Literary Studies: General

Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive...

This study of a wide selection of literary texts from the beginning of the twenty-first century aims to explore various ways in which a sense of be...

The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby’s in 1997. The author’s detective work led him across America to a pris...

First published in 1983, A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English is a detailed and comprehensive guide containing over 500 entries on in...

Aristotle's much-translated On Poetics is the earliest and arguably the best treatment that we possess of tragedy as a literary form. Seth Benardet...

Modes of Composition and the Durability of Style employs the tools and methods of computational stylistics to show that style is extremely resistan...

This book provides new insight into a fascinating but often misunderstood writer, Samuel Butler. It offers a much-needed reappraisal of Butler's wo...

What was German Naturalism? What were its achievements? How does it compare with its counterparts in other European countries? These are some of th...

Can the recovery of women's contributions to literary culture be compared to a salvage operation? In that case, for what purpose? The essays in thi...

There is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices, severel...

Published in 1995: These three 14th century medieval Greek romances, which are presented here for the first time in English translation, form part ...

First published in 1983, A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English is a detailed and comprehensive guide containing over 500 entries on in...

This book describes the development of Goethe's collection of poetry Gott und Welt from 1798 to 1827 and sees it as a long poem on nature. It provi...

This review of modern literature includes fiction by Han Ong and Ida Fink, and a selection of reportage including Scott L. Malcolmson's article on ...

'A born story-teller, a gift as evident in this autobiography as in her novels' INDEPENDENT'A joy' David Holloway, DAILY TELEGRAPH'Casts light on t...

First published in 1954, East-West Passage is a detailed study of the literary relationship between Russia and the West. Divided into two parts, th...

When James Matthew Barrie died, in 1937, his funeral was an occasion for national mourning. Crowds gathered; reporters and newsreel men came to rec...

The defintive account of the early life of the revered author of the Aubrey-Maturin novels including Master and Commander. To many, Patrick O'Brian...

The most comprehensive collection of postcolonial writing theory and criticism, this third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to inclu...

The real story behind the making of THE COLOR PURPLE in the author's own wordsIn the early 1980s, The Color Purple was a runaway success, it had w...

This collection focuses on Moliere's theatre as works to be performed as well as read. The essays deal in their various ways with limits which are ...

Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So re-examines the prevailing critical consensus that Kurt Vonnegut was a humani...

Did European writers and scholars create an image of the Islamic world as a place of tyranny, unreason and immorality destined to be subjected to a...

This classic biography has been reissued with a new foreword by Phillip Errington, who is the Journal Editor and Archivist of the John Masefield So...

First published in 1983, Harold Pinter is an original study into the work of one of Britain’s foremost dramatists.The book celebrates Pinter’s elus...

People worry that computers, robots, interstellar aliens, or Satan himself – brilliant, stealthy, ruthless creatures – may seize control of our wor...

This first, and some would say greatest, poet of the English language stands before the gateway of the early modern age. He lived at a time when t...

'Hanif Kureishi's literary memoir explores his relationship with his father, a failed writer. Kurieshi is, of course, hugely successful...' Esquire...

'The greatest literary scholar of his generation' (Independent) explains how the history of the Elizabethan era is the backdrop to William Shakespe...

Modes of Composition and the Durability of Style employs the tools and methods of computational stylistics to show that style is extremely resistan...