Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the histo...

If it is true that great art comes from great suffering, then the art of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 81) must be truly great indeed. The second of se...

The political novel, which enjoyed a steep yet short rise to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s, is primarily concerned with the ...

Science fiction and the United States military often inhabit the same imaginative space. Weapons technology has taken inspiration from science f...

Appalachian literature is filled with silent or non-discursive characters. The reasons for their wordlessness vary. Some are mute or pretend to ...

Science fiction can be translated into real unreality. More than a genre like fantasy, which creates entirely new realms of possibility, science...

This is a literary discussion of one-half of Zane Grey's Westerns, selected to best show the broad scope of this popular author's interests in t...

''I blush to say what happened next.''A satirical portrait of a drunken, orgiastic Roman banquet, hosted by the grossly ostentatious Trimalchio.Int...

At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called brilliant. After gaining exclusive access to ...

At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called brilliant. After gaining exclusive access to ...

Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody studies Jewish American writers' relationships with the idea of wo...

I'm laying a charge! Which of the twins -Babini or Wele - should inherit the homestead when their father dies? This classic tale of a court case am...

This book examines the widespread practice of self-publishing by writers in late imperial China, focusing on the relationships between manuscript t...

American Literature in Transition, 19701980 examines the literary developments of the twentieth-century's gaudiest decade. For a quarter century, f...

Russian Nobel prizewinner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (19182008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figuresand perhaps the most importa...

This book is both a study of how James Joyce created two of the most iconic characters in literatureLeopold Bloom and Marion Tweedy Bloomas well as...

John Ruskin (18191900), one of the leading literary, aesthetic and intellectual figures of the middle and late Victorian period, and a significant ...

In Editing Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy, Susanne Fusso examines Mikhail Katkov's literary career without vilification or canonization, focusin...

The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre,...

Marking the 50th anniversary of Lewis death, The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis sees leading Christian thinker Alister McGrath offering a fresh ...

Dickens loved the stage--he enjoyed thousands of evenings in the theatre, and longed to write for it and to perform himself, an ambition that he ev...

Marek Hlasko's literary autobiography is a vivid, first-hand account of the life of a young writer in 1950s Poland and a fascinating portrait of th...

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 ...

Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi OEzdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this ...

Few authors benefit from being set in their contemporary context more than Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson in Context is a guide to his world, offer...

In 1929, Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), a journalist and war correspondent who was on the books of MI6, turned his hand to writing adventure stories f...

I will tell you a story that will make you believe in God. No story can guarantee being able to do this. Yet novelists can tell stories that make ...

Jane Austen is renowned for the economy of her art: for the close focus of her romantic plots and the precision of her writing style. Exploring tha...

Theories of sight and spectatorship captivated many writers and philosophers of the eighteenth century and, in turn, helped to define both sexual p...

Assembles for the first time the many different texts imagining the future after the end of apartheidExplores the history of how the future in Sout...

This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creati...

This collection of original, concise essays by leading international scholars draws closely on the Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D....

This volume applies a sign-oriented approach to the description of articulatory and acoustic iconic phenomena in James Joyces Ulysses. In its hypot...

Charlotte Brontë: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontës life ...

Long-awaited and comprehensive biography of the great Irish author James JoyceJames Joyce was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century,...