Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Originally published in 1982, this study examines Orton’s principal plays, but its main concern is to identify his...  Read More >>

This book, originally published in 1983, begins with an analysis of the patterns of Graham Greene’s mind. It explores...  Read More >>

Who went into the Black Hole of Calcutta? Who came out alive? And does it matter anyway? In The Black Hole (originally...  Read More >>

In this important study, originally published in 1985, Ronald Hayman scrutinizes Grass’s development and assesses...  Read More >>

First Published in 1985, the aim of this book is to define an aspect of Orwell’s literary identity which underlies...  Read More >>

This book, together with A Second Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed...  Read More >>

This book, together with A Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The...  Read More >>

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The book looks at the different ways the temporal features in the existential exigencies of the human located within...  Read More >>

It examines one of modernity’s most trenchant problems.The project rests on the argument that detective fiction...  Read More >>

Covering novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, and Haiti, Lucy Evans explores how...  Read More >>

The book proposes a critical historical reconstruction of early Soviet adventure-craze and its lasting popularity...  Read More >>

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For over sixty years, the women who took on the mantle of Batgirl have served as inspirational superheroes for legions...  Read More >>

Water Stories in the Anthropocene explores how climate change has emerged as a major theme in our daily lives as...  Read More >>

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This book sets out to elucidate Conrad’s unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of...  Read More >>

This book explores the meanings of European peripheries in postcolonial literary imagination. Acknowledging the...  Read More >>

This Element focuses on representations of social and psychological entrapment demonstrating how Dickens employs...  Read More >>

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Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows...  Read More >>

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

Over thirty years after his initial ascent to super stardom, Todd McFarlane (b. 1961) remains one of the most popular...  Read More >>

This book examines the cultural work and meaning-making of Louisa May Alcott’s representations of health and illness....  Read More >>

Charlotte Yonge, a dedicated religious, didactic, and domestic novelist, has become one of the most effectively...  Read More >>