Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

An entirely original look at the evolution of a cultural phenomenon. As John Edgar Browning puts it in his Foreword, Vampires are pure culture, and...

The turn of the nineteenth century in the United States saw the substantial influx of immigrants and a corresponding increase in anti-immigration a...

The turn of the nineteenth century in the United States saw the substantial influx of immigrants and a corresponding increase in anti-immigration a...

A new reading of Virginia Woolf in the context of long modernism. In recent decades, Virginia Woolfs contribution to literary history has been loca...

A brilliantly original exploration of our obsession with the end of the world, from Mary Shelleys The Last Man to the Manic Street Preachers Everyt...

A brilliantly original exploration of our obsession with the end of the world, from Mary Shelleys The Last Man to the HBOs The Last of Us.'Will mak...

Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such g...

Big on style, slight on substance: that has been a common charge over the years by critics of John Updike. In fact, however, John Updike is one of ...

Did James Joyce, that icon of modernity, spearhead the dismantling of the Cartesian subject? Or was he a supreme example of a modern man forever di...

While the question of how rhetoric lost authority to modern philosophical and scientific inquiry has drawn much scrutiny, we have paid less attenti...

Novelist Ha Jin raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world. Consisting of three interco...

The first book-length study of Wang Wenxing in English offering biographic, cultural, textual, literary, and linguistic readings of his work. The e...

The Plum in the Golden Vase (also known as The Golden Lotus) was published in the early seventeenth century and may be the first long work of Chine...

The campus novel is one of the best loved forms of fiction in the post-war period. But what are its characteristic themes? What are its prejudices?...

Featuring essays by scholars from around the globe, Kate Chopin in Context revitalizes discussions on the famed 19th-century author of The Awakenin...

Gathered here for the first time are the stories of Enid Dinnis, who lived and wrote in London throughout the first half of the 20th century. Few i...

Volume II documents a nineteenth-century literary celebrity's decision to commit herself to the cause of woman's rights. The first volume of this s...

Over the course of the long eighteenth century, a network of some fifty women writers, working in French, English, Dutch, and German, staked out a ...

A poetic meditation on the challenges and pleasures of contemporary speculative fictionWinner of the Elizabeth Agree Prize in American Literary Stu...

The Plum in the Golden Vase (also known as The Golden Lotus) was published in the early seventeenth century and may be the first long work of Chine...