Wri...

Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fic...

In Evelyn Waugh and the Modernist Tradition, George McCartney argues that unlike traditional satirists, Evelyn Waugh was not primarily concerned wi...