Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

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Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American...  Read More >>

Explores the stylistic and formal inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers from Britain, the United States,...  Read More >>

A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent...  Read More >>

Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening...  Read More >>

This cross-cultural study explores and redefines what philosophy, philosophizing, and philosophers are through the...  Read More >>

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This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Recognising herself as a child...  Read More >>

An intervention into contemporary debates on care by positioning it as a matter of attunement or resonance through...  Read More >>

Reframing debates surrounding long narratives to explore their impact, this book develops a critical vocabulary...  Read More >>

Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between...  Read More >>

A rethinking of the evolution of the British novel that departs from dominant narratives and argues for an importantly...  Read More >>

This fourth volume of The Collected Works of Charles and Mary Lamb contains Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia,...  Read More >>

Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

Against an African, African American, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement's backdrop, this book examines six African...  Read More >>

In recounting the fascinating history of how modern Irish writers politically, socially, and polemically organised...  Read More >>

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

Published for the first time, John Berger and Susan Sontag's collaboration and correspondence across a quarter-century...  Read More >>

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Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, this volume presents the first fully annotated edition...  Read More >>

A one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter, the fictional character with many lives in literature, film, and...  Read More >>

This is the first in-depth study exploring the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists--including...  Read More >>

Based on two decades of original research and exclusive access to unpublished material, a ground-breaking biography...  Read More >>